Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-11-04

works and fights to upbuild the coun- try community, to prevent it's falling a prey to the selfish greed of the cities. It champions the business, the social, the educational, the agricul- tural, the industrial interests of the country community not from any sell fish angle, but from the broader view
 point of national gocd.
 Some three or four r1onths ago there was before Congress a bil! on which the press of the country was divided, The magazines, the big na- tional weeklies, the farm press and the metropolitan daily papers were on one side and the country newspapers were on the other side. The passage of the bill would mean creating an op- portunity for a greater contradiction of the merchandising of the nation in a few large cities with a consequent injury to the small cities and towns, and to the people of these cities and towns and the farms surrounding them. The country press fought for the defeat of the bill, and in the end the members of the committee in whose hands the fate of the bill restd listened to the country press because they realized that the welfare of these country communities represented the best interests of the nation as a whole, and the bill was killed. , During our participation in the World war the country press stood stanchly and unselfishly back of the nation. It did nothing to create dis sension among the people during the time of emergency, but it did carry to it's readers a continuous message of patriotism and national unity. In each community it wiped away much of factional lines, and created an atrnos- phere of intense Americanism that welded the American people together regardless of place of birth or an cstry.
 Value Not Always Understood
 But the people of the cities do not always understand the value of the country press. With the increased de- mand for war supplies there came a demand for a decrease in the con- sumption of the ordinary needs of peace time. Among the things the consumption of which must be cut was paper. A city man was at the head of the department that regulated the use of paper, and he felt it advisable to so limit the amount of paper avail able for the country press as to ser iously cripple all of these papers, and to have entirely closed many of them. It was the privilege of the writer to present the case of tn ceotnuhrdld present the case of the country press to this man, and, it did not take him long to see that the government could not afford to in any considerable de- gree cripple an institution that repre- sented so. much of national good as did these country newspapers.
 Country Press Deserves We'll
 The country press deserves well of the people of the nation, and especial ly of tn epeople of the country com Individually these papers may not be large in size as compared with the city papers, but quantity is not the measure of their value. They are worth both directly and indirect ly far more than their subscription price. For that price they bring to you each week the news of your friends and acquaintances. To those who have left the country home to go either to the city or to some other country home, the country newspaper is welcome weekly letter that keeps them in touch with friends and for mer associates. To those at home it carries the news of their friends and It records the births and deaths, the marriages, the comings and goings of those in whom you are It furnishes the medium of publicity through which work for a |