The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-12-30
CITIZENS PLANS

our friends look both ways with us
First, we want to pat ourselves On
the back a little. We are growing.
The number of our friends has in
creased a good deal in the last year
and is still increasing. People seem
to have confidence in The Citizen.
and to like It, and IL makes us feel
mighty proud. We have been doing
our little best. and 1t is great COM
fort to find that 1t is doing some good
and that as a result folks are coming
to read the paper more and pay for it
oftener. So, as before said. we are
feeling good about It,
And, really, We think We have done
Pretty we'll this last year. We might
have done a good deal better, We adj
nit, and we intend to next year. No
thing is perfect and The Citizen
knows very well that 1t is not. Still,
we do think we have improved. which
is one comfort, for so long as a fell
low keeps on improving there is a good
chance that he win amount TO some
thing after a while. And also, with
out throwing off on the other fellows
who are printing papers, we think
we have given our subscribers a little
more for their money than any one
else printing a country paper that
we know OF. And that is a comfort
too. We were figuring II up the other
day, and found that we gave more
than twice as much of all kinds of
reading matter as any other paper
that comes to our desk. or course
we don't see them all, but we see a
good many. and we give about double
what the beet OF them do. II may
not be so good as what they print,
but some of our friends are flattering
enough to say it Is a little better
Any how. we feel good about IT,
But that does not mean that we
are satisfied either with the paper
or subscription list. In the first place.
we want to make this paper, not bet
ter than some other paper, or even
better than IL ever has been but we
want to make IL just as good as it
can be. We are working on that line,
ard We wish TO say again that we
are always glad to have the help Of
cur friends on that job. Lots OF times
the fellows on the outside can see
mistakes that the editor cannot, and
we want TO know your opinion. SO II
you have any suggestins or criticism,
we would be very glad to know IT,
But we have a lot ourselves, and
we are going to work on them.
The first is that we want TO get
more of the real important news Of
what Is going on in the mountains.
Few people realize how hard this Is
to get, but We are going after IT, We
will not get II all In a bunch, but we
expect to get more of it right along.
In the second place we are going 70
work up our features. We viii not
announce them just now, but several
good ones are in mind. which will
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can be found nowhere else. and will
be written just exactly for the peo-
pie 1t will reach. We will continue
all our good features, the continued
stories, the Sunday School lesson,
the market reports, the weekly prob
lem, and 50 on, And there will be
new and better ones. The paper will
keep right-on improving. Just watch
It.
And then we want more subscribers.
The more we get the better a paper
we can print. We count our subscrib-
ers our friends. There are a lot
of them that We don't know person.
ally but they all know us. They |
know what we think about every
thing, and how we talk and what
we say. Also they know whether we
are easy on collecting debts ar not.
We want them 10 call in and shake
hands when they are in town, and
to one and all we wish Happy New
Year.