The Topeka state journal., 1913-03-15
KANSAS COAAENT
THE COUNTRY WEEKLY.


The heart of the newspaper man in
the small town is bound up with its
interests. From the pages Of the coun-
try weekly each week are reflected all
the merriment, joy and sadness of the
community. The country newspaper
man meets his people and rejoices
with them in their success. If one of
the family dies the newspaper man
VIII spend half a day to get all the
particulars relating to the good deeds
done by the one who has passed away.
Once in a great while the overworked
newspaper man. looking at his family
needs and conscious of an intended
insult, tears the point of his pen into
the copy paper and roasts someone
but rarely. The country newspaper
man is delighted if his business pays
him small per cent each year. The
banker will be glad to take his money
at 3 per cent and loan it for-say g.;
the merchant cannot continue in busi-
ness with aess than 20 per cent profit;
the FARMER may make thousands above
MS r1ghtful labor in a year but it
isn't often that they sympatize with
the editor who works to laud them
and show to the world their doingS.
The farmer, clearing several hundred
dollars a week in the working season
is often slow to see that he can af-
ford the old home paper that waits to
DO him every good turn in it's power.
The newspaper in the home town
boosts the price of city property and
makes the price of farm property soar.
When man has an extra good yield
OF wheat, the newspaper prints a no
tice worth three or four dollars. That
makes his property worth more per
acre. When a man from a distance
wants to locate in a town, he sends
for newspaper published in that town
and looks it over. He can then tell
just what the town amounts to. The
no -csvN<av &c. IL,
ness of the town. 1t is the index to
the prosperity of the community
Olathe Register.
WASTING OPPORTUNITY.
Many men and women today. do
ing mems and women's share of the
worlds work, feel the handicap of the
lack of early school advantages. They
attain success, not because of their
lack in this particular, but in spite of
1T. They cannot understand how boys
and girls, sent to school, often at the
greatest hardship and self-sacrifice by
their parents, can slight their oppor-
tunftteS to prepare themselves for the
greatest possible degree of usefulness,
which application to their studies
would bring them. The boys and girls
who go to school to have good time
not only waste their own opportuni-
ties, they demoralize, to a certain and
sure degree, the entire student body.
They waste the time of those nearest
to them every day, definitely, and
they waste the time of the faculty
members, who thus are forced to
spend time enforcing discipline which
should be given to the classroom. One
or two obstreperouS students in col
lege class can make much trouble, do
much positive harm, and consume the
time that belongs to others, with no
good result to themselves and only
worry and aggravation for those re-
sponsible for the institution.
Boys and girls should be awake to
their opportunities. A few years and
the chance for schooling will be gone,
and they must face the world and its
responsibilities with or without the
advantages of an education. If they
slight the advantages offered, they
will have themselves to blame for the
handicap that will be theirs No good
time ever is worth the price of wasted
ortunity.-Emporia Gazette.