The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1920-08-17
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print paper continues to soar, we
may soon be printing THE NEWSson
twenty-dOllar bills : or twelve-irch
boards. It's a merry life!
That clock, invented by Phia-
delphiau, which, instead of striking,
says. eleven o'clock, time to go
home," would not be very popular
with Paris boys and girls, who are
of the mutual opinion that there is
no such thing as time. {
An observant Paris man wants to
know why the Kentucky school
census shows that there are more
boys and girls in the country, and
more girls than boys in the cities.
We thought the boys were all leav-
ing the farms. Following the girls,
as usual, Ell?
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The British Museum contains a
big crab measuring eighteen feet
across it's outstretched legs. Paris,
KY, has some pretty big CRABS"
but their measurements are some
what less than the one in the Mu-
scum. But their characteristics are
very much the same.
A Paris man recently asked us:
What is news?" not meaning the
price Of newspaper, of course. We
gave him this as our conception: II
THE NEWS wants it worse than
the person handing it in, then it's
news; If the person handing it in
wants it in worse than THE NEWS,
then it's advertising. Doesn't that
fit the case, precisely?
i. =.
No, Mary Ann, THE NEWS does
not know the French name for prof.
teers, but we do know what the
French do to profiteers. They give
them Jail sentences, and what is
more to the point, make them serve
the full time. And they do still
more. They have the sentence and
the reason for it published in the
newspapers at the expense of the
culprits. The Federal Government
may have a more effective discour-
ager, but if it has it keeps it under
cover most obstinately. !
Paris now has a Commercial Club
composed of men who are really
and truly anxious, ready and willing
to do everything they can to adj
vance the material welfare of the
city. 1t is up to us to hold up their
hands and help them in every way
possible. This cannot be done by
knocking their efforts and making
insinuating remarks, such as "Oh.
that bunch merely got together to
get up a lot of money and give a
series of banQuets" That kind of
talk won't help. Don't knock.
Since upper Main street has been
converted into a passable thorough
fare autoists have taken it for
granted that the reconstruction
work has been done especially for
their benefit, and that it was in
tended for a speedway. 1t has been
suggested that the city install
pari-mutuel machines, and take and
make odds on the racing events that
are pulled Off there daily. THE
NEWS will furnish daily form
sheets for the bettors, giving full
as to the owners, jock /
eys, their mounts and past records. !
The public may have an idea !
that the many handsome girl stenos-
raphers in the business Offices OF
Paris men have "a sinecure, or an
easy time But there was never
greater mistake made. In addition
to the daily routine Of taking die
tation, keeping books, answering
hundreds of telephone calls, keeping
office records, deciphering their
shorthand notes, and thousand and
one details of Office work, they have |
a really hard Job. and very little |
time to play. And their pay is |
hardly commensurate with the vast |
/, mount Of labor thew are called upOn