| Show THE LOCAL PAPER the question of the duty of an editor towards locality where he be lives is variously regarded by the readers of the paper and if lie took the advice of all his readers as to what to leave out his paper would consist mostly of blank space people dont appreciate the good things done by any except themselves but they accord even a less than ordinary amount of appreciation to the editor of their local p piper pe r people pay with some degree of readiness for a page advertisement ti they have dry goods to sell but do not appreciate the fact that their local paper is giving them many pages 7 of advertising for little or nothing 0 A town never amounts to anything unless it lias has a local paper and it is ia heavily handicapped if the editor is discouraged by lack of support or opposition from aroi I 1 I 1 tho ke who should know letter better jt pleasant pyramid your paper tells you when to go 90 to county circuit and probate courts and when to send the children to school and nearly everywhere else you have to go it tells who is lead dead married marrial sick born and many other things thiap 0 you like to hear it calls your attention t to 0 public enterprises enterprise a advocates the best 0 of f schools law and order in bour your town it records the marriage of your daughter tho alio death of your son thu illness of your wife free of cliar gc it tie helps ps your town builds up your business whether you patronize it or not it iscis sets forth the advantages and attractions odthe town invites immigration and is the first to welcome new cowers comers time forbids to enu morale half what it docs for its own people and yet we sometimes hear biear a man say liis his homo home paper is II 11 not ot half as td good as konle bome city paper that liaa bas no interra in his business the home ionic paper is too often neglected 0 minister |
