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Show TRUTH In replying to a letter from a merchant mer-chant who faid he had not advertised advertis-ed in h;s home-town paper for eleven elev-en years, a noted writer on business says: "If you have any grievances against again-st the Editor yon can't settle them in our al'ry. We might give him a darned good licking but we'd never stop advertising in his paper. That's too expensive a revenge. On the other hand roost Editors" would be glnd to take a thrashing to get advertising ad-vertising out of some fellows they have known for eleven years. "It's an easy thing to criticize, but it takes an awfully broad "minded "mind-ed person to overlook the faults of others. 1 "Criticizing their local paper is a favorate game with many business men because it excuses their non advertising policy. "Experience has taught us that every Newspapers mirrors the commercial com-mercial sentiment of its community, i If the business men are keen and aggressive it is reflected at once in the pages of the paper. If commer cial siuggarus tne paper corresponds. corre-sponds. "Staying out if its advertising columns col-umns for 11 years hasn't helped to improve your own or the paper's financial fi-nancial condition and the last we can say is you ought to be ashamed to even mention the fact. |