The Twin City Star

UNIFORM
STATE
PRINTING
Committee of Publishers Working
That Standard Style May Be
Adopted for Publications
and Type.

St. Paul.

Standardization of legal publications as undertaken by a committee of Minnesota publishers is explained by Sain Y. Gordon, state expert printer.

"There has always existed in Minnesota more or less discrepancy in the style and forms of legal notices required to be published in newspapers, some newspapers using one style, some another, the law not being explicit in the matter," said Mr. Gordon. "Such discrepancies lead to more or less controversy between publishers and officials and others having to do with such legal publications.

"The work as mapped out by the committee is to suggest, and eventually to establish under the law, a uniform style and system covering all legal publications in newspapers: to fix a basis of type measurement graduated for the different sizes of type in a way that there can be no question about its accuracy."

Mr. Gordon first called into consultation on the subject Harry Wheelock: Wheelock's Weekly, Fergus Falls; James Morrison, Morris Tribune; Herman Roe, Northfield News, and Frank J. Meyst, Western Newspaper Union, Minneapolis. These were later appointed a regular committee of the State Editorial association by President F. E. Hadiey, when his attention was called to the importance of the work to newspaper men and officials throughout the state.