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Show THE STEALERS. B Several months ago Goodwin's Weekly stole a B little advertisement from a big firm In New York. H It was a catch line, and read "Get the Habit." H The writer of this thought it a good line, H and it must be a good line, because for a month H past the Siegel Clothing Company and The Dese H ret News have been using it industriously, all H unconscious perhaps that they saw the words H on a Goodwin's Weekly sign board. Bj But there are other steals in advertising every B day. The most palpable of these of recent date B is that of the Godbe-Pitts Drug Company. Some B one in the company noted that "Schraum's, B Where the Cars Stop," had the right ring to It, B and most of us know that it is the best ad. In B town. The fame of the sign is not only local, but B other citjes have heard and marveled. But now B the ad. man cf Godbe-Pitts says "Godbe-PItts, B t Where the Cars Start From." The originality of I that is phenominal, and the chump who had the I bright idea probably doesn't know that every time lio writes the phrase, he is advertising the place I where tho cars stop, across the street. There is only one way to express what one thinks. Say ' rotten" the way Joe Jenkins can. say it. B "That Good Coal" has had a hundred stealers B in different lines of trade, and now they are be- B ginning on Rieger & Lindley's, "The Whiskey B Merchants," and according to their ads. there are B all kinds of merchants who have found a short B line to explain what they sell. B Perhaps the stealers will read this, but some- B thing had to be said, for B "Morse, who invented the telegraph, and Bell, B the inventor of the telephone, each married a B deaf mute. Little comment is necessary, but B just see what a man can do when everything is B quiet." |