The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-26
THE DAILY NEWSPAPER THEN AND
NOW


The GOldSbOrO Argus offers a COM
pariSOn of pre-war products and prices
with present day products and prices, with
particular reference to newspapers, in the
following paragraphs:
"Can you remember pre-war (pre World war;
PRICES and what you received for them?
Take this daily paper, for instance.
Can you remember what local. small-town,
North Carolina home newspaper like in the
years from 1909 to 1918?
"ThinE what this daily News-Argus is like now,
day after day even through the midst of the hard
est depression that has hit this country since the
1905.
rs there difference?
What a difference
Not merely in the Goldsboro daily paper, but
in all the smaller daily papers which most closely
serve the homes of this nation is there to be found
this great change.
"The papers of today despite the terrible de-
preston supply service far beyond the measure
of a score of years ago.
Consider them as commodities, if you wish, Or
as services. From either point of view they are
a far greater value for the reader of today than
they were then Greater value to the whole COM
munity each one serves. Yet their price is changed
but little.
''The cheapest buy in the world today is to be
found in the United States-it is the home daily
newspaper"
The foregoing is something for the pub
lie to think about, because the daily news
paper has become a necessity of the pres
ent day. Some families still get along with
out daily newspaper, but no family or
individual accustomed to reading a daily
newspaper would be willing to do without
one; and the conditions which would pre-
vail throughout the country if no daily
newspapers were published is difficult to
visualize. The extinction of the daily press
would cause widespread difficulty and dis
aster, would deprive the country of its most
efficient medium for the dissemination of
information and would deprive business
men of their most effective instrument for
the promotion of business.
At time when there is a vast volume
of important news, when national and in
ternational events are breaking hourly.
when civilization is being remade, when
the world undoubtedly is entering new
era, it is the duty of every citizen to read
the daily newspapers. The value of the
daily newspaper in the business place or
in the home is hard to estimate at any time.
At this time it is worth much more than
ever before, perhaps, to the American citi-
zen and his family. Nobody can afford t.
do without q daily newspaper now.
And-as pointed out by the Goldsboro
newspaper, readers of newspapers-espe-
cially readers of the small town dailies, are
getting many times as much for their
money as was obtained in pre-war days.
In the period referred to by the News
Argus one of the leading cities of North
Carolina had a morning newspaper that
was seldom larger than four pages, that
carried only fraction of the amount Of
telegraph, news to be found in The Times
News, no features or special matter and
only a limited amount of local news. In
those days towns the size of Henderson
vile at present, had weekly newspapers;
and small town was noticeably fortunate
if it had semi-weekly paper.
The main point in this as far as the read
ers of daily newspapers are concerned, is
the fact that they pay no more for todays
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