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Show COUNTRY NEWPAPERS HARD HIT BY THE WORLD WAR. Hon JohtiHthan liourne Jr hair-man hair-man of thn Koptihllraii I'tibllilt) e-soilntlon e-soilntlon maintained ! the national capital fur a number of years, hns Just git en out it statement from IiohiI-iltiartcra IiohiI-iltiartcra lu whlih he sya ihi otttr buelnesH ha been hit harder b the war than the ncwiApcr ami publish-Ing, publish-Ing, iHirilMilarly In the smalt illlea nnd otiiilr tow 17 The large metro, polltan iHtpent have' prolmlil) suffered suffer-ed least Dtirtttg 1017 more than twelve hundred piibllcHtlons went mil of btmlHoe. After nmklng allow m for new MipirH started. It appear thai there ww a net liwn of Hxt-two dalllea and five hitmlreil and slxt-nine slxt-nine weeklle The mortnlll) stall-Him stall-Him for DIM will prohahl) show a gtevit n toe, ror the shortage of wpir, the Inrteuslng cimt of all kind of stipplle. mid thn higher wngo, to-gither to-gither with the vet) heav) call upon ncttsimpcT iiikii for mllitar) servlre. hil'i' lit en more severe Hit yer limn last And one of the sertou featuns of Hie sltiialbui 1 Hint the people of tho 1 011 11 try prolmhl) do not rmtllie that Hip mint valuable portion of Hie prewe ha sustained the gnsilnsl In, fmler iHipnlar government the iioin-tr) iioin-tr) prow lm lulling not only miiutr) wceklli. but the smaller dallies, I tlio roMl volte of the people IWltor of large metroHilltan miers do not havo and iminol Imvo the cliwr touch with the people that I it necoemr) lltilileiit of the life of thn counTry mllliir Just a Washington. I t I thn piHirest pis re In the coutilr) to get 11 lino on the poliiicHl HiiHighl or Ihi' tuition, m the big tit) newetmpor oftlio I Hie iHioreet ptnie to got a eorrett phtiiro of iiatlmial thought, either pulllli-nl or otherwli'e The pet-pie pet-pie or the ('lilted Mete should rcnllxo this, mid should nv 10 11 that Willi lever elso lniipelt the rountn pre shall be malntnlneil I'rtedom of spent It mid of Hie plnw J the first cmciiIIiiI of it repilblbitn form of government, for the ripin-t ripin-t Illative of the people mount know thn thought mid Hsplrallou nnd de-siren de-siren of their constituent mite V0I1 ed Ihroitgli the medluuishlp of tin lot at prrwt to Willi It the) havo net on either dircttl). through the publication publica-tion of foliiuiunleiitloiiK or Indirect!) thtotiKh thn ndltor'a Intrrpretatloii of thn view of hi coinmunll) Thn rountn pri. Iniludlng thn smaller thtllloM, reprtweitl the producing clement cle-ment of our niiilonul life tfho Ittrgu ntrtnipolltiiii presa rrprcwnl tlie commvrvlal futtor. Just its production produc-tion I the first oftseiitliil of a purmau-till purmau-till pnwperlt). so thn mulntenaiiro of that portion of the iireM that speak for thn proitiuer Is most Imiwirtaiit, Tho milropnlltun pre lm It place III our national life mid noltidy wlslnm It III The fact remain, howovcr, thai the vital Interest of thn nation are most promptl nnd most 1 learl) represented uml the thought of the people, most freel) Mild most etiuragn-ously etiuragn-ously voiced b) thn rountr) pre. Thn people t.t the country ma) not sen It'ltou, but they will sotnn day real lie that the lurgo prepniidenintn of us-pensions us-pensions umong thn wtekly publktt-linn publktt-linn I it lueliHin 16 our iwtlonul wtl-faro. |