| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION fearless Readers realized ifP had something to say he certainly said it Withinyear he was campaigning vigorously for every sort of community improvement In 1913 the state had proposed to buildDavis County High School P thought Davis County needed three high schools one at Kaysville one at Bountiful and one at Clearfield His editorials freely criticized the state and appealed for public support by petition Time has demonstrated he was right even though he lost the battle in 1913 Such farsightedness was characteristic of his writing Because he was alwaysfoe of paternalism in government the swing back to independence for the farmer would have pleased Epperson His editorials against Federal intervention in farm affairs and indeed in any control of private business were widely quoted throughout the West Four years after the Eppersons assumed control the Reflex wassturdy paper but was merely paying for itself as it went It wasnbuilding upprofit that would enable the owners to realizesubstantial interest on their investment P saw an auxiliary commercial printing business as an answer to this problem In 1916 an order forcatalogue from the George Lowe Company an Ogden hardware firm provided the basis for the formation of suchbusiness He John Barnes and Heber Sheffield bought interests in the new firm which was christened the Inland Printing Company New equipment was needed to do the catalogue job and it was purchased After it was compiled edited and printed successfully the newly formed company went after more business in this field It was the first timegeneral hardware catalogue had been printed in Utah The company gradually took on added assignments and at one time printed five catalogues one of them for ZCML It is likelyP editorials on community issues were written more freely because the firmeconomic position was sound and local dissent with his views was of less importance Most small-town newspapers that takefirm editorial stand have suffered business losses from opponents who used that asform of rebuttal 496 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
