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Show AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS. Perhaps in no other industry is there such a variety of conditions as in the newspaper business. Totalled Indiscriminately, there are something over 14,000 newspapers in the United States, ranging from the smallest country weekly which prints only two pages in its own shop with additional pages printed by a syndicate, to the gTcat metropolitan dailies which em-ply em-ply thousands of persons each. For the smallest, probably not more than 25 pounds of paper is required each week, while the Chicago Tribune uses for one Sunday edition all the j paper produced from timber grown' on 240 acres of land. j According to Grove Patterson, the well-known writer, the New York Times employs 3,100 persons, with a payroll of $25,000,000 a year. Hearst's newspapers and magazines use more than $50,000,000 worth of paper a year. I But in sp'tj of the disparity between be-tween the smallest and the largest of American newspapers, the publisher of the small country weekly need not be overawed by the size of his metropolitan metro-politan rival. The local newspaper has a place in the life of its community which the great dailies can not usurp if the local publisher is alive to his opportunities and makes the most of them. Now, as always, the home-towrt newspaper is the best and cleanest exponent of constructive journalism. |