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"Take an interest in better schools," urges The Rainier Valley Times. This editorial skillfully gets the reader's attention at the beginning by describing the opening day of the fall school term. Then it points out the moral of community cooperation.

The school-teacher problem national with a local end in every com munity. The Eatonville Dispatch urges its readers to meet and greet their new teachers. In view of the fact that periodicals with national circulation have been running experiences of teachers, especially women -teachers, in their columns, every town becomes a possible setting for some teacher to write a " confession " or " experience" story. Your town may be next. Why not vary the story so that your town will figure in a story with a pleasant setting ? Like The Eatonville Dis patch, you can help meet and greet the new teachers.

Do the churches in your town ad vertise ? The Deer Park Union gives arguments for church advertising and asserts that the local newspapers are the best mediums of advertising.

The Kansas City Star made the phrase, " Do You Know " nationally famous by using it as a heading for items of city interest that many resi dents of Kansas City did not know. The Mount Vernon Argus, quoting the Commercial Club Bulletin, tells how many persons registered to vote at the primaries, how many pupils are enrolled in the schools, what the bank de posits are, how many fire-proof buildings have been erected in the past year, how many members the Commercial club has. Do your own citizens know all the possibilities of their own town ? "Why is a Commercial Club ?" asks The Tacoma Ledger. Then it asks those who find fault with the Commer cial club if they belong - or if they do I elong, how much time and thought they devote to it. What is the atti tude of your city toward your Com mercial club ?

Have you ever been asked why you did not print that story about a certain man ? The Montesano Vidette says it knows of crimes and other things that it didn't mention, and adds : " When the time comes, if it does, that we believe a newspaper's duty is to tell all the news, we'll get a job at something else or go to the poor house ."

“How would you like to make a trip to the nearest city when you need a prescription filled in a hurry, withi death running you a race ?” asks The Kent Advertiser- Journal. This is the beginning of an editorial that ends with : " We are simply refreshing your memory in hopes the time may come when our people will conclude a town that is worth living in is worth trading in ." A trade -at-home thought this, in new clothes.