| Show ah J OAN AND IT I 1 G by alberta R lyman we have our roads 0 ads au our r schools our oui mail if Service vice an and d ocher bences and for forthe 1 a support pf af taxes we may grumble thra thru force of habit alithe tune to which 1 chave ye are ard taxed but all the same game we know perfectly well that we are aie alpar a part oi of a treat great machine whose various cogs are indispensable what abata a dickens of a mess mes s would be in if the upkeep of the roads roads should stop or the schools should quit or tho mall fail to percolate perc per eulate no sir v li ere ie noi not supporting those things be because cau se of any charitable motive mothe but do ifor r reasons as hone honestly stig selfish ji as when we hand out our money for flour or overalls and everybody knows perfectly well that the vitals of the ahe machine by whose workings we live lie and pro gress in comfort are not all included in the affairs afi fairs oi of the civil gov government ern alel merchants bankers producers produce I 1 ris t transporters and a long listef list of busy earnest people are enrolled in the great array n ministering directly or ori indirectly our comfort IU if any division of tha tanny should mutiny or be put out out of business we would afie as a result we are aie not ortin heni thru any chan table motive it we teed feed our cow because she gives us milk we support and depend on these various branches blanches of industry because thy return us full value for all we give if ake we cheat thorn them of it our ou K support they suffer and then we suffer the newspaper il an ailo jilo 0 lart of lh m m NwE papers have accomplished S I 1 fa far tommu too enuch le h good for bonc an yoneto to think now of placing them with the non essentials but the newspaper like everything else yields fields only in r return 0 turn to io proper treatment good loads roads come com 1 only in in return for appropriations and without the appropriations they would soon become impassible the newspaper gives service at the ratio to which it i is s appreciated and used communities muni ties that have appreciated their paper have made it do wonders for them we dont support the paper because of our kind heart or our charitable nature if we support supori it at all tt lt Is is because we have got our eyes open to what it can do for us band we i are honestly selfish in aliat we doctor do foi it as ai when ae we increased iacre old branns ration with the hope of a better cream check san juan needs a live paper not just that kind of life which it may receive from an optimistic editor but it must have that kind of life which comes only from appreciative communities A newspaper in san juan proper properly lv appreciated and judiciously handled could be made the means of getting things which could not be reached as easily by any other agency san juan has an unusual wealth of values and attractions no not t to be found in any other country on earth with unusual curiosities of nature its ancient ruins its thrilling history lits its fascinating legends its real live indians and its invincible p pion ceib the ahe right kind of a newspaper is just the agency needed to isell sell thee things to an eager outside for highly profitable returns new roads new industries charming possibilities are awaiting the right kind of a paper t to 0 brin bring 9 ahem to the attention of the very people who are more than ready to take them up san juan has hundreds of men and women who would like to make their distant friends fam familiar filar witt this country hy by sending them the paper pape r if aply it would the values es cinq attractions around us 1 ft will dal reflect thesle these values and serve and ana M many any other ways in response g e to the ab right erig kind of apar appreciation the apan juan record has anew a new editor irwill it will be a calamity if he too is left lefo t to discouragement as the wei salesman of a a commod commodity lt which is is na not wanted it ou ought g ht to fo be wanted for itis needed a as it may be used to get for sn san juan a lot of fine things for which iwo wo have long been reaching in vain |
