The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-11-04
HOME TOWN PAPER
SUBSCRIPTION WEEK



Writing in the Publishers Auxil-
iary, Roy T. Porte, of Salt Lake City
written about the so-called "Countrv
starts the bah rolling for a Sub
Observation-Disclosures w e c k
and says:
at is also a not o. fact THAT very
the wonderful thi3gs that have been
Newspaper" very few of them realize
alp their possibilities. or what an in
~fuence thev are in the world.
Ut is also a notable fast that verv
few of the readers of the papers
realize what a loss it would be To
them and TO the world if the "coun-
trS naners" should cease to eAist -
The large papers with immense
POPULATIONS, tell of "world Happen
fngs" as they understand them. anT
display heads telling of the lates'
scandals, prize fights, and the mis-
fortanes of humanity.
"Hut it remains for the local pa
ners, the country weekly" the home
town paper to give he news of the
world, or that Of M. Common PEG
ole and his wife.
ut is time that the country news
paper should DO something q place
itself on a higher plane, and also
make some noise. Just one paper
% start something would not amount
20 much, but if the $1,000 country
papers would join in the chorus, a
noise that would go around the
world be the result.
"Some time ago | was going thru
some trade paper, or bulletin, of .
state press association, or something
Of that kind, and poted that some
body wrote that it might be a good
idea to have a Subscribe for Your
Home Town Paper Week l smiled
at the idea at first, but some way
the idea stuck, and her I started to
ind out who originated the idea, but
The paper vas lost.
"The publisher who thought of the
idea just let it go at that, but / de-
cided that it was so good that it
should not die, so at once asked all
The trade papers, printers magazines
and the great printers supply houses
what they thought of the idea.
"The officers of the National Edi-
torial Association were written to
were sent out.
Inc result NdSs Via ever SOnS
wrott that the idea was just the |
Thing, and by common consent it was
decided that the week Of November
eth to 18th be adopted as the week
TO be known as Subscribe for Your
Home Town Paper Week
1T is now up to the newspapers Of
the country, the home town PAPERS
20 see the wonderful possibilities Of
such 6 week. where in every locality
readers viii be asked to subscribe
for the local weekly, and in addition
he home town paper where they
were bOrn-if they wese not born
they now live.
"In this way, every home town Pr
per Will help every other home tow
paper, and by concentrating the ef-
forts to one week, or to three or
four weeks, the homo town paper
will receive the publicity it is ell
titled to.
"The home town paper is ever
ready to boost for the other fellow
70 print item after item about this
and that kind of a day or week
he time has come for it TO boost and
blow its buglo for itself, to print sew
aral columns about itself and all
nome town papers, to put on a cam
of publicity, and take advant-
age of what other papers viii do
in other words throw its hat into the !
and put up a fight that viii get
t somewhere instead of sitting on the
side lines and hollerin' for the other !
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