The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1910-07-02
PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND GAZETTE
How Your Local Paper Helps You and
How You Can Help 1t.


while we would not have any reader of limit
his interest to the things that are going on i'm
mediately around him, he is certainly not a we'll
informed man If he is ignorant of these things
This. then, is one reason why you should SUBJ
scribe for and pay for and possibly write for and
advertise in your local paper. Another reason is
that good paper in any town or county is
positive force in the upbuilding OF that town or
county. good paper is OF the surest indi-
cations OF. and the best advertisements for a pro-
gressive community; and 1t is impossible for any
editor to make good paper II he does not have
the support of the people for whom the paper Ia
made.
The local paper may also be a source of direct
financial benefit to you. To say nothing OF what
its advertising columns may be worth TO you
either as buyer or seller, cases always arising
when IL is a positive saving of time or money 10
know just what is being done by ones neighbors
or ones county officials. or the business men with
whom one has TO deal Next TO n telephone n
really live local newspaper will do more than
anything else in keeping you In touch with your
local market.
For these reasons. and many others that might
he given, the local editor has a right to expect
your patronage and your cooperation. In return
there are some things you have a right to expect
of him.
= In the first place you have n right to demand
that he keep his paper clean-that he make Il
ut reading matter for your family II more space
is devoted TO scandals and murders and sensa-
uonal fake stories than TO the really important
happenings of the day. you not only have a
right, but 1t is your duty TO protest These
things are not news though many editors seem
to think they are. and others publish them be-
cause they think that people want to read about
them.
You should give the more hearty support to
your county paper II It's advertising columns are
ciean--if IL refuses to carry whiskey patent med
ieine and fraudulent Investment Advertising No
farmer should subscribe for any paper OF general
circulation that carries such advertising. and he
has right to insist that his county paper shall
not only refuse the more vicious of such adver-
tising. but completely purge itself of all such as
rapidly as Its support will permit.
Then you have right to demand that your
editor tell the news IL is He has n perfect
right TO present his views with all the force he
has In his editorial columns. but when he presents
anything as news he must have IL Just as accurate
Just as free from personal or partisan views
as possible The editor who permits his personal
or political feelings to color his news columns IN
guilty OF an actual immortality
thlrd right you have is TO demand that your
local paper give the most OF It's attention to local
happenings and local problems. II is the special
business of the Rural County News to tell what Is
happening in Rural County and to aid In this
eountys development and progress Its views on
the tariff or the Congo slave question may be
interesting and valuable but IL can probably do
more good by giving this space TO helping have
the back alleys of Rurayile kept clean, or by
interesting the farmers of Rural County In the
institute That viii be held for their benefit this
summer.
insist, then, that your paper deal with the
Things OF your community. that II give the local
news and help solve local problems
mere again your help may be required. and
you should feel 1t your duty TO let your paper
kho" OF any local event OF interest that comes
under your notice, use IL as n means NJ call
ing attention to any movement that will make
for the hetterrnent o.