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Show Are Newspapers Helpful Roger Babson, known throughout through-out the nation as an accurate forecaster fore-caster of business oonditions, is out In the open with some views on newspapers, which he we take the liberty of calling to the attention of readers of The Pyramid. Calling attention to the fact that every new invention is covered as news long before it reaches the retail counters, and that the market mar-ket is thus prepared for the new product before any paid advertising gets Into the 'newspapers, Mr. Babson Bab-son points out how radios were sold to the public long before specific sets were offered for sale. Then, he remarks that he knows of no business "that does so much good and is still so little appreciated appreci-ated as the newspaper business." We take our paper for granted, little thinking cf ihe service it renders. ren-ders. Then, referring to the small country papers, Mr. Babson says they are "performing an economic function absolutely indispensable to the growth of the country." The statistician makes a "personal "person-al appeal for everyone to get behind be-hind his own town paper and boost it" as a method "to contribute contrib-ute strongly toward the recovery of business in your own town." The remarks of this fact-gatherer are too long for quotation here, although it is seldom that such a generous appreciation cf the functions func-tions of the press appear in print. |