The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1922-01-07

per, this selling an accident insurance
policy in the denomination of $1,000
for the pitance Of rs cents and then
throwing in the daily News Tribune
resulted in saddening failure.
One Duluthian who was solicited
joshed the agent by insisting that the
News Tribune plant was printing the
Rip-saw. The eanvasser reported the
allegation to headquarters. Great
| indignation was the result. One of
those noted News Tribune "confer-
ences" was Immediately called. Just
what was said and proposed is not fully
known to the Great Family Journal,
but it is safe to say that the great ag-
gregation of newspaper sharps really
felt like blowing up the home of the
cheeky citizen.
The benighted Knight then wrote a
letter and signed it in. that classic Eng
hsh fist of his, saying that the News
Tribune never had printed the Rip-saw;
that it was not printing it and that it
never would print it.
The benighted Knight bore false wit
ness when he signed his Albionic name
to statement that the News Tribune
never had printed the Rip-saw. He well
knew that the Rip-saw was set up and
printed by the News Tribune plant for
over two years and that each and every
issue was paid for to the last cent
charged and due.
The benighted Knight did not say,
however, that for several years the
News Tribune printed "Industrialisti, -
Finnish daily paper that hates the
American form Of government and that
fain would see the American people un-
der the red Russian system of govern
ment. All during the big World War;
when Americans were eating dog bis.
cult, bran bread, going without sugar
and wearing ragged raiment, and while
their sons were giving up their lives
on the Front in France, the Bunnellian
outfit was printing, at a fat profit, a
paper preaching doctrines that the
News Tribune claims to hate to the
very bottom of its sordid little soul.
The News Tribune wanted and even
needed the money, however, therefore
did the work, charging the. poor social,
lists fat profit and keeping the real
facts in the case. very quiet and away
from the ears of the super-patriots.
June l, 1919, the News Tribune could
not print the Rip-saw any longer, al
though bills were being paid promptly
and in full, but it continued to print
a foreign language paper, a, adjudication
that does not believe in the American
system of government and wishes to
see the American people under the red
Russian System OF @goyefnments.s~~g
Although this is another story, it
shows how the News Tribune needs a
new conscience and a new soul. g.
The love and pride that the Great
Family Journal has for Duluth make it
hesitate to ten to what depths the News
Tribune's daily circulation had fallen.
Last October, the sponsors for the paper
admitted, in a sworn statement, that
the circulation for the daily edition
was only II, 900 copies per issue. Since
then, there has been steady slump. It
was reported some time ago that the
daily circulation struck the $1,000 mark.
Figures given by some of those on the
late circulation drive seem incredible,
therefore they will not be quoted, but
they are much below these quoted by
the Rip-saw.
| Some of the News Tribune's circula-
ton stunts on the Mesaba range are
enough to almost make angels weep.
One Heath, who had charge Of the cir
eulation at Virginia, had canny habit
Of burning from 200 to 800 unsold
copies daily as per orders from Duluth.
That stunt was exposed, after which
the unsold copies were saved and
shipped back, literally by the carload.
The Marshall-Wells Hardware Co.
bought News Tribunes by the carload
for use in packing goods. As a result
of that practice, the News Tribune for
! got to credit Heath with all his returns
and the crooked George Desmond, then
circulation manager, claimed that
Heath owed $500 and tried to bluff it
out of him. Had he made his bluff
work, it is doubtful if the News Tri-
bune ever would have received any of
it. When Desmond was ANONYMOUSLY
discharged by the News Tribune, he is
alleged to have been ahead of the treas
ury anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000.
The News Tribune never has had
enough confidence in its book claim
against, Heath to sue him for the now
much needed $500.
| At Virginia, on one OCCASION, a GER
tain fellow saw pile of News Tri-
Dunes "returns" that measured 16x8x6
feet, 768 Gu. IT,, or nearly six cords.
Another chap on the Mesaba range
probably owes the News Tribune 5000,
but he refuses to pay and the News Tri-
bune dares not try to make him, know.
ing that he will come back with heavy
damage claim because of broken con.
tract, the breaking being done by the
Bunnellian sheet 20 i'll.
1t is doubtful if the News Tribune
today IS selling more than $50 papers
in the Mesaba range city Of Hibbing
The South Hibbing bundle at present
contains 165 papers, unless it has been
cut down in the past ten days. The
Duluth Evening Herald, in contrast, is
putting somewhere between 1,100 and
], 200 copies into "The Richest Village
on Earth.'' Il If 10y.
Right here in Duluth, only few
weeks ago, a former restaurant cook
named John Brown, who was looking
after several delivery routes for the
News Tribune, made heavy collections
and skipped the town, so It was re
lported to the police. The first report
i was to the effect that he got away