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Show Keep In Touch With Home Town If everyone born and reared in thin town nad remained here to make his permanent home, we should be a city of many thousands moro population than we now number. On the other hand, cities and towns elsewhere that have attracted our youth would never have been founded, perhaps, and America would remain as it was in pioneer days a great continent with a few scattered cities all too large, all over-congested. But the opportunity that calls men away from their native homes keeps the great movement alive, with lha result that practically every corner of America has in it a representat o of Ounnison. However, (he home town always has its interest for the people who heeded the call to go elsewhere, artd news of its progress and the doings of its people is wolcome news to the native and former resident, wherever wher-ever he may now be located. Correspondence, however faithful, cannot cover all the news and gon-sip, gon-sip, and seldom deals with more than family affairs. The perfect medium, of course, is the home town newspaper, newspa-per, which prlnls all the news of all the people. Some of these Items, while, of limited Interest to you, might be of great Interest to one away from home. There is now a nation wide movement move-ment on foot, sponsored by the National Na-tional Editorial association and olhnr agencies, in which (IiIh paper la tali Ing part, looking to a stimulation of Interest in the home town paper. To do our part, we are this week offering an extra copy of The News to every subscriber with the request that he Bend It to a relative or friend out of town, with a special subscription subscrip-tion blank which we will provide. This extra copy Is free for the asking by writing or calling at this office. Or, if preferred, we will send free copies to such former residents ns you may designate. |