Show THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER from the industrial press service cornes comes the following if you would know what americans are really thinking about get off the highways and amble leisurely along the byways seek out the towns and ana villages villages forget the cities and their suburbs if your time is limited buy a copy of the paper published in e each ach of the towns through which you travel carry them home with you and read them it is a simple way to remove the veneer of sophistication ti with which the city has coated you and to bring you back to eaith again there is no better sounding board of public opinion than the editorial page of the country weekly all too often the perspective of the editor of a metropolitan daily is paradoxically enough narrowed by the very size of his huge city he cant see the woods for the trees on the other hand band the country editor follows a homely pattern of life and his thinking eted on the editorial page has its roots in sincerity simplicity and an unsuspected wisdom that his fellow editor has sacrificed on the altar of urbanity dont laugh if you read in the news pages pages the unadorned story that t lat farmer jones has lost his cow what do you think your country cousins think of your plight when they chance to see a city edition that dis loses the extent to which you have lost your self respect in a story describing your activities while you read about manners and morals they read about men and women looms that spin pill your cloth the commas and semicolons may not be there but for that very reason the is less obscure when you have finished reading the country papers you blou glit ht hame battle with you you may find yourself hoping beving farmer jones finds his cow that mrs browns newly arrived son her fouth child lives a long and healthy life that ezra smith grocer finds the rascal who rifled his cash ira dra and you may find yourself a little closer to earth |