The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-18

Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes
! fall back dead.
| But God himself can't kill them when
they're said.
To Madame Tr2ughber, mistress OF the
We now commit ourselves. Deal gently
With us and all our deeds Ii truth
prevail,
Value of News,
Mrs. Traughber responded, saying, in
| Publicity and success go hand in
| hand. From The advertisement of n ia
nous breakfast food to the chronicle of
the greatest of human cndeavor. publicity
is to success what the circulation OF
blood is to the body
| The fact that chiefs amang you
taking notes, and faith he'll print IT,,
does not necessarily mean that he will
use his privilege wantonly or upadvisedly.
He must know how much to know and
know how not TO know too much.
THE average opinion OF the newspaper
| person seems to be that he is simply a
'Meddlesome Matty,' always prying into
other folks affairs and giving them to
The public without the slightest deicacy
or consideration To know just how
would add to the interest Of their daily
narratives of human life and II tragedies.
| II Is necessary to he on the inside Of a
newspaper office.
newspaper reporter recognizes no
%technicai % reasons for suppressing news
however For instance, when the deGi-
| sion OF one body is practically final, he
does not feel bound by any official re-
| Strictions To keep the matter n secret
until II is reported TO another body, days
or perhaps weeks afterward.
For in the meantime II has been dis
cussed until ~ is no longer news.
Any attempt TO suppress news always
| Swakcns the newspaper representatives 8
! antagonism. for his business is publicity,
1t is better TO give him your confidence
and tell him just what you would like left
| out of the paper II You bring forth a
good reason for the suppression your wish
is respected. for the true newspaper con-
science never betrays a confidence
| 'OfficIal suppression is particularly un-
| fortunate, for story of which the details
| must he supplied from other than an au-
| thoritative source. is liable 10 naccura-
| cies. SO II is the wise official who when
| he finds that anything OF news value con-
| cerning the interest he represents has be-
| come public. gives Il full statement OF the
details TO the newspapers For after all
| il is not the facts but the distortion OF
| them. which is usually Objectionable.
Press Always Helpful.
The value Of publicity in some cases is
| not question for argument. For in
stance, If notices of our club meetings arc
| for amy reason left out OF the new spapers
We are apt either To forget the meeting
or TO think that the time must have been
changed.
Then when any public enterprise is
| launched, any charitable undertaking con-
! templatcd, the newspaper is the principal
medium by which interest is aroused and
| support secured.
The press has its faults. it is true but
who has not? a trite and somewhat cyni-
| cal aphoriSm AYERS that to he altogether
| good Is to be lonesome and ncwspa per
| folks are essentially a genial and sociable
| lot.
Anyway. whatever lis faults may be.
| think | can speak for the press OF Salt
/ IL
| right place where the Ladies' Literary
! club is concerned, and it stands ever
| ready To serve you. from lending its aid TO
plans for the new clubhouse to giving
those so unfortunate as not TO be here
| the benefit OF an account OF the clubs
thirty fourth birthday breakfast In the
beautiful new Commercial clubrooms.'
''our Native Land
Mrs. S, F. Fcnton. who spent last year
abroad, was 10 respond TO the toast
our Native Land-Thc Return" and as
an introduction most fitting Mrs Critch-
low said:
Thrice happy she whose soul has trsv-
Who yet may wander; meath a lucky
star
Her birth, whose lingering feet have
IN paths familiar by her soul prepared
While we at home have walked the city
street
anu 'hiiN IolStu iDl mercury winged
feet.
our friends have sailed across the ocean
bluc.
Itave seen great sights. and wonders old
and new.
But Mistress Fcnton will the truth attest
That Mother Rome nor India-nor the
rest,
Nor pictures rare. nor cen cathedrals
grand
Could turn her heart from thoughts of
native land.
Mrs. Fcnton gave some interesting in
cldents OF her trip home. OF the custom
house officials. the homecoming and the
sight OF America once again. concluding
with tho lines
''Oh. when the wanderer. lonely and
fricndlcss
In foreign harbors shall behold
That flag unrollcd.
Twill be like friendly hand
Hold out from his native land
Filing his heart with memories sweet
and endless