Misfit Courtesies

How little the general public appreciate the many courtesies which the newspapers extend to them. They ask favor after favor of the papers and it is very seldom they are refused. This is especially so in Ann Arbor where there are so many societies and organizations with different aims, and hardly a week passes but each of the papers are asked to open their columns to boom some local entertainment which is to be given. Usually the papers are well-treated and receive a few complimentary tickets and what little job printing is needed in part payment. But even this is sometimes forgotten, as was instanced on Friday evening. The Courier, the Register, the Aigus, all have complete job departments in connection with their offices, representing a good maiiy thousands of dollars in investment. During the past winter these th re e papers have been very liberal with the Choral Union in the way of notices. Not one of the entertainments has been passed with a few lines, but more often the advance notices and descriptionsof what the public might expect have amounted to several columns for each concert. "The Damnation of Faust'"wasnoexception and for several weeks past the papers have kept the expected protluetion liefore their readers. The cost of these notices if the organization had been obliged to pay the same rites aseharged vvould have been considerable, but instead they we re given gratis. Iiistead of givingwhat little job printing was necessary toany one of the three above mentioned, or to any of the offices in the city, the management saw tit to have the printing done in Detroit, at a job oflïce with no paper attached where the proprietors could not possibly have done for the Choral Union what the local oiiices liad done. Tlie Argus does not complain because the printing was not done here. It would have been as ictory had the Register of the Courier been given i chance to niakea dollar on this work as the Argus itselfc But Uu does complain that the ut of the Choral Union by slunviHl a lack ot' appreciafcion of the many courtesies whicli have tended to that organiaation by tlie local presa.