Show EVERYBODY KNOWS BEST There is probably nothing being done in the world today that could not be done bett better r if only we were doing it Most of us know precisely how everything should be done We Ve can see in a minute haw feeble are the he attempts of those presumptuous persons Dersons who are trying to do things If we wanted to we could take hold lold and make wonderful improvements improvements improve improve- ments almost instantly But we dont don't I want to We Ve find it much easier and vastly more entertaining to sit back and find fault and there whine out our adverse criticism And we are furnishing right here hereon on our own campus a most splendid example of this attitude I ILet Let us consider the newspaper sit sit- We Ve get up in the morning and see see on the front page of our morning paper a big story about injuries to Utah football players We Ve read the headlines and even before glancing down the column we burst into a passion and shout Those poor boob reporters ought to tobe tobe tobe be kicked out of school If I didn't have more sense than that Id I'd go soak my head Or if we happen appen t to be widely versed in the newspaper phraseology we say some loose screwed cub has broken out again Then we fall into a philosophical mood and explain that since the poor crumbs haven't got enough sense to cut out the yellow stuff that perhaps they will have to be excused upon the grounds of mental affliction We Ve dont don't stop to inquire as asto asto asto to how the story got into the paper We Ve dont don't know that in the case of the story alluded to above there was nothing printed concerning Milt Love which did not come from Coach Bennion direct that nothing was printed concerning Leonard Idle which did not come from himself and his doctor and that Pinky Summer was responsible himself for all that was published concerning him Another thing we rave about is that the story was featured on the front page It never occurred tp to us that these newspapers have editors and that it is they who place the stories on the front page We Ve are just beginning to cool off offa a little when we see the afternoon paper and are confronted with a report report repot re re- port pot t that in an elocution class some young lady announces herself as in favor of the he Tango and the Turkey Trot Immediately we yell bear story and call for quick execution of the brainless idiot that wrote the story Again we are not aware that the story is absolutely true Finally we are convinced that perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps these things are actual occur- occur We then put our thumbs under under un der our suspenders and with a knowing knowing know know- ing nod and say even so but why do all these things have to be printed print print- ed Here the trouble lies in the fact that we forget that there are twenty thousand people reading that paper and that they are waiting to hear those things about Utah We Ve perhaps dont don't know that the reporter who wrote those stories is being sent up here solely for the purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of getting those interesting tales and that his job ana perhaps his ability to remain in college depends depends depends de de- de- de upon his getting them Then besides we overlook the fact that every time a Utah reporter isable isable is isable able to get a double column head headon on a story about our college he is attracting attention to the university in a forceful manner If we are Kept forcefully before the public someday lots of people will know we have a college up here on the hill |