Milford chronicle., 1927-10-21
MILFORD. FRIDAY, OCT. 21, 1927
A MISTAKEN IDEA with some

A MISTAKEN IDEA with some
people is that the newspaper is an
individual proposition. If they
don't like the editor, they feel they
must knock the paper and stand in
the way of it's success whenever
possible. They do not realize that
the local paper is just as much a
part of the community as the
schools, churches or anything else.
The newspaper is different from
any other business, it is community
affair. It is for service to the peo-
pie and not for any individual.
You may not like the editor and
the editor may not love you any too
well-but the paper he is RESPONSE
BILE for does just as much for you
as the service rendered others.
There is nothing personal with it,
it is here for a purpose and that
purpose is to do what good it can in
every way it can and the greater the
support of those it undertakes to
serve the better service it can rend-
er. 1t takes the people to make
good newspaper and without the
help of the people no one can run
successful newspaper. 1t requires
money to operate any kind of busi-
ness - even the churches and the
papers are no exception and for
this reason they must have the fin
ancial support of the business in
terest as well as the good will.
Few newspaper publishers make
more than a comfortable living and
scarcely one is reported wealthy
from money made in the newspaper
business. They deserve to be trust
ed and to be understood by the peo-
ple-it is the editor and not the
plant that makes a newspaper use
full in community, though liber-
al patronage is necessary if the pa
per is to be credit to the town.
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SUNDAY SCHOOLS BACK ON JOB
Lamentable as it may seem, it is
an admitted fact that the Sunday
school has something in common
with the more worldly affairs of
commerce, in that it doesn't do
much business" during the hot
weather months So it is that the
Bible schools now find attendance
and interest increasing after get
ting along for several months with
out much of either.
Summer attendance never was as
large and regular as that from late
fall to early spring, but in recent
years, for a number of reasons, the
disparity has been increasingly
pronounced. Chief among the causes
is the automobile. Hundreds of
thousands of adults and children,
once constant members of Sunday
school classes, now utilize summer
Sundays for motor jaunts. Vacat-
ions are another enemy of summer
attendance, each weekend finding
a new batch of members "out of
town."
While some will contend that at
tendance in the primary and junior
departments slumps sadly in the
hot weather months because of the
so-much-talked of waning power of
parental authority, it is likely that
this is less true than that modern
parents who lose interest in Sunday
school on the first hot Sunday in
he spring are too lethargic or con-
istent to drive" their progeny
into the often hot and
fluffy churches.
However, for the present, these
onditions and problems have ceas- G
d to be troublesome. That vast i
rmy of self-sacrificing volunteers 9
Tho take upon themselves the bur- =
en- of the religious education of f
lillions of young and old Ameri-
ans is back at the post filled with
ew inspiration and energy and the
ock, which Temporarily strayed, is
lowly wandering back into the fold
here to remain contendly until the h
iren call of Nature sounds again
ext spring. 1t seems that the Sun t
ay schools are given but a part of
ne year in which to do their good il
-orks.
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