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Show in mind every minute. No paper can live by catering to a chosen . few. There is not in any community enough business to support a large newspaper devoted wholly to what we commonly call "high- brow class." The "highbrows" are a vague class, but are generally supposed to be the type of citizens who take no interest in any subject sub-ject except one concerning things that would be discussed at a meeting of a college faculty, or a fine arts convention or a meeting of clergymen of the larger churches of the nation. A writer made himself unpopular sometime ago by saying that as far as he had observed most of the criticism of his work had come from that class of people who never buy books, but who are keen for borrowing them and picking them to pieces. It might be said that some of those who are keenest in their criticism of the newspaper news-paper are the ones who do not pay their money for it, and do not help the editor to meet his financial obligations. No, the newspaper news-paper edited by everybody would not be a success. But it is possible, with the co-operation of a majority of the people in a community com-munity to get out a newspaper that will please a good many and be worth a great deal in building up a town. And that's the kind of a newspaper program we are seeking to carry out. VPvITING NEWS The wort of newspaper that would he published if everybody in Gunnison edited it would he BomethinK wonderful, hut it wouldn't he the kind of paper that very many would subscribe for. 1 he newspaper business is perhaps the rnor.t competitive of any in existence. exist-ence. Men who make up newspapers must have the mass of people |