An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 405, 12 March 1909, Page 2

An American Authority on the Local Paper.

- • lb la the duty of the people of every distriefr to aupn&rt.a I.K-al paper, where there I s one. writes a leading Atnorican exchange, It Wcrks every lenur? in-their interest, take up their grievances, utge»their requirenHlhta giv s pr,, ini non on t • ih»ir indin’ H<n mid in 3'Utitionß, ami- mako-.t thfir locality khown to outsiders. The poorest end most wretch el newspaper ever published, is worth ten times its price to every man iu the district in which it is published. Ex Governer Francis, of Missouri, speaks as follows of the local rsport:—"Each year the local paper gives from JJsooto 1000 in free advertising space to the oomnutaicy in which it is located. No other agency will or can do this Th? editor in proportion to his means, does more for the town than any other ten me,i. lie ought to be supported, not because they like him personally, or admire his Writing, but bjseause the local paper is the best inv jjstme t focal pesple can mak-'. (t may not, perhaps, be brilliantly edited or over, crowded with thoughts, bu;; Jffi£nvi*lly it ia’of ifiore benefit to tHe’ comm unity than the teacher <)r the preacher. I’ndersrand ' mnd do not mean morally or intellectually i bui- financially.” Ibn man who excuses him- ' self from'subscribing to a’local paper on , the ground that; “times are too bad” must indeed be in a deapaiiate wey—so bad that | ■tap auu In.ue going >d r liuanciat “ btt«t a n ' I