Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1920 — PAY UP PROMPTLY, PLEASE [ARTICLE]

PAY UP PROMPTLY, PLEASE

We Cannot Send The Democrat Unless Paid for In Advance. In these times of high wages, abnormal iprfces and scarcity of print paper. The Democrat must urge Its subscribers to send in their renewals promptly. Otherwise do not be offended' if the paper stops coming to your address. It coats lots of money to print a paper these days and if you want The Democrat we must Insist on your 'subscription being paid in advance. Notwithstanding The Democrat’s large list of subscribers, pie money received from subscriptions in In-: flnitesimal compared to the expense of getting out the paper and conducting the business of the office. The money received on subscriptions alone would not pay the running expenses of The Democrat office six months of the year, as its payroll alone is now 1110 per week. Every dollar helps, however, and we want to retain every subscriber we have and add new ones right along—as we are doing—but those who do not pay up promptly when their subscriptions become due°must be dropped. We realize that nearly all of thoee who do not' renew at once is caused from negligence, but neglect to pay does not meet paper bills nor keep our balance on the books at the bank on the right side of the ledger to meet the Saturday payroll, and if the subscriber will only watch the date on the label of his paper occasionally he can easily keep in good standing on our books -and run no ' risk of being dropped from the list. Please give this matter more careful attention, Mr. Subscriber, and thereby save us the necessity of dropping your name from our big family of readers.