The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-10-28
LOCAL PAPER AND
SCHOOL TEACHERS
A Few Words I'm Behalf
OF the Former.
PAPER GETS MEAGER SUPPORT
Compared With What II Does
For Teachers and Edn.
catiOnal Matters.
SOME FACTS PLAINLY STATED

says:
We have been giving some atten-
lion this week to the character OF
newspapers coming to our exchange
table, and to the space devoted to
school affairs. II has been an inter-
esting investigation.
We find ahat with almost no ex-
Ception. items of school news are
given good space. fine position, are
properly headed and displayed, and
the teachers and their schools are
made much Of
The editor of the county news
paper is big-minded. big-hearted
person. He is for anything which
builds up the community, and he
gives free advertising to all meri
torious movements, educational and
otherwise. He does not expect graf
itude. and he does not long expect
great support unless he gets ever
lastingly after the people and liter
ally worries them into subscribing
for his paper.
And mind you, he knows his pa
per is a good one. He is on the still
hunt for news; and if his sheet does
not contain news, you can bet your
bottom dollar that nothing of much
moment has happened in that coun-
ty. One away-frOm- home person
complained that the home paper was
not worth the dollar year, because
There's nothing in it," and another
person from the same county retort-
ed. Yes, but it's worth a dollar a
year TO know that nothing has hap
pened"
The country editor makes a note
Of the fact that teachers eXamina-
lion is being held in the county seat
that week. and names the examiners
and al the teachers taking the ev-
animation. The next week, he
chronicles those who make first
class certificates, and sometimes
gives the names of those who make
second and third-class certilicate',
but we have yet to see any country
newspaper name those who failed.
Then, when the schools are assigned.
another long notice of the fact is
given and the teachers named.
Sometimes teachers get married.
We never knew man teacher to
marry who was not popular EFF
ficient' or otherwise noteworthy,
and no woman teacher ever married
who was not popular" beloved"
prominent" and occasionally even
beautiful
For all this personal and profess
sional advertising. how much sup
port does the county newspaper re-
ceive? Some editors have told us
personally that fewer than a dozen
teachers were on their mailing list.
One editor, perhaps suffering from a
Justiliable Crouch. refused To print
any school news at all except for
pay, because the teachers did not
subscribe COR his paper In a way
we cannot blame him--he is not in
business for his health. He is just
not made of the same stuff as are
the more genial. mOie liberal editors
who publish school news aud are
willing to wait for their reward in
heaven.
We believe every teacher should
subscribe for the county paper; and
We believe that every teacher should
feel that the paper is an instrument
for good in the community, and
should be used for such. We do not
believe the county newspaper should
be the medium for the dissemination
OF slushy compliment. but for fact
which instructs and interests, and
for opinion which ennobles and ele-
Yates. The teacher can help greatly
In more ways than by paying the one
dollar which brings TO her table the
county news ifty-two times a year.
Here's TO the country editor and
his weekly message. May teachers
learn 10 value his worth. as AFFECT
isg their work. place the proper
estimate on Lis activities. may
they learn thai the relativ. val
ue of a dollar and the county news