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Show j THE "DEAD LINE" How many of our readers know the meaning of that newspaper news-paper expression "the deadline?" The dead line is the line drawn across the clock indicating the hour after which news items or advertising copy will not be received for publication in an issue of a paper,. To bring copy in after that hour is supposed to bid for a rendezvous with death. Nor is that all. Any editor who committs murder under such provocation is entitled to a verdict of "justifiable homicide." Readers who bring in news items before the dead line are the ones who assist in making the home paper interesting; the ones who make it possible for us to publish a paper that everyone will point with pride we cannot do without these loyal assistants assist-ants but even to them, we must observe the "dead line." Everyone likes to receive their home paper at a diffinite hour each week, and in order to set the type and do the press work and mailing, a certain number of hours must elapse between the dead line and the timje the paper is put in the postoff ice. Early items get preferred positions and our dead line is Wednesday Wed-nesday noon. |