Show HELP YOUR LOCAL we had just sat down to the typewriter to write waitea a few lines for our type setter mentioning the fact that the people of the community are not giving us the news as they did for awhile particularly about socials and that sort of thing which the editor lias has no way of knowing about only as they are reported to him when we read from a recent issue of the publishers auxiliary the fol following lowin clipped from the southland farmer which expresses our message possibly better than we could have done help boost your local paper it has possibilities of being as good as any in the country and remember that it reflects the community in which it is published and it is the one product that goes to far places bearing the town trade marks it deserves the best you can give of act active support and sympathetic understanding der standing give the editor news whether it benefits you or not dont ask him to print it on the front page and just the exact way vou handed it in dont worry lest the editor makes too much money if hes prosperous hell be foolish enough to give his community a better paper an editors edit orts ambition thas why he en gages in the publicity business tell him when he has a good paper you are willing to congratulate your preacher on a good sermon and your merchant on an attractive window display the editor is n no 0 less grateful f ul for a word of praise make it a point to visit the print shop and learn of its difficulties and cm complexities plex aties at least that will give you a more charitable attitude the paper should not be the product of the editor solely but of all those who are interested in it as friends contributors readers or advertisers supplementing that may we ask that if you know of a party or a social of any sort a visitor to or from town an event which is coming a real estate transfer a sale of importance M if you sheep men men or cattle men sell a ram a band of good ewes some steers or any thing of that sort you please tell the editor because those are the things which make your paper worth while and let us add to that we shall appreciate suggestions at any time if there are things about abou t our paper which you do not like tell us just as readily and we shall appreciate it just ast as much as ahr though ugh you complimented comm m anted ted us because only in that iii manner anner can we make the paper pape r better suit you |