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Last September the austere London Times, most reverend of Britain's newspapers, apologized to its readers for a mistake perpetrated in its youth. Published every weekday throughout the year except on Good Friday, Christmas and Boxing Day,* the Times blamed a careless 18th-Century staff for an error which had caused the serial number on its front page to exceed the proper figure by 23. The mistake, said the Times, would be rectified by numbering 23 issues with the same number: 49,950. Last week, with the grievous error atoned for and corrected, the Times proudly printed its true...
...enormous increase of registration . . . forcibly brings to the front the necessity of changing election from a weekday to Sunday. At the present time it is not only a hardship and an inconvenience to thousands of men and women with business connections to vote, but it also causes a disruption to normal business activities...
...present time, because elections are held on a weekday, nearly 5O% of the voting population do not exercise this valuable franchise of citizenship...
...sometimes perch on chairs in the adjoining gymnasium when the church auditorium is crowded. The Governor has been a member of the Board of Deacons and the Board of Trustees, and an usher. Mrs. Bricker is active in the Women's Guild, has also been chairman of the Weekday School of Religion...
Increased production costs are driving up the price of U.S. newspapers. This week the three Detroit papers (News, Free Press, Times) upped their Sunday editions from 12? to 15?, upped their weekday price to 5?. In New York City last week, the Sun and the World-Telegram went to 5?, made the city's evening papers unanimous...