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Show many papers failed and the sheriff closed their doors. We can convince anyone that we are, today, lower at a $3 paper than we were in 1913 on a $2 paper. And to prove that we are, we'll take any article of trade today at the same ratio of exchange that existed in 1913 or '14 for what was then a $2 paper for a $3 paper today. The offer Is fact, and we'll make money by It. If you think not, trot right in right now with your stuff and we'll take it. This office paid taxes in 1913 and '14 of less than $52 either year; last year our taxes were $127.40! So we say, In all kindness to our farmer friends, our price is low. In seven years, all that we have raised, was 50 per cent in subscriptions or advertising; every other commodity (without exception) has advanced more. The same relative use of a dollar to us today is less in purchasing purchas-ing power than the same dollar was In 1913 and '14. We maintain we are even now back to pre-war prices. But, in this year, should paper prices drop to where they should be; Bhould wages be lower, should we be able to save In the buying power of our earned money, we will gladly drop back In price to $2. OUR SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. In 1913 and up to July 1, 1920, our subscription price was $2.00 a year. In other words, after the farmer had three, four, five and even six years of better prices, we raised one notch only. As Delta is a farming farm-ing community, we will gladly go back to pre-war prices with the farmer and put in effect the same prices as then existing in exchange for his product. We will take his milk, his eggs, his butter, his potatoes, his hay, his alfalfa seed anything and everything every-thing he produces on a farm, the same measure as he gave us in 1913 for our 1921 prices. That is, we will take 60 quarts of milk for our paper; his milk in 1913-14-15, etc., was 5c a quart. We will take it in exchange for our paper at the same figure, the quantity he gave us in 1913 for a $2 paper. Milk is now 10c a quart, on which he would give us $6 in value by the same trade of seven years ago. We will take his hay. These columns col-umns will show that in those days hay at this time of the year was averaging $8 to $12. We will take his hay gladly, six subscriptions for a ton of hay. Hay is today in Delta $20 and some charge $23. We'll trade and give the same exchange value as of 1913. We'll take his spuds. Just before I came down here eight years ago, I bought spuds at 2 0c a bushel delivered deliv-ered in my cellar in Salt Lake City; we'll take spuds today for the same number of bushels for our $2 paper in 1913 for our $3 paper in 1921. I' never bought before the war a pair of shoes that cost more than $4.75 or $5. I got a good standard $5 shoe which wore, was all I could afford and today I'll take the same Florsheim, Walk-Over or Regal shoe. Star Brand, Elliott-Brown or other make any of them, in fact, one pair of shoes for 2 papers. The same shoe today, notwithstanding all the sales, reductions, widely advertised ad-vertised slashing prices, is selling for $S.S5. I'll take shoes. Price lists in 1913 showed print paper the magnificent sum of 3c per pound! Think of it! This paper could be gotten out In all its ready print and its home print for $14.10 a month. Cheap. We were then on a $2 basis. In April 1920, Price List No. 12 of the Western Newspaper Newspa-per Union showed that same paper to have fallen In price to the unheralded un-heralded low figure of 11 He, and the present prices are 14 c. Some reduction for the printer, isn't it? We'll gladly go back to charging you $2 tor our paper If you will only get our news print for us at So. We'll gladly do it. Our ready print now costs us $46.85 against $14.10. And yet we maintain we're on a pre-war price at $3. Insurance, In this building cost me In 1913 $2.00 per hundred. Today It Is- $5.22! We find the Salt Lake Tribune raised its price; the Deseret News Us; Eureka raised to $4. Many, |