An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 348, 7 February 1908, Page 3

An American Authority on the Local Paper.

o It Is the duty o’ tho p ople of every district to .'-uprort a local paper, where there i is one, writes a leading American exchange, It ft rks every i,«-ue in their interest, take up their grievance i, urges the ; •• requirements giv's prominence to their industries and institutions, and makpF their locality known to outsiders. The po<>r?s' nd most wretch ed newspaper ever publish***!. i« worth ten times i s price to every m n in the disc riot in which it is published Fx Goren er Francis, of Mis-ouri, spe ks as follows of the local report:—“Each ye_,r tt.e local rai*' gives from j£sooto£looo in free ;.dve tier g space to the oommuni » in which it i* local, ed. No other agency will orc>nd<> th s The editor in propo’-tid- to his means, does mor<- for the tow i that any other ten more. He ought to be euppor ed. n t b-cuureth v like him personalty, or adonre his writing, but because the loc 1 payer is the Ust investment local prop e can make It m*y not, perhai », be br'lliantly edited or over crowded wi : b thought- not. fin ncially it is of more ben-fi to the c mn>unity tha the teacher or the pti-nehrr. Under-tand me I do n<t m*-ai mor lly or intellectual but financially ” h- u.t» . who • x-iuaea himself from ni.b-.-r b -a- to a !••<•»! paper o» the ground ' l.at •‘ti . t'H are too bad” m»i*i indeed • e in a oeeprtat-- way—so had th i the saving ot 'threw..-n-e oer week wii. stop him from going n a financial “ bust.',