Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1917 — Southern Publisher Refuses To Give His Goods Away. [ARTICLE]

Southern Publisher Refuses To Give His Goods Away.

Members of the Southern Newspaper Publishers’ association have been asked by the army Y. M. C. A. at various camps to furnish copies of their papers free for use in soldiers’ reading rooms. One publisher in answer to the Y. M. C. A. secretary, took the stand that he could not give away his papers any more than the merchant or manufacturer could afford to donate the commodities he had to sell. He further said he had only two commodities to sell—papers and advertising—and that as upon these depended his living he could not give them away. The publisher also called the secretary’s attention to the fact that the printer probably did not donate the letterhead on which the letter was written and that the government received 2 cents for transmitting the letter to the publisher.