There is to be another cut in newsprint, and the
daily papers will become slimmer still. It is a great pity, but some of them at any rate have completely disabled themselves from making any effective protest by the uses to which they choose to put their columns. It would be instructive to compute the space devoted to pictures of, and sloppy articles about, some schoolgirl of sixteen who has got herself engaged to a young gentleman of twenty-two. (The comment, " l'd give the girl a good spanking ; the lad himself should have a dose of Korea," is not mine ; I quote it for considera- tion.) On top of this comes space-squandering on an even more lavish scale in connection with a music-hall star called Sinatra and a pack of addle-pated women whose addled pates the mere fact of his proximity turns. Do we need more paper for more of this. * * * *
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