SUBJECT: R.M. BARTON

 INTERVIEWER: LEW BARTON





S: Yeah.

I: Sort of like the ant said to the elephant..."Let's not step on each other

 big boy."

S: Yeah...they could sort of smother us I guess if they really wanted to.

 But we haven't did anything to hurt them so far.

I: Is that right?

S: But when we get big enough all the -------say what's going to happen.

I: Do you ever...does Bruce ever criticize them editorially?

S: No. See, he thinks that if we watch them, and see we might be able to

 learn something from them.

I: Oh ho...that's a good way do to a thing I guess.

S: You can't pretend they're not there, because they are. Have to face up to

 reality.

I: And you say they have seven thousand subscribers?

S: Yeah, I believe so, but they've been going a hundred years. We've just been

 going since January...we've got about five hundred...so we're catching."

I; Well, that...that's good, considering how news-papers get off to a start,

 because people are suspicious of new newspapers. I think you're doing

 extremely well. I understand that the governor of this state is also a

 subscriber to your paper. Is that true?

S: I believe so. I'm not sure)see. We got this thing we have to put labels

 on the paper and send them out.

I: Um huh.

S: See, you don't have time to read them, and set there, because you have to

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