"TIME WILL TELL"

The latest literary venture of college graduates is a weekly magazine, devoted to giving the "irreducible minimum" of news facts. Its founders, two 1920 editors of the Yale "News", have collected a staff of young newspaper-men, including three from Harvard, and have proceeded on a basis of "complete organization". Briefly, all popular interests are divided into sixteen departments, such as Sports, Foreign Affairs, Books, Plays, Crimes; and a specialist covers each. The articles will be short and straightforward, easily accessible, giving facts in their simplest shape; and, there will be no editorials. The editors publish their prejudices in the first issue, and thereafter hold their peace. Appropriately, they have christened their brainchild "Time".

Forty years ago, several Harvard graduates started "Life" with the quotation that man "hath but a short time to live and is full of misery"--and they set out to dissipate as much misery as possible. "Time" will solve a problem peculiarly modern, when spare moments are rarer than ever. It will give pre-digested news in a form readily available on the subway or motor bus, where the forty-page daily accomplishes little besides ratting and knocking off one's neighbor's hat.

Many readers, no doubt, will miss the sentiment and sensationalism to which their newspapers have accustomed them. The "human-interest" not cannot be expected; gossip, opinion, personalities would all be out of place. But among those who are tired of searching through huge areas of filler and advertising for the solid kernel of fact, there exists a real need for "Time". If its sponsors remain content to satisfy this group, "Time" will perform a good service.