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Show FIGURES THAT AMAZE The importance of the country newspaper news-paper in the United States can better be appreciated, perhaps, when it is re- j alized that they serve a vastly larger percentage of the population of the United States than do the city papers. The truth of this statement may be doubted by many readers that have long believed that the great centers of population popu-lation in the big cities overshadowed in numbers the people of the county and suburban sections. But any such doubts are ill founded. The country and suburban areas of the United States not only dominate the big cities in combined population, but tney are rapidly increasing in pop- i nbitiiin Hcmt in sections vvhi re the1 Canadian land booming ads. and other j j Canadian propaganda are in full sway. . The mighty mission of the country i M papers is more dearly revealed by a i g study of official figures. : R The total population of the United States exclusive of Hawaii, the Ptiilip- Sj lines, etc., is 91,000,000. The aggregate! j population of cities in 1910 was 22,088,- : jj ' 331, of whom 17,099,904 were of central l ' cities and 4,98,427 in the suburbai r ; areas. : ; j The residents of the suburban areas i j cinnotrighly be classed as city people, j 1 yet they alone amount to almost one- third of the number populating the ac-! ac-! tual cities. i The 17,099,904 net population of the cities subtracted fro;n the 91.00J.000 : population of the entire continental ; . United States leave 73,900,096 as the combined population of the country and suburban districts. This shows that a- : . bout bl per rent of the people of the people of the United States live in the country and suburban sections. ; The country papers dominate this vast field. They are in truth the moral police force, as Brisbane describes them, of a- ' bout four-fifths of the inhabitants of the entire United States. |