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Show THE DLE88ING8 OF HOME TOWN PAPER Tho home town nowspaper Is known by Its fruits as well as any other righteous cause. Of course It sells homo news and advertising nows JiiBt as any salosman soils his wares, but tho most ploaslng fruit of tho home town paper is tho happiness and prosperity pros-perity It brings to tho community In which It appears. A student Journalism from tho Utah Agricultural College was onco sent to n farmer to got a story on his economical uso of pasturage pastur-age "I'll tell you about my pastures," said tho farmor, "but ilrst como nnd seo my electric pump. Tho Salt Lako paper had a story about it lost Saturday Satur-day and our homo papor copied it." And tho way ho said our "homo papor" showed how proud ho was of tho distinction, how pleased ho was that tho homo paper chronicled tho pro-grosslvoness pro-grosslvoness of tho county farmer as woll as that of tho town merchant "I moan to wrlto to my boy ovory Sunday," Bald ono Utnh mother. "But I know ho gots tho homo papor every weok, oven If I don't hnvo tlmo to wrlto. Ho snys tho homo town papers In tho Agricultural Collego library are. road to rags." "That editorial about fathor sure mado us feel good," said a young man, who had Just lost his fathor, to a country editor who had mado Intelligent Intelli-gent and sympathetic commont on the loss tho country had sustained In tho death of so valuable a cltlzon. And so It goes. Tho homo town papor sheds Its kindly, benouclcnt light all over Utah from Saint George to Preston, from Grouse Crook to San Junn. It Is as much a community Institution In-stitution as church, school, or public library. Slnco tho war there have been ninny deaths among country nows-pnpors, nows-pnpors, especially In Now York State, and overywhero where tho homo paper has boon dlscontlnud tho community llfo has weakened. You cannot put anything over In a town without a local papor, whether It bo a now business, busi-ness, a county fair, or a commercial club. From bank prosldent to beet toppor wo all need our homo town papor. |
