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Show THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER Turning from city newspapers to small town exchanges that come to the editor's desk is like stepping from the slums, full of vice, into 'an old-fashioned garden- sweet with lavendar and thyme and the scent of perennial flowers. The pages of big dailies are so full of murder, thievery, immorality and selfishness that the better news is obscured by these glaring shatterings of the dec- alogue. One puts the papers aside with a feeling of depression and heartache that the world is full of terrible and unhappy things. Then picking up the papers that record the happenings of the little towns around us, one gains renewed faith in life. Here are set forth only on-ly that which uplifts a community the activities of the business men, the church items, the happy social gatherings of the people, the marriages, mar-riages, births and deaths, fanners' items, and all the thousand and one daily occurrances that make up the simple annals of the great common com-mon people, who are really the foundation of this broad country of ours . Sometime people seak lightly of the country newspaper, but it is one of the most potent and uplifting uplift-ing factors in our national exist-ance. exist-ance. Christian Science Monitor. n |