The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1911-12-07

An interesting visitor TO news
paper office is The Promoter. Every
newspaper office has him-has him
often The Promoter does not hide
his candle under basket--he brings
it hurriedly to a newspaper office
where little light properly reflected
will shine a long way.
The Promoter is not peculiar to
Canon City. Sometimes we may think
from numerous past experiences that
Canon City is marked on the map
with the sign E. e. NJ, but such is not
the case. We can speak positively for
we have eamined every map and at
las obtalnable and we have found no
distinguishing mark of any kind.
BY inquiry and reading we have
become convinced that The Promoter
is specie well known in every quar-
ter-and like the poor he is always
with us. Every town has them. At any
rate after much investigation we have
found no town that has not had them.
Promoters are of two classes-suo-
cessful and unsuccessful. II the Pro-
moter lands bunch of people for his
promotion he is successful.
Enterprises promoted are of two
classes-successful and unsuccessful
though we have no doubt that many
people will question this analysis.
But we can verify it as of our own
personal knowledge we know of a
successful enterprise that was pro-
NOTED once-that is we read about 1t
in a well covered book It was "The
Great American Pie Trust"
Why you buy stock or sky of
The Promoter it is usually best to
see that the certificate reads mon
assessable," then when you have paid
him you know that you are through
paying at least. That is a great satis-
faction sometimes.
II The Promoter writes "Non-Diyi-
dent Paying" across the face OF your
stock don't kick about 1t. Just let him
do 1t. 1t will save you doing 1t later
and it will relieve you of disappoint-
ments that may come up.
In looking back over the files OF
The Record we are pleased to see
that Canon City has had her full
share of Promoters. Canon City has
not been overlooked. We even find
Promoters mentioned in the files
away back before Harry Maddox came
to town. Harry certainly did attract
the eye of the Tourist but Mr.. Pro-
moter saw us first
In looking back over the files we
see the names OF Mr.. Hirsch, Mr.. En-
RIGHT, Mr.. Albright, and Mr.. -.
but what's the use. There isn't space
in this short sketch to mention them
all and some of them still have kin
here. You remember them by the
stock certificates or deeds to sky
laid away in your little tin box.
What is the duty of local news
paper toward local promoter?
Some say roast him. But oh. no.
That wouldn't do. Who are we that
we should be able to penetrate the
minds OF many genii and pick out the
successful and unsuccessful enter
prises?
The man who wants us to roast
one enterprise buys big chunk in the
next II we roast single one we are
Knocker in the eyes of maryland
The Record is anything but that.
But The Record does use many
quotation marks. In reporting mat
ters of this kind The Record does not
say that SO and SO will be done. II
says Mr.. Promoter says "the thing
will be built and will add a million
residents to the town" etc. Out of
courtesy we have to report what Mr..
Promoter says-but we do not guar
antee it.
If Mr.. Elisha Belts in silk hat