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Show LETTING NEWSPAPERS STARVE The local newspaper is always pleading for the support of the home merchant and yet many of them are slowly starving to death. A Western country paper has just died where father and sons and wife lived on the starvation incomes for forty years before "giving up. The business men and the banker bank-er appreciate the home paper that fights radicalism in all its forms in a campaign and then forget It. The office seekers are inclined to throw something to the newspaper when the campaign is on and they want the support of the voter. But once in office and the country editor is rapidly forgotten and he gets off well if Laws are not enacted to put him out of business. Better support of the home paper would be the greatest wisdom in view of, the time coming when there will be a mighty struggle to overthrow over-throw American institutions. |