The Country Newspaper

The Country Newspaper

The country newspaper-the county .weekly—takes tes place in the American pictuivyis firmly as framed pictures of George Washington and school children memorizing the preamble to the Constitution. The county weekly is a part of our way. of life.

There’s nothing so “stupendous, gigantic, and colossal” about the 10,000 country weekly newspapers in these United States. Occasionally one of them is cited with a prize of some nature for exceptional public service, but the majority of them are printed year in and year out serving their place in the community with no particular fanfare. '

The small weekly newspaper is the souree of much joking and poking of fun by the big city brothers-in-the-business. The large! city daily paper is a highly specialized affair, with reporters in foreign countries and news coming in by wire every hour of the day. The city daily is, also, a part of our American way of life and it exerts a tremendous influence on out opinions with its reporting and daily cartoons.

The weekly paper is news of the home town and surrounding community. To the native who has moved elsewhere, it is a weekly letter from home. To the local folks it is a means of keeping up With their neighbors and knowing pPpi is going on. The local happenings are not news to everyone throughout the nation, but they are important around the community.

The county weekly serves the people of the small community with help in working out their problems at home. It is a means of spreading news of benefit parties to be given, church meetings, and meetings of the farmers to discuss business. Through the local paper goes information of the happiness and sorrows of our neighbor. Births in a city paper are listed