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Show About Newspapers Most Americans agree with th, statement of Grove Paterson, edito of the Toledo Blade to the effect tha the modern newspaper is one of man kind's four greatest institutions, tin ' tbeis, of course, beiii,-; the home, th, church, and the school. Like ot'ie- modem inst itiilion-, wsj-apers jl'I.en make mistakes, and 'he public does not hesitate (o tell the editor auout these errors. Bu' the magnitude of the task of building build-ing a newspaper in so short a time wdi easily acCOunt for the mistakes md they are more numerous than 'aey. would be in other lines of en-iea.vor en-iea.vor under similar conditions People line to criticize public 0f-ic.als, 0f-ic.als, lawyers and the general run folks, but for some reason they bEn newspapers. " reason may be that the -mistakes : 1,ewsPrs are always before and connot.be denied or buried . , ' .person said- is the cheap and .joyous custom o entice r.ewspaaiers. Nearly all Public speakers f rom ,ake' charnier. an Mil .,.- -"i to preachers attack newspapers for the reason that it is the simplest and 9 oasicst way to get applause. Ap-r Ap-r iJ!ause is the breath of life to the I luncheon speakers." Yet the newspaper is always in the lorefront defending the community 5 'u which it lives and in promoting "'1 things that are for the commun- '-ys good. It probably gives more ! fee set vice for less money than any "Iber commercial enterprise, and in seturn, in a great many instances is K'ven scant patronage by municip-JlHies municip-JlHies and civic organizations that '-ho-uld be solidly behind it No man would want to live in a 'city or 'awn without a newspaper and the newspaper, themselves are usually index of the prosperity and pro-veness pro-veness of the community- Vovo Herald. |