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Show THE STGRY OF HOME TOWN PAPER WEEK By M. V. ATWOOD. Once upon a time a country editor had a great Idea. This Is not the first great Idea which has been evolved In a country print-shop, but most of tbee ideas in the past have been of benefit to some one other than the editor. But the idea was to benefit editor as well as the whole community and nation. na-tion. This was the Idea: Why not have a "home paper week?" We have had every kind of a "week" from soap to electric cleaners. Taken together, argued the editor, the country newspapers are quite the . most important In the nation, even if judged by numbers ; the ten or fifteen thousand of them make the four hundred hun-dred big city papers and magazines seem inconsiderable, Indeed. The reason most folks do not realize real-ize tie Importance of the country newspaper Is because they think of them individually instead of coUectlve-ly; coUectlve-ly; even the Atlantic ocean doesn't look very Impressive when you view it merely as a cupful of water scooped up at the beach. So this country editor began to talk about the Idea and to write letters to any one who he thought might be Interested. But like all great ideas, it took a long time for it to grow. Finally a company which has done much to teach country publishers the value of system and of knowledge of costs took it up,- as did also the National Na-tional Editorial Association ; then tha state colleges of agriculture saw its possibilities because of the effect on community life ; another great concern which furnishes thousands of country papers with syndicate news and features fea-tures became interested ; and, of course, the publishers' trade journals taU inrt Una Thus a great chain of interest In "Subscribe for Your Home Town Paper Pa-per Week" has been stretched across the country, each of the thousands of country papers, of which this paper Is one, a link in the chain. November 7th o 12th are the dates set for "Subscribe for Your Home Town Paper Week," and all who believe be-lieve in the home town paper, in its possibilities for helpfulness, for creating creat-ing community solidarity, for the cherishing cher-ishing of the homely and sacred things of the country, are being asked to help to help, not because the country editor needs charity, but because the country newspaper is a great service agency, dignified, stable, worthy of every cent which the community invests in-vests to make it possible. So you are asked to help make "Subscribe "Sub-scribe for Yonr Home Town Paper Week" the big success It is going to be. If yon do not now take your home paper, dont delay subscribing laterv than the week of November 7-12. |