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Show Tribute To Weeklies Some of the late Will Rogers' philosophic and humorous humor-ous paragraphs will go down in literary history as masterpieces. master-pieces. And perhaps one of the finest of these is his tribute to the "home-town paper", one of his last writings. "Take away my ham, take away my eggs, even chili," said Will, "but leave me my newspaper. Even if it has such purely local news as 'Jim Jones came home last night unexpectedly, un-expectedly, and bloodshed ensued' or 'Jesse Bushyhead, our local M. D., is having one of the best years of his .career, practically speaking but they just won't pay him when they get well,' 'the county seat was packed yesterday with prominent people from out of town, attempting to renew their notes' and 'election ain't far off and everybody is up for office that can sign an application blank.' "Now all that don't seem much news to you. But it is news to you, especially when you know the people and they are your own folks. So, no matter how punk you may think your local newspaper is getting, why just take it away from you and see how you feel. The old newspaper I think, is just about our biggest blessing. So let's all read and be merry, for tomorrow the paper may not have enough ads to come out." |