p. 432 | To “A Reader” by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 14, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 27.

To “A Reader”

By Editor

It happens every once in a while that some well-minded individual becomes possessed with a strong desire to give the management of this office and the editors of our papers some good advice. But either through bashfulness or for some other reason, they do not see fit to sign their names to their communications. A very common signature to such letters is, “A Reader.”

For the benefit of persons sending such communications, it seems advisable to state to them that it is our invariable custom, on opening a letter, to look for the signature before beginning to read. When we find the letter signed “A Reader,” or in any other like manner, we save our time by throwing it into the waste-basket unread; for what is the advantage of reading a letter from an individual who will not sign his name?

We think that if the “A Readers” among our readers know of this custom, they may either desire to sign their names to what they write, or else save their time, stationery, and postage by not writing at all.