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Show Power of the Country J According to Ayer's Newspaper j Directory, there are some 13.000 smaller city dailies and countrj weekly newspapers in the United States, outnumbering all other newspapers published. These are read by the great majority of home owning, tax paying American families. fami-lies. These newspapers are nearly near-ly all owned individually by the country editors and publishers and are read by the great middle-class of people comprising our workers and thinkers from which our most successful national leaders are picked. pick-ed. Like the painters and artists, the poets and musicians, the country editors of Our Country are mostly individualists. They do not live in the skyscrapers of the big cities but constitute the great body political pol-itical of Our Country and voice that consciousness of the nation that means American conservation, family fam-ily life and business stability. They are stronger than Wall Street, more powerful than Congress or the Senate, and their voice is heard in the International Naval Conference and the Court of the World. |