The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-06
THE KANSAS NEWsPAPER

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Ihere is movement throughout
Kansas at present to raise the standard
or the weekly press. The country naner
today is printing more local news ana
getting it up in better shape than ever
before. Recently the Troy Chief and
the Brown County World have invested
in typesetting machines, which have
heretofore been confined to daily news
papers.
Now the Council Grove Guard has
joined the advance movement It has
made numerous improvements and ex-
penditures for the benefit of its sub
scribers. and in summing up it says:
In other words, this paper has start
ed out to the The Superior County Pa
per. The first day Of January, 1905, this
paper is going to be $1.50 a. year. There
are too many cheap papers. It IS time
some paper in the county started out
TO I'LL the field of being the one county
paper. The county deserves it. POpu-
lation, wealth, business, the demands
OF progress from year to year call for
better paper than the county has yet
had. The Guard will try to answer that
call We have had more requests for
it in the past three months and more
good advice and encouragement for this
move than ever before and it is our main
reason for doing it. We can not be
accused of taking advantage of anybody
or anything in this move. There are
still left in the county, six papers that
may be had for one dollar each. But
the Guard will be worth $3.50 figured
by the others and worth s. figured by
some of them. It does not pay US to
run a dollar paper. We can do it, but
we prefer to run better, not poorer
paper. The Kansas country Weeklies
that come to our office from week to
week costing the readers $1.50 a. year are
the best papers in Kansas and they are
more than satisfying their readers. Peo-
pie have tried the experiment Of the
cheap paper and the request for better
paper rather than cheap one is now
the rule"
The Guard has the right idea. A few
years ago when times were hard a. great
many country papers reduced their sub
seription price to one dollar a year, but
now the people of Kansas have grown
well-to-do and they are demanding the
best there is for their brains as we'll as
for their bodies. They must have good
reading matter as well as good things
to eat and good clothes to wear. OF
course the best costs more money than
the poorest. but the progressive Kansas
man is willing to pay the price. That is
why there is a demand for better week
" papers, and why the progressive
country editors are supplying the de-
maud.
The same thing is true in the daily
newspaper field. People are anxious for
the best that is tc be had in the way
Of dailias, and progressive thinking peo-
PIE are willing to pay for it. The State
Journal is meeting this demand in the
daily field in Kansas, as its readers well
know In the past year it has made
a large number of improvements to
give the people of Kansas the best that
can be made in the way of a daily news
paper, and it believes Kansas people
viii appreciate it.
In other words, this paper has started
out to be The Superior state Paper.
There are too many cheap" papers.
1t was time some paper in Kansas start
ed out to fiji the field of the one Kan
sas paper. The state deserves It. Popu-
lation, wealth, business, the demands
of progress from year to year, all call
for a better paper than the state has
yet held. The State Journal will try to
answer that call