The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-08-08
NO MONEY Required.

rlOn! In edltOr VINO mace LnaC statement muSI
be a new man at the business. 1t don't take money
to run a newspaper, it can run without money and
the editor who can't run one without money is a
pusilanamous cuss that ought to be run out OF
town. A newspaper is a charitable institution, a
begging concern and a highway robbery. A news
paper is a child of the air and a creature of a
dream. 1t can go on and~on when any other con-
Germ would be in the hands of a receiver.
1t takes wind to run a newspaper; it takes
gall; it takes a scintilating, acrobatic magma
ton, a pair of ten cent socks, one white shirt and
a railroad pass to run a newspaper, but money,
the very idea is revolving to the profession.
Whoever needed money to run a newspaper? Kind
words are the medium of exchange to do the
business for the editor. When you see an editor
with money, watch him, he'll be paying his bills
and disgrace the profession. Never give an editor
money, make him trade it out-he likes to swap.
Then, when you die, after you have stood
around for years and sneered at the editor and his
little jim-crow paper, be sure instructions have
been left with your wife not to pay up yoursback
dues on subscription; the editor might use the
money for paying his debts and then start a bank,
or build an automobile factory with the remainder.
However, after she has read the generous notice
of your departure and emphasizing the great loss
sustained by the community (none but an editor
can put that lie over) she may be permitted to
send for three extra copies, but warn her not to
send 15c to the editor to pay for them. It would
~overwhelm him. Money is a corrupting thing and
he knows it. What he wants is your Heartfelt
thanks" then he can thank the grocer.
Give all your job work to some out of town
ul-u -. l. -&s11 49, ILL., .o->n .o~A ~
by some axle grease, patent medicine, or rubber
tire concern. They make suckers pay for their
advertising. Save all your free stuff for your
home editor. He so much likes to set it up because
it makes such spicy reading.
But money-scorn the filthy thing. Don't let
your innocent editor know anything about it.
Keep that for sordid trades people who charge
for their wares. The editor is supposed to give
his bounty away. lie has charter from the
State to act as wet nurse for the community.
He'll get out the paper somehow, and laud
the town and your business, and whoop for you
when you run for office. Don't worry about the
editor. He'll get on. The Lord only knows how
but somehow.
p "a - IA N n
GREASE AND TANKAGE FROM GARBAGE.
The Secretary of Agriculture of the United
States has addressed the following letter to the
mayors Of all large cities which have no reduc-
ton plants for recovering valuable materials from
garbage:
"This department desires to bring to your at
tention the matter of the conservation Of the
garbage in your city. At the present time there
exists throughout the world a shortage Of both
fats and fertilizers materials. This situation
promises to grow more serious as the war in En-
rope continues. It is therefore a matter of prime
Importance that all available sources of both of
these materials should be used to the best advant-
age. Garbage contains on the average about 2
per cent. of grease and about 20 per cent. of tank
age, the latter having valuable properties as a
fertilizer material. Any method of disposal of
garbage in large cities which does not recover
both the grease and the tankage is uneconomic
and particularly deplorable in the present circum--
stances. We wish, therefore to urge upon your
consideration the ACCESSIBILITY of so treating the
garbage from your city as to insure the recovery
of its constituents. That this may be made &
, source of profit to a municipality has been proven
by numbers of cities in the United States where
municipal rendering plants have been erected, anc
in a number of others, private plants are now op
Grating and paying dividends on the investments
!, We will be glad to furnish you with any further
information at our disposal on the subject, upon
request"
>, n "a N ~ Am
J, DR.. W. A. Evans, Of Chicago, who conducts
"How to Keep Well' column in a number of daily
papers, including the Memphis Commercial Ap
peal, recently interviewed a large number of SOL
' diers and sailors in regard to the new provision
against drunkenness and %venereal diseases EN-
|ployed by and reputed to be presently employed by
v the army and navy. The following is an excerpt Of
I his report of his findings: "The soldiers and sail
ors with whom l talked say, all right, they vii
stand for it, although they are not for it, but
2 they do object to being singled out. If they are tt
4 be under prohibition they want the other fellow
to be under it. If prohibition promotes efficiency
and health in an army, as you fellows say it does,
h it also promotes them in the men who clerk, sci