Show ANENT FREE advertising APPEALS A newspaper lives by the advertising space it sells yet there is no business institution in any town or city that gives more of its wares to the public than does the newspaper this propensity to gi give ve publicity free to public and semipublic semi public functions and affairs is often taken advantage of but the most flagrant gamme petition that ever come to the record desk was a letter from the pro motors of the covered wagon days celebration cle bration that is to be staged at salt lake city on pioneer day the letter asks that the paper publishes free each week before bedol e the celebration an ail article prepared by the publicity committee and send to the committee four copies of each paper containing the articles while the celebration of pioneer day may be a state wide function and a very laudable lau dible one in itself there is is no reason why any newspaper outside of salt lake city should give free publicity to the function to be pulled off there on that day it is nothing more nor less than a scheme to induce the people of the state to gather there on those days clays and spend their money to enrich the people and business houses of that city why in the name of all just and right should not the pro promoters motors of the affair pay for what publicity is given the celebration is more than we can figure out j |