The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-09-22
HEADS LIST ASA
COMMUNITY BUILDER
WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS PLAY
IMPORTANT PART

Every Community VIII Cooperate
With It-Every Citizen Should
Assist in Furnishing News-Im.
prOvement in All State Papers.
(By T. F. Peck, Commissioner Of
Agricultural
| want to say a few words to the
farmer about his home newspaper
Maybe it is not all you think il
should be. If so, does it ever
occur to you that if it does not come
up to your ideas of what it should
be that you may be, in a measure,
responsible for its shortcomings?
The home newspaper is dependent
upon the home people for its sup
port. If the home people do not
properly support it, naturally it can
not be what it could be if it were
well supported by the community.
Your home paper can be worth
more to you if you support it lib
orally than any other like investment
that you can make. / see nearly all
the papers in the state and ! find
that, without exception, everyone of
them, even where they do not have
the liberal backing Of their COM
munitiess is standing up for it's
home section.
You depend upon your home paper
FOR the local news. You expect it
% mention your coming and going,
the visits of your friends, sickness or
death, weddings and births. When
any new movement is started for the
community YOU expect the paper to
boost it. You EXPECT much of your
home paper and / want you to COM
pare what you contribute toward its
support with what you expect of it.
You must realize that from no
source do you get SO much for your
money.
You can help your pauer serve
your community better by cooper
ating with it, giving it news that it
would otherwise be hard for it to Sc
cure. | speak from experience, for
| published weekly newspaper for
many years and / know what they
have to contend with.
The newspaper is always awake
to the things that are worth while
to it's section. 1t gives freely Of its
space to suggestions for better agri-
cultural methods, better livestock,
etc, and publishes the activities of
the corn clubs, the pig clubs, the
tomato clubs and other organiza-
tions, and is always glad to feature
the picnics, institutes and social
gatherings of farmers and their fam
lilies. It is always active for better
schools. better churches and better
roads.
1t is the fault of the people them
selves if they can not pick up their
nome paper and get all the news Of
the community and of the county.
If you have a community or county
fair it is your home paper that plays
it up and records your progress as
evidenced by the exhibits and the
premiums awarded.
We get benefit from any move
ment, society or organization in
proportion to the interest we mani
fest IN it. Your interest in and sup
port of your home paper will always
bring you satisfactory returns.
While local pride ought to prompt
you to support your paper, it should
not be overlooked that your own
prosperity and the prosperity Of
your community can be advanced by
a live newspaper. And to be a live
paper it must have your support.
am very much gratified to see
an improvement in the newspapers of
the state. believe the people are
beginning to more fully realize the
important part the newspapers have
in the development of the country.
If your home paper is not what you
think it should be, see if one of the
chief reasons is not in the neglect of
those who should give it their sup
port and encouragement. 1t costs
money to run a newspaper. A com
munity without a live newspaper
could not labor under a greater han
dicap. Let your home newspaper
know that you will do your part in
its support and do not get the
notion that you are performing an
act of charity when you pay your
subscription. You are simply doing
good business and making good in
vestment.
When YOU appreciate your home
paper at its true worth you will
class it as one Of your indispensable
local enterprises. The prosperity
cf the community in which you live
means much to YOU. Your home
paper means much in the promotion
of that prosperity.
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