The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-11-10
MONTANA'S BEST DAILY GIVES
PRAISE TO COUNTRY WEEK
LIES OF STATE


The Great Falls Tribune, quite
generally conceded to be the states
greatest daily, devotes a page, in
recent Sunday issue, to boosting
"Home Town Paper Week" (No-
vember 7-12) and arousing an appre-
citation of the power and value
of the country weeklies in
bringing about the development of
the Treasure State. In an article
on that page is said:
1t has been learned from expert
ence that the best way of driving
home to the American people a par
ticularly worthy idea is to set aside
a day or week for the particular pur-
pose desired. There is Fire Pre-
vention Week., Humanity Week.,
Better Health Week., "Red Cross
Week., "Clean Up Week"-and
scores of other especially labeled
weeks-each of which is staged
throughout the nation or throughout
a state to emphazise the worthiness
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it's behalf definite and concerted ac-
ton by the mass of people.
Now comes Subscribe for Your
Home Town Paper Week., which
will be observed throughout the
United States from September 7 to
IL.
And why not?
It's a safe wager hat none of the
other especially named weeks would
be a success if it were not for the
Old Home Town Papers in America.
No individual, no matter how freely
he has given of his time or money to
civic and benevolent causes, ever has
given as much as has the Home
Town Paper.
Prestige of Printed Word.
The space and the prestige of the
printed word which always has been
given freely by newspapers, big and
little, compose the very hearts blood
of any civic or benevolent move
ment, and, if this is doubted, let
some public spirited citizen attempt
to ''put over" a drive or some
civic event while the Home Town
Paper maintains a stolid silence on
the subject, and see what success the
event will be! AS a success, it would
be a wet blanket on the ardor of the
public spirited citizen forever.
The Spokane Spokesman-Review
commends the cold Home Town
Paper Week" in the following words:
at is not a bad idea. Most weeks
are spent by the country newspaper
doing something for everybody but
itself. 1t runs columns and columns
of stuff that is so obviously free adj
vertising that no one would have the
nerve even to submit it to the more
.hard-boiled functionaries of the city
paper. It ministers to the vanity of
the amateur poet by running her
verses in a conspicuous place, with
out charge. 1t lambasts the mail or
der houses in the interests of the 10
cal merchant. 1t runs personal items
about everybody in town, thus max
ing the humblest individual feel that
he is of some Importance in the com
munity.
Busy Helping Others.
"There is no limit to the country
newspapers altruism. 1t keeps so
busy doing things for other people
that it has precious little time to do
anything for itself. it is able to dig in
thing for itself. 1t is able to dig in
and help many a local concern
weather the storms of adversely, but
when the cost of getting out a paper
was prohibitive and country news
papers were dying like flies, nobody
took the trouble to r~eciprocate.
"The country newspapers ought to
be allowed at least a week in which
to do something for itself. Possibly
even two weeks"
The term "Home Town Paper"
covers considerable territory. 1t is
the collective name for approximate
ly 10000 weekly and 1000 daily
newspapers in the United States. In
speaking of the Home Town Paper,
however, most people think of the
country weekly. This, perhaps, is