New Britain herald., 1922-04-20
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 THOUSANDS NV EXPLOSION
 OF ARSENAL AT SALONzKI
OPEN LETTER FROM HERALD TO CHAMBER Records Report of Recent Meeting Was Falsified,
 Is Members Claim

The following open letter today was sent to the Chamber of Commerce. It is self-eXplanatory:
 New Britain Chamber of Commerce, City.
 Dear Sirs:
 There appeared in The New Britain Record last evening the following paragraph, included in an account of the recent meeting between the news paper publishers and your Mercantile bureau:
 "The out-of-town circulation of the two local newspapers was discussed and figures presented, showed that The Records circu- lation in New Britain exceeds that of The Herald.'
 I hereby submit that the above ap- pears to be deliberate attempt to misrepresent the facts at that meet ing, done, presumably, at the instiga- tion of The Record to make it ap- pear that The Chamber was shown that The Records New Britain cir culation was greater than that of The Herald. I call upon you to cause to be published in The New Britain
 
 tions of the meeting, if you can. J. w. Lockett of The Record, who repre- sented that paper at the meeting pro- duced no circulation figures whatever. The Herald brought in its circulation book verified by the Audit Bureau of Calculations. Mir. Lockett made the statement that he had no circulation figures with him as he did not know circulation was to be discussed. The Herald presented it's figures, The Record none. The inference is ob- vious.
 Heretofore The Herald has care- fully refrained from making any com nlent in it's columns relative to the circulation claims of The Record, be- lieving that it was a matter for ad- vertisers themselves to decide but when The Record makes a false com parison of The Heralds circulation and attempts to give the impression that the information to substantiate it's declaration was given before the Chamber of Commerce, The Herald feels, in duty bound to repudiate the claim of it's contemporary and to  ton utterances.
 The Chamber of Commerce stands for honesty in business and truth in advertising. It appears from the above. to the casual reader. as if Tile Chamber had been shown that The Records local circulation was larger than that of The Herald. This con- struction of the meeting is a falsifca- ton, done in our opinion, with the intention of harming our busi- ness. Naturally misrepresentation of Chamber of Commerce board activ- ties by a newspaper member of The Chamber is resented by another mem ber whose business the first is trying to harm The action as perpetrated seems to place the seal of approval by The Chamber upon something that is not so. The Chamber has no busi- ness to allow this to be done; to al- low Notifications to be printed. Please take steps to do the right thing by one of your members.
 Sincerely yours,
 HERALD PUBLISHING CO.,,
 Per J. Vance.
 T. S. HlISHG Sldle lldt HS INt" Britain Herald stands ready and will ing to donate to whatever charity The Chamber of Commerce designates the sum of one thousand dollars provid- ing The Record can prove, through any certified accountant accustomed to handling newspaper circulation fig ures, a circulation in New Britain greater than that of The Herald or a total circulation in this district great CT than that of The Herald for the six months period ending April 1. The Herald circulation is more than 5000 which we now feel justified in assert ing is far greater than that of The Record, even when it may include those papers given away in an un- availing attempt to nominate o. F.. Curtis at the republican primaries re- gently.
 J. V.