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Show S.M AI.LKIt PAPKKS PATKOITIC Tlie smaller city dailies and the lountry weeklies are the great force I'm snort in (low-Ioplns Iho coraniuul-i'.f.i coraniuul-i'.f.i they serve. T!i.; big inotropol ta-i dailies may influence national affairs some but i.s the country community that de-m de-m rrriies things. Many peopfe have formed the habit ha-bit (if merely scanning the headlines cf Hie big city liailies, while smaller I a;. err. are real through. In the recent election the contest was between an exti'inUon ot stale socialism and real Americanism, big l ily papers boosting socialism. The small city and country press Is patriotic and conservative and does not rush hostilities with ether countries that lead to war. There are bi,g (metropolitan papers pa-pers that would force our country into war with Mexico and Japan for what they could make out of It. |