Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-12
TIE TIMES-RECORDER
AND ITS READERS.

AND ITS READERS.
The Times-Recorder is anxious,
above ali things else to give It's
readers the News Of the day while
it is NEWS, and to that end we
have added to our regular Asso-
ciat Press WIRE SERVICE, the
Associated Press STATE NEWS
LETTER SERVICE which so far
has greatly improved the makeup
Of the paper and which affords
the opportunity to keep in closer
touch with affairs in our own COM
monwcal,h.
To further augment the attrac-
tiveness and news value Of the pa
per, we are now running, at much
expense, a serial story by E. Phil
lips Oppenheim than whom there
is no more popular writer of the
day. To care for this greater vol
ume Of news, additional men have
been added in the mechanical De-
partment.
Not only that, but we have avail
able the full daily service Of NEA
Service Newspaper Enterprise
Association), Of Cleveland, carry
ing all our illustrated comics,
Berton Braley's poems, Tom Sims
paragraphs and everything that is
best in a daily up-the-minute
illustrated feature service. 1t is the
same as is supplied TO the largest
and best known metropolitan news
papers, the initial cost of which is
represented by large sums, most
Of which is given our eaders,
This paper wants to carry ahead
of every other feature a greater
volume of local news, and we feel
that this cannot be done without
cooperation of our readers. AL
ready many have helped in this re-
spect, for which we are grateful
They have put this paper in touch
with local happenings and two of
our good friends have in the past
two weeks sent in editorial sugges-
tions WHICH were fine and we were
glad to get them. ~
This city and county is one big
family, where every one knows
everybody else and in this respect
is different from the big city where
neighbors pays little attention to
what his next door neighbor is do
ing, and in nine times out Of ten
does not even know his name.
Americas is or should be different
from this. We want to keep in
closer touch with the folks in Anne
icus and Sumter county who contri-
butte to the making of this news
paper
Suppose the next time you have
an item Of news even if it does
have connection with yourself,
your family and of your friends,
let US have it over the phone as
early in the morning as you can,
before II o'clock if possible, and
after a day or so change will be
at once noted.
Some folks have an idea that
newspaper knows everything. In
that belief they are much mistaken,
for without aid from outside, de-
pendent upon others if you please
we all would be failures, and the
Times-Recorder realizes it is not
infalliblc We make errors and
mistakes like other folks, but what
we wish to guard against is to
have anything appear in our col
umns that would hurt the town or
any individual herein unnecessari-
ly.
There is a spirit of helpfulness
in this community which we be-
lieve obtains in no other of like
population. We want to be knitted
in closer bonds of commercial as
well as family unity and The
Times-Recorder the spokesman for
all
Our out-of-town readers as well
as the these in and around Ameri-
Gus can assist US by dropping in
to see us when in the city and ex-
change news of their respective
neighborhoods and communities,
that this paper might be indeed
and in truth be the melting pot of
sectional news which viii be so
interesting to every one of our
readess.
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