Show SELF-PITY SELF is one thing I Im m must st guard against U If Im I'm not careful I catch myself feeling sorry for me because everything everything everything every every- thing and everybody is against me Well I took the sure cure Saturday All day long from 8 am a.m. to a.m.-to to pm p.m. I sat in session with eleven other Utah pub pub- lishers ushers We were interviewing interviewing interview interview- ing applicants for an important position and in between we had enough breaks to swap shop- shop talk And if you think that's a good place to feel sorry for yourself theres there's another think coming STRANGELY ENOUGH we all h have ve pretty much the the same satue gripes The merchant who wont won't under any circumstances buy local newspaper advertising- advertising he usually doesn't support anything anything anything any any- thing 10 lo c call a l l y except himself himself- and yet will buy what we call racket c crap rap which costs ten times as much and does him about tenth one-tenth as much good The Governments Government's plan to raise the minimum wage And at the same time hire young people The cost of training a youngster in t the h e newspaper trade is at least double his salary salary and and if th the wage wage cost goes up the publisher simply cannot afford it Customers wh who 0 wont won't pay small especially bills-especially want- want ads Some of the guys told harrowing tales of good friends lost because the paper absolutely absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab- ab refused to accept want- want ads over the phone Could you guess how much we crossed off last year in one and two-dollar two bills You wouldn't believe it it night Fly-by-night printers usually tops in the trade who work a week and then disappear with valuable small equipment usually leaving bills all allover over overtown overtown town which they were able to torun torun torun run because of the prestige of working for the local newspaper news news- paper paper and and which the local merchant merchant merchant mer mer- chant expects the publisher to pay Pregnancies Those These usually occur at the most inopportune time and just when the young matron is getting good at the jo Job Constantly increasing costs with which the newspaper is not expected to keep pace AND SO SOON ON and on on The gripes were secondary to good fellowship fellowship fellowship fellow fellow- ship and an opportunity to getto getto get getto to know each other and like each other much better A couple of the applicants provided provided provided pro pro- vided some laughs too One of them was the promoter type whom we agreed agre d. d could sell ell a H ft s snake oil from a covered wagon He frightened us In the group gro were publishers from Gunnison Richfield Vernal Vernal Vernal Ver Ver- nal Murray Tooele Beaver Lehi Springville Salt Lake City Price and Roy A widely assorted group and a grander bunch of guys you'd never find Especially good it seems in kidding almost anybody out of feeling sorry for Mac himself Mac Mac |