| Show ADS aau A 1 ARE am ap r NOT aj 0 permissible that the editor of tho the news ad has bean u right in his refusal to run ads and news matter about lotteries as defined by the postoffice poat post office department is lb proved by the ex peri ence of editor C B cook of the ht myton lyton free press he fie bays the myton free press recently pubIs published hed an advertisement telling of a free chance on a doll the pub li catlon cation of the advertisement was in violation of the postal law but it appeared in the paper through an over sight eight there was no intention on the part of the management of the newspaper nor of the merchant to violate the law it was just one of those ac clients that will happen in the best families the editor bas been quite busy trying to explain to the postmaster general it is to bo hoped the punishment is no more severe than a reprimand this item i published for the benefit of the newspaper 3 or tho the merchant who might want to publish or send through th roh the mail or both any kind of a chance or lottery advertisement the penalty for the first offense may be 1000 fine and two years in the pen the penalty for next offense may bo be five years in the pen |
