Show Gags Gags' Hit Hits s Unfriendly From S. S L. L i t i I The following appeared in the Logan LOga Utah Herald- Herald as a front page editorial in its Friday editions The South Wind Doth Blow- Blow And So We Have More MoreAn SYMPATHY GAGS An Editorial It looks like some more of the same old gags Salt gags Salt Lake trying to tell th the rest of the state what to do and a Salt I ej newspaper trying to boost its stock by playing upon Ies Ie's emotions of sympathy and loyalty The state stat department Veterans of Foreign Wars Tars head head- I irs fers in Salt Lake City has up tied-up commercially with a aLake aLake I Lake newspaper to seek out additional remuneration for n coffers A portion of the monies derived from new to the Salt Lake newspaper will go to enhance financial status of the state office of or Veterans of For- For Vars NOT ONE CENT OF MONIES FROM THE PRESENT PATHY GAG CIRCULATION CAMPAIGN WILL VILL REIN REIN REN RE- RE N IN CACHE VALLEY According to those in the know a small percentage of price lice from elery subscription obtained will go into the f the headquarters office in the state capitol building the tile service office at Redwood Road Salt Lake City No o mention has been made to The Journal Journal of any l led d use of the money for veteran rehabilitation You fou and your neighbors are now being contacted by phone by y other means askin asking you to take tal out a subscription to Salt Lake newspaper and thereby assist with the re- re of veterans in need The sympathy gag is be- be and the routine is quite impressive Those solicited are re t told ld that the money will go for the thel l hy y needs of Veterans of foreign wars Unless specific iry Ly y is made the solicitors will probably neglect to men- men t. t that at the Hreha rehabilitation b l tation is for the financial condition of Utah department of Y VF and not for direct actual aid t rans suffering from war misfortunes It would seem seem seem-as m as some members of the local VF V post I that that argued that if the state department of needs y with which to operate its offices at the state capitol at Redwood Road there should be some other means of 1 ng k this money than a commercial association with a paper paper We ye in America grant any person the right to read what rs what magazines and what books he chooses But we wei i it is unfair for a public service organization to espouse a project such as the current fiasco We Ve VeIt it as much a violation of fairness for the VF V to be sell- sell newspaper as it would be if it publicly plugged gomery Ward Vard or Sears Roebuck or J. J C. C Penn Penney v. v We Ve K ye are quite confident that had the local post of VF V pular and majority vote of its members launched a raising y-raising campaign through other channels that civic b business siness organizations throughout the entire valley would r rallied to its cause and applauded its initiative So far farlie fart t he lie Journal Herald-Journal is concerned it would have dedicated s and columns of news stories to such a cause The rhe Journal Herald-Journal does not know I Ivill how long Salt Lake vill continue to tell the rest of the state what to do regret egret for instance the fact that a man or a group of I sitting in a Salt Lake office insist on calling the shots I IV FW FW V posts all over the state We TC believe people of this area will not fall for this latest ne Se any more than they fall for the line of itinerant pho- pho and other solicitors who vho infest the valleys pec pe- pe c cally lly to get all the money thc they can and then pull out end nd it elsewhere elsewhere- We Te at The Herald Herald- Journal Herald Herald Journal sincerely believe that most peo- peo vill ll buy a newspaper or periodical because they want to tot it t because they like it not it-not not because they are overwhelmed pathy gags Your our Journal Herald-Journal will sill continue to be sold on its merits as a family newspaper It will never be he forced I Ith thO people people not not even by sympathy gags or through lonal nal appeals to loyalty The he Journal Herald-Journal believes in Cache Valley and its un- un ed possibilities l ties and will do all in its power to boost the being of this area We Te e believe in cooperation among our cOmmunities and andle andL L 1 le support of all communities for the benefit of all north- north Utah-southern Utah Idaho citizens I r I |