Show THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER the best way to form an impression of a neighboring city is to look at its newspapers if these journals are poorly printed and sloppily written and if there is little advertising the community is run downif the newspapers nev sp apers have a clean typographical appearance and show the expenditure of money for good reporting and writing if the advertising columns are well filled that community is going ahead people who may consider a given town as a place of residence send for copies of its newspapers first to see what is going on there second to learn how much public spirit the town has the residents are continually sending away the home paper and in so far as it is a good appearing journal it makes friends for the town and spreads its good reputation newspapers publishers are gen erous with any growth of business they may gain nine tenths of such growth is almost always put back into the paper in h enlarging plant and increasing the force of workers the moral is that if you want a good impression of your town spread abroad help the home paper to enlarge and improve its facilities republican |