French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-07-17
STRANGE WAYS
Of THE HUSTLER
BUS|NESSOFF|C

OOO0Uv1OO UlIIUI
For some reason or another, The
Hustler Office is sending out subscrip-
ton statements to it's subscribers.
Just why the business office is doing
this is unknown. They do so many
strange things in the business Office
such as for instance, paying bills for
paper and ink and things like that
Just exactly when they fall due. Per-
haps that is the reason they are send
ing out the little slips of paper stat
ing that one dollar, or perhaps two
dollars, is due on subscription and
wont the subscriber please remit and
SO save another two cent stamp?
C. P. Rogers of East Flat Rock, was
the very first to answer the little re-
minder. His answer was short and
brief and pleasant and consisted of a
slip of paper whcih had a crisp
pleasant feel about it and which was
worth at any bank just one dollar.
You see, he is one of the most Success
full business men in Henderson county
and so he is prompt in paying his
bills. for he knows the other fellow
must have money to pay his bills, too.
Yes, Mr.. Rogers was prompt. 1t is
mentioned and repeated here again
that Mr.. Rogers was prompt.
The second reply, which came right
after the first, was from Miss Coot
Johnson of Mills River, who has for
many, many years a reader of The
Hustler, and whose sweetheart, for
many, many years, has been buried in
Virginia, where he gave his life for d
principle. Miss Johnson is going OD
to ninety years of age now, and so
perhaps, she will not be much longer
a reader of this paper, but just so long
as she is just so long will she be as
prompt in settling her little annual
account.
1t is a strange thing, when you come
to think of, it, that newspapers need
any money at all. Most people seem
to have a dim sort of an idea that
they don't. Where all the stuff that
enters into a newspaper comes from
then the sum they are asked to ply
each year is so small that it,of itself,
works against the newspaper. If the
amount we're five or ten dollars the
chances are the subscription would be
paid more prompt'E. This is just one
r,ore .eason fnr increasing the price
of weekly papers to ten dollars the
year
We often wonder what Henry Ford
docs about his subscriptions. Henry
is now the publisher of a weekly
newspaper. 1t comes out once week
lust like The Hustler, and is printed
on paper and goes through the post
1iiice, ana things like that, just as the
Hustler does. But what does Henry
know about a weekly paper, after all?
The answer is nothing, and the an
sWer is clear and quite distince like.
Henry sells about three thousand
Fords each day as a side line to print
ing his paper. If he makes only one
dollar on each car he doesn't have to
worry if the readers of his paper pay
their subscriptions are not. The
chances are he never sends out little
slips like The Hustler business office
is doing, for he already has several
dollars to his savings account and
nuts way something more each week,
it is said.
Rut The Hustler has no side line. 1t
ia devoted to the one object of getting
ont a Weekly news paper which con-
tains more Henderson county and
Hendersonville news in one issue than
Henry's paper or the New York World
does in ten years. So that is one
pretty good reason for writing a dol
i 1or check or sending a postott1ce or
der, or bringing it IN yourself IL
. makes no difference if the dollar IS
worm or if the dollar be IN
shining silver. 1t is all passed along
70 those who have furnished the ma
+ariaI in one way or another, for get
okne out the paper and if you have
snrnd ANYTHING of pleasure in the pa
ner within the year, if it has made
rou smile, or even think, or anything
IKE that, send along the dollar ana
.:xu~ .and II nTOUnDflY.