| Show the home town paper utah agricultural college the home town newspaper Is known by its fruits as well as any other righteous cause of course it sells homo bome news and advertising news just as any salesman sells his wares but the most pleasing fruit of the home town paper is the happiness happl nesa and prosperity it brings to the community in which it appears A student in journalism from the utah agricultural collego college was once sent to a farmer to get a story on his economical use of at pasturage ill tell you about my pastures said the farmer but first como come and see my electric pump the salt lake paper had a story about it last saturday and our home paper copied it and the way he said our homo home paper showed how proud he was of the distinction how pleased he was that the home paper chronicled the progressiveness of the county farmer as well as that ef of the town merchant 1 I mean to write to my boy every sunday eald said one utah mother but I 1 know he gets tho the home paper every week even it I 1 dont have time to write he ile says the home town papers in the agricultural college library are read to rags to that editorial about father sure made us feel good said a young young man who had just lost bis his father to a country editor who had made intelligent and sympathetic comment on the loss the country had sustained ineil in the death of at so valuable a citizen and so it goes the home town paper sheds its kindly beneficent light all over utah from saint george to preston from grouse creek to san juan it is as much a community institution as church school or public library since the war there have been many deaths among country newspapers especially in new york state and everywhere where the home paper has been discontinued the community life has weakened you cannot put anything over in a town without a local paper whether it boi bel a new business a county fair or a a commercial club from bank president to beet topper we all need our home town paper |
