Show IOU AM AND 1 I As told by byrd trego to frank S beckwith whether or not you and I 1 know the sheriff personally h he e is at our immediate call in case of accident or crime citizens are sure that the sheriff and his officers are always ready day and night without that assurance you and I 1 would not feel acl secure you take the telephone receiver from the hook in case of emergency you know the operator will answer you are certain of telephone service day or night it is worth any cost when an emergency arises all of us pay the cost of ready service we do not object to the cost of a hospital where certain beds are unoccupied but ready when an accident occurs or an epidemic strikes newspapers are in the same class ready to serve on any and all occasions when we were born our happy parents notified the papers later the same paper printed our fradua tion wen our successes our newspaper carried the announce e i ent of our wedding subsequently it announced the arrival of our children the newspaper has served us many times and m s e always found it ready A newspaper has but one way to make a living like the sheriff the hospital the telephone it must pay expenses ot 0 every kind its income is its adverting adverts ng merchants buy space as the most economical means of selling more of their wares legal notices are most conveniently brought to you and me through space bought in the newspapers ou and I 1 may say to the editor that our subscriptions help pay the bill on second thought we admit that the continuous collecting of news and the distribution by mail or earner earlier costs more than the sum the editor charges for a year years s sub among the ethical advertising is at a minimum because the doctor the dentist the lawyer doesn doean t build his business that way and when professional men have exper lences of news value they are rather insistent that the editor take notice and convey the tidings to the rest of the readers a compliment to the newspaper and a service gladly rendered by the editor the local NN weekly paper which you and I 1 read has the dis tive function 0 publishing the happenings of its community and surrounding countries in amerian civilization civilisation I 1 yo r and I 1 find in our local papers more solid striving for the good chingo than in m any reading that comes to us week after week the newspaper reflects the leadership be its source what it may of the town and county no newspaper can be outstanding unless it has the loyal support of its community an ag gres sive community will insist that its newspaper be sive in three short paragraphs you and I 1 have been reminded of the reason why the law prescribes legal notice and its pro lection of our rights history and experience have emphasized the value of newspaper papel in making legal notice most effective and at the least cost |