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Show away the steam, and this state, any state would soon be a commonwealth of idle people with its credit gone. Weeds would grow in the streets, our farmers would look for newer pastures, pas-tures, manufacturers would depart from us and our people would seek new fields of all labor." All of which, of course, is true. The metropolitan paper is all right in its way. It brings us the news of the nation and of the world at large. But the home newspaper is a part of us, a part of the lives of the people themselves. It brings them the news of their neighbors and friends, it boosts the community in which they live and helps to promote its progress pro-gress and its prosperity. Without the local newspaper the community would indeed be like the engine without with-out steam. If there is a project on for the location lo-cation of a new factory, the local newspaper is called upon to boost the plan by showing what a beautiful and what a live community ours is. If new improvements are sought or new buildings are constructed, it is by the local newspaper that gives encouragement en-couragement and announces the proud fact of achievement to the world. It is in the newspaper that the local merchants acquaint the people with the goodsi they have to sell. The metropolitan met-ropolitan newspaper keeps us in touch with the world but covers too wide a field to boost our community or the nierchants of our home town. There is something else to be said, too. The wise editor of a home town paper is one who realizes full well that his home community and the the news of the home community should come first. If the home town editor seeks to pass lightly over home affairs and to ape the metropolitan paper, his newspaper loses much of its value in the community. The home ought to appreciate its local newspaper newspa-per and the editor must give to the home town a local newspaper worthy of the community's support. Most of them do. That is why they are on the up-grade all ober the country. THE HOME NEWSPAPER. We often wonder whether the people peo-ple of our modern home communities ! appreciate their local newspapers. It is evident that most of them do, because be-cause local newspapers are prosper-1 ing more than ever before. But the local newspaper is, by most people, accepted as a matter of course without with-out realization of its true value to the community. j One prominent man, interested in ' the success of our newspapers, made an interesting illustration in paying his tribute to the local newspaper. ''Out yonder stands a locomotive on the raih-oad track," he said. "Everything "Ev-erything about it is in order; water n the boiler, coal in the tender, engineer en-gineer at the throttle, but it can't move. All it lacks is steam. Remove the newspapers from the state, take , |