The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-07-06
The Newspaper and Town Booming
address Delivered by j. F. Hurley, Editor Of the Sal
isbury Post, before the North Carolina Press AS
ISOLATION at Montreal July H.


ment, longer term n improved
methods?
Have you a Farm Life School on
your county? A night school? A
county commencement?
Are your school building and
grounds used as community centers,
or are the doors locked and the cob
webs growing owe the walls and
across the door?
If you are booming your schools
you are booming your town. If you
are not you are dead to a vital issue.
Boom Public Health.
Here is another number to add to
your town booming program. The
Public Health.
What do you do with the bulletins
the health department sends every
day? / hope they do not go to the
waste basket. The health program is
indeed important. We a not lose
this opportunity to boom our town.
"a we boos a town full Of flies?
OF fever? A town whose sanitary
condition is ~uninviting, dangerous?
May be you cam am not going to
leave this great issue out.
What are the health conditions of
your town? The we'll informed town
boomer must know. Have you a de-
partment worth while, or merely a
1 pOllIlCdl HldhCSIllt. mere is IIl0 WOIh
for the earnest, intelligent editor who
really wants to serve his community
boost his town. Study your local
health conditions. See what you can
do to improve these conditions. Do
not be afraid to speak out. Pull the
lid off and let the light Of publicity
in-there may be an odor, but there
will be good results.
The church, the school, the public
| hQ11th-fhrnn GREAT hQrC fn on
into a booming program for any news
paper, for any town But these are
not all by any a I am going to
refer to another that I consider i'm
pOrtant, though l do SO at the risk of
drawing opposition.
What is your policy towards the
local administration? Have YOU a
policy? I do not hesitate to say that
I believe the local paper ought to
have a we'll defined policy toward the
local OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of
party. A newspaper to be effective,
get results as a town boomer, must
have standing with the powers that
be. 1 believe that we must work with
the tools in hand. We cannot await
a perfect ally. We cannot hope for a
perfect administration. If we are
complainers, fault finders, carpers, we
become a nuisance. For these reasons
it is advisable that the local paper
-ol lind uoleIlsIuIupe 1901 U puB
gether in a harmonious manner. Do
not misunderstood me. l have no
respect for a paper that stands ready
to defend everything to stand in. ]
do not mean an organ, praising al
ways and condemning nothing. We
1 must be careful always to stand free
and independent on essentials. What
l mean is that the paper can find
. many ways of helping, leading, guild
: ing. influencing for the public good
= by being recognized at court. It is
{ like being al ambassador Of the peo-
pie at h official cabinet. 1t needs
!. the first hand, authentic information
and it needs to use it's influence to
bring about better things. Get my
= meaning clear ana you will appre
ciate this numDef in a town booming
. program.
Before getting away from these
four big numbers of our program,
want to say that if the newspapers OF
North Carolina will begin a rea
u serious campaign of booming thei1
town they will find SO man ways o.
service that the editor will b.
= astonished.
a Work For Schools.
In stressing these things 1 want t.
q de $40 9leoOApB o. sIOl!p9 eQl US
>, preparation for schools in this state
is fASh ~ SUCH UiS COuIIiDutIOHS Iron
oul leul lsoQo EouoW eIdoed gu
10 whole state will stand astounded. AID
Or vocate the biggest appropriation 70
educational purposes hat was eve
dreamed Of. Demand SO much an,
demand SO persistently hat you will
h not believe your own words.
Get your eyes off the postOffic
mr. door, Mr.. Editor, and get them vi
stoned on the glorious opportunitie
1r in North Carolina for real service
tv big booming service FOR your towr
40 Boost like you mean it. Do not b
a gumshoer. Go strong on the thing
that count large in developing tn
n. State-your end of the State-you
county.
Let us remember that the opportu
"a nifty to boom the town comes ever