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Show THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER. Turning from city newspapers to small town press exchanges that come to the editor's desk is like stepping from the slums, full of vice, into an old-fashioned garden sweet with lav-tnder lav-tnder and thyme and the scent of perennial flowers. The pages of big dailies are so full of murder, thievery, immorality and selfishness that the better news is obscured by these glaring glar-ing shattering of the Decalogue. One puts the papers aside with a feeling of depression and heartache that the world is so full of terrible and unhappy un-happy things. Then picking up the papers that record the happenings of the little towns around us, one gains renewed faith in life. Here are set forth only that which uplifts a community the activities of the business men, the church items, the happy social gatherings gather-ings of the people, the marriages, births and deaths, farmers' it;ms, and all the thousand and one daily occurrences oc-currences that make up he simple annals of the great common people, who are really the foundation of this broad country of ours. Sometimes people speak lightly of the country newspaper, but it is one of the most potent and uplifting factors fac-tors in our national existence. Christian Chris-tian Science Monitor. |