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Show I To Olir Readers; Has Been's and Will Be's THIS IS THE LAST COPY OF THE GLOBE THAT WE ARE ALLOWED TO SEND TO DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS, AC-CORDING AC-CORDING TO INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE GOVERNMENT. ALL OF OUR DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS MUST PAY ACCOUNTS AC-COUNTS DUE TO DATE AND ADVANCE AT THE VERY LEAST THREE MONTHS' PAYMENT TO BE GLOBE READ-ERS READ-ERS HEREAFTER. A FEW OF OUR SUBSCRIBERS, WHO HAVE MOST ALWAYS PAID IN ADVANCE, WILL BE ABOUT THE ONLY ONES WHO WILL BE GLOBE READERS, IT LOOKS LIKE, UNLESS THE MAJORITY OF YOU COME THROUGH. WE OFTEN WONDER IF SOME OF OUR READERS, WHO HOWL IF THEY EVEN MISS AN ISSUE OF THE GLOBE, EVER CONSIDER HOW WE MISS THAT SUBSCRIPTION MONEY JUSTLY DUE US AND SO HARD TO GET. ITS LIKE. PULLING TEETH TO GET IT AND USUALLY WE GET WHAT THE LIT-. TLE BOY SHOT AT. (I ? 0 O O ) WE NEVER WERE IN SUCH STRINGENT FINANCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES DEBT, SICKNESS AND DEATH HAVING ALMOST CROWDED US TO THE WALL-YET WE TRY TO PUT ON A BOLD FRONT AND KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP. WE INSTALLED AN EXPENSIVE TYPESETTING MACHINE IN ORDER TO GIVE OUR READERS A BETTER PAPER AND THEN "WAR TIME" AND THE SCARCITY OF LABOR , SIMPLY PUT. THE FINISHING TOUCHES TO ALL OUR HOPES. WE HAVE NEARLY $700.00 OUTSTANDING ON SUBSCRIPTION ACCOUNTS ALONE AND DO FEEL THAT OUR DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS CERTAINLY OUGHT TO COME TO OUR AID. WE ARE ALONE CAN'T GET HELP AND WORK WEEK IN AND WEEK OUT FROM EARLY MORN TO MIDNIGHT TO TRY TO MAKE ENDS MEET. ANOTHER THING-4UST A VERY FEW OF OUR "WIDEST AWAKE" BUSINESS MEN TURN ANYTHING ANY-THING OUR WAY IN THE ADVERTISING LINE AND SEEM TO PREFER TO LET THEIR BUSINESS GO TO TREMONTON, THE COUNTY SEAT OR ELSEWHERE RATHER THAN TURN f A CENT TO THE HOME NEWSPAPER. THE FOURTH LIBER TY LOAN IS AN EXAMPLE OF GARLAND THRIFT. EVERY PAPER IN THE COUNTY THE STATE, TOO, WAS WELL FILLED WITH DISPLAY ADVERTISING DURING THE THREE WEEKS OF THE CAMPAIGN PAID FOR BY THE BUSINESS FIRMS OF THE SEVERAL LOCALITIES. THE GLOBE GOT NOTHING NOT AN INCH YET WE DID NOT EXPECT MUCH AS SOME OF OUR BUSTLING (?) BUSINESS MEN YELLED "GRAFT" WHEN WE SOLICITED A LITTLE ADVERTISING IN THE THIRD LIBERTY LOAN. WE ARE AT A LOSS TO KNOW WHAT'S THE MATTER. DON'T GARLAND WANT A PAPER OR WHY THIS INDIFFERENCE? I WE HAVE A FEW OF THE BEST, MOST WIDE AWAKE AND HUSTLING BUSINESS MEN THAT CAN BE FOUND IN ANY COMMUNITY, BUT A LOT OF THEM ARE JUST AS DEAD AS THEIR BUSINESS. LET THERE BE AN AWAKENING KEEP THE BUSINESS AT HOME BOOST YOUR BUSINESS IN THE HOME PAPER YOU'LL BE THE GAINER. A CITY IS JUDGED BY THE LIVE ADVERTISEMENTS CARRIED IN THE LOCAL PAPER. THE CATALOUGE HOUSES ARE ALWAYS ANXIOUS TO GET HOLD OF A LOCAL PAPER WHERE THE LOCAL MERCHANTS FAIL TO DO ANY ADVERTISING THERE'S WHERE THEY DO THE BUSINESS, FIRST FLOODING THE COMMUNITY WITH THEIR SHOWY CATALOGUES. IN CONCLUSION, DEAR READERS, WE WANT YOU TO CONTINUE TO BE GLOBE READERS, BUT WE MUST HAVE WHAT'S COMING TO US AND THE PAY IN ADVANCE FOR THE GLOBE HEREAFTER. NO DOUBT WE WILL BE COMPELLED COM-PELLED TO TURN OVER TO A COLLECTING AGENCY MANY OF OUR OUTSTANDING ACCOUNTS, BUT IF PAST BILLS ARE SETTLED WITHOUT THIS TROUBLE AND EXPENSE, IT IS MUCH BETTER FOR ALL CONCERNED. |