The Grenada sentinel. [volume], October 29, 1920, Page 2, Image 2

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Moving once or several times eaeii■
year, as is the custom of some that
we know, may give the household a
good and needed airing, but it is a
costly amusement. Don't move unless
you have a mighty good reason for
doing so.
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money taking them! 1
through the world, and their moth
er's prayers making everything all c
right for the nert.
Watch your tongue, no one but you *
ent) take care of that tongue. Your j
neighbors may wish they could bridle!the
it, but they can't do it. i
Some boys do not earn $20 a year,
yet they can afford to smoke cigar
ettes and to use tobacco in other
lorms.
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Too many young people depend
their father's
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A Letter of General Public Interest- .
and the Reply
The following correspondence is of vital interest to every telephone
user, present and prospective:
New Orleans, La., October 12, 1920.
Mr. J Epps Brown, President,
Bell Telephone Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir:—
1 have read the advertisements of your Company, but I do not
derstand why you must raise your rates now, when the prices of every
thing else are falling.
Will you please explain this
un
Yours truly.
Atlanta, October 16. 1920.
TAXES
Mr.
This e
>ense, both Federal, State, County
ami City, has increased every year we have been
in business: the increase this year beirg unusual
ly high. There is no probability of this expense
being reduced.
New Orleans, I.a.
D'.nr Sir:
lour letter of October 12th asks a very
natural question, and one which demands a full
and frank reply, which I am glad to make.
While the
We do not pay any excess profit tax because
never earned enough to be subject to
prices of a great many things
have, apparently, bee.t reduced, these reductions
in prices do not apply to articles used by the
L ephone .ompany, or affect the expenditures
nece.-sary in the construction, maintenance and
the telephone plant.
'I he following (.lasses of expenses consti
tute more than ninety-five per cent of the cost of
furnishiiu telephone service: •
We have
that tax.
BUILD!NGS
It is common knowledge that the cost of
erecting any kind of building now, as well as
making alterations and repairs, which constantly
confront the Telephone Company and which in
volve material, labor, freight, and hauling, is on
enormously higher plane than .ever before
Insofar as the cost of materials may be reduced
will this total cost be reduced.
The only way we can furnish adequate fa
cilities for your use from /ear to year is by con
structing the buildings in which to house the cen
tra! j tier apparatus in the larger centers; as well
as enlarging existing buildings to serve the in
creased needs, and this work must be carried
from year to year without delay. This involves
hundreds of thousands of dollars in expense to
the Company.
There are, of course, many other items of
expense, all of which are now at the highest
level in prices, and none of which show any sign
of reduction for fundamental
Until these necessary costs of operation c:_
materially reduced we cannot reduce the COSTS
of furnishing telephone service.
We have carefully studied and analyzed the
advertised reduction in prices and find that they
are upon articles of which we make but little,
if any, use. Applied to the telephone business
all known reductions in prices would not reduce
the cost of furnishing telephone
twentieth of one per cent.
This is many times offset by the increase in
wages which, in many places, we must make
during the current
operation
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LABOR
More t
expenditure oi the Company in
vice are for
tenth of one per cent of this being for executive
and general salaries.
The wages paid to our employes cannot, and
should not, be reduced. On the contrary they
must be increased, in many cases, to bring our
wage scale on a level with wages paid by un
regulated businesses, so that we may retain our
skilled employes necessary to give you efficient
service.
fifty-five per cent of the total
rendering ser
fages and sa'aries; less than one
on
MATERIAL AND APPARATUS
Many items of material and apparatus are
involved in the current maintenance of the prop
erty, entirely apart from the enormous quanti
ties involved in the construction of new property,
and this represents a large item of expense.
There ha.-> been no reduction, nor any indication
of reduction, in the price of these essential
tides, in practically all of which the labor,
freight a.:d hauling cost is by far the largest
proportion of the total tost.
We know the manufacture
reasons.
are
ar
of telephone
equipment and material have orders hooked for
two years in advance, with a constantly increas
ing demand, and which in return makes a rc
duction i: price in the near future most im
probable.
service one
year.
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER COSTS
Our annual expense for the transportation
of freight and passengers is more than one mil
lion dollars. No one expects the railroads to
reduce their charges under the level of costs in
rendering their service.
Our present operating revenues are practi
ce-ly equalled by our operating expenses. If the
pi -sent let down in general business continues
tor any appreciable time we will lose a material
p< ; rt of the gross revenues now received, which
•1 make a still higher rate necessary if a de
ficit is avoided.
RENT
Excefic iii the larger centers our central of
fice and stocks, of material are housed in rented
buildings, and even in the larger centers we rent
varying amounts v ,f properties.
Like every one else, our rents have been
greatly increased, with no prospect of any re
duction. L'ven in pre-war days all leases for
property occupied by us were renewed only at
higher charges than for the previous rental
period.
o , not as king higher rates for the
SAME SERVICE we furnished one, two or five
years ago; but for a much GREATER SERVICE
which we now furnish, consisting of facilities to
and many additional telephones to our system
during the past one, two and five years.
This fact should be considered when com
paring the increase in rates we ask with the in
crease in the charges of railroads, express and'
other public utilities for the
service.
HOTELS
Tiiv uciaui and lodging bill for car men,
who must travel in connection with the opera
tion and maintenance of the property, costs
many thousands of dollars every year, and we
'o pr; petts of the hotels lowering their
Li t ' :h2\ do we must pay the present
same quantity of
We hope, as every one does, that in the re
lative near future prices and the cost of opera
tion, except labor, will be lower, but w'e see no
immediate prospects of this lesult as far as the
Telephone Company is concerned.
The increased rates we are now inking are
based, in a measure, upon this hope. If the pres
ent level of costs of operation go higher, through
causes beyond our control, the proposed rates
will not yield a fair profit.
It is important to remember that no rate for
a public utility is permanent. If conditions and
prices so change in the future to make the rates
we are now asking yield too high a return and
if the Telephone Company should not reduce the
rates voluntarily, the Public Service Commissi
would.
can s
cnar;
high charge .
ELECTRIC POWER AND LIGHTS—
STREET CAR FARE
We spend many thousands of dollars every
year for these services rendered to employes
engaged in the maintenance of the property.
In the majority of cases the rates charged by
these companies have been substantially increas
ed, and there is no thought of any reduction.
The Telephone Company, like all others must
pay these increased rates.
PAPER, PRINTING AND STATIONERY
We consume tons of paper for bookkeeping,
correspondence and directory purposes, and pay
many thousands of dollars for printing annually.
This item of expense has increased in percentage
more than the others, and no one has suggested
that any reduction of these cost is probable.
COAL BILL
The Telephone Company purchases coal in
large quantities to heat the buildings occupied
by its employes in rendering the service.
We, of course, must pay whatever price is
necessary to secure the coal for this purpose.
INSURANCE
Even where the actual rate per on- thou
sand dollars has not been increased, we are com
pelled to carry a larger amount of insurance
than in pre-war days in order to protect our
selves in the reproduction of any of the prop
erty which may be destroyed by fire, and this
is reflected in a very large increase in the total,
insurance bill.
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Conditions as they are must be met. not
they may or should be.
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The highest and best interest of the public
is conserved in having the Telephone Company
m position to supply facilities adequate to the
demand of telephones and service, and in this
way be prepared to render at all times an ade
quate service. No community can expand and
grow without adequate telephone service, which
m turn means adequate plant facilities.
. 1 inadequate returns upon the bare coal
of the physical property already in servici
Company s credit has disappeared.
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With no credit the Company cannot secure *
7. "dhons of dollars required to provide the
additions and extentions of its plant, which must
be provided it the public demand for telephom
is supplied. *
Respectfully yours,
J. EPPS BROWN, President
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The man who waits to roll up a
iortune must fire learn to roll up his
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When you hear a man sneering at
, the local papers, you can safely bet he
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! er ; . They who don 1 jSee a hene*
1 arl8,aK to ( a town irom its news
,)apers haven t as much sense as a
c _°T e oyster ' and are °f al,out as much
value to a town as a ten-year-old de
linquent.
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j Is it not a fact the world over that
extent and skill of a firm's adver
i tisement is taken as an indication of
its importance? None but the best,
largest and most successful firms ad
Jvertise intelligently and continuously.!chant
Others may make a show, spasmodic
ally, but their intermittent efforts lose
sleeves.
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GRENADA
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them the benefit to be gaiued by un
ceasing effort in any pursuit. As well
might a man expect to accomplish suc
cess in business by striking out with
all his force in unsympathetic efforts
for a day or two> and then loafIng
for an equal time, as to achieve the
best results from advertising shift
lessly or intermittently. If you think
^ pay* ^ advertise, at all, set aside
a tSO me fixed sunt or per cent, for this
especial purpose, select carefully the
mediums to be used, then write your
advertisement skilfully and truth
fully, and have them printed contin
uously with frequent change, and it
you have anything that anybody wants
you cannot fail to secure satisfactory
results.
The wide awake business man, mer
and capitalist and all who are
interested in the city's welfare, should
put forth every effort to improve the
it
town and make it a place for homes,
to encourage new enterprises that al
ready have a foothold in our midst.
One of the best means of encouraging
a home concern is to give it home pat
ronage. but there are many in our city
who do not do this.
L© it be reraem
bered that every dollar spent in pat
ronJzing a home enterprise add> to the
prosperity of our little city and with
the growth of our city's prosperity
comes the increase in value of real
estate.
In regard to our schools, parents
have duties to perform, which they
can ill afford to neglect. They should
show to their children that they have
an interest in the school. They should
examine carefully the reports sent by
the teacher, should see .hat their chil
dren are in school every day, and!'
punctual; should assist and encourage j
their children to do all their school I
duties faithfully aud well; should co- 1
operate with the teacher in securing I
the prompt return of their children I
Jhome after school is dismissed; should j
make a friendly visit to the school and 1
talk freely with the teacher and prin- *
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Twix twilight and dark, up near'
Manitou Park, a maiden sat eorabing
her bright golden hair, when heated
with roaming, all panting and foaming.
there came up and squeezed her, a big
grizzly bear. It did not affright Iter
the bear did not bite her. she lay back
and murmur-d: ' Oh, still tighter,
dear." This broke up old bruin, he
let off his wooing, sneaked back to the
mountains and hid a whole year.
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cipal in regard to same.
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that they attend t&'Z
ginning to the end of the term Yon!*""
owe them a good education and they!
can get it if you see that they are in
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school.
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In an adjoining town, while a la
dies' card club was playing for a $2 [
l>ook as a prize, the son- of these
same ladies, small boys, were arrest
ed in a hay mow while playing for a '
50-cent prize. They had organized
!a club like their mothers. The
|mothers cried and said: "What a ter
rible place this town is to raise boys,,
anyhow!" Served them right. They
might have known the difference be
tween a haymow and a parlor, and a
$2 prize and a 50-cent prize.
A gentleman at cm -% of our hoarding
houses, after having beans shoved at
him each f or two straight weeks,
asked the waiter to please rmd the
eighth verse of the thirteen chapter
of Hebrews. We imagine this will
make some of our readers
dust off their Bibles.
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Learned men tell us that iu Latin
the word "editor"
"to eat.
meaning is altogether different. Tt
means to scratch around like blazes
to get something to eat.
means something
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GUARDIAN'S SALE OF LAND 1
By virtue of a certain decree ren
dered by the chancery court of Gre
nada county, Mississippi, at October
term. 1920, in cause number 3592 in
sa id court, the undersigned guardian
of George Lowe Batman and Cor
delta Gerald Batman, minors, will, on
Monday, November 22nd, 1920, within
l^Kal hours, at the court
house in
Grenada county, sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash the un- {
divided one-ninth interest of each ofj
aa ld minors in the following property
in the west ward of Grenada. Ore
na-ia county, Mississippi, viz.:
il) That certain portion of lot two
hundred and thirty-eight described
beginning at a stake (same being an
> r °n post 1 inch in diameter driven
11 the ground) 17#; 26/100 feet west of
j the center of College street; thence
I running north paral! 1 with West
1 street-, 120 feet: thence running west
I to West street; thence running south
I to Margin street, and thence east to|^
j beginning. |
1 Beginning at the northwest •
* corner of lot two hundred and thirty- '
seven, running thence south along!
! West street, 110 feet; thence east,
Parallel with South street, 70 feet;
Whence north, parallel with West I
-trcol. fourteen feet ; thence east to
College street; thence north to South i
street, and thence Wed to the begin-!
nittg.
Witness my signature this October
- r >th, 1920.
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