70 years ago today - Mar 2, 1949

[David O. McKay]
At 9:40 this morning Brother Harry Clarke called me by telephone and said he had been disturbed over the Editorial appearing in the Tribune paper Monday morning'Feb. 28. This editorial pertains to the high rate of divorce in Utah. Brother Clark said he felt that the editorial was prejudiced and that inasmuch as the Tribune is the 13th largest newspaper in the U.S. and that 'their editorials are potent,' we should do something about learning the real facts. I said we have no objection to the paper publishing the facts, and that they have the right to comment on anything that is News. ...

[David O. McKay Diary, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]