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Show . d Across ife FIccEf 1 1 HyrtPrtC ideoi from other editort I h From the Enclnltas Coast Dispatch, Dis-patch, Enclnitag, California: "Country newspapers" is a phrase which, objectively speaking, speak-ing, arouses feelings of friendliness, friend-liness, in a great many cases gratitude for favors received. If your parents lived In a small town or a rural community, the record of your birth and of subsequent sub-sequent birthday parties may be found in the yellowed pages of some country newspaper's files and doubtless in clippings that you have kept. The country newspaper was always al-ways gracious about announcing upcoming events even though they may be not be of world- ' shaking importance. Almost In- 1 variably it has been kind to people, peo-ple, eschewing the habit of a certain class of metropolitan t journal which pries Incessantly I into the private affairs of per- I sons so unfortunate as to get i into the limelight. When the Encinitas Coast Dis- ' patch was founded In 1925 this I was a much smaller community than It is now and the newspa- I per was distinctly "country" in terms of standards then prevail- ing. It was small and it had ' "patent lnsides" and the display i advertising was of such limited t volume that the revenue, ' today, j wouldn't pay our current telephone tele-phone bill. But right from the start it performed per-formed a community service and down through the years it extended greater or lesser favors fa-vors to people; and it "rode out" creditably numerous community storms in which it could not, even if It wished, have failed to take a hand. Starting its 35th year, the Coast Dispatch is still a "country newspaper" news-paper" and glories in it, particularly particu-larly the set of conditions which make it possible nearly all the time to confer favors and so seldom sel-dom to throw brickbats, however deserved those might be. However the country newspaper, newspa-per, as an institution, has changed nightily. Merchants have learned that "It pays to advertise" and that the country weekly has an amazing "pulling power" all out af proportion to Its distribution, rhe number of daily newspapers nas dwindled; weekly papers, particularly in the west, continue to be launched where new population popu-lation warrants. Daily newspapers newspa-pers nowadays, must compete vith television and radio for the advertising dollar; the weekly lewspaper also In a minor de-tree,. |