Show COUNTRY WEEKLY THE REAL REA PAPER OF THE PEOPLE ot long iong ago a man of prominence asked his secretary ec to obtain foi him the comments of the press upon a bertun ni notional nit ional A pret clipping bureau furnished the clippings from papers in chicago new york cie cleveland eland and other I birge irge cities and the secretary laid them before the man what ube are these he asked give gie me clippings biorn podunk kan new town vo Mo polis polls iowa loa monin t ut rutih iii and the rest of the country I 1 want ant to know kno whit the real people think the country countr more thin any othe othen gent in the unitta state states gots into the family ind reflects what the average men like aou ou and the rest think upon important subjects A thrle line comment by a news paper published in a town of in the west said mother nother i prominent man is 13 of vastly more importance to me than a column of edit orril in the biggest paper in new york vork A recent writer s siva a the countr country goes into the home where it is re id ld by every member of the family its influence is not to be estimated by terms of circulation but in terms of social impulse given gien to the family unit the city paper on the other hind is a production for ephemeral infer notion a thing for street cirs and office buildings a publication which docs does not go into the homo home in the sense that the country newspaper does and arouses no feeling of friend ship such as the countie weekly calls forth ita its influence is wonderful Nond erful so great that don 0 seltz eltz business manager of the new york world says the country editor can clean up anything by imply printing the facts over and of over oer again A well supported country press in adv an state count or local community means a better pi ice tee to live in bet ter schools better industries and a better people there are laws las needed in utah to help make a i better country press and we e ask ak our readers to help us make those laws this is the first of a senes series of twelve articles on the needs ideals and of the country press in utah the next article will appear in an birly issue of this paper |