Show CONSIDER THE HOME TOWN PAPER week after week month after month year in and year out the paper makes its regular appearance week in and week out we wait for it consciously ly or unconsciously we read ohp front page with its news of the court the town the county affairs we read the briefs and local items we pore over the accounts of and social doings we read that the so and sos have returned from here that the Other sos are going there that miss popular and mr foreso are engaged we read the ads comparing values and wondering why this store or that store never does advertise its prices we read the and then the chances are that we put the paper down with a sigh and say the same old thing wonder why there isn t anything new what do we mean by NEW dont we really mean something startling A murder A robbery A fire an accident something new in the home town paper usually means un happened hap pined or disaster for soma one that ws arto we are interested in isih news not because we are innately vicious but because we are human and it la human to enjoy the unusual but it is human to be keenly interested in our neighbors affairs too that is why the home town paper is read more closely and criticized criticised more thoroughly than the city dally we know or know of nearly every one mentioned in the home town paper we know to a degree just what each item is worth to that person in terms of happiness the home town paper offers no premiums it offers no set of books nor framed pictures to induce new subscribers to sign on the dotted line it offers instead something of far greater value the account of the life that is closest to YOU it offers a week to week picture of the sphere in which YOU move recorded sympathetically and accurately like the photographers advertisement the home town paper might well say that it gives you something that you can not buy anywhere ases the news of bour own home town milford news |