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Show U ON GOING TO PRESS SEE SEE "What time does your paper go to press?" ESS We have been asked that question so often that it is EE EES thought not to be amiss at this time to explain some of the SEE SEE seeming- tyrannical decisions of newspaper men in their EE refusing to accept late news or advertising copy. j EE The first run is off the press Tuesday evening. The EE EE next run comes Wednesday evening. Tho front and back EE EJ pages are printed Thursday evening, and either Thursday EE EE night or Friday morning the papers are folded and address- EES SEE ed, for delivery at the, post-office. j Seemingly, a newspaper plant is all disorder a mad- EE house. Yet, the schedule of going to press is followed fairly g rigidly. When the news breaks slow, or ads come in late, it EE EE means late night work, sometimes, all night. EE EE Hence the inexorable attitude of newspapermen in try- EE ing to keep their routine as unchangeable as the laws of the ESS Mcdos and Persians. EE EE Most of the contributed news stories are brought in to EE EE us on Thursdays. ' We appreciate your supplying us with EE EE news items, but if possible, we should like to have them J EE brought in to us on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. News is hard iE EE to get hold of early in the week, and items coming in at that EE time are doubly welcome, because they are used immediately E EE in making the inside pages more interesting. Naturally, EE EE the latest and the most important stories are saved and ES EE linotyped for the front page. EE EE We not only appreciate, but invite and beg, news items. EE EE Anyone familiar with the routine of getting out a paper EE-SEE EE-SEE knows that it is physically impossible for a reporter to' en- EE EES ter every home in Milford to inquire if guests were enter- EE EE tained. And it is not considered a craze for publicity nor a mark of egotism for you to phone in a news item about EE EE yourself to your paper. Your friends and neighbors have EE EE a kindly interest in you and in your doings. Sometimes a EE EE friend visits, pei'haps a former resident, whom other people EE EE would like to see. It has happened that such people have EE EE come and gone almost unnoticed. EE EE So, if you have company, sell your farm, lose a horse, EE EE go to Salt Lake, give a party, or paint your barn, send the E EE item to your paper. You pay two dollars to read about EE EE other people. Do you know that these people are likewise EE EE interested in you ? , |