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Show mm TiiiTii. V I,.nu II v U-tne Paper Not Alwi.j s thought oT. The Oregon ia ii publishes the following fol-lowing good advice to a community and how true it is: The remonstrances nainst giving giv-ing advertising of their town !o ' outside" publications of tjuostioi -abie influence which are seen in the columns of Western Washington's Washing-ton's papers, are justifiable and well taken. When a local paper i:-not i:-not good enough to herald a town's advantages abroad, there is something some-thing wrong with the town. The newspaper is, to a very great ex- tent, what the community makes it; and hy reason of its representative representa-tive capacity, the community has a measuroof responsibility towards it. The. people who will not help make a good paper for their own town must not complain if they are held in low esteem by the outside . world. The home paper properly supported, support-ed, not particularly by advertising patronage, but in a hundred ways of kindness and of service which costs nothing, is always the best possible medium for advertising its locality, because it will be bright and newsy, and will be read by intending in-tending settlers and capitalists as x truer index to the town's social and business life than any other printed matter could be. The proprietor always spends his income to improve his paper. It seems that he can't help it. When he gets a few dollars ahead he must get the paper a new dress, or some all-brass galleys, or a new mailii g machine. Or if a few hundred, he buys a new press, and once again puts his nose lo the grindstone to get outofdeht. When he thinks ho sees good times ahead he enlarges his paper and increases his pay roll. AVhen money gets scarce again he tries to keep a stifl' upper lip, taking good potatoes on subscription. Works eighteen hours a day, backslides at the church, defaults the lodge, forgets his friends, l.cglects his family. Whatever else he may prove recreant recre-ant to, with his paper it is always "love, honor and cheerish." All the aid and comfort a town giveB to its paper goes in it. Subscriptions Subscrip-tions paid in advance blossom into breezy locals, and half page ads bring forth double-headed editori-ais editori-ais on the new water works and the shipping en-roufo and the c iimlry's wonderful wealth and progress. pro-gress. To lender it generous support sup-port is to invite capital; to withhold with-hold "tendeth to poverty. The live town will have a live paper; and if it has anything worth the attention of the outside world, and wants it told where it will do the most good, it will always put its trust in the home paper and the home paper will do the business, |