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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-27
Continued from last issue
XIV.

A publisher VINO secured quite a
good circulation for his newspaper
thru a pony contest and thru the So
licitations of some people who car
ried his RECEIPT books and took all the
subscriptions they could get and ap-
piled the money on what the editor
owed them, was both pleased and
chagrinned. He wanted a large cir
culation, but he was not getting
much money out of all this growth
of business, and he always liked to
be getting the best of the situation
whatever it was. When he found
what a lot of papers he had to print
and mail out for months to come,
he found way to beat the game and
he beat it. He went to printing all
the auction sale bills he could and
in each case he would suggest that
the whole bill be inserted in the
newspaper. AT the regular advertis-
ing rates the price would be prohibi-
tive for such a large form, but he
would cut the price to a small sum
and put it in the paper in place of
news. He would do the same with
large display posters and thus cut
down the news service to nearly
nothing and the people who had paid
their subscriptions to a newspaper
were getting merely combination
of sale bills and posters for it. When
their year was out they would go
into the office and order the paper
stopped, but he would meet them
with proposition to accept his great
clubbing offer, and he would enum-
crate a lot of papers that he said
he was giving in connection with his
own paper, all for two dollars year,
and they would usually pay him an
other two dollars. In the course of
a few weeks these people would visit
the printing office a few times to say
that they were not receiving the
other papers he promised them. He
would grab his notebook and make
a note of it and would promise to
look it up and see that they got it.
They would eventually get tired of
going to talk to him about it and
would stay away till the year was
out. Then they would again visit
the office to tell him to stop send
ing the paper, and he would tell
them that it could be had now for
a dollar year by paying cash, that
this was bargain day with him, and
he would again get their money. At
the end of the next year if the GUS
toner again ordered stopped and de-
clined take it at dollar year. he
would keep finding it in his mail box.
When he marked it refused and re-
turned it, that copy would not come
again but the next issue would. In
many cases the children would get
the mail and he would find that it
was in his house and he had by that
circumstance accepted the goods. Ac-
cording to the postal laws he would
be liable for payment of the sub
scription up to that time, and thru
carelessness or disgust he would quit |
trying to stop it and after long
time, perhaps couple of years, he
would get a bill for it at full rate. |
He would go to the printing office,
have fuss with the editor, do about |
four dollars worth of swearing and |
finally pay the full amount of the
bill and tell the publisher he did not
want the paper in the house any
more. During all this period, if an
other Newspaper man solicited that |
mans patronage he would have to
listen to tale Of woe about how
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-27

grain varies in height, 1t is import
ant that the driver should keep
shifting the binder to suit the length
of straw and have the bands come
at the middle of the sheaf so that
straws will not lose out In handling.
To save buying more binders In q
community, farmers can combine
their efforts of teams and drivers.
and keep the machine going all day
without stopping for feed and rest,
thus saving their crops with the min
imum of investment in machinery
and laborers.
In selecting the place for stacking
the grain, care should be used to
have the ground cleaned off so 1t
will be easy to save the shelled grain
at threshing time. Sticks, cobbles
and other things that would be
dangerous II fed into the cylinder
should be removed. Straw Is going
to be valuable this year and care
should be given to save the straw
in as good condition as possible to
resist the storms. Any kind Of q
stockade that will hold 1t in q COM
pact body will be worth while. Some
who have barns are planning to blow
/ 1t into the barn and catch and hold
everything but the hum of the ma
chine.
After the threshers have left and
before there comes rain, all the
grain that lies in the chat and dust
should be scooped up and deposited
in a dry place for the fowls IN
winter. Chickens need dust bath
in winter to keep off the mites, and
they need exercise such as will be
afforded by scratching in this mix
ture of grain and chaff and dust to
get their feed. Prepare clean hard
floor that can be swept often, and
then dump enough of the mixture on
it each day to keep the fowls in
good condition. Prepare the place
of storage now. and do not wait till
the shower spoils the plan by sprout-
ing the grain. If you want the
chickens to have little green truck
during the winter to improve the
egg crop, take some of the mixed
grain and dust and wet 1t, and place
It in q shallow box where there Is
enough heat and light to sprout 1t.
Then let the fowls have it to dig
in, and they will eat the tender
shoots and the kernels and repay you
in better eggs. A monotonous ra-
ton of wheat will keep fowls alive
all winter but it will not keep them
in good physical condition and lay
ing. Frequent changes of diet with
out going to extremes is what they
need.
In operating the thresher, do not
allow the pitchers to crowd it and
reduce the speed of operation nor
yet to get behind and let the ma
chine run empty and at high motion.
Either circumstance wastes the
grain, and care on the part of the
pitchers and in regulating the sep
arator If variation occurs. saves
heavy loss of grain. Workmen
should keep these things in mind
and remember that care in the har-
vest is one of the ways of winning
the war. tt
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-27
Harvest Time Suggestions

Suggestion is made at this time
that farmers who load their grain
on open hayracks to haul to the
stack should make the rack tight
enough to hold the shelled grain or
use canvas to catch 1t. The high
price of grain and the prospects for
shortage make the cost of the canvas
look small in comparison with what
may be saved by it. Several farm
ers might use the saem canvas where
their stacking does not come at quite
the same time.
In operating the binder where the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-27


didn't want it, that he could not af-
ford to take all the papers in the
county and that if he ever got rid
of the one he was getting he would
subscribe for one he liked better.
In his daily talk with his family and
children he would lead them to be-
, lieve that all publishers were Sound
rels and all newspapers were evil
things to be avoided. There are
many families in the county where
that idea has been advanced so con-
the younger members of the family
boast that they never read a news
paper and that they do not want to.
Many of these people live on farms
and during the past few years great
changes have been made in farm
methods. The country papers that
are alive to the Importance of the
improper methods and unable to
reach such people because of their
prejudice against newspapers.
XVI.
Two Blackfoot editors got together
one day and agreed that man who
buys a sack of flour of a merchant
and has it delivered to his house on
Friday is not bound to buy another
sack of the same merchant on each
succeeding Friday in the year;
neither should a man who buys a
newspaper service for a year and
tells the publisher where to deliver
it, have to buy a similar amount
from him the following year just
because of the first purchase. The
two men agreed to notify their pat
rons that on and after that date they
would fill the orders received for
subscription, and stop the paper at
expiration. They both published
such announcements for a long per-
iod so that all might know about
it. One publisher carried out the
agreement to the letter and lost
nearly half of his business. He
found that good many people dis
regarded the announcement and be-
came peeved when the paper did not
arrive after expiration. In such cases
they would do some scolding about
an editor who thought they were not
good for a little two-dolar account,
and would go very promptly and sub
scribe for the other newspaper and
pay cash, and go about the neighbor-
hood knocking the newspaper that
carried out it's agreement and did the
very thing that people say news
papers ought to do. The other news
paper violated it's agreement, kept all
the old subscribers on the list as long
as possible and took all it could get
of the other ones customers. Humid
reds of people in the county are still
demanding that newspapers shall
stop when the paid subscription ex-
pires, yet most of them would con-
denim any publisher who did it. I'll
the publisher should take the trouble
to write to each of them at expira-
tion and ask him about 1t, and en-
close a stamped envelope for a re-
ply, very few would answer. The ma
jority of them want the paper con-
tinued till they order it stopped and
are offended if it fails to reach them.
XXXv.
In the days preceding the Euro
pean war when people Of the timber /,
ed states had been working to clear
off their lands, wood pulp was made
into paper and sold for what it cost
TO make the paper. The great waste |
Of the war and the turning of mills
the mems energies to producing
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-27

the editor" sometimes in earnest,
but more often in jest. 1t Is usually
in consequence of something often
sive said in the paper, or some news
item that was not correct. But so
long as news Is received from an I'M
reliable public or from unreliable
people who look as good as reliable
ones, newspapers will be taken ad-
vantage of at times. A publisher of
considerable experience says the most
effective Ticking" anyone ever gave
him was to refer to a certain article
about a family evading quarantine
regulations, and said, II noticed what
was. said in the paper about the al
legged failure to observe the quaran-
tine, and l didn't like 1t much.
know of course that you thought II
was true or you would not have pub
lished it, but have enemies the same
as you have, and they have taken ad-
vantage of you when they gave you
the information"
If that man had been disrespectful
in his remarks it would have corrob.
Grated what the Others had told
about him and the editor would have
had scant respect for him, but as II
was, he won friends. If an editor IL
sensitive he will respond to reason.
able appeal by an injured person and
will be deaf to rudeness and abuse
II he is not sensitive he is not capa'
BILE Of sensing public opinion and the
public pulse and publishing and dis
cussing what they are interested in
or of listening to remarks and inter
views and then expressing in print
just what the speaker expressed.
Moralists claim that swearing OF
expressing i'll feeling towards another
reacts upon the one that does it. Once
a Blackfoot editor was having some
sample copies placed at certain
homes and a woman rang up and In
a loud voice said, "This is Mrs
--; you sent me copy Of
your paper. l don't want your rot.
ten sheet in my house. -
The editor hung up and left hel
raving, and since then when he
meets her he notices her hard face
and is sorry for the lift element that
makes the face SO hard. 1t is said
that hardened criminals become sc
callous that they do not suffer from
remorse for the ordinary crimes
Their punishment and their sacrifice
are considerable when they have to
live with that kind of a set Of feel
ings, and the editor who was to be
licked" to affect him deserves to be
left severely and forever alone.
CONTINUED in next issue.)
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-27
XXXVII.

Nearly everybody, when reading
newspaper, likes to feel that it has
been paid for. A few people who have
had unpleasant experiences with pub
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-27

In the days preceding the Euro
pean war when people of the timber
ed states had been working to clear
off their lands, wood pulp was made
into paper and sold for what 1t cost
to make the paper. The great waste
of the war and the turning of mills
the mems energies to producing
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-01
THAT GERMAN TRIUMVIRATE.

Frederick Palmer. correspondent in Europe per-
haps the American OF all Americans free to speak, and
qualified o speak with authority this say the
chief the central powers;
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-01

Once more the German government seems 20 have
chosen deliberately to adront the American people IT
that ali the American relief workers
Belgium including Whtock. minister
country, along staff be imprisoned
for month before being allowed q return home.
They were recalled because Germany sunk Belgian
relief ships shutting of supplies and interfering with
their humanitarian work
The American sailors recently held in Germany for
several weeks and then dumped over the frontier
rags and restitution nearly dead from hunger and
neglect detained tn pretext Of health quar-
antne"- This time there is a pretext The relief
workers are subjected to news quarantine which
seems new Prussan nventon Apparently the idea
that if these American citizens were TO return home
ment and public more or less Information that Ger
be however that Germany plans to hold them in
our government into concessions OF some sort when war
comes
The proceeding viewed in It's most favorable light
is fatty contrary to the established usage OF nations
It might be regarded by many nations legitimate
ground for It is all the more offensive at this
time because the United states government has just
given Germany guarantee that an the German consus
China may return home in safety by way OF the
United satesan act OF purely gratutous courtesy on
part
Our government need not regret Its cvllty because
81 the German go' ernments studied boorishuess and
brutality. 70 our own decency not 10 make
reprisals in kind. We only be sorry Tor a great
nation that the government which represents II has
sunk 10 such depths
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-01
NEWSTIMES EXTENDS WORKING
FORCE THROUGH INDUCTION Q
Mr.. J. NJ. STEPHENSON, MANIAC


Beginning tomorrow Mr.. Joseph NJ Stephenson. vice
president OF The News-Ttmes Printing Co.
direct charge Of the business end this paper as its
general a move which contempla-
ton since Of the year. Meanwhile Mr. steph-
has arranged his banking interests in Gary.
for past three years has been connected
with International Trust Savings bank as
cashier enabling himself 20 henoeforth give to The
News-Tmes his divided but exclusive personal
service
Mr.. Stephenson is not a stranger South Bend or
to The News-Tmes ORGANIZATION. He IS son of Mr..
Rome c. Stephenson president of the St Joseph Loan
Trust CO.. and vice president and
Joseph County Savings bank Mrs Stephenson. wife
OF the manager. also stockholder in The News
Times corporation is the daughter Of Gabriel r.
Summers publisher Of the paper. The return of Mr..
Stephenson South Bend, therefore, personal
charge OF The News-Times business management 10 as
Of Homecoming both to the city and the
paper.
Induction Mr. Stephenson into the business man
agement paper Furthermore relieves editor
Of the divided attention that ne has given the business
department year more. and enables him
give attention TO his editorial dutes-the
and editorial policy. The News-Times will continue
The paper that does things" under the direction
Of the forces Mr.. Stephenson strength.
life. vgOr. and enormous help to all de-
partments enabling heads to center their service
closely upon departmental work
1t is a continuation of that strengthening policy
launched seventeen months ago. when The News-Times
enlarged from seven to eight-coumn paper, threw
out the liquor advertising of it's volition.
duced medicine advertising to the legitimate
1t is continuation Of he strengthening policy
that put leased wire services fifteen months
ago to better both our morning evening
readers; that has recently opened bureau
Elkhart. serving that city with its quite
effectively the Elkhart papers
The News-Tmes has been doing things aside from
its editorial and news achievements; than
ing in the movement for better housing conditions;
helping political parties victories; more than
diligence in the promotion OF constitutional
vention, suffrage statewide prohibition egs-
lation; boosting South Bend
It has been taking advantage of the demands made
upon it because Of such service enlargng circulation;
advertising patronage; caring for its patrons
with efficiency uneXcelled anywhere in this section of
the state The result is a condition that actually
mands larger business organization; a in
tnuous charge of the reins have him:
Mr.. Stephenson our new general manager
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-01
John d. RocketeNer:s Father
BY
John Elfreth
Watkins

professional and amateur, sailed forth TO beat every
BUSH for the lost father Americas conspicuous
citizen I'm the years that have since followed
and Canada have both been secured and a fortune
has been spent i'm hunting down false clues. The late
editor, Joseph Pulitzer put big price the lost
mans head and is said lavished $4,000
mystery. At time rival newspaper sleUhs
signed to the case waged exciting of wits
cesstating the employment Geographic codes such
used by great military forces in the field
In the exciting hunt for the missing Rockefeller
detectives have crossed the paths of the newspaper
scouts. The apparent cOaing operations the
former agents has aroused suspicion that the vanished
have dreaded his discovery by outside
that might the back disappear
The most persistent theories William Avery
ROckefeller's after leaving his wife, locate him.
VariOusly, a wealthy lumber magnate of Canada,
ranChman of northwest United States, "Dr. LAYER
ing" OF Madison. Wis. and "Dr. LevingSOn of
port, III. The first theories but from
the The Madison address which he was said
reside found be nOnexistent and the sleuth
who hunted DIR. Livingston his lair i'm FreepOrt
arrived there sometime after that gentleman had died
Skeletons rattle louder in the fun closets the rich
than in the empty closets OF the Americas veal
thiest citizen has been called by distinguished biOg
rapher 1.-The worlds tragic figure" Has his deep
melancholy due the riddle his fathers fate,
that tragedy connected herewith might
day be revealed a pitiIess public?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-01

Frederick Palmer. correspondent in Europe,
haps the American OF all Americans free to speak and
qualified with authority. this say of the
chief of the central powers:
Germany being ruled by trumvirate;
three men 1t is Won Hindenburg. strategist,
who conceives the successive campaigns of
frghtfulness the kaiser who decides and
orders the execution; and then there Beth
Inann-Hollweg. the governments public liar"
The force of this analysis plain in the face of the
recent announcement Of Hollweg floor o
reichstag that Germanys are clean; that any
United States o. our inviting
her submarine warfare is purely of defensive order;
that she peace with the United States
done nothing TO provoke us to anger.
1t is the German governments 'puolic liar deber-
ately misleading the German people into thoughts of
justification Hindenburg strategist
Wilhelm the kaiser may to attempt to put over
and it answers question of some vital importance.
Il feel sorry for the German people" writes Ger
mana aercan. intensely But they could bring
about honorable peace if they would deal
with the Hohenzoerns as the Russians did with the
Romanons"
So they could But will they do it? Is Germany to-
dav capable Of revolt? There is no convincing sign
OF IT,
Revolution came easy to Russia when once the plans
laid by few leaders because the nation ripe
for it, The Russians of individuasts Every
Russian seeks 20 his own way In this
they are much like Americans
II the Germans We're ever possessed of such strong
individualsnn. they have lost The of
government they have had centuries tended to
suppress personal initiative artistic
tiers.
They are the most gresarious OF nations. Roman
ROLAND points great novel -Chrisophe
they tend naturally together to together
to take their recreation together think and feel
gether; together take their for nearly everythns
from authority: such too often Bethmann- Holl-
veg, government distributor Of the false.
The very qualities that made Germany so amaz-
ingly efficient in science industry practical
ernment-dociuty. obedience and the social instinct
make almost impossible spontaneous uprising against
vested authority such might be expected a
Of course i'm France America Russia.
The people OF country need to have some concep-
ton Of truth about their before there can
be enough spirit justify or engender reyoIu-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-01

Yet he strict abstainer from alcohol He would
have been quite the fine gentleman in appearance but
for the eccentrty OF leaving on his necte the better
display big diamond i'm the bosom of his shirt
Mystery always shrOuded his long absences and his
plenteOus supply of ready money It while ON
of his prolonged trips that he met Eliza DAWSON
prosperous farmers daughter whom he brought home
RiChfOrd his wife. of the several children
born them John Rockefeller, present day
the birth this child of destiny the family
menced long and tedious period Of movingS-to Mo-
rayia, Ohio OswegO, " Y, Strongsvie. Ohio and Par
ma Ohio. During this period the cancer doctor was
home but little; yet while there he always improved his
property by ndulging fad that seemed werdy inCOn-
estent with his lack of domestcity. This was Ten
chant for planting after still stand
monuments TO his Finally in 1857, he moved
his wife and children brick house in Cleve-
land. soon aferward he took his hat from its peg,
stepped forth into the night and became but hay
memory. His John D., then IS During the
years the deserers patient wife waited vanly
his Then she died in ignorance of the
fate that had Overtaken him. Luckily her sons had
passion for making money. The wolf did not Turk long
her door.
The mystery of William Avery RoCkefellers disap
pearance continued, oddly enough be overlooked by
press and public alike until long time after his son,
John d., had flashed into the financial armament a
Iumnary of the first magnitude. Then some chance
writer sounded the alarm and scribes and detectives