The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-11-16
LOCAL PAPER.
HAVE you ANY IDEA or WHAT IT HAS
DONE FOR YuU1

The papU, bas done 30 things for yon
and H. only nrxious 10 do 80 more.
It told vuur friends when your par
ents wc'a urried
II nuuuuuttd to the world when you
were bora
Il recorded the great events of your
childhood, when you were lost as n
wandering baby, when you had tho
measles and scarlet fever, when you fell
into the washtub and nearly drowned,
when you Sell from the cherry tree and
broke your collar bone, when you first
started to school and when you earned
your first prize.
Later on it told how you had com.
pleted the studies of the district school
and how eloqucntly you recited your
graduating Grafton.
II told of your entering high school or
academy. II told of your contests in
baseball and tennis. II told of your de.
parturc for college or your first venture
in business.
II told of your various visits back to
the old home neighborhoud, and it al
ways wished you well in your greatest
undertakings
1t limited modestly about the first
time you went u counting and gave
timely warning to "her folks" that tho
neighbors knew that matters were grow
ing interesting over their way.
1t announced the time of your expect
ed wedding, and it published the notice
of the marriage license and gave you n
nice puff concerning the wedding cere-
mony.
1t told of your extended honeymoon
tour and of your settling down to house
keeping
When you were sick, the home paper
week by weel; informed your moro dis
tant neighbors Of yonr lapses and i'm
provements.
II told about your lost COW and led
TO her recovery. 1t told how your horse
had been stolen and led to the arrest of
the thief
When you were getting dull and tired
through the nopotony of your lnbor.
the paper urged that the people get up
celebration, and you were named as
one Of a suitable committee on arrange
ments. And when it was all over, it
gave you just praise for the success of
the undertaking.
In numerous ways the paper has
helped to put your name before the peo-
pie. And you would never have had
your lucrative office or your honorable
recognition from the community but for
the kind aid of the local printer.
II you are member of Sunday
school or society of any sort, that same
paper publishes your announcements
and the various proceedings Of your
meetings.
1t tells the people much which you
would like to have known, but which
modesty or necessity prevents you from
telling.
If you and all your folks have been
prosperous and fortunate in your affairs,
the paper has boosted you all the way.
If you have had misfortune, the paper
asked for sympathy in your behalf.
Thus the paper has rejoiced when you
rejoiced and wept when you wept. II
you are good and enterprising citizen,
the paper will always be your friend
and will back you in your enterprises
and will help to find your business
friends.
1t tells you where to buy and where
to sell. 1t tells of rogues to be avoided
It tells you of current prices and pre-.
vents you from being cheated and swim.
died in 100 ways.
Finally, when you die, the paper will
publish your obituary and will cover
over your faults and will recite the
story Of your good deeds.
All these things the local editor will
cause his paper to do, but no one else
in the world will do them or can do
them for you even for love or money
The outside paper is stranger to your
little world and is not at all interested
in its improvement. Yet your local pa.
per does all this free Of cost to you, il
you are willing to receive it that way.
However, for your sake, we hope you
are too generous to accept go many un-
requited favors and that you are willing
to reciprocate the same.
Help the editor. Be his friend, and he
will prove his friendship to you.
Subscribe for his paper and pay for
1t regularly in advance and get your
neighbors to do the same.
Send him the news or occasionally O
watermelon or a peck of peaches.
Invite him to your picnios and fam
lily dinners, SO that he Can eat square
meal occasionally.
Don't call the ticket you give him to
the church concert deadhead. He
can't buy tickets from everybody to
everything, but he will say kind words
of your performances and thus lead 9TH
ers to buy your tickets.
II you have anything to buy or sell.
let the paper assist you to find custom.
ers. Advertising that really pays the
printer benefits both advertisers and
readers.
If you have any job printing to do,
don't take it to an outside Office, but
give your newspaper the first chance.
Give the editor pointer occasionally
or write him sensible short articles and
don't get mad il he fails to see every
thing your way. When he does say q
good thing, tell him so.
In short, remember the golden rule