The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-17
~, IS. =
Our Slogan:
"Bemidji $4,000
Population
in 1925"
The Pioneer and the Community.

The Pioneer and the Community.
Every loyal citizen of a community
should take his home paper.
The local newspaper is one of the
greatest assets of any section of coun-
try and should be supported and en-
couraged as such, not with a feeling
of charity toward the publishers, as
is too often the case, but in the firm
conviction that in supporting the
paper you are contributing to the
uplift of the community and the con-
sequent enhancing of the value of
your holdings.
Without your home paper your
town would lose much of it's attrac-
tiveness as place of abode, would
become a barren spot in the field
of knowledge
The community would be cropping
around in the intellectual darkness
of uncertainty and speculation, while
other cities and towns I'D would, be
climbing. upward and onward to- bet
ter things.
The dissemination of news would
return to the ancient method of
mouth to mouth, with it's consequent
delays, and distortions, and omis-
sions.
The business interests would suffer
from lack of medium of communi-
cation between buyer and seller, COM
mercial rivalry would be on the
wane, and the American spirit of 81
Will would sink into, disuse and
eventual obliteration.
How many years have you been
reading this paper, anyway? And
don't you feel: deep down in. your
heart that it has been worth more
to you than it has cost, you? How
would you like to be deprived of the
opportunity of ever seeing another
issue of it,?
In other words, just how would you
like to live in this community if
there were no paper published here,
no medium from which you could as
certain the doings of the people of
the community, no medium of ex-
change in the matter of barter and
sale, no medium through which YOU
could make your wants known to the
people except by climbing into
buggy and spending days in driving
from one place to another? Just
how would you like that? The pill
would be somewhat bitter, wouldn't
it? Well, don't worry-you are in
no danger of losing the Pioneer, for
it is being better supported than ever
before.
This article was written merely
for the purpose of causing you to do
a little thinking along the right line.
We want you-all of you--to real
ize that this paper is not. being pub
ished for the glory of the publishers.
The Pioneer is public institution,
it is an important part Of the COM
munity itself, it is about the only in
dustry with which the community
could not dispense without intellec-
tual stagnation, for when people
cease to read of home affairs their
intelligence pays, the penalty.
And that our labors may cover a
greater field and bear better fruit,
we want every family in the commu-,
nifty to read the Pioneer to know
what others are doing, to lend a
helping hand in making of this one
of the most thriving and prosperous
sections Of the state.
Get rid of the idea that when you
hand us dollar you are helping
the Pioneer along" You are help
ing the editor, yes; but you = are
helping yourself more than you
are him.. for you are getting more
than value received for your money.
You are supporting business enter
prise that labors diligently day by
day for the social, intellectual and
commercial advancement Of yourself
and every other citizen Of the COM com
munity.