Show WHY WE MUST COLLECT elsewhere in this issue of the TIMES we have served notice that unless those subscribers whose ac counts are ara more than a l year lear ear past due make remittance or other satisfactory arrangement before the end of the month their names must be taken from our mailing list and it MAY MAV be to place some of those accounts for collection why such action is should require no further explanation that a perusal of th following statement of the costs of publishing and the returns we receive we use the issie of january 10 the one before the last as an illustration because we b happen appen to have checked up on that one available though some previous issues or even subsequent ones may have carried somewhat more advertising and therefore have been slightly more remunerative still the ore one referred to will serve to gross grosi returns from the publication of that issue provided we collect all of them wll w 11 be as follows for display advertising 1635 for legal notices 1025 for that issues issue s proportion of all subscriptions 1250 expenses for producing it were substantially as follows for paper on which it was printed for labor two lady compositors posit po drs 42 4 days setting up and distributing type 1415 for rent proportion of yearly bertil for light power fuel telephone for postage 40 for ink and miscellaneous 25 28 8 30 balance 10 1081 1080 80 to compensate ye editor then who must be the printer and devil as well for all his labor in collecting and writing up all the news the issue contained soliciting and setting the adjei advertisements ti s making up the forms running them off the press then making out statements and collecting etc requiring at least five days of the week there remained tied after paying the expenses the magnanimous amount of 1080 or at the rate of a day 1296 a week or a month of actual working days but that is not the worst of it to get that princely sum of 1080 for all our labor and thought in connection with that particular issue is sue and wi w flatter ourselves that it would have required no apologies for what it contained or its appearance in the company of oe the average country papal we had to take worth of display advertising leaving leav ing i for us provided pr divided we are successful in collecting lec ting it in cash cah of 0 f course any which we fail to collect roust must bo be deducted from our share because the expenses HAVE to be met and so our readers will appreciate a in view of the foregoing facts why we must either collect from subscribers or discontinue sending the paper much as we dislike to do it as evid narl cell by our lon ion delay in taking taki ng such action it becomes a real nee esbitz I 1 we trust however that those readers to whom this applies will appreciate our position and will remit or tell us when we may expect it remittance rather than allowing the paper to be discontinued from those we will accept grain flour bran poultry hogs hay or even straw but we must have something and in case of produce it must be delivered by way of conclusion we had bad best mention lest our readers become suspicious as to our methods of obtaining a living and possibly swear out a complaint against us as theft t i r burglar suspects that the rest of our meagre living with emphasis on the meagre is obtained from the job printing we do on the sixth day of the week and by working over time and sundays |