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Show ARE YOU A TEACHER? A county superintendent recently asked every teacher at the county institute who took their local paper to hold up their hands, and out of about a' hundred present, only six responded, at which he expressed . great surprise and said: "You don't spend one dollar a year with your paper, yet you expect it to print notices ,of institutes, insert long programs, and full reports of what you do and say on these occasions, and thus expect it to advertise you and your abilities in your chosen profession, thereby assisting you to climb the ladder lad-der to higher positions and better salaries sal-aries without a cent's postage in return." re-turn." He closed by saying : "Your position po-sition in this, matter would lead me, were I editor of the paper, to properly throw into the basket any communication communica-tion sent in by any society, the members of which were too proud or stingy to take a paper, or if I inserted it, to demand de-mand full advertising rates for every one published." . a : |