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Show H ANONYMOUS LETTERS B If the writers of anonymous or un- M signed eonimiinicationn which conlin- B ue to occasionally find their wny to B The Record could see how little at- M tent ion they receive in this office, we M believe they would save themselves B a lot of useless and impotent labor. B When a letter is received at a news- M puper office the first thing the publish- M er wants to know is, "lln it a check B or money in it?" and next thing he B wants to know is, "who is it from." B If the envelope contains no collateral, B and the identity of ihe writer is not M made known, he loses all interest. H He is too busy for idle curiosity to B liecotiic a motive for reading, and so, B particularly if the communication is B lengthy, and the tone is not pleasing, B it very soon finds a comfortable rest- B ing place in the waste-paper basket B or in the office stove. B People could employ their time to B far better purposes in knitting socks B for the soldiers than in writing an B onymous letters to The Record, which B are very unlikely, indeed, to receive B even a reading, to say nothing of pub- B lication in the pnper. W.S.8. |