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Show BACK UP NEWSPAPERS. i I Frequently we are closely associated with institutions or a commodity that we do not appreciate their worth. This applies in general to newspapers. Every city, town and hamlet has it3 newspapers. news-papers. Even sometimes a few houses and a store and garage at a "wide place in the road" constitute excuse enough for the starting of a newspaper and not infrequently that wide place in the road becomes be-comes a town and when it does one may rest assured that that news- paper that seemed to have had no excuse for beginning life, had a very important part to play in the community's unexpected development. devel-opment. So it is all along the line of progress. No city ever gets far without the sincere cooperation of newspapers. Yet no institution in a city ever gets less thanks or receives more abuse. Probably no other one thing is a better index to a town than its weekly publications. Very often that is about all the stranger has to go by in making up his mind about a community. If the newspaper that falls into his hands is a bright-looking sheet, full of news and has a prosperous air, the stranger is certain to judge that it was published in a live, progressive town. Those who read their weekly newspapers and carelessly throw them aside, overlook the fact that they are not doing all for their town that they can. If those newspapers, instead of being destroyed, de-stroyed, were placed in wrappers and mailed from time to time to friends and relatives at a distance, the good that could be accomplished accom-plished would soon be reflected in the city's growth. Chambers of commerce are frequently blamed for not getting out more boost literature to be sent abroad. Those who raise these complaints could do a great deal themselves by sending out the literature that comes into their own hands in the form of local periodicals. Rest assured there is no business individual in a town more interested in the growth of his community than is the editor or publisher, for as the town grows he grows. Mark E. Moe in |
