The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-12-27
Correctly Stated.

| Below we reproduce from the Carroll
County Times an article that tells the news
paper situation so much better than we
could that we give it to our readers just as
Editor Thomasson gave it to his subscrib-
ers:
Several times of late The Times has
| editorially and otherwise called the atten-
ton of it's readers to the enormous increase
| in the cost of news print paper-an advance
| of about 100 per cent-and has politely urg-
| ed all of it's subscribers to help The Times
meet this somen situation by paying up
their arrearages and advancing their sub
scriptions from three to six or twelve
months, as they prefer.
''Many of The Times subscribers, we are
pleased to be able to say, properly under
stood and appreciated the necessity for this
appeal and responded promptly. AS one
subscriber put it the other day, 81 think l
have been nearly always year behind with
you, so it seems only fair that l should pay
year in advance for a while" But he was
! not alone-not by some thousands of them.
! 1t has been the custom to collect from d sub
scriber after the paper had been going to
! him three, six or lively months, as he pre-
ferred without payment-and if he didn't
! feel like paying you, after so long a time,
refuse" to take the paper and thus pay us.
But the white paper situation has forced
upon the publisher a very different system
| in fact, just the opposite system. He must
| have pay for his paper in advance, or else
he can't afford to send it. And there is.
really, no reason why he should, for the cost
of the white paper alone, plus delivery, just
about takes up the entire amount of sub
scription.
This is exactly the situation that now
faces The Times, so we may as well be plain
about it, towit:
"We have already begun to put The Times
on cash in advance basis, and will be COM
PEELED to leave off our lists all of those who
do not, regularly, pay for their paper once a
year; but of course we shall insist the
payment being made in advance. Recently
few who have gotten in debt from one to
five dollars have put their paper back mark
ed refused 1t would have been more hon
est in them and much better for us had they
stopped the paper at first.
eve are compelled to do this in order to
try to meet the white paper situation with
out raising the subscription price. 1t may
even be necessary to do this later, but we
prefer to try to avoid an increase in price
by simply getting the money for every paper
that comes from the press. And to know
that we are getting it-by getting it in ad-
vance.
$50 this is all there is to it: If you want
The Times say for how long, and pay for it
in advance for that length of time. Other
wise, we will be compelled to discontinue
your paper.
with 20 cents cotton and everybody in
this section of the country rolling in mon
ey' there is no reason under the sun why a
newspaper should carry thousands of dollars
! in arrearages on its circulation books, par
ticularly when it is confronted with an ad-
ditional expense by the increased cost of
white paper alone.
Hence, we say it plainly, but as politely
as we know how-pay for The Times in
advance, or we are not going to take the
trouble of sending it to you any longer. For
the simple reason that we can't afford it
with white paper selling at $500 hundred
pounds instead of $2.95."