The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-06-09
Georgia's Able Weekly Press.
las B. Nevin in Atlanta Georgian.


This writer has stated time and again that
in his opinion the weekly press of the state
Of Georgia is the ablest weekly press IN the
south surprising in general excellence that
OF any state touching Georgia. And that IS
saving a good deal too for all OF the states
OF the south have relatively good country
weeklies.
Moreover in the opinion of this writer, the
combined influence of the Georgia weeklies-
politically. socially or spritually-is far great
er than that of the dales, and as models
OF physical excellence many Of the Georgia
weeklies set some of the dailes excellent eN-
amples 1t is not in order to draw COMPARE
sons but for the purpose of illustrating what
| mean | will cite in south Georgia The
Dawson News, in middle Georgia the Wal
ton Tribune and in north Georgia the Dalton
Citizen as Georgia weekles Of the very first
class.
Arthur Brisbane, who is without doubt the
most widely read editorial writer in the
world in recent letter to Will Rogers, the
well-known humorist-whose advertisements
written for Bull Durham tobacco appear reg
uarly in the Sunday American-pays de
served tribute to the services of the small
town editors as the most important rendered
by any class of citizens in the United States .
Certainly, the splendid Georgia weekly press
is fully entitled to share in Mr.. BriSbane's
praise
SO much was this matter on Mr. Bris-
bane's mind at the moment that he address,
ed to Mr.. Rogers the following letter-print
ed in The Fourth Estate-which very we'll
may be read with profit and interest by all
classes OF citizens:
My dear Mr.. Rogers: You will learn by
the inclosed that YOU advertising is read-at
least by one reader | saw that advertise
ment of Bull Durham where you probably
never saw it, in the Hamlet News-Messen-
ger, an excellent little paper published in the
active town of Hamlet, N. C.
Il am particularly glad to see that Mr. P.
IS. Hill, who | suppose is your boss, puts his
advertising in many OF the smaller newspa-
pers of the country. Those are the most inn
portant newspapers and incidentally, in
proportion to their circulation, their adver
Using results are the biggest and their adj
vertsing rates are the smallest in the coun-
try. They are read through from end to end.
Every copy of circulation means an entire
family, not a family that lives in one room
with can opener, but family that owns
its own house. and land around it, at least
90 times out of hundred family that buys
everything from the roof on the house to the
cement on the cellar floor, from the hat on
mothers head to the skates on the boys feet.
Il hope you will persuade Mr.. Hill and
those that represent the advertising depart
ment of his big company to continue to
send advertising to what are called the coun-
try newspapers They not only pay well, but
the service that their publishers render to the
public is, in my opinion the most important
service rendered by any class of citizens in
the United States.
The country editors are distributors of in
formation, they reach the minds of the boys
that leave the farms, and they are the ma
tons police force. Sincerely yours,
"ARTHUR BRISBANE"