An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 399, 19 February 1909, Page 2

An American Authority on the Local Paper.

It fa dniy of the ptiople of every district to support a local paper, where there ia one, writes a leading Umencan exchange. It werks every issue in their interest, take up tbeir grievances, urges their requirements gives prominence to their industries and institutions, and makes their locality known to outsiders. The poorest and most wretched newspaper ever published, is worth ten times i-it price to every nun in the district in which it is published. Ex Governer Francis, of Missouri, spealcs m fallows of tbe local report;—“Each year the local paper gives from to £lOOO in free advertising space to the oommuaity in which it is located. No other agency will or can do this The editor in proportion to his means, does more for the town than any other ten man. He ought to be suppox '.ed, n*t because they like him personally, or admire his writing, but because the local paper is the best investment locel people can make. It may not, perhaps, ba brilliantly edited or overcrowded with thoughts, but financially it is of more benefit to the community than the teacher or tbe preacher. Understand me I do not mean morally or intellectually but financially." The man who excuses himself from subscribing to a local paper on tbe ground that “timea are too bad’’ must indeed be in a desperate way—so had that the savins: of threepence per week will stop him from going ou a financial ‘‘host.”