Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-01-30

SNNASAE usual plan and pay for it, There
GMf7l III are thousand and one old pre-
Il (UI/AN historic mOth-eaten alleged ex
SN/@/O cuses why man does not sup
port the local paper. | have noticed, however,
that this class Of fail to read every paper
published in their town, even if they have to wait
their turn to peruse it in barber shop.
One person will say, ~ m too poor.' He ought
to move to another location. The dollar paid to
local paper is dollar paid for the good of the com
munity, and if man is too poor to do that much
good to his community, he is no benefit to it what
ever.
Remember that you are not expected to believe
everything you read in paper. Im sorry for you,
III You DO You would certainly be in fearful fix.
1t is not the editor you supporting, but an in
stituton that is working to benefit your town and
section, and if you are confounded stingy or
selfish you are willing to your countys interests
60 down because the editor don't belong to your
''party' its high time you were pulling out
Another very brilliant citizen says 'Id take
the county paper but it's got nothing in it. can
get the New York World or the Herald for 81 per
year." That's very true, but if You would turn in
and give your local man decent support he will
never fail to give you good paper Nine -tenths
OF the weekly papers, especially in Texas, today
giving readers far better sheets than their patron
age justi6es from business standpoint.
Somehow or other, the average man has got the
idea into his breech loading head that newspapers
are charitable institutions, and whenever editor
solicits them to subscribe, they mentally place him
on the charity list. No man with an atom of brains
will tolerate such an idea The editor is engaged
in public work. He does more unselfsh, gratui-
tous work than a member of the Red Cross
brigade.
When you subscribe or advertise you are not
giving him a cent. When you buy sack of -four,
you do not consider it deed of charity to the
keeper You pay ST. to go in and see sevanny
elephant, red ended monkey, and 55.year old
veneered maiden stand upright on platform strap
ped to the back OF horse that gallops mile in one
hour and 65 minutes, and you feel like you had
made money. The Snowman carries your dollar
away, you get nothing in return, but if you pay ST.
to man who is working hard to benefit your town
and county, you feel like you robbed and almost
have warm water hemOrrhage. You fancy you
are an enterpristng up to date citizen, when in fact
you're nothing but very large tub of over ripe
sausage covers, and SO miserably stngy and selfish
you chew tobacco only at night for fear you may be
asked for chew.
II you advertise in subscribe for your local pa
per, get the idea out OF your head that it is gift
donation. In the former case the editor espouses
your cause, and is always ready and anxious to ad
vance your interests in every honorable way pos
sihle. Smith may swear that nothing the editor can
say will affect the public, yet il newspaper would
tell he truth and say in the next issue that Smith
was selfish old skinfint, there would be libel suit
the next day for two million dollars actual damages.
Even local newspaper man should receive q
1hlE his WOrK, Oub 6n0y SoIUOm OO
A The average man pays his tax to keep up county
and state affairs without grumbngS and the officers
who do the work are we'll paid. The man who
prints your local weekly paper, and continually
eulOgzes your town and county, tells prospective
investors Of all the good things and lies out of the
bad things for You, certainly deserves the united
support Of the people, especially when it only costs
yOU miserable little dollar per year, and in
turn you receive paper worth the money. just
suppose every man who has family in each county
would 60 up to the local editor and say: 'See here
Mr.. Baggybreeches you haven't got much OF a paper
and don't believe half you say in 1t, but be-
lieve you are doing your best for the town and
county Here's q dollar, and when my time runs
out let me know, and I'll rustic up another dollar.
Now light out and do your best for we boys are 60.
ing to back you, whether believe everything you
say or not" Then on top Of that, suppose each
business man would visit the same editor and say:
''Well Col. Baggybreeches you know times are
hard, and the business men are having hard time
just now, but you are doing all you can to fur
ther the interests Of town and county. am not
able to advertise as heavily as wish, but put me
in an advertisement and keep it there. Send me the
paper also and come to the store and get your
money. Do your best old man, and the business
men are all determined to see yOu through"
tell yOu candidly that editor would surprise
You. he would break his fool neck ct work, or
turn yOu out paper that wOnd be the talk Of every
county III the State. You need not give him all
you've got. just give him q white mans show,
and then II be does mot deserve IL, cut 1t out Ia