Every issue of TIME has a dividend of information which you can accept or reject, as you choose. This dividend is the footnotes that punctuate your copy of TIME. They consist, generally, of material which could not be incorporated in the main body of a story without interrupting its continuity. Therefore, you can, if you wish, ignore them without losing the sense of the story. The subject has been a continuous and pleasant controversy for the pro and anti footnoters among you.
It began with TIME'S first footnotedropped from a Press story, in the May 12, 1923 issue, on the Christian Science...
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