The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-07-05
LOCAL PRIDE.
This If Nothing Else Should Induce
People to Give Loyal Support to
Their Home Paper and Aid the Edit
or in Making it as Good and Useful
as Possible.

A writer in one Of our exchanges,
the Germantown Independent Gazette,
says:
Local pride, il nothing else, should in
duce us to stand by our home paper, and
the man who from sheer Indifference falls
to support his home paper, ID wanting
in local pride. ! am ambitious enough
to want my town to be the equal OF her
and wealth: and without good, sound,
healthy and enterprising paper, this in
telligence and enterprise must be want
ing. Again, am ambitious enough to
want my home paper to be the equal OF
any other local paper and without a lib
eral patronage from the citizens this can
not be. The home paper should make
it's weekly visits to every family in its
territory. We can not afford to assume
the responsibility of rearing a family
without providing all legitimate means
for education. A good newspaper is a
splendid educator, and our children will
eagerly read it when they are slow to
twelve months they will have done vast
amount OF reading that otherwise would
have been neglected.
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Of children well educated and the man
was poor, and being asked how he man
aged to educate his children he replied:
81 kept them well supplied with good
newspapers and other literature and
sent them to school what | could. and
they educated themselves" The news
papers help to create thirst for knOwl-
| edge. There are children to-day we'll
nigh grown that do not know the world
is much larger than their fathers farm
or their own neighborhOOd. The news
paper enlarges the IDEAS OF our own.
know Of no place where we can invest q
dollar or two that will yield us such large
returns as in our home paper.
Then it is n great mistake that people
make in subscribing for a paper abroad
to the neglect of the home paper. 1t Is
simply enriching Others while we i'm
poversh ourselves. 1t is about equal t.
| saying, we have little or no home pride
have no word to utter against subscrlb
ing to papers abroad if We first take Oul
home paper The first two papers for Us
to read is our home and church papers
then as many more as our inclinatiOns
dictate. But one says, "lcanget larger
paper with much more reading matter
lor the same price ABROAD IMAM at nome
That may be true, but you cannot afforC
| to be without your home news. Your
| local pride is ut stake and you cannot
afford to sacrifice that. Another says
my neighbor takes the home paper, and
read it, Well that is just stingines.
to the core, if we are nil able to sub
scribe Tor paper.
Some people excuse themselves by say
| ing the editor is of different politics, anC
therefore we will not take his paper,
insist that is not a valid excuse, and tina
We ought to read the home paper for TIN
sake of our home news. If my home pa
per was of different politics from mine,
would still subscribe to and read it as
home enterprise and agree to disagrr
with the editor us to politics.
In conclusion, | suggest we all shOul'
feel it our duty to aid the editor in max
ing a good home paper by sending hin
items of news from our nrighborhOOd
and thos" competent or accustomed tt
writing, contribute now and then to tn
columns of the paper. We should fee
that it is our paper and that in SOM
measure We are responsible for its sue
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