The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-02
ANNOUNCEMENT.

The Sunday edition of the State
Journal has been discontinued.
The recent starting OF the Sunday
edition has not resulted in an increase
in circulation either in the clsy or on
the outside.
The demand for it has not proven
important and the issuance of it has
been at a tremendous expense of labor
and money
The state Journal readers especially
want the evening editions; and the ad-
vertisers in the main wish The evening
editions
The sunday advertising has been
principally taken from the Saturday
and Monday issues. The circulation
was no larger on sunday than on the
other days and consequently the ad-
vertisers derived no especial benefit
and the paper none at all
The fact that over seven thousand
state Journals are sold for Topeka
readers every evening. or fifty per cent
more than any other daily or sun
day paper. is. perhaps one reason why
1t was so difficult to make any increase
in the topeka circulation.
There has~ssen no additional charge
made city subscribers for the Sunday
edition during the few months it has
been. issued. The carriers made up a
fraction of the cost. The old rate of
one. cent per copy for the six papers
viii now be restored to the carriers
and the rate to subscribers remain
the same, ten cents per week.
The most popular feature of the
sunday paper. the colored comic pages.
wiz. beginning tomorrow. be published
in the Saturday edition which will be
enlarged to twenty pages and retain
other popular features which hereto
fore went in SUNDAY.
we have found by experience that US
ually about three-fourths of the import
ant news is printed saturday. evening
the Sunday paper being largely one of
features. The State Journal will now
combine the news and features in tae
Saturday edition.
The principal reason for disseminating
the Sunday issue must be placed to the
severe strain on the workers of the pa
per-that is, everybody connected with
it,
The unnatural hours OF the long
stretch of work. all day Saturday, sat
urday night and into Sunday morning
are too nerve 4aolling ard ezhaustlrg.
Sunday had become united as neees-
sary and advisable day Of respite and
several days and nights have been re
quired to make up for the overwork on
the Sunday issue. Other papers may
continue to successfully issue seven pa
pers a week. but we prefer to put the
news into six and thereby make the
work unlike that of mere slave to SER
vice and system.
Everybody in every place has taken up
the extra work eheerfully and with most
remarkable freedom from complaint
but the extra hazard to peace and profit
is not warranted.
We believe we can print a more salts
factory paper to readers, advertisers and /
ourselves by. confning the issues to six
days There is probably nowhere a more
loyal and faithful corps of conscientious
workers in the newspaper held than on
the state Journal in the editorial, repor-
toriaI business. mechanical, carrier and
all departments.
We trust our patrons viii accommo-
date themselves to the restored 3rder
with the additional improvements. The
improved Saturday issue VIII be SO large
and so interesting that there viii be an
abundance of news and entertaining
reading for Saturday evening, and Sun
dav too