| Show the old settler my dear san Jua ners thirty biye or more years ago when san juan had no local paper I 1 became interested in what such a paper could do for the country and was planning for a beginning in that line when the san juan record announced its first issue I 1 have been more or less closely connected with that or some other county paper ever since I 1 am SUP still interested in a paper for this wide growing section of utah t not that I 1 have ambition to carry the burden and assume the hazards of management but I 1 do desire as a loyal citizen of san juan to give all reasonable support to the paper for the much good it can do in the thirty five years since the beginning of the record san juan G has made long strides forward and it is beyond question that the paper has contributed much to its progress the owners ot 0 the paper have pot got hah richt they h haire ave had hard sled ding and some of them have worked themselves to death in the effort but the county has bene fitted and we are all better off in general people who have subscribed have received good value for their money especially so if they have been lovers of san juan and have appreciated what the paper has done for the country in a new country as extensive as this it is of vital importance to have the various centers prop erly connected industrially soci boci ally politically and economically if we dont hang together we shall all hang separately and squander our efforts fighting each other we may narow our estimates of value to begrudge a subscription price for the paper while at the same time we are overlooking the big benefits the country would get in a general way and in which we would be participating to our worthwhile worth while advantage it might be compared t to begrudging the taxes that we ve ore are compelled to pay but without the benefits from which we would be in a bad way we are not compelled to take any paper it is a matter of how we appraise the situation and how we discern that our support is helping out in a big way and comes back to us from many sources besides what we get out of reading the county news the people who pay the annual subscription or the people who do more still in writing news every week are contributing to a source of mutual benefit which is of more consequence to the country they are than it is to them individually in receiving the paper the paper makes for one big strong and united community as against a number of jealous and envious little communities by our united support of a county paper it becomes the friendly and valued medium of acquaintance between all the clans and all the interests every merchant every specialist business man trader and rancher will lantto want to have a place in it with whatever he wants to sell or to buy this will give custom to the paper so it too can live and become strong and more useful and none of this is done with the thought of personal favor or charity to the owner of the paper such help would not be acceptable cep table to him we do this for the good of our own selves and to improve the status of affairs in the country where we live and make our livelihood we are not n narrowing our views here to the welfare of the individual but we are thinking of the greater good for our big community from which each individual can realize more than if if he narrows his ideas to his bis immediate self albert B R lyman |
