Show HAVE NEWSPAPER FRIENDS the city papers are all right it if you want them but it is the local paper that advertises your business your church your schools your numerous socie ts sympathizes with you in your afflictions an rejoices in your prosperity in ili sort it is your local I 1 paper aper that mentions the thousand antl one items in which you are interested and which you wont find in the city paper it is 19 your home paper that records bour our birth marriage and chroni chro cals your death to the great journals the forty page compendia ams ot of daily happenings you ar are not even a cipher to get the least notice from them you must steal I 1 a million commit an atrocious crime or have halt a dozen living wives but your local paper watches over you with solicitude all the time it IE you are sick it is sorry and h hopes sou will soon be well it tells when you come ana aim go burns down or when you build a new one when your johnnie has the mumps or your bour mary has the measles and how much your little pete weighs en arrived it if the city paper gave you one tenth ot of the local news sour home paper gives you each week it would cost you ten dollars a year nothing takes tile the place ot of the home paper do newspapers make enemies A single unfortunate line may wipe out the already faint recollections of a hundred nice things it may have said about a man A single unfortunate failure to bl b e guided by the judgment of a business man or politician instead of oe their own conscience I 1 will make the politician or business man the editors enemy regardless of the years during which the paper may have contributed to their advancement and even a paper may have for years been a leading calling factor in booming its own town this service may lie be instantly forgotten it if it offends tends of once as to disregard the ideas of some as to public policy the wonder then bust not be as to the number of 0 enemies a newspaper has but as to its friends being so many that a newspaper of character has many friends surely is a tribute to the intelligence of its readers who are broad enough to realize that one may occasionally err and yet be worthy of confidence realizing this the sensible newspaper man goes ahead doing good as he be sees it coalville Co alville times |