Show WHY YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER IS ENTITLED TO THE SUPPORT OF progressive BUSINESS FIRMS there is a growing tendency on the part of some business houses to discourage the newspapers which are always boosting for the home town this error is not fully realized until it is too late for a town which loses its newspaper is decidedly on the downgrade down grade comments editor brandon of the helper journal in an interesting editorial discussing the newspaper situation in carbon county a situation duplicated in every other county of the state the journal goes on to say down in price the city fathers have agreed that in the future insofar as possible they will buy from local merchants and try to distribute the business according to the capital invested and now if those same business houses would bear in binl that price has two newspapers published within its borders baci needing all the support it can get and give to them their patijo age in printing and advertising price will have much to be proud of it would have two wholehearted whole hearted papers with one another in support of the city and its industries while paying taxes and supporting larger payrolls encouraging new industries to come in and inviting a larger population A halfhearted half hearted newspaper in any community is like a halfhearted individual a detriment rather than an asset and through many towns in utah today there is a growing tendency on the part of some business firms to discourage a good newspaper rather than to encourage one this is often shown by circular and poster advertising which is scattered about the lawns streets alleys and pavements to the detriment of the householder these newspapers appeal to the reading public to buy at home and support those business houses which pay taxes support the schools subscribe to local charities and who are your neighbors many of which are careless in their support of the newspapers and allow their competitors to carry that burden it costs money to get out a good newspaper and the principal support must come from advertising and let it be hoped that the price newspapers may have be enlarged to carry the advertising they are justly entitled to the newspaper is read in the home when there are leisure moments and the household is at peace with the busy world it is read digested and and discussed while the suggestive advertising columns are carefully scanned what arches to price applies to other towns and cities in utah and sometimes there is a failure to realize the error until too late and they are without a paper |