Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-04-22

sand miles from Lanesboro which fc
Ill some months now has been trying tn
~ experiments OF being without loca
newspaper. After years Of unselfis
boosting for the town the local news
'e, paper man found il impossible to maxi
both ends meet-and so he quit. richer
in experience. and poorer in pocket.
We met him short time after the
= sad demise of his newspaper.
SO the print paper robbers got your
II goat at ast?" was our salutation.
NO, not exactly" was the answer.
sure they helped along to hurry the
end. but the cause Of the fatal disease
was the attitude of the business men
OF the town
~HoBs that9"
Wen. you remember the one time
preacher la Lanesboro who advised
his congregation to do as the preach
or says. not as he does That SEEM
ed TO be the motto adopted by the
business men OF my town. They 4
preached one thing and-did just the
opposite Forever and a day they were
always preaching patronage Of home
Institutions. But for some unfathom-
able reason they evidently did not in
clude the local print shop among such
Institutions. Whenever there was
job OF printing 10 be done it went to
Milwaukee, Chicago. or some other
large city. II was only when they
were ina rnshto get out job. and
there was no time TO send it away.
that the local print shop got a whack
at the work.
But why did they send away?
Couldn't you do the work.
Certainly I could, and in most
every case my shop could have turned =
)ut better and more correct work than +,
hey got from outside shops. But
hey were possessed of the same spirit !,
hey condemned so In those patroniz-
ng mail order houses-the desire to
ave a few measly pennies. Their q
yes were so glued to the penny that C
ould be saved right now, that they
allied entirely TO see the dollar in the q"
future. If could have
ad all the job work done in the town In :,
edition 10 the newspaper. instead Of ,,
ondueting a one man shop with the :.
ne man idle most Of the time, I ~
ould have kept one or more men
cant more money in circulation right In
home more money for every busi-
sss man In town. including the bank ad
: Instead that money went to build
, some big city at the expense Of the mr.
'untry towns. Say. have you ever al,
ard a small town business man dis -,
iss the mail order evil That's ex- "u
tly the arguments he uses. Funny,
Mt II, that he can't see that those me
II same arguments apply to himself? tbs
hats sauce for the goose should be
uce for the gander." ms
Why do you single out the banker WA
mentioning the business men of RI,
UT town." 80
BECAUSE in every small town the
al bank is the greatest user of
nted matter, and the banker is al
US the worst offended against the oui
al print shop. Every country bank act
] have known has been rabid OPP sat
ent of the mail order business, be- sue
use he realizes better than anyone sell
@ that the money thus sent out of
community stunts the growth OF the tr,,
But--and that's the
ser part of it-when IL comes to
wing printing for his bank he re- M!
es 10 take the medicine he pre- L
lbes for others. Can you beat it? lyiI
hat isn't being penny wise and A
nd foolish I don't know what 1t wou
BY the way. some time ago 1.-THE his
erican Press" OF New York publish was
an article on Bankers and the CON,
ne Paper" Some day-if you are r,,,,,
now-you may be up against the ~
e problem which made me quit the II
ntry newspaper game to go to work YOU
the mail order printing house in III
city. That article may start some self
ntry bankers to thinking and may can
, some other member OF the coun- ~
newspaper fraternity from the fate INNS
has befallen me and my old INNS
n. Why don't you print it?" 49,,