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Show SUUKCT TO ( T.ITK ISM We LIKE criticism, as it encourages encour-ages us to SPEAK UP. Publishing a newspaper is wonderful. wonder-ful. It reminds one of preparing a banquet for some big event where many people are t be assembled. The hostess prepares a variety of good tllinL-'K Sdllie delieir,inj c,-.n,w mn-.tt. vegetables, bread, butter, cheese, pie, cake, coffee, water, olives, pickles and cucumbers and a great many other things. Some of the guests like meat and some don't, some like cake and coffee and some don't, some like olives and cucumbers and some don't, j and so it is. People are different and their likes and dislikes are different. dif-ferent. t I In publishing a paper the editor gives a variety of things also. He writes about the live wires of the community and also the dead ones. If someone comes to earth it is also mentioned. If some one in the community com-munity does a good deed he is generally gen-erally complimented by the local paper. pa-per. And like the hostess of a banquet ban-quet the publisher gives the best there is to give. The hostess endeavors endeav-ors to feed them all and so it is with an editor. He publishes news stories for the men, women and children, all of whom are patrons of the paper. Very interesting experiences come to an editor during his observations in a community. The foremost thought a publisher has in mind is to speak well of the citizens, encourage them to be progressive and prosperous, prosper-ous, to lend a helping hand to every worthy cause and to say a good word for the "old town," whenever he can. We wish all citizens had the heart of an editor. But we find some people, (we are glad to say there are not many of them) who love, to luck, complain, and find fault and criticize people who are trying to do things. It is very common for people in ! Mount Pleasant to criticize an editor (just think of it) for saying a good word about some man while he is still living (Yes, a good word about a man while he lives! ) What a mistake after all, why not wait until un-til he is dead when it will do him no good. Some one tells the publisher that the man mentioned is the "biggest "big-gest rogue in the community," 'and then tells of his past history iust the bad part. His good qualities are all forgotten by the critic. Then occasionally we are tol'd the paper is rotten because we say a good word about somebody else, who, by the way has an enemy. Now, let us turn around. What would this citizen do if the paper would say that that citizen citi-zen "was rotten?" To make a long story short as it would be a long one if we should attempt to compile all the objections made because the Pyramid happened to speak well of someone we will call attention to a man who made a remark about the Pyramid the other day in a public meeting. President Lund, who gave the leading address at the anniversary celebration of Mount Pleasant, stated to the audience, au-dience, after he had concluded his ad-c'ress ad-c'ress that he "forgot to mention one thing, and that is the Pyramid which ! reports the ladies socials, the names of the hostesses, and the number of courses served." If he meant what he said, we would take it that in his I broad vision, all that he had time to 1 read was the ladies' section of the j paper. If he meant a reflection upon Mrs. Fred Rasmussen and Mrs. Tres- 1 sa Ericksen, for their descriptions of these entertainments vve gladly men- j tion that these socials written by Mrs ; Rasmussen and Mrs. Ericksen are published word for word in two lead- ing Salt Lake papers after they are published in the Pyramid. If he meant to return evil for good we might mention that the Pyramid has 1 bestowed more honor on President Lund than any other paper of which he has any knowledge. It might be interesting to know that there is an editorial page in the Pyramid. Some of these editorials have been republished repub-lished in San Francisco and also in Chicago with complimentary mention of them by men who speak for those communities. Possibly those men in the east and west should be criticized for uttering good words for the Pyramid and its publisher. We will let some of our critics pass judgment. It may be of interest to some to learn that this same young man was invited and urged several times to go to San Diego Die-go and give an address upon the "Patriotism of the People of Sanpete" San-pete" and if he had gone Sanpete county would have been "on the map" at San Diego, as we have the goods. We are proud of the patriotism patriot-ism of Sanpete. There is only one thing Unit kept us licmtp- ami that -s the patrons of the Pyramid, who . : re owing the paper a little more than S'iim, are inclined to be slow in paying up their subscriptions vhich are always due in advance Critics in Mount Pleasant may think l-'an Diego made a mistake by extending extend-ing an invitation to Mount Pleasant. We shall leave that to their judgment also. Ami a word from the Pyramid be-fjre be-fjre we close. We just wish to state that during the past four years we lave improved more than 4 00 per tent. Have YOU made any improvement? improve-ment? Can yau heat it? We are subject to criticism and vve are happy hap-py in trying to "Ho Our Best." |