Smyrna times., 1940-06-13
Your Local Paper

Your Local Paper
Have You Amy Idea of What 1t
Has Done For You?
And, AS To What You Might Do
In Return, Have You Ever Given
That Passing Thought?-An
Editors Interesting Review
of the Subject
The following is a reprint from
The Smyrna Times, issue of De-
cember p, 1889:
The paper had done so things
for you and is only anxious to do
so more.
1t told your friends when your
parents were married.
It announced to the world when
you were born.
It recorded the great events of
your childhood, when you were lost
as a wandering baby, when you
had the measles and scarlett few
er, when you fell into the washtub
and nearly drowned, when you fell
from the cherry tree and broke
your collar bone, when you first
started to school and when you
earned your first prize.
Later on it told how you had
completed the studies of the dis
trict school and how eloquently
you recited your graduating ora
ton.
1t told of your entering high
school or academy. It told of your
contests in baseball and tennis. It
told of your departure for college
or your first adventure in business.
It told of your various visits
back to the old home neighbor-
hood, and it always wished you
well in your greatest undertakings.
It limited modestly about the
first time you went a courting and
gave timely warning to her
folks" that the neighbors knew
that matters were growing inter
ONGI lutlI way.
It announced the time of your
expected wedding, and it publish
ed the notice of the marriage Ii
cense and gave you nice puff
concerning the wedding ceremony.
1t told of your extended honey
moon tour and of your settling
down to housekeeping.
When you were sick, the home
paper week by week informed your
more distant neighbors of your
lapses and improvements.
It told about your lost COW and
led to her recovery. It told how
your horse had been stolen and led
to the arrest of the thief.
When you were getting dull and
tired through the monotony of
your labor, the paper urged that
the people get up a celebration,
and you were named as one of the
suitable committee on arrange
ments And when it was over, it
gave you just praise for the sue
cess OF the Undertaking.
In numerous ways the paper has
helped to put your name before
the people. And you would never
have had your lucrative Office or
your honorable recognition from
the community but for the kind
aid of the local printer.
If you are a member of Sun
day School or society Of any sort,
that same paper publishes your an
nouncements and the various pro-
ceedings of your meetings.
1t tells the people much which
you would like to have known, but
which modesty or necessity pre-
vents you from telling.
If you and all your folks have
been prosperous and fortunate in
your affairs, the paper has boost
ed you all the way. If you have
had misfortune, the paper asked
for sympathy in your behalf.
Thus the paper has rejoiced
when you rejoiced and wept when
you wept. If you are a good citi-
zen, the paper will always be your
friend and will back you in your
enterprises and will help to find
your business friends.
It tells you where to buy and
where to sell. 1t tells of rogues
to be avoided.
It tells you of current prices and
prevents you from being cheated
and swindled in 100 ways.
Finally, if you die, the paper will
publish your obituary and will COW
er over your faults and will recite
the story of your good deeds.
All these things the local editor
will cause his paper to do, but no
one else in the world will do them
or can do them for you even for
love or money. The outside paper
is a stranger to your little world
and is not at all interested in its
improvements. Yet your local pa
per does all this free of cost to
you, if you are willing to receive it
that way. However, for your sake,
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