The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-21

First page make-ups on newsDa-
pers.
page advertisement connection.
.3-One half page advertisement
competition.
4-One fourth page advertisement
competition.
5-Displays of letter heads, note
heads, bill heads and statements.
6-Displays of title pages for book
lets and pamphlets and calendars.
displays OF programs, memo,
| tickets and other small work.
Contests to be confined to weekly
newspaper Offices. Judges to be chos-
en- from daily newspaper offices or
other if deemed best. Contests to be
! governed along the lines of the In
land Printer contests. Originality to
play large part in the different con-
tests, especially in the advertising.
with the idea of securing increased
business, where the newspaper man
prepares copy and composes the ad-
vertisement, he has an opportunity of
waking up some business man who
detests writing advertisements.
Two and three color work in soo.e
OF the classes of job printing inn
perative to enter contest of these
| classes.
Prizes to be money or material of
value that can be used in newspaper
Office. i''Pe'
After some discussing and good
natured bantering the convention
went down in history as one of tho
most successful business meetings
ever held. Acti labores jucundi.
Ben Franklin Club
Inc Ben Franklin club is in session
!hls afternoon and at the time of eo-
ing TO press and the members are en-.
gagged in round table talk m tho
printers work.
Smiths Paper.
Among the leading features of the
session today was the paper by Fred
n. Smith. 1t follows in full:
MI. President, gentlemen of the
North Dakota Press association. your
neipmates III possession and Drospec-
tive and others.
in moment of cerebral alteration
permitted myself to promise vomr
estlmable president to present pa-
per Tor Your consideration at this
meeting dealing with the cost of pro-
duclng weekly newspaper.
Il feel very much as would a Sec
ton hand suddenly promoted to the
superlntendency of railroad but
as it is we'll known PSYCHOLOGICAL
fact that any man, whatever his bust
ness. knows how to run newspaper
better than the fellow who is doing
1t, venture to butt in where an an
! gel would walk pussy-footed.
For some thirty years | have been
IN intimate business relations with
the newspapers from the 500 to the
racine. In moments of retrospective
fever1e. which means neditating on
my sins, | have thought that when I
arrived at years of indiscretion, or
my second childhood, | would run a
weekly newspaper as a penance for
my misdeeds. | have therefore en-
deavored to learn all l could about
the newspaper business in various
sections of the country If the knowl-
edge ! have gained and the conclu-
sions l have reached have any val
lie or interest for you, | give them
to you freely. hoping you will credit
ME with then: in your memories, as
an offset (no slip sheets please)
against the things have done to you
in the years that have been selling
printing material.
ut is fact that no man ever made
Il fortune or even became wealthy
running weekly newspaper-few
have made even competence. The
great majority of good fellows have
made a bare living: in most cases
less than they would have made work.
ing at the case.
Now when such conditions exist in
a business. run as this is. by men Of
more than average mentality, more
than average education, men who
work long hours, who spend them
selves for the good of the community
there must be some good reason.
There is something decidedly wrong
with the business somewhere.
There is, in my opinion, but one
answer-the prices are too low for
1T is an undisputed fact that. so
far as the building up of the prosper
ity of Il town, giving it publicity and
standing among towns of its class is
concerned. the newspaper does more
than any other industry in it, not
even excepting the bank. In fact l
believe that the small town would
make greater progress and growth
without bank than without news
paper. Think for moment OF all
the columns of laudatory dope your
own paper publishes each year about
your town, its industries and business
houses. largely unappreciated and
wholly unpaid. We do not see. how
ever. any country weeklies with a
revenue. even in proportion to in
vestment. OF bank but nearer to
that of a peanut stand-just a living
for the man who boosts for all. Is
not the newspaper manufacturer en-
titled to as great a return as any 9TH
er industry of equal investment in
money and brains?
Brains for Sale.
"Stiffen up your backbone. polish
up your nerve and make the other
fellow render unto Caesar that which