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Show 1 EXTRM Subscribe to NOUR HOWE TOWtt A FINE OLD HOME PAPER (Tune A Fln Old English Gentleman.) These magazines with gravures and all these works of art, Axe very well for city folks who live by dint of mart; But give me first and foremost, I hold it Is the prime That fine old home town paper one of the good old time. The prlntln' isn't perfect, the Ink"! not uniform, The type Is set by hand perhaps, considerably overworn, The dear old press I know It well-It's well-It's covered o'er with grime Bnt It prints that old home paper one of the gold old time. I look for It each week as regularly It comes, And when the postman brings It In, I drop all other chums, I drink It In, from start to fin, ridiculous ridicu-lous and sublime. That fine old home town paper, one of the. good old time. Smith's cat may- have some kittens; Jones Is putting In new pumps, My girl chum has got married and the kids have got the mumps. Jack WUtsey's built a lean-to, John son's roses upward climb Oh 1 I love the old home paper, boys, j one of the good old time, i GEO. B. WHAT. U- - - Back to Town Crier 'j.,.,..,,....,.-. ...:..........4 How many residents of any small community have ever considered what might happen If there were no newspapers? news-papers? Just previous to "Sub-jscrlbe "Sub-jscrlbe for Your Home Town Paper Week," which Is to ba observed the country over November 7-12, Is a good time to recall the plight of Macon, !Mo., not long ago, when fire put the 'Chronicle-Herald out of business for itwo weeks. According to Tha Publishers' Aux-(lllary, Aux-(lllary, the old town crier, relic of many years back, was yanked from Ihls hiding place, dusted oft, . and put back on his Job, with a jangling bell, a megaphone, andra fog-horn voice only little worse for long disuse. It may have been a novelty for two weeks. But think of a community iwlthont printers' Ink, compelled to gat 'its announcements of auctions, sales, court sessions, births, marriages, Jleaths, epidemics of sickness, dog or-dlnances, or-dlnances, board meetings, commence-Imehts, commence-Imehts, tax notices, advertisements tof help and situations wanted, accl-idents, accl-idents, and tha rest, through a shouted word like that ' of the ordinary train announcer in aiclty depot. The town ! crier was a romantic figure In his day, Ibut few towns iwould like to return to Ihls ministrations now. 1 When one thinks of the temporary 'plight of Macon, and fflat It might become the permanent handicap of many towns, It .Is well to think of sup-! sup-! porting the ,pcal paper. i ' He Knows His Folks. Here are some random observations of a man who has visited and studied a good many' small communities: If you read your local paper you will not miss much that Is happening j around home. There la no use saying Ithat you wish' your town had s paper i like one in the other town, for the lother fellow tsere Is saying the sams thing. The man who reads his local 1 paper thoroughly Is usually a pretty 'good citizen and has It all over th fellow who does not. Local papers, when all Is sold and done, do more to uphold the Institutions of this stat and country than any other known contributing force In the world's work. Random Observations. This Isn't a country publisher talking, talk-ing, but the editor of a farm paper: The metropolitan dally will bring to one's doorstep the news of the world ten through the spectacles of the city editor, bat It Is the editor who lives la the heart of the community who Is able to reflect the sentiment of the local group. He alone Is the true Interpreter of events ss they affect the small town and the farming community com-munity that Immediately" surround tU town. |