Show DID YOU EVER STOP TOP TOP- TO TO TI THINK NI 1 By Edson t R. R Waite Shawnee Oklahoma Oklahoma- J. J P. P Baumgartner Editor and arid Publisher of the S 'S Santa nta Ana California Daily Register Says THAT a good newspaper is the biggest value in the world at atthe the price Try to think of something you that ou u can buy for less than two dollars that has as much real value as the the delivery delivery at your door each w v eek of your home newspaper for a whole year THAT the newspaper is the only authority or service that costs its readers no more now than it did before the war Whatever slight increases there have been in subscription rates are more than compensated by in increases increases increases in- in creases in volume and improvement in quality 7 THAT people are learning that there is no more economic need for two newspapers newspapers in a a. a city of less than population than there is for two telephone systems systems systems or two waterworks or half a dozen electric light plants and THAT any of civic civic need that ever e existed isted for duplication of newspapers in such towns is fast dis disappearing disappearing dis- dis appearing with the increasing intelligence and independence independence inde inde- J of citizens in the right of franchise franchise franchise fran fran- chise The newspaper naturally is a public service functionary subject by the law of enlightened selfishness to the same regulation self-imposed self that is imposed by law upon other public service ervice functionaries |