The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-06
THE coUNrr PAPERS surroRr.

THE COUNTY PAPERS SUPPORT.
 A kindly editorial in The Moulton Advertiser. written by Editor Jourd White. is characteristic of the close ana sympathetic relations between the County paper and it's readers. relations which in ths very nature of things can- not exist between the city daily and .ts widespread and hurried clientage. The County Apaper and its patronage meet in the close sympathy of friendship and both are all the better for 1t.
 Editor White has put in some new and costly machinery and he talks to his patrons confidentialiy and personal ly. as one friend would talk to another. The machinery was put in at some sac rifce, about which Editor White tells his friends. And incidentally he says:
 These machines are time-savers, and anything eise--time to get out among our people and visit them at their homes. to attend their church meet ings and entertainments, their school
 
 candy pullings and corn-shuckings, their Iog-rollfngs and house raisings, their cuttings and singings, their wed- dings and buryings--to be with them on all public occasions and to tefl the world what . glorious country we have. sAt
 This personal allusion ana the cir cumstances which surround 1t. moves us to the expression of the opinion that the County papers of Alabama could be much better supported than they are and get no more than their just de- serts It IS the duty of every prosper ous farmer to take his County paper. The first luxury which farmer should allow himself and his family is a years subscription to his County pa- per. Only the direst of poverty Is sut- ficient excuse for man to ignore his County paper---that agency which is O. ing more than any other factor in the upbuilding of his County and his sec- tion.
 The farmer who goes abroad and speaks we'll of his section and his peo- pie. lays unction to his soul as one who has done his duty we'll Thscoun- ty nar each week. q thousand times, does this very thing. To the outer world the County paper goes carrying the story of It's own people, their joys and their sorrows. their prosperity and their misfortunes. The story may be plainly and simply told, but 1t is the message of the County to the outer world.
 To the stranger into whose hand a copy may faIl--it may mean nothing but little country paper to be thrown aside after nasty glance But to oth- CTS 1t means more. It means more to those who have gone out into the world from that little town from which it comes. whose dead are buried there, whose loved ones are still among the old familiar scenes. The coming of the County paper Is as visit of an old friend and they read 1t column by coll umn. paragraph by paragraph and line by line. The familiar names are there in print, the old scenes are called up. and memories of -forsotten friends are quickened into life.
 From the nature of his opportunitioa oa the editor of the County paper Is best equipped to advertise and represent ais County and his people. He is expected to labor zealously for their welfare and he generally does. No man of the community gives more than fraction of the time which country editor de- votes to the general advancement of his people into the acquaintance of the outer world. The least and the best reward that can be paid him is the cheerful support of his paper. That much Is his right.
 The support of the County paper Is a public duty. owed by every well-to-do citizen.