Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-05 | Page 4 | Poisoned Predictions

- PoUoned Prediction . ( EVIL gossip is the most Insidious poison mankind man-kind has toombat. It Is the weapon of ;: ihe coward, the liar and the cheat, spreading flestruction In Its wake. Gossip strikes from . I' the dark, like a lurking assassin, and Is not concerned with a reasonable basis for Its de-: de-: .tractive slanders. People who resort to it ." cannot be ignored. ' ..; More vicious than all the rest is the gov sip which claims divine origin. It does not I restrict its assaults to the reputations of in-!' in-!' dividuals, but hurls Its lies and slanders at I groups and organizations, comprising many in-in in-in dividuals. It destroys commercial enterprises : and besmirches the name of the state. With- " jn the year this poison has been generously - spread throughout the community. The most recent evidence is found in a : deep-rooted campaign against Saltair. Every .form of vicious story has been circulated about ; this resort in recent months. It is supposed to hav,e been originated, by a woman who ; I'talked in tongues" following a revelation that ' the place was unsafe and was going to fall into the lake. ' The home folk and tourists , have been warned away from the place, as this wild tale was retold and amplified with ( horrible pictures of women and children strug-; strug-; Ogling in the .water. i f Our brief for this concern is no more than hat which ws bold for every legitimate enter-; enter-; prise which contributes to the Industry and !. prosperity of the state. . There is no indication : that the place is not as safe as it ever was, : and competent engineers with enviable reputations repu-tations at stake pronounce the pavilion as safe as it was the day it was built. This reas-'. reas-'. surance is belated and comes after consider-! consider-! able damage has been done to, the resort ; The city itself has not escaped, for this . vi-Inin nropap-an.il It l libel irainst the rltv , I I - TO o J wett as the resort By reason of Its location the resort is Intimately associated with, the life ' f the- state, particularly in the minds of sum-;' sum-;' iner tourists. These slanderous stories do not encourage the tourist to remain here., but frighten him away, thereby cutting the revenue of the hotels and other institutions patronized ;; fcy the visitor. . The vicious stories circulated against Salt-t. Salt-t. sic, of which the revelation of doom Is but ine, have not been traced to their source. they are difficult to trace becatlse they have . teen so widely circulated. " The people alone ! can stop the circulation of these vicious libels ; iy refusing to give them wider distribution. . : the quickest way to help truth to its feet is to '..refuse to give aid and comfort to the lie.