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Show Home Town Paper Today no small part of the city postman's pack is made up of tightly rolled, cylinderical objects ob-jects whose delivery is expectantly expectant-ly awaited alike in placid home and busy office and which, opened open-ed reveal a digest of doings in distant communities. With the writing of lengthy, leisurely letters an all but vanished van-ished art, the transplanted city dweller is finding in the old home paper a welcome substitute. It presents a printed panorama of the small-town life of which he was once a part, enabling him to visualize the comings and goings, go-ings, the sayings and sojourns of former acquaintances and intimates. in-timates. Big-city residents, contrasting its modest bulk with their own mattress-like publications, may be inclined to view lightly this unpretentious result of smalltown small-town journalism, but to the subscribed sub-scribed it is welcomed as a refreshing re-freshing visitor from home, a chatty "country cousin," who, while eagar to impart the news, is equally ready to depart, once he lias given it. Through "typographic television," televi-sion," the former citizen of the small community sees the friendly friend-ly merchant with whom he formerly for-merly traded departing on a vacation va-cation trip and is glad that alia rs teem to be improving for him. Through the same medium he mingies w:-h : . a .-... nuo:i cro- ' ' " ncwing all but forgotten associations. Although its circulation may be limited, the home town paper's sphere of influence is large. Its regular reading by "former residents" resi-dents" refreshes with recolection fragile memories which otherwise might wther in the arid air of mere busy-ness and success. The Christian Science Monitor. |
