An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 407, 26 March 1909, Page 2

An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Lt Is tbe duty of the p-jopte of every dis. triet to srpport a local J»per, where there is one, writes a leading American exoho-nge. It werks every issue in their interest, take uf theirgriei .inces, urgie their rjquiremea*. gizes prominenra to ttarir and institutions, a. d makes 'ihe z loop’ity known tc outsi lore. Toe poo-.-et: and most wretched newspaper ever published, is worth ten times its prioe to every min in tbs district in which it is pabli-'aed. Ex Gi rs. aar Francis, of Missouri, speaks as folio ws she liKial report.—“ Each year the local paper gives from .£sCoto£looo in free s.pace uo the communi y in whush it is located. No other agency will or can do this. Th? editor in proportion to bis means, doo» more for the town than any other ten men. He ought to be su-por-ed, not baoaMae they like him personally, or admire bis writing, but because the local paper is tha beet iwvestmeot local people can mike. It may not, perhaps be brilliantly edited or overcrowded with thor -hla, but financially it is of more benefit v o the community than the teacher or tbe preacher. Understand me 1 do no: mean mo* *y or intellectaally but financially.'* the man wlio excuaet hintself from subscribing to a local paper on the ground that •“. cues art. too bad” must indeed be in a de? irate way—so bad that ths saving ot threepence per week will stop him from going od a financial ** boat,*'