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Show NOT BULL-HEADEDNESS, BUT CAUTION It is only caution which prompts an editor to insist that communications which express an opinion, and which are sent to him for the purpose of publication in his paper, be signed by the author- Insistence upon this rule may, at some time, save the editor a lot of money. Therefore, as a matter of principle, no publisher will print anonymous material. We have in our office a letter we received last week. Its publication would not cause the editor to be thrown into the town bastile, yet it is not printed because it was unsigned. un-signed. The writers doubtless felt that it was not anonymous, anony-mous, but as we do not know who wrote it, we cannot print it. Again we welcome letters for publication. They save us sometimes the job of rustling news when there isn't any; they give the readers a different slant on things; and our subscribers get a little relief from the editor's mental agonies. But we must have the author's name. It will be withheld with-held on request. |