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the same ban. It is an open question whether the greatly increased opportunity for major and minor infections in kindergartens does not more than offset the real advantages they offer.

"Excluding exceptional cases, I am of the opinion that safeguarding the health of the young child is the more important consideration, and that any home worthy of the name should be able to furnish all the simple instruction and direction of the play instinct the child requires."

SUGGESTIONS

1. Get advance copies of speeches, statements, and reports when it is possible.

2. Give direct, verbatim quotations whenever they are effective.

3. Don't misrepresent a speaker by "playing up" a quotation that, taken from its context, is misleading.

4. Combine excerpts into a coherent, unified story.

5. Select the form of beginning best suited to the subject matter.

6. Set off as a paragraph a direct quotation of more than one sentence at the beginning of a story.

7. Avoid too many or too involved "that" clauses in the lead.

8. Put strong direct or indirect quotations at beginnings of paragraphs.

9. Don't place unemphatic phrases at the beginning of a paragraph, such as, "The speaker then said that," etc.

10. Avoid as far as possible combinations of direct and indirect quotations in the same paragraph.

11. Avoid "I believe," "I think," etc., at the beginning of sentences of direct quotation.

12. Make separate paragraphs of introductory statements like "He said in part," and end them with a colon.

13. Give in the lead of each day's story of a trial, the essential explanatory details concerning the case.