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...Smalltown, U.S.A...
...TIME, nor any other periodical, can overemphasize the admitted provincialism of Smalltown, U.S.A., nor call too much attention to the shortcomings of their newspapers which "come smudgily from flat-bed presses. . . ." But when TIME, with all other periodicals, observes only the typical and never the multitude of exceptions, the burden grows great...
...TIME unaware of the millions of denizens of Smalltown who are reasonably literate-read TIME and even more liberal publications...
...Smalltown's press, the Pawnee Chief, the Lenox Time Table, the Hills Crescent may be typical. But has TIME never seen one of the hundreds of Smalltown newspapers which match the typographical and journalistic standards of their big brothers in the cities...
TIME's charge that the typical Smalltown weekly takes no stand on issues of the day may be supported by facts, but falls on deaf ears in the case of half a dozen Smalltown newspapers in this Iowa congressional district which fought all the way-fruitlessly, it must be admitted-to unseat a Congressman . . . who accepted the political endorsement of Gerald L. K. Smith. . . . The city dailies of the district supported this Congressman...