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Show M SOMET1NG FOR NOTHING H HP HOSE merchants in Cedar City who do not H believe in advert ising should congratulate H themselves upon the fact that they are getting I considerable advertising for nothing. In fact. H their reputation for non-progressiveness and lack H of enterprise is becoming quite widely known. H People of other parts of the country, used to mod- H em methods of doing business, cannot quite fat h- H om the merchants of a growing, go-ahead town H like Cedar, who refuse to support the advert is- H ing columns of their local paper, especially when H the paper is well printed, carefully edited and vig- H orous. H From a successful business man of Pasadena, H California, we received a letter bearing on this H .subject, from which the following is an excerpt: H "I have been much interested and much H pleased with your editorial page in issue of H February 21, the titles being, "Our Friends" B and "What Does It Mean?" They are both H fine. The last one has caused me to decide to H take an "ad." space for six months. I en- H close two samples from this Feb. 21 issue. I Please let me know what this space will cost H me on six months contract. B President James H. Wallis, of the Utah State H Press Association, who receives and looks over all ' B the county papers of the state, in a letter dated H March 1st, expresses himself on this subject as! H follows : H "Mr. Porte (secretary of the Association) B and I were both interested in the very vigor- H ous editorial you wrote in your last issue with B respect to the attitude of some of the mem- H bers of the legislature. It is a H shame thnt a good, up-to-date, vigorous pa- H per such as you publish should not receive H better patronage from your business men. H I think your article last week on this subject H was well written and in almost any other com- H salinity would have the desired effect. Rut H you have conditions in your town that are un- H usually had. judging by your advertising col- H limns." H And thus we see that even if Cedar City never H should become "The Pittsburg of the West," it H may nevertheless become widely known as the! H city where the merchants do not believe in adver- m tising. And when the merchants responsible for this state of affairs go abroad they will be exam- H ined for webs between their fingers and toes, moss H upon their backs pad wool over their eyes. There H is no use talking, Cedar City is bound to become H famous for something. H It would be a manifest Injustice to class all H the merchant and business men Of Ccilar City as H non-progressive. We have smtic as wide-avak H progressive musines" men hen as are to be found H anywhere and they are persistent advertise H Neither would it be fair to judge all by the H resentatjon in one issue of the PAper, as some use H liberal spaee one v.ei I and :iiv perhaps absent the next It is easy for anyone interested to ascer- H tain who the non-advertiser i are, by watching the H columns of this paper for a few issues. Or, H if more specific information is desired, it may be B obtained from the acocunts kept at The Record H office. BBSS! h. |