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Show HOME TOWN PAPER WEEK. People of the United States will be afforded an opportunity during th week of November 7th to 12th to express ex-press In concrete form their gratitude to those men and women, who through sunshine and rain, prosperity and adversity, ad-versity, persistently and consistently sing the song of the home town. Tha time long since passed when newspa pers, whether daily or weekly, can subsist sub-sist on the "taking it for granted" spirit of its patrons and well wishers. Costs of producing newspapers today j have not decreased in anything like : the proportion .experienced in other lines and figures quoted recently Dy daily and weekly newspapers through the country have given the public a glimpse into the expense incidental to conducting the home paper. To the newspaper men and women of each community has fallen the task of presenting the current events of a fast-moving world In accordance with the modern Ideas, more or less extravagant, extrava-gant, and keeping a smiling countenance counte-nance and a courageous heart when others are prone to talk "hard times." Their loyalty to the state and their community has undergone a severe test but they met It with optimism and only a little reflection is required to show how much worse conditions might have been before the turn In the road was reached, had they pursued a different differ-ent course. Advertisers had to keep advertising whether they could pay promptly or not and business had to be kept going go-ing for the general good. The publishers pub-lishers and editors did their part and the second week In November Is proclaimed pro-claimed a time when those who benefited bene-fited by this policy can express it In ', terms of support that will insure the 1 future of the small town paper, the backbone of every community that nas i ' the semblance of pride In itself and i Its neighbors. Sioux City Argus-! Argus-! Leader. |