The Detroit times. [volume], March 01, 1912, LAST EDITION, Image 16

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f would rate or Mvo «ood will and aid of a oow.poooe
with a circulation of *O,OOO that Is taken homa and read In
*ha family, than to hava that of ono with a circulation of a
t- mien that la only looked at and thrown Into tho gutter.—
‘aYQR GAYNOR. or New YORK.
BE BOTHERED; 1 7 MAY HELP!
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“Oh, I nn«t not be bothered!”
■s* lir. Business man. just a moment!
And you 7 toorifn. Business Woinafft
r You, also, Mr. General Manager!
Yes, and you, Mr. Doctor? Mr. Mr. Butcher, Mr. Baker and
r*- Candlestick-maker! *
Are you in the habit of turning down, peevishly, requests for an
ntdience. now and then, brought to you by your clerk or office boy. with
inpDse words: "I must not be bothered?"
We know you are.
You become engaged upon some matter of importance, and losing
sight entirely of the fact that in every line of business that for one im
portant matter there are 999 other matters just as important, you won't
|>errait the matter in hand to be intruded upon if you can possibly help it.
I Just the same, while you are engaged in building up your business,
the foundations may be crumbling, and it is not a bad idea in any hne
for the man in charge to be on guard.
The man who wants to bother you may bring with him the secret of
jucoess for you.
In closing your door to him you may be shutting out success.
An idea has come along in many a case at the psychological moment
to save many a concern from ruin.
And, again, many a concern has brought up on the locks of distiess
just because of nothing less than conceit on the part of a managing head;
because of unwillingness to accept criticism in the proper spirit when
made in the best of faith and with intent only to help.
There is a business slogan that fits this case perfectly and many a j
wise business house has it framed and conspicuously displayed. It is:
“Praise is pleasant but give us honest criticism. Long life to the
friendly knocker and may his hammer never shrink."
BE BOTHERED.
Which we suggest in your interest and in the interest of the man ot
jpuoh importance in the world—THE MAN WITH IDEAS.
This man is a thinker.
Government has need of him.
Business has need of him.
The home has need of him.
Humanity has need of him.
We cannot get along without him.
ft None of these institutions will ever reach perfection or near-perfection
him.
We simply HAVE GOT TO BE BOTHERED, to be benefited, helped
jud inspired. . . , , 4 . j
Perhaps if you let the next caller in you may be energized by the
trimi of a live wire who sent in his card only to be told by the office boy
that the manager couldn't be bothered by him—that he was wasting his
“Well, will you kindly go back and get my card, then?" said the
talesman. “I can’t afford to waste it.”
The boy back with the report that the card had been torn up.
Wt the boss had sent out a nickel for it.
“Here, give him another—they’re two for a nickel!”
The chief should have seen that man.
We know the man you have in mind at this moment—the bore.
This individual is known nowhere better than in the newspaper
offices.
But in the newspaper business experience has proven that it is better
that 99 bores get in, to be politely dismissed, which is generally easy,
and a friend retained, than that one innocent caller with an idea, criticism
or a friendly knock, ESCAPE.
Which brings us to an experience we want to relate as evidence that
it pays to be bothered.
It was getting along toward the end of the work-day; the editorial
rooms were deserted save for the office boy.
The telephone rang. . . .
A man on the phone wanted to talk with “Jack Burns, he said.
At the time, Jack Binns was contributing in The Times a series of
articles on wireless telegraphy and giving pointers on the construction of
the instruments. , , . .
The office boy didn’t know Jack Bums from r telephone pole, and
appealed to the head of a department, still at his desk, who told him that
the Binns articles were being contributed and that Mr. Binns could not
be reached in the office, and that "WE COULDN T BE BOTHERED.
The next day there were two or three calls for “Jack Binns,” and the
offioe boy was about to dismiss the person on the line as a wireless
telegraphy crank or as a newspaper bore, when we took the phone in lmnd
for the purpose, more than anything else, of showing the office boy how
to do the thing.
And this is what developed:
* The man on the other end of the line proved to be the head of a prom
inent local business house which handles electrical apparatus.
In one of the articles Mr. Binns had placed the price of a certain wire
at 16 cents a pound.
This business man wanted to inform us that if he sold this wire at the
very lowest figure possible he would have to charge 50 cents a pound, and
had called us up for this reason:
HIS STORE HAD BEEN BESEIGED BY DETROIT BOYS, LIVING
IN MANY INSTANCES FAR OUT IN THE CITY, WHO HAD TRAVELED
ait. THE WAY TO HIS STORE WITH ONLY 15 CENTS IN THEIR
POCKETS FOR THE WIRE, AND HAD BEEN OBLIGED TO GO BACK
HOME DISAPPOINTED.
“I thought,” said the business man, “that you would want to know
about it.”
We certainly did want to know about it, and thanked the man.
L ’1 YOU NEVER CAN TELL.
The next man who sends in his card may have something to tell you
that you would want to know.
Possibly the man on the phone whom you might tell your office boy to
dismiss with ths message, that you “mutt not be bothered,” you are so im
portantly engaged, would want only three or four seconds of your time to
tsll you that your store or factory is on fire.
p t s. This is not intended to admit the fellow who wants to get his
feet warm or installment encyclopedia or lightning rod agents.
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Editorial Page of Hie Detroit Times
OIR PRECISE ARTIST
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-The dentl»i drew kU teeth/*
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♦— ♦
Real Banking Reform
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♦ — ♦
One thing which should be consid
ered. in any revision of our bankiug
system, is a method of affording the
humblest citizen an opportunity for
procuring small loans at moderate
cost.
The loans of the Hank of France
average less than SIOO in amount. In
the United States, it is exceedingly
dlifluult to borrow small Bums except
from loan sharks. Suppose a dray
man's horse dies, how can he borrow*
money to buy u new one?
Iu our banking, as in all forms of
business, we put the greatest bur
dens upon those least able to bear
them. We give the lowest interest
intes to the biggest borrower; the
highest to the smallest borrower.
The same condition prevailed in
railroad rates until the government
took hold of the matter. The big
gest shipper either got passes or re
bates. while the little shipper paid
fpll prices; that is, he not only paid
fdtl rates for himself, but helped to
uTake up what his big competitor did
not pay.
* The true policy of government
should be to improve the opportuni
ties of the less fortunate. It ought
to be made easy for the expressman,
tho small shopkeeper, the cobbler,
the farmer —In a word, every man
who Is striving for industrial inde
pendence —to borrow small sums
easily and at low interest rates.
Shy Only Ten Years
0 ‘ Weren't you shy when the judge
asked you your age in court?”
‘Yes, I was about 10 years shy, jny
dear.” —Life.
The News announces that hereafter it will refuse the advertising of
loan sharks—just loan shark*.
• • • •
Dang the prowler with your umbrella, is a Qetroit woman s advice.
But wouldn’t this serve to aid him in keeping undel* cover?
* * • •
Would you say it came in as a lion conscious of the pretence of a
certain great hunter or a lamb w*lth its eye on the live stock quotations?
•. • • •
A Philadelphia judge has decreed that a wife has a perfect right to
go through her husband’s pockets and take his last cent. So cut this out
before she gets the paper. •
• • • , • .
A New York woman in court testified that her memory was so poor
she couldn’t tell the date of her birth, from which we conclude that she
le at least far from being a spring chicken.
The presidential primary has ac
quired so much momentum, and the
people have come to understand so
well Just what It is, that any presi
dential candidate who opposes it,
either through himself or .his back
er*. is going to suffer, for that rea
son, a serious handicap at the elec
tion next November. The states that
already batfe the presidential primary
In one form or another are Pennsyl
vania. New Jersey, Oregon, Califor
nia, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Louisiana, and Nebraska.
Presidential primary bills are now
pending In Massachusetts, Maryland,
and South Carolina. A bill was In
troduced in the Kentucky legislature
by Charlton Thompson last mouth,
but defeated. Michigan Is just now
holding a special session of Its legl*
lature for the express purpose of pro
viding a presidential primary. Maine,
and probably several other states, wlii
hold special sessions for the same pur
pose before June.
The Maryland legislature Is now in
session. A bill providing for a presi
dential primary Is now before it and
can become a law if the people ol
Maryland demand it strongly enough.
Senator Rayner has urged action on
his state in these words:
“f believe that the people of this
state and of the United States have
From Another Point of View
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the right to nominate thslr candi
dates at primary* elections without
any arbitrary declaration by a cau
cus or a convention or by any power
or interest that can obstruct or im
pede their action.”
And Senator Rayner is a conserva
tive Democrat who believes In the
sanctity of the constitution.
Surely there ought to be enough
political virility In Texas to get the
presidential primary. The situation
there Is the same as in many other
states: the people deraand.it and the
bosses refuse it.
The delegates from Texas to the
next Democratic national convention
.ill be chosen In one of two ways:
either by the people at the primaries
or by Senator Bailey and the liquor
people in a back room. The people of
Texas can get the presidential pri
mary if they demand it loudly enough
and persistently enough to make the
papers and the politicians take notice.
Os course the presidential-primary
nrincipie ought not to be complicated
with individual candidacies; but no
one can help noticing that in l-ho
Democratic party, the Wilson Bpoplc
are uniformly wUUag Hi every state
to submit their cause to presidential
primaries. The same thing holds true
as to Roosevelt In the Republican
party. The campaign managers or
Taft, on the other hand, are opposing
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the presidentiakprimary idea wher
ever it is proposed.
Whether Taft or Roosevelt shall be
the nominee is important, of courso;
but what is of infinitely greater im
portance is that the nominee shall be
that one whom the people want —thSt
the voters, not the bosses, shall de
cide.
The Republican boss of Arkansas is
Powell Clayton. His official positlou
is member of the Republican national
committee. Senator Bourne asked
Mr. Clayton whether or not he favors
the presidential primary. Mr. Clayton
said he did not. He called attention
to the frequency of elections in hia
state and s&ld:
“The people with us are becoming
heartily tired of these frequent elec
tions and the expenses in time aud
money growing out of them.”
In other words, Mr. Clayton thlnk9
the people prefer to leave the whole
matter of government to him.
The Oklahoma member of the Re
publican national committee Is C. M.
Cade. He Bays he Is opposed to a
presidential primary because not
more than 25 per cent of the Repub
lican vote would attend. This Is a
grotesque statement. If there is any
one issue on which people hi/ve strong
convictions and are eager to express
them, it is the question whether Taft
or Roosevelt shall be the Republican
nominee. -The Republican voters of
Oklahoma ought to compel Mr. Cade
and the other bosses to give them iliu
opportunity of expressing their choice
at the polls.—Mark Sullivan, In Col
lier’s.
The Wretch
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run away and never come back. '
‘ I didn’t Intend to tell you atom
It.” he replied, "but I frequently feel
that way myself.”
"Why, Fred! I don’t believe you
really love me. You—you heartless
wretch! I shall never speak to you
again.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
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** ‘Fifty dollars I’ve got to spend
starting the proposition In this town.
I’d like to use your paper because I
know you’ve got the right kind of cir
culation for us. But you ain’t the only
paper in town, you know. If you don’t!
need our money— ’
"That’s about as far as Mr. Business
Manager usually lets me get. ‘Oh. ;
all right, for this time.’ says he. and:
reaches for the roll of hills instinc
tively. But does he get It? Nit! The
roll goes back into my pocket quicker
than his reach. What he gets is a con
tract providing for payment at the
end of the quarter. •Also, there’s a lit
tle matter of reading notice* that I
bring up right then. Now, maybe.
Mr. Manager Is a little sore at the
presto-change trick—with me keeping
the change—that I’ve worked on him,
and he’s Inclined to kick on the free
reading matter.
“’Well, why not?’ I a9k him. ’You
ought to be gjad to get ’em. You've
got the space to fill. They look Just
like news.’ (Reading notices are al
ways supposed to.be set up in the
same type os regular news.) ‘And If
you didn't have ’em. you’d have to fill
up with locals or telegraph matter
that costs you real money to get.’
"Then I flash the notices on hUn.
They are always in proof and set in
six-point condensed type. That’s about
as close a type as can he read easily.
The newspaper man objects, and In
sists on explaining to rne that his pa
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tfie wEoTe contract.NWhat do you sup
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paper on this kind of advertising?”
"Very slight, I assume, in many
c&sos/'
"Slight, eh? Well, It's nix In lots
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1912
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medical advertisingon three-year con
tract* at a price that actually don't
pay for the cost of ink, paper, and
typesetting. *
“Hut the prettiest line of bunk I
ever put over on the newspapers,"
he added, fairly licking the savor of
the reminiscence from his lips, "was
the last year I was out. Except for
the side lines, my concern wasn't
very strong for reading notices. We
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ters. So, in making a deal with a
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it footed up to one full page. Ou«
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"All of which could hardly have
made you popular with the papers,”
I suggested.
"Not after they got on to it. But
It took ’em a long while. Meantime
iwe were working ;era along other
lines.” He paused and grinned, re
‘HKhingty "Know anything about Tb 6
| congressional testimonial game?”
"Peruna Bill and his Imitators?"
! I asked, naming the strategist who,
( at so truck per name, had beguiled
| signatures from senators, represen
tatives. admirals, and other high of*.
[ flcials ir Washington. #
I "Oh, Peruna Bill was well-enough
while he lasted. But there was plen
ty of names got into printed testi
monials that he couldn't touch.”
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