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adless paper. If I intended to publish advertisements, the size would be large like the other newspapers, so e could print the big page ads and make more money. The type is large and easy on the eyes. It is larger than or dinary newspaper type, because I believe the small type in the news papers is injurious to the eyes. So far as news is concerned, The-Day Book has all the facilities that any Chicago daily has, and some that no other one has. We get the full telegraphic and cable press association report of the United Press, which serve more afternoon newspapers than the Association Press, and hence is the largest afternoon press as sociation service in the world. The Day Book is a member of The Newspaper Enterprise As sociation, of which the Scripps league of newspapers, comprising 24 other daily newspapers, owns and operates. The other Scripps newspapers are located in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Columbus and Akron, Ohio; San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacra mento and Berkeley, California; Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Denver, Colorado; Dallas and Houston, Texas; Memphis, Tenn. ; Des Moines, Iowa; Oklahoma City, Okla. ; Evansville and Terre Haute, Ind.; Covington, Ky., and Philadelphia, Pa. The Newspaper Enterprise Association has bureaus in Chicago, New York, Washington, Cleveland and San Francisco, this coun try, and in the principal cities of Europe. The Day Book has the exclusive news, art and feature service of this association in Chicago. Locally The Day Book is not a member of any publishers' as sociation, and has its own staff of editors and reporters. There is much news in the other dailies which does not appear in The Day Book, such as markets, automobile, real estate, society, and other class news. The reason we don't print it is that it isn't news of general interest, and there is no need for an adless paper to jolly advertisers. Of course there is some news in advertising, and those who want that kind of news will continue to get it in their favorite daily. In fact there is no competition between an adless newspaper and those riiat carry advertising. The real question as to The Day Book experiment is whether there is a field for a newspaper that concerns itself only with pub lishing the truth about matters which concern and interest the people. Newspaper publishers are human, of course; and the policy of newspapers that make their money out of advertisers is necessarily affected by the selfish interests of those advertisers A publisher