News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-11-02
Rises Promptly ard capably to
Every Emergency.
IS NOT ALWAYS APPRECIATED
Clements Interests of Mass of Popuia-
tion-Avoiding SensationaIism, in
Its Clean WhoIesomen Is Its Ap.
peal to Best Class Of Citizens
Country Press a National Power.
BY WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.

The country communicative vii
lage, the small town and the small
city-are the backbone of the Ameri
can nation. They are the communitie!
to which the nation turns in time Of
distress and emergency. They are
even more than the backbone of the
nation. They are the bulwark of oul
modern civilization. Just at the close
Of the World war, Mr.. Balfour, for
eign minister of Great Britain, said tc
the writer In London that the entire
civilized world must look to the small
towns Of America to preserve for the
world the civilization that 1t had taken
centuries to build, because the small
towns represented a substantial solid.
ity that the tremendous upheaval OF
the war had not affected, and 1t was
only such foundation that would
preserve the structure Of civilization.
The cement that keeps the people of
these country communities together,
working and thinking along uniformly
sane and safe lines, that makes of
which world civilization can rely for
a foundation, is the country press
the village, the small town and the
small city newspaper.
Country Paper Wholesome.
The country newspaper goes to its
readers devoid of chat sensationalism
that Is so prominent in the metropoli-
tan papers. 1t carries to its readers
the news items that represent the joys
and sorrows of their friends and
neighbours, and keeps the hearts Of the
people of the community beating In
unison. 1t goes to its readers with
that sane and kindly advice on local,
state, national and world problems;
advice that is the result of thought
and study beside the hearthstones of
the hation and not in the selfish marts
of trade or the brightlights of city
frivolity. 1t goes with the influence
of known and respected member of
the COMMUNICATES editor back Of its
every word, its every opinion. 1t goes
to a people, the people Of the country
communities and the farms, that are
more capable of thinking along sane,
unselfish and practical lines than are
those who are surrounded by the
selfish and many times evil influences
of the large cities.
But the influence of the country
goes far beyond the COM
in which 1t is printed. Ma
tional legislators In the halls Of con-
gress realize that this influence is |
power to be reckoned with. That !
when the country press speaks In uni
son on any national subject 1t is but |
voicing the sentiments of that mighty
force the people of the country COM
the people in whose hands.
says Mr.. Balfour, rests the destiny of
world civilization.
Fights for Entire Country.
The country press represents and
lights for those things that are of
'alue to the country communities,
that in doing so it is fighting
or those things that areHbest for the
lation and for the world. 1t works
md fights to upbuild the country COM
nunity, to prevent its falling a prey
o the selfish greed of the cities. 1t
hampions the business, the social, the
the agricultural, the in
ustrial interests of the country com