Image 6 of The Neshoba Democrat (Philadelphia, Miss.), May 19, 1921
What It Means To Your Community Artemus Ward one of the great students of the psychology of pub licity once made the following ad dress before the merchants of a small town In New York and what he said said then is applicable now to mer chants everywhere A country weekly newspaper do 1 lug a business of five thousand dol lars a year is worth fifty thousand dollars to the business and profes sional men of the community and can Ik made worth one hundred thousand dollars a year to them If yon dont believe that statement try to get along wlthoutyour paper To talk about supporting your newspaper is about as damphoolish us to talk about supporting a store a bank or a manufacturing enter prise You wouldn be much in the world If you didnt trade in a store have a hank account and have some outlet for the energy of the citizens Too many business men look upon the local newspaper as an incubus a sort of charity Yet the local paper Is us much a public Institution us the public library the churches the hospitals or even the commercial club with the difference that It