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 



