Show A WORD FOR OURSELVES A ra rare re honor was be bestowed upon the richfield reaper last week the university of Illi illinois illinoi noi at urbana ill is conducting a school of journalism and the professor who lectures on community newspapers a more dignified name for country Nee weeklies klies recommended to his students to study a number of the best community papers published in the united states giving the names of a couple dozen of papers he considered worth while studying and imong among these so named was the richfield reaper consequently a student of the class informing us of this honor requel requested aed us to send him a few copies of our paper to look them over for the purpose of studying the good points of country journalism we gladly complied with this request and not only aie proud of the distinction but in our opinion are justified in this pride not only for ourselves selves but also for the communities we are serving for the local news newspaper sp aper is if properly prop eily y conducted a faithful servant of the communities it covers we like to quote in this connection what the wisconsin state journal published in another place where a state university is teaching journalism says about the unselfish idealism behind local newspapers the wisconsin state journal says the local newspaper in the united states is each year getting on a firmer foundation and bico becoming minU more and more useful to its home community it is the home newspaper which boosts the town year in and year out which takes the lead in every enterprise which has for its purpose the building up of the community we fre frequently hear it said that the old time independent spirit of the newspaper is gone that its editorial whey policy is now subservient to the business of office fice yet this is not true there is more unselfish idealism in the average I 1 local al newspaper than in any other business enterprise it frequently speaks out in the way which it believes will be for the good of the nation and of the community regardless of what the consequences may be from a business standpoint tand point the local newspaper is the principal booster for the community and it does its boosting often without hope of material reward unfortunate is the community which neither ampre chates nor hupperts hup up ports its local newspapers |