102 THE, STORY OF THE U.F.O. 



In the course of a few weeks the report was 

 presented to the board of directors, and accepted 

 as a basis on which to proceed. It very strongly 

 recommended the founding of a daily paper, in 

 contrast with the original conception of a 

 weekly. Events, however, subsequently proved 

 it necessary to proceed with the scheme of a 

 weekly paper at first, but as a daily paper is still 

 the ultimate goal of the movement, it may be 

 well to state here the considerations which 

 encourage the farmers to hope for their own 

 daily at no very distant date. 



There are approximately two hundred thou- 

 sand farmers in Ontario. A careful survey led 

 to the conclusion that more than half of them 

 were receiving at least one newspaper daily. 

 To the forty-six daily journals then published in 

 Ontario, therefore, the farmers were subscribers 

 for one hundred thousand copies. That was 

 equal to five daily papers of a circulation of 

 twenty thousand copies each. Newspapers in 

 cities of the third class, with a circulation of 

 from six to eight thousand, with their attendant 

 printing business, were known to be highly 

 flourishing. 



All the daily newspapers, it was further point- 

 ed out, are written for the cities and towns, and 

 only incidentally for the rural sections of the 

 province. In any of them, all news of direct 



