The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-12-23
WEEKLY coURlER,JouRNAL TO
BE MERGED INTO MONTHLY.


Confessional Editorial, Dec. I'D
With the issue of the Weekly Cou-
rier-Journal of December 81, 1913,
THAT publication will be then merged
into a monthly paper, to be called
Farm and Family" the first num-
Der of which will appear about the
middle of January The day of the
political weekly has passed, but there
is, unquestionably, demand in Ken
lucky, the South and Southwest for
an up-to-date magazine embracing all
matters of interest to the farm and
the family. Farm and Family" will
be publication devoted to agricul-
ture, education. good roads and the
family, and it will cover these sub
jects as ably and completely as a
modern organization equipped with
every means of gathering information
and intelligently editing same can
possibly do. Mechanically it will
have every facility known to modern
invention. The editor will be Mr.
James Speed. well and widely known
in connection with the movement for
betterment in agricultural and educa-
tional circles in Kentucky and the
South.
Naturally the magazine will have
those departments which are usually
seen in rural magazines; but there
will be others which have been
greatly overlooked. For instance, it
will be the policy of Farm and Fam
ily' to devote some space in each
issue to the Rural Schools. There
will be no effort to theorize or dis
cuss the school question from teach
er's standpoint; but simply to learn
where in the Southland there is a
school that is really doing things that
are of vital Importance to the COM
munity and give the story to the
readers.
The evolution of the Weekly Cou-
rier-J Journal into Farm and Family"
is in accord with the progressive de-
velopment of the times. Twenty
years ago the farmer depended on
his weekly edition of the city daily
for the news of the world. But to-
day he is not content to wait q week
| for his news of the world any more
than his easy going neighbor, re-
corded by Josh Billings, is content
to sit and wait for the cow to back up
to be MIXED Better roads, better
transportation facilities, rural free de-
livery, to say nothing of other con-
| ditions which are reyolutiOniZing the
country life, have changed all that.
The modern farmer is fast coming to
demand his daily newspaper, and the
rapid extension and improvement of
the postal service have made it pos
sible to satisfy that demand. Having
his daily newspaper, he no longer
needs a political weekly, but he does
need a medium of information and
stimulation, more specialized than his
daily can give him, within he lines
of his own vocation and environment
through which he may keep abreast
with all that intelligent effort is do
ing in improving agricultural methods
and results and lettering the social
conditions of rural life. He does nee6
a medium through which he may
learn all that is to be learned fol
the promotion of good farming, good
roads, good schools and contenteG
fhomes. Such medium Farm ant
Family" proposes to be.
1t seems that the time is ripe anG
ready for the launching of a maya
zine which will give to the farmer
his wife and his children a new ides
of the education which goes beyond
the school out into everyday life ant
, makes it amply worth while.
Farm and Family" will be publish
ed by the Courier-Journal Company
; Louisville, in its modern printing
lplant at Third and Green streets
Louisville, KY. The initial numbel
will contain "a or more quartz
pages, and the price will be 25 cent
} a year.
| To fill out the unexpired subscrip
tons of present paid-in-advanc,
, Weekly readers, the Saturday ISSUE
l of the Daily Courier-Journal will b.
sent, in addition to Farm and Fam
!. lily