Apology to Our Readers

WE dislike, as much as do our readers, the poor class of paper upon which this journal is printed. It is part of the set-up of World War 11.

Bureaucracy argues that a journal like this is not really necessary to the national war effort. We must be grateful that we are permitted to live. Certainly, we may not indulge in luxuries. Good paper is a luxury.

If we are to be allowed to carry on, it is sufficient that we be legible.

And so, year by year, we have been com pelled to print the “PIM” on a poorer and poorer class of paper, until now we have arrived at what is called “newsprint.”

There is no cheaper class of paper available to us.

Pre-war, this newsprint cost around £l5 per ton. To-day, the price is £7O per ton.

Sooner or later, in self-preservation, we shall have to raise the “PIM” subscription —probably, 10/- per annum, and 1/- per single copy.

We can but ask our readers to be patient.

Some day, when Mr. Schickelgruber has emitted his last screech, and Mr. Tojo has been sent in a little box on a final visit to his ancestors, normal conditions will return —including paper for which we need not

apologise.