Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-15

For many years a paper has een circulating without money and with
tut price in Waterown. True, it has been advertising a subscription rate of
twenty-five cents a year, but it also has inferentiany statedt that it goes into
o hom whether you pay for it n wheher you do not. For the type of
paper a It assumes o be- it is a very reGable sheet
Our object in mentioning it and its advertised price, is to call attention
70 inc FAC hat tn Waterown daily newspaper has n o business to throw
stones even nmpnleoE, at the Guide, a it has done in innuendoes and other
wise at various times. The latters advertised rate is greater at TWENTY-FIVE
~ 80 a ma own, m roporuon to n number IF issues printed. We under
stand h Guide mas adopted a new plafo Of subscription for the future, but We
are dealing only with the old system. Y
About the time last fall that the Waterown daily dropped to on dollar
a yer outside of Watertown, the price wa raised fifty per cent. inside of
WATERFOWL the advertising rates, according to report which reaches us.
ere raised ten per cent, in order to offset the direct loss OF the outside
subscriptions.
In other words, in its home community and among it's best patrons. the
subscription rate and the advertising rate wereb both materially increase to
enable the publisher to recoup the outside losses. To be still more explicit.
the amusement of the daily paper "sox ct to UNI inside the city to the
~ o. $3.50 If paid fr by the week, y $3.50 if paid by the year., while per
mulns ue man living ouHidet the borders Of the city to get the paper at one
dollar a year,
Presumably this onedoHar rate as made in the hope Of Freezing out.
as n legitimate daily newspaper in America resorts to. A large proportion
they charge for mail delivery outside, but the dsproportfon is based only
upon the cost of carrier delivery as distinguished from mail delivery, the diff
ference being comparatively small.
The Daily ArgusLeader, published at Sioux Falls, has a carrier delivery
rate Of fortyfve cents a month, the mail delivery rate being Twenty-Five
The St Paul Dispatch's rate is thirtyhve cents a month within the city,
the rate outside being three dollars a year.
Having a clear field inside the city, there being no other daily, the price
of the Watertown daily raised to fifteen cents a week.
Not having been able to make perceptble fnroads upon the circulation Of
the weeklies published in Codngton county, the price Of the daily was
dropped to one dollar a year.
This attempt to freeze out the weekles entaling a considerable loss,
the city subscribers within Waterfowl we're held up. for the difference.
1T was to keep out another daily said a member of the daily papers
force when a irate subscriber tackled him about it.
If there's any one thing distinguished from another that's going to help
bring another daily into the local field, the game played BY the management
of the WATERFOWL daily is we'll calculated to be the thing
The Watertovn daily. let it be recorded, is a fairly decent sr of publ
ano LOT is ned " ~ size OF the town T ought to be in better business
mar substantially giving itself away outside the city and then trying to
play even by unjustifables exacdons within the city.
Il 1t were q Standard Oil monopolyso a subsidized government sheet u
the controlling factor In the Steel Trust, 1T might be able tt repeat and get
away with the goods-but 1T is NEITHER S@
the first submarine that America had experience with was that which
nsew up g federal ship in q southern harbor. The old subsea contfvance
operated q great deal like the torpedo OF today. IT was n old iron boiler
q arranged az to be operated by man power. Stuck along in front Of Il. On
The Is end q Ions pole, was about forty pounds ! sdynamite. The idea vas e
steer the submarine towards a boat and when the dynamite cam IN contact
Will ~ vessel 1T exploded. S 10 1T didi# But 1T ALSO killed hi severa mon
operating the submarine. Altogether. In the various preliminary experiments
ana including the Anal act which sent the federal ship to the bottom. twenty
tnree men lost their lives through the antics of this sefsame aubsea fighter
2 president hs called e special session Of congress Both the repub
ncans ad the democrats socraths assume to be- conAdent Of winning the apeakerahip:
u act q the matteri A there are two hundred and fourteen i've democrats
Tone has died since the election. two hundred and nfteen republicans and
about half ! dozen others RI what lin sothersaawn do thatn determine
the question.
How t6eg srsAt md he nesrRreat rs move sdong in similar channels,
Iheres sdd andtheres Wilson, ana e.ch tndnss IL Ill lambastng III ths
ssnato1sa We shAppsn toS sssRd 4 the wsyef what each xsntsi
4 Az sss ssand 81 sst into M vias essaa.ayys the ps,.6asnt A. ~ taIen