Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1919 — FROM FRIDAY'S MONTICELLO EVENING JOURNAL [ARTICLE]

FROM FRIDAY'S MONTICELLO EVENING JOURNAL

Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Large went to Rensselaer this morning for a visit. Mrs. Irvin Jenkins was called to morning by the ness of her daughter, Mrs. Homer Hendrickson, who is ill with tonsilitis. John G. Brown, of Monon, returned from Washington, D. _C., a few days ago, Where he was in* attendance at a Senate committee investigation of the food situation, only to 0e called to Indianapolis to appear before a legislative committee in reference to a bill amending the fer♦■ill 1 W THE PERSONAL TOUCH. (Ed N. Thacker) , ” The home newspaper differs from any other news conveying publication that goes into the home, in that it (belongs 'to and is a part of the ■community in which the reader resides. , It is an impersonal acquaintance of the reader. Its form and appearance is as familial as that of the face of the best known neighbor or friend. It goes into the home as a guest of the family and is so received. It goes to the fireside of the family and relates to them the local happenings of the day. It tells of the deaths of persons with whom the reader is well acquainted and of the marriage of other friends. It speaks of the comings and the goings of the people of the. community and of the busy affairs in which they are interested and of which they are a part. It discusses with the reader the great questions of the day and, while giving opinion of its own, stimulates the mind of the reader to form opinions of his or her own, not infrequently contrary to that of the paper, but a good is thereby accomplished, as it is out of the conflict of minds and of opinions that questions are solved and progress made. The home paper is a home institution like the home school, the home church, the home bank, the home business and factory, and as such it comes to inform the reader concerning all the rest. It is more interested than all others in the things that make for a more prosperous and a better community, and its mission is to keep, all others informed concerning the things in which they have a personal and a vital interest. It is the voice of the merchant talking to the prospective customer, the local agent that brings together producer and consume/. It is, in short, the hard working slave of the community in Which it is printed and published, the uncomplaining servant of the public, working with but one end in_view and that the betterment of the communitymorally^ —industrially and commercially. In that way it gets closer to the real heart of its readers than is possible in the case of any other publication.