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Show AS OTHERS THINK 1 KEEPING IT OUT OF THE PAPER About the first thing a lot of people think about after they have committeed an offense or have done something i they are not proud of, is the publicity that may result. Then the first man they "button-hole" is the editor, which is another evidence that a fearless press is one of the strongest strong-est deterrents to wrong doing- They advane all sorts of reasnos why nothing should -be published about the particular thing they are mixed up in, one of the most subtle of which is that it's unfavorable publicity for the community. They know instinctively that an editor hates to mention anything which reflects discredit dis-credit on his community, even more than he hates to run the risk of losing their friendship or good will, and so, as a last resort they and their friends appeal to him from that angle. The Times is constantly beseeched by one person or another an-other to "keep it out of the paper." We have taken the position posi-tion that the good which results from fair and fearless publicity, pub-licity, more than compensates for the harm which theoretically theoreti-cally is done to the community's reputation. And so it has been our policy that if it is a matter of public concern or gets into the public records, it gets into the columns of the Times. We vary from that policy when we fail to learn about any event of the nature we refer to, or when, in our judgement the public good would be best served by our remaining silent. If our policy is wrong, if any number of our good readers read-ers will come to us "with clean hands" and tell us they think it would be better to suppress the sort of news we refer to, we'll be only too glad to change that policy. Until they do, however, and so long as only those who wish to protect their own skirts make the requests we shall continue -to think that our policy is right, and shall make no changes. Under those conditions it's just a waste of time to ask us to "keep it out of the paper." Warner Mitchell in the Parowan Times- i |