The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-12-02


more valuable it may well be-than that of the weekday
marts of trade
So much for the newspaper itself, and now to the
who make and market it, and the effect on them of
this change from Sunday morning Sunday evening.
In a word Sunday morning paper the Sunday is
of afternoon paper illogical and unsatisfac
tory thing II is dsorganizing factor both with the
the firing line and in the business of newspaper
publishing. The former compelled extend their
days work throughout Saturday. Saturday night and
we'll into Sunday morning. This puts strain upon them
that false economy of human energy, and when they
work under this strain this wentyhour stretch, the
newspaper that they is up the best standard
of their capabilities.
With Sunday paper issued in the afternoon
will longer be put the test of these long hours
which upset regularity and weary them that allday
sleep Sunday hardly restores them to normal phys-
cal and mental standard. And with the day given up
practically sleep they get little time for outdoor
ton or for religious services. And al-day sleep gets
them of the way of going bed at the usual hour
Sunday night with the result that they tuned up
to a irst-rate standard for the work of Monday.
And as concerns the distribution of our Sunday aft
ernoon paper it WILL believe, be much sasfac
tory than has BEEN The Sunday afternoon issue will
not come until late in the day that the boys and
distributing it will have practically the whole day to them
selves-ample time for going TO church and Sunday
school, and for such recreation they would naturally
take If free from newspaper connection.
With this new plan in force-a straight seven-day
newspaper-our will work regular hours and will get
their time off on regular days. Our force a whole in
all departments hail with delight the cutting out Of the
all-day and a-night Saturday trick, and welcome with
keen interest the Sunday the place of the old
The Sunday morning issue of afternoon paper gers
everything and everybody out of swing And yet Sun
day paper of in these days of one-cen journal
ism pretty close to being an actual necessity.
1t is more than economic necessity 1t is a-neces
sty in the sense of holding the readers of the weekday
issues holding them from swinging off to some rival
journal which has Sunday edition. The liked charges
covering rent machinery, and genera management are
the same on a six-day paper seven-day paper.
1t is practically necessary therefore, that these expenses
be extended over the entire week instead of applying
them to but six days
This is the business side of the proposition the prac
teal side of the proposition and daily paper publishing
in these days about practical proposition and about
as difficult one as there is in the whole wide world.
But there another side this matter than the prao
tca economic side that applies to the welbeng and sue
cess of the newspaper ITSELF This other side is the
pleteneSS of the scheme of pubcY-a welrounded-out
and wel-ordered news service for the people broken
service an incomplete SERVICE leaving the Sunday issue
out altogether and with the mental machinery OF the
people as alert this day any other day of the
week does not square itself we'll with methods of life
in this up-to-date period of our development
We do not fast from eating on Sunday evening more
than on any other day of the week. We quite
normal and human ard natural the other days of
the week when the evening paper has become neceS-
sary part of home life That this news feature Of
lives should be interrupted Sunday, that the inflow of
the news of the day. the of the world should be
denied to us on Sunday evening is illogical and unsound
A decent newspaper might well be more welcome in
the home on Sunday night when the playhouSes
closed and the shops closed and when people stay
home and read and thnk-might well be welcome
than on any other evening OF the week
The Sunday evening issue of The Times will be de-
cent newspaper, frSt-rae newspaper, up-to-date
newspaper with all the chief of the world and the
price like that of our regular issues, will be one cent
copy-no more, and no less