Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1914 — Any Cobwebs In Your Brain? [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Any Cobwebs In Your Brain?

By MOSS.

‘•'’THE newspa pets! Sir, they are t lie most* villainous, ah..mi liable, internal Not that I ever read them! No; I make jt a rule ■never to look into

a newspaper!" That's from "'The Critic,” one of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's satirical , comedies back in the eighteenth century. 'Tis sad. but true, that a few such wonderful "critics” still ex Ist today. Thus they rant of newspaper advertisements; "The advertisements! Sir, they are the most villainous, abomj liable, infernal-- Not that 1 ever read them! No; 1 urnke it a rule never to look at the advertisements!” I Honestly. folks, isn’t it too bad that the fool killer germ hasn’t been invented yet? You certainly know that this is the age of PUBLICITY. You certainly know that our careful- stud successful merchants spend thousands of do! ' la-rs each month in JUDICIOUS ADVERTISING. You certainly know that it is a PART OF THEIR BUSI NESS; that it PAYS THEM. PAYS I S. PAYS YOU Surely there are no cobwebs in your brain. Please laugh at foolish ."critics” if you happen to stumble across any. This newspaper prints only what It believes to be HONEST ADVERTISE.M ENTS, accepted in GOOD FAITH from TRUST WORTHY SOURCES