The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-08-04
About People
Some Chats With Folks
On Things of Interest

AS daddy at large who governs
army of newsboys. vendors and ag-
ents, with upcompromising fairness and
sternness, r. C. Pierce. circulation man
ager of THE TIMES is schoolmaster In
cog who has instilled into a large por-
ton of Juveniles in Lake county the
principals of business methods. Not
realizing his influence his usefulness
is great.
Never has a small boy earning his
first dollars and learning his first les
son looked upon Pierce as other than
Pierce. the circulation manager, the
one to whom they must look for
primands in case OF negligence and
words of appreciation when their work
has been well done.
His authority they never underes-
innate for they are placed on sort of
business equality with the other ON
ployees. they are made TO understand
that THE TIMES is their paper and that
its interests are their interests.
The school of business.
And so in rain or snow they labor
faithfully each evening of the week for
| hfty-two weeks a year. that the II 1000
papers of the FIVE editions shall reach
| the 80, 600 readers of THE TIMES, speed
| lily, handily and unsoiled. Woe to the
boy who Is lazy. neglected. or shows
not the right attitude without a sign
or regret he is parted from his job and
indeiible lesson imprinted on his mind,
the lesson of inefficiency and the inc
vitable result.
| Therefor it does not seem irregular
| that a reporter in search of a human
interest interview should cross the city
| room and draw the attention of Pierce
from his work. 1t required tact how
/ ever for had the stern manager of cir
cuIation guessed his intent the inter
view would have been short and to the
point. But it is unusual to write about
fellow workmen and Pierce never sus-
pected. That makes this an unusual in
terview in two senses of the word
THE TIMES In so Towns.
THE TIMES goes to so Lake County
cities, towns. villages and hamlets each
! evening to be delivered by carrier.
said Mr.. Pierce, "and ! am proud t.
say that the complaints from all OF
these places average two a day and ne
more That is because l refuse to toler-
ate inferior work and have system
ICED the county so that every boy is di
rectly responsible and knows that any
lavity will be reported at once and tina
his place can be easily filled.
I'm Hammond THE TIMES goes int
| $500 homes to be heard by at leas
three times that many people. Law
yers depend on it for information an,
arrange their calendars by it, societ.
abides by it's reports, business men us
it as their medium of advertising. BIZ
manufacturers depend upon it as thei
! agent in the Calumet region, house
wives look to it as a market guide, an
most of all everybody takes it tina
they may know the news and be post
ed.
1t Is n Public Utility.
in other words the people have in
trusted their affairs with it as a pub
lie utility and it is Of by and for then
that THE TINES is what 1t is. TIL
paper enters into a contract with tt
public to furnish It the news of tn
| day and the circulation of the paper
a part of this contract, a big part too
, Little by little this information wa
l brought out by persistent questioning
: Mr.. Pierce gave the names of the faith
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