Show Chronicle clarifies stand on switching of by-line By DALE J. BAIN Chronicle Editor The political bombshell which dropped on campus yesterday due to an obvious and malicious switching of a by-line on the page two political story in the Wednesday issue by someone other than Chronicle staff members might very well turn into a After careful investigation by the Publications council at press and after consultation with staff members who worked at press Wednesday it is apparent that a person or persons representing a group actively campaigning for a candidate for one of the major offices engineered the switch of unbeknown to staff members who were working at press at the time all this putting Tom Cuthbert in a rather This may at the outset seem to be an unpardonable oversight on the part of those staff but they were not at all responsible for the switch as the following facts will Editors followed proper procedures Following normal newspaper procedure a preliminary galley proof of each story is given to editors for a check against members The original by-line was set up the original Proof and copy agreed proof of that can be found by checking with the Election Corrections to the proof are then made and the body the article is placed in a form in which the page is assembled as it will appear in After the page type is in place a proof of the entire page is then made and read for The necessity of checking against original copy is made unnecessary because original corrections already been The purpose of page proofing is to-check corrections of earlier According to one staff whose loyalty and honesty I would not for a moment two members of a group backing-one of the major candidates came to press for the alleged purpose of checking the proofs of an advertisement for their Ask to see proofs According to this staff member they remained at the press about ten minutes and during that time asked if proofs of any pages had made of the persons was apparently well acquainted with press A short time before two other members of the who left before the two candidate backers had corrected the first page proof which the story read exactly as did the original The staff member remaining was pressed with duties which required him to be away from the page He stated that the two persons went into the back for a short time and then left while he was on final details before making up the rest of the It is not at all impossible that these amateur engineered the switch and then departed with the one piece of evidence that could hang them the first page which they may have by putting Tom Cuthbert's name in place of the original Staff member not responsible The staff busy as are all newspaper men at noticed nothing peculiar about the article for he was supposed to the rather than go through another and unnecessary re-reading of the entire He noticed the and watched the pressman place it in the The Tom Cuthbert was made the victim of obvious downright cheap politicking which shouldn't be allowed to exist at a The Chronicle goes on record as stating that it will give no quarter to such cheap campaign The Chronicle intends to remain We favor no We want only to see best man We want to see election receive their just |