New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-10
service, bears out the advertising The adver-

newspapers make distinction between the highest and the
lowest class Of that they perhaps lean toward the
latter because it pays special rate.
4 have scheme and study my advertisements said
big representative to put them such physical
that the make up will find difficult wedge in Lydia
Piniham Old Dr. Bunk to them. usually manage 1T
with big ads But what the small advertiser to do
And he showed the mornings of the Hearst Exam
which the gonorrheal advertisement of SanaNdy was
sandhed between ice advertisement and the clean
copy of je,very shop.
And they've got pay for the space the same said he
Even the big advertiser safely In The lines
found Chichecrs Pills block nesting the highclass
copy Of the Vile de Paris In city the shop would have
refused pay for that But the Los Angeles newspapers
things with d high hand.
As a result a curious situation has about The bill
boards getting deal Of the best advertising away from
the because the billboard makes an honest
effort to keep out OBJ econable doubtful account
conesn the billboard calls three expert adver-
Using and asks Is this all right for take? Naturally
between sacguarded medium and the ree-foa policy OF
the papers the clean advertiser the former therefore
newspapers conducting campaign drive the hoard
ngs existence the ground that they obstuc ruin the
1t that CALIFORNIA; scenery badly mared by bill
boards but as between bems upon local beauty caused by
the boards and the public decency and honesty OF
which the Los Angeles papers ree daily spirited citizen
could conscentiouy hesitate The hingy put by
the advertising man of large bakery which heavy and
puousy advertiser when approached by newspaper rep
representatives who sought him of using the bill
boards.
q don't see it, said the advertiser Il put loaf Of bread
the bboard and I'm assured that will be in decent company
put Of bread the newspaper and what do ind next
morning? 4 having epleptc fit next to it!
So the competition of the bllboards yet compel the
newspapers decent Until the newspapers do
improve hardly likely that there will be farreachng
cleanup of the Augean mercantile condition OF the city Inc
present prospect s encouraging.
What's the matter Angeles? According the best
information could gather the present condition is curious kind
I hal Iv,Do
hngsa real boom and the Eastern tourist The
boom busted but the agency which blew the bubble and event
uay over-inRated unbrdlcd license fake adver
Using still baeu influence That explains the de
graded advertising standards.
The tourist trade explains the tricky merchandising and ad
vertng practices many of the They catering
trade which will back Very good lets get all we
the first for will probably be the last Sound and
built the basis of onetme sales In
experience Of cities American and foreign have never
been in one where felt the same instinct guard my pocket all
Los Angeles In the hotel where stayed
posedy highly and superior place had
which small scale illustrates the attitude OF the city
I toward the tourist.
On my first luncheon check there fifteen cent over
charge This explained mistake curious how these mis-
takes always the benefit of the house, and
well have been Also have been mistake that the hotel
charged me delivering express package for shipment
although this performed by the express
without charge But there mistake about the hotels aun
dry bill prices of which themselves exortonae that
am keeping cuo On top Of these uperprices there
an extra wholly unexplained overchage of 3 cent and
finally total enormously added the mistake being
as before advantage OF the hotel When protested the
blandly informed that the laundry independent
enterprises that the hotel had authority and could accept
responsibility This despite the fact that the amount
charged against by the hotel of its bill and that the
laundry list headed with the of the hotel The Van
Nuys" To ALL the hotel representative to whom pro-
tested blandly observed:
Yes tourists often object to the laundry prices here.
There you have the tolerant attitude of Los
Angeles toward the He's fair game. Yet when for
three diverted from the
BODY was immersed panied geved and chde puzzement;
especially the hotel men,
Above the door of a building under repair of the
main streets between sample shop and decidedly queer
looking jevy sale there hung when Los Angeles this
sign:
Any One Entering This Place
Do SO at Their Own Risk.
The grammar be weak spots But the local appica-
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