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Show Ileros f EDeniocracy BY A SMALL TOWNER the other 11,000 weekly ana 3,000 daily newspapers received the same. There was enough stuff to keep every Editor and his assistant reading 14 hours a day for five days. There was enough of ?1 a year men pictures to fill three pages; pag-es; illustrations of how to take jewelry off your evening gown before be-fore putting it in the washing machine; ma-chine; detailed information on how to save paper and tooth paste tubes; how to wash your dishes (providing you're lucky to have gotten them dirty) ; a reported march of the Red Cross armed with scissors to de-cuff 50 niniijn pair of pants, etc, etc. Sure it's all good stuff, but it kinda reminds me of the Indian who was sick. He went to a Doctor Doc-tor who gave him a box of pills with instructions to take tme daily. The first day eh took one, felt better; bet-ter; second day he took one and felt still better; third day he took 'em all with disastrous results Surely Uncle Sam don't expect paiph nf thp 1 3 OOfl nflwqnnnpr tn (Editor's Note: Views expressed by the writer are his own, and do not necessarily reflect editorial policy of this newspaper.) You can thank your lucky stars this here newspaper is run, edited and published by a local citizen and not by your esteemed Uncle Samuel. Your local publisher may have a lot of defects, according to youi opinions, but he ain't getting rich working 14 hours per day, and he is giving you the gol-darned best doggoned newspaper that's printed over the whole bloody face of the world. You know there aren't any so called "individual newspapers" in any of the Axis enemy countries. Your paper by world standards is a Jioney. It's well rounded, its diversified, it gives you what YOU want to read and see and not what the "interests" and the Government want him to print. I'll bet a cocked hat that, if the government was running this paper you are reading I right now, it would be full of re- donate 100 per cent of their space to what a bunch of federal publicity publici-ty agents cook up to please their higher-ups. It's true that all this stuff don't cost all these agencies much. They don't have to pay any postage, they get the paper free, We ink free and so why not. But think of the poor editor. If the government govern-ment has got to, keep all their pub- By comparison, the State is a piker. Only three simple direct announcements an-nouncements came from the State Capitol, compared to 200 from the U. S. Surely the State don't know the war is on and ecenomy is a vice. "Forget Pearl Harbor and get to work.". Now pity your poor Editor, wading wad-ing through all of these mental jungles, these editorial everglades, week after week yet giving you an understanding of problems large and small in a readable manner along .with the many interesting happenings of a local nature. At the same time preserving for posterity the independence of thought, and the true spirit of Democracy. I remain your country cousin, Clark Hamilton. ports ana eauonais irom every ABCDEFG of the Federal "layout" and would be worse to read than a time table. Fer the last couple of months, I've been spending my reading time reading a bushel of suggested news stories, editoi'ial and feature material mater-ial that was sent to my home town weekly newspaper in just on? week. I'll have you know that this carefully prepared DOPE for print and pictures consisted of better than 353 separate sheets. There was more of the same the next week and more the next, etc. Now dear reader all you have between be-tween a paper plum, full of thi? "ready-cooked-thinking" and the Newspaper you get, is your editor. Your editor keeps out a column of stuff about what would happen if the sale of hard liquor was stopped, a 'couple columns describing in detail de-tail the U. S. O. center in New York, and page after page from better bet-ter than 50 other agencies. Each agency crying Ye Editor use our stuff, herewith attached. The- Federal government is the real propoganda sender, and how. He senti in one week, to this one paper just 200 editorials and news suggestions. Undoubtedly all of |