The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-09-27
A PLACE JUDGED BY ITS PAPER.
why 1t is to n Towns Interest to Support
a Good Weekly.

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why 1t is to n Towns Interest to Support
Good Weekly.
! The average weekly editor usually
has his all invested in his newspaper
property. That investment generally
represents from one to two thousand
dollars. But it is worth more to the
town than five times the amount in
vested in any other local enterprise,
AS a rule, the newspaper represents to
| the outside world the town itself. Poor
paper, poor town, is the usual verdict.
| 1t is, therefore, to the interest OF
every town to support a good news
paper. Not through local pride alone,
but for practical business reasons. A
newspaper Is constantly doing ten
times as much for its town as it could
ever hope to get pay for-more than
it could charge for, IL it would.
The more prosperous paper Is the
more It is able to do. Show us a good
weekly paper, full OF live local ads,
with a general circulation throughout
the county, and we will show you an
up-to-date. prosperous, progressive
community. And we will also show
you paper that Is worth five times as
much to that community every year
than the editor manages to make for
himself.
Show us a community that persist.
emily proceeds on the idea that the
editor of the home paper can live on
the "pi' that accumulates in the office;
whose official bodies think it waste
of public money to throw him bit of
public printing occasionally at living
prices; whose citizens have come to re-
gard 1t as one Of their inalienable
rights to work him for long-wlnded
obituary notices and ''in memoriams,"
with three inches of hymn-bOok poetry
at the end, to say nothing of an occa-
sional notice about lost cow or some
cotton seed for sale, and we will show
you a community that is living from
hand to mouth and is always on the
ragged edge of adversely.
People ought to stop TO think about
these things. 1t is an important mat
ter 1t is their own good that is in
volved-the welfare and progress of
their community; therefore of Them
selves individually.
A local newspaper is absolutely nee
essary to any community. 1t may be
that the daily papers, with their larger
news service and quicker facilities.
may have overshadOwed the weeklies;
but the weeklies continue to fill a
place that the dailies can never fill.
If they keep the people of a commun-
ity in touch with each other by giving
them the news of their town and
county, for that alone they are of value
and are worth far more than the dollar
year that Is usually charged for
them. If they merely chronicle the
progress of the community and keep
the local pride and progressive spirit
aroused they are worth still more
far more, in fact, than the town ever
spends on them.
Bear this in mind: No merchant no
grand jury, no town council that
spends every year all that they can
afford with the home paper-whether
that expenditure is actually necessary
or not-makes wiser, more profitable
investment They are not giving"
the home paper something. On the
contrary, it is earning every cent it
gets and more-provided it is paper
that is worth picking up in the road.
And if it isn't that sort of paper, 1t
is usually the fault Of the town in
which 1t is Observation-Disclosures Journal.