Show THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER APER From Christian Science Monitor Turning from the city newspapers to the small town press ex changes that come to the edItors edItor's desk is lIke stepping from t the slums full of VIce into an old fashioned garden sweet with hven pv n- n der and thyme and the scent of perennial flowers The pages ages of the bIg dallies dailies are full of murder thievery immorality and s self self- selfishness lf- lf s and the better neWs is obscured by these glaring shatter shatter- ings of the decalogue One puts the papers aside wIth a feeling of depression and heartache that the world is so full of terrible and unhappy beings Then picking up the papers that record the happenings of the little towns around us one gaInS faith in life Here are set forth only that WhICh uplIfts a the community activities of the busi- busi business business ness men the church Items the happy social gatherings of the peo- peo people people the bIrths and deaths farmers Items and all the thousand and one daily occurrences that make up the simple an- an annals nals of the great common people who are really the foundatIOn of thIS broad country of ours Scandals are seldom published In the country newspapers but if tt It so happens that decency so demands It the uglIer detaIls are omItted or gIven a kindly touch that IS widely dIfferent from the unfeeling publicity of the CIty piers pless The offenders may be our or people we have 1 elbows wIth all our lives They are real human beIngs to theIr town paper whIle to the great CIty dallies they are mel ely grains of a SOl t that are ground out hourly in theIr mills Dulls SometImes people speak lightly of the country newspaper but it is one of the most potent and uplIftIng factors In our natIOnal natIOnale e existence |