An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 381, 23 October 1908, Page 4

An American Authority on the Local Paper.

11 Is the duty of the people of every district to support a local paper, where there is one, writes a leading American exchange, lb works every issue in their interest, take up their grievances, urges their requirements gives prominence to their inuuatries and institutions, and makes their locality known to outsiders. The poorest and moat wretched newspaper ever published, is worth ten times.its price to every mon in the district in which it is published. Ex-Goyerner Francis, of Missouri, speaks as follows of the local report:—“Each year the local,, paper gives from £sooto£looo in free advertising space to the community in which it is located. No other agency will or can do this. The editor iu proportion to his means, does more for the town than any other ten men. He ought to be supported, not because they like him personally, or admire his writing, but because the 100 1 paper is the best investment local peiple can make. It may not, perhaps, be brilliantly edited or overcrowded with thoughts, bat financially it is of more benefit to the community than the teacher or the preacher, Understand mo I do not mean morally or intellectuiilly but financially.” The man who excuses himself from (subscribing to a local paper on the ground that “times are "too bad” muet indeed be in a desperate way—so bad tha t the saving of threepence per week will stop him from going on a fiaunuial “ bust.”