Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1919-05-16
HOME TOWN LOYALTY

order houses. The local merchant and
bushes man pays local taxes. aids To-
cal churches and charitable enter
priscs He nils the duties Of patri-
otic and progressive member or the
community "a whish he lives. and for
these reasons he liz entitled to the local
patronage.
The local Newspaper. AS a matter OF
principle and patriotic pride In its
community, invariably takes up the
night for the local business man against
the mail order houses. although tho To-
cal paper can secure more valuable ad
vcrtisinK from the mail order houses
than from the local merchant. The To-
cal paper IL as much entitled 70 theioy-
Al support OF the local business man az
As the local business man OF the paper.
The Facts In this article represent
the conditions In every community In
Idaho and are not specially Intended
for Shoshone consumption. The local
paper in each OF these communities Is
In contact with form OF competition
that liz mush moro detrimental TO It's
interests than are the mail order
houses to the local mcrshnnt. Every
local paper runs q Job department. II
Is from this side of the business that
the life OF the paper depends. II is
doubtful proposition II n single local
paper IN the state could exist year II
it's job department were dropped. The
local paper rarely supports Itself from
it's advertising and subscription de-
partmcnts alone Nearly every local
paper In the state would be dollars 10
the good each year II 1t confined it's ef-
forts entirely to it's job department and
discontinued the publication OF the pa
per. This being true II is evident that !
% - lnt ~ m X "A blow
at it's vitals and It Is at the unfair COM
petition which this job department >
must meet that prompts this article.
9ouths1 n Idaho IL travelled daily by
representatives OF the city printing :
offices N Omaha, Kansas City, Denver =
and Salt Lake Spokane and Portland. =
The local printer is ALSO thrown In com = J.
petition with the smiling, companion .
able and pleasant spoken representa- -
tives OF Boise and Caldwell printing =.
houses. II IL the business OF these =
statesmen To get business for theirfirms =
They sell blank books and other feat
ures which the local printer can not y
produce and II is right here that the y
unfair competition comes in. Here are y
some cases In point Some time ago -
the Journal was asked by local BUS -
iaess man for figures ON certain joh. -
The figures given were SIS for n thou 81
sand. While the customer was con ~
sidering these figures representa- -,
tive OF one OF these outside blank :.
book firms came along and learning the ' -.
Journal figures offered TO duplicate the -
lob for s12 Il thousand. In this par ~, ~
ticular case the si2 represented the w
exact cost OF the stock In salt Lake We
he Sc asked by the Journal repre- ~ ~,
,ented the cost OF labor and the small w
'roit On ene 'o'' -, ~, loo
Deal printer into disrepute as robber
or ne Immediately went to another
usines man in town and sold an order
( exactly the same thing at $40 per
The man who was offered 7
no job for s1s was patriotic enough TO clal
ny the extra SO to the home printer. SIC
he man who paid the sac found when VA
: received the goods that the paper has
,ed was not standard size being TOO urea
ide and too long for his purpose wor
e brought II 10 the Journal ofnce TO
/. trimmed to correct size The WI
,u.nal trimmed Il free Of charge on
paper cutter which had Just reeS,yed II
worth OF repairs. the
Asot many moons ago "A certain blank with
,olS concern in Boise had the job Of sire
ing the printing for the legislative man
ssIon, Al the close OF the session why
IA Arm had In type every bill passed Is a
that Legislature The state officials they
He'd for bids for printing certain
mbcr of copies Of the 80 ssion laws
- Journal decided to bid on The job,
hascd its figures on the same as X So
cd in doing work for its regular GUS lea
ners. on that basis the job was are
nth 100000 The journal was max Peep
! the bid largely 10 Try our ths are
ase firm end learn it's base for hg- hnvi
mr. s,,ch tobs So as a feeler il adj oped
4 a. even 81 900 10 its figures and read
ICED lis bid at S3i00 The bid was pcac
4 40 3oise By a party connected with peac
. Journal and before ne submitted u treat
also decided TO make fccier OF II man,
the Boise firms system, ana not woul
owing that 81 900 had already been shon
ted to the bid over and above the ie- itelg
innate profit on the work he added and
other 81 eco making Il stand AT an as [
- s4ieo. when the bids We're open peace
IL was found that the Boise hrm from
4 urderb,d the Journals stuffed bid man,
only si5e and this firm aircady haa to a.
-. -, ana had already received uade
d fat pay for setting ~ anu t"s
,~ral hid contained $1,000 over ana
we A legitimate profit This same
: .a,,As is representative 10 every ~
:. 4, gaaho He IS "A most pieasias her
- = - meet He greets every quire
~. -se.,~s f,.am city clerk TO the mach
-. ofnclss 30 each county by their never
l.ess xss .tuaies 10 make him frftri-
uncomnoniy agreeable, lie knows nerce
x,eedr In the printing line OF every eomf
clai be meets lie knows just ,ne urvn-
X the local printer can do and puts eyes
| cIss OF work down to cost and OF otsIh
below cost In the mean time nc whon'
y 4 few unconpsim~ntary remarks ,ae
ID The local printer and his erces- are .
cn&iE - ,,.,.et< 20 MACE the To- which
oserets'.s ass.ar,,,e with the ofn- possih
prnsci - -,s,sesas 10 solicit or Heinia
: hs ens" ,',,,ks on which he a bull
ios Dn. as .,,o,t the same rate strous
es pion. % &c lob mentioned charas