Arthur Busch, shares his entertaining story of his Flint Journal paper route in the Dixieland Subdivision of Flint, Michigan.  He recounts the lessons he learned as a newsboy.  While technological change has nearly wiped out home delivery of newspapers.  But the lessons working class kids learned were important to their success later in life.  In an entertaining essay, Arthur recounts lessons about collecting money, learning to be nice to people who aren't so nice and learning to be responsible everyday to do the chore.  The episode recounts delivering papers during the tumultuous 1960's when news carriers were delivering the body counts from Vietnam, reports of riots and racial division, the moon landing and the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series in 1968.

In a factory town like Flint, Michigan the paper route was a ticket to learning about work and people.  In Arthur's case, he became a political leader and served his community for nearly two decades as an elected official.

This is part of a series Dixieland Diary.  In this series Arthur Busch explores his working class neighborhood, Dixieland subdivision located  in a GM company town.