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Show ENGLISH EDITORS HAVE 4 DAY WEEK LONDON, June 3. Lord North-Cliffe North-Cliffe has announced that hereafter the editors ol Tho Evening N- . Which Include the members of tho staff who would bo termed "copy i"1 ."I'i's" on an Anoric.iri newspaper, will WOriBonly four days a week Instead In-stead of five as heretofore. "Since 1894" said Lord Northcllffe, "tho pace in evening newspaper pro-dnction pro-dnction has been intensified and is going t Olncrease Still further. Wireless Wire-less telephony is beginning and Is going go-ing to affoct the publication of news." Tho occasion was the retirement of W. H. Evans, the editor-in-chief of The Evenli j News who has been fjr 28 years on one or another of Lord Xorthcliffe's papers. Lord Nort.h-t Nort.h-t Ollffc gave him a banquet, presented him with a cheque for 10 OOo pounds and awarded him a pension of 8,600 pounds a year for the next ten years I I and afterwards, for the remainder ot his life, a pension of 1,000 pounds a year, Accoi-dlng to the testimony of newspaper men who have worked on both Now York and London afternoon newspapers, tho work on the latter Is much easier. Tho New York afternoon aft-ernoon papers use on an average thrice as much news as do their London Lon-don contemporaries and do - much harder hustling to get it. |