"ANON."

Ever since a white ribboned Zeppelin appeared upon the collegiate horizon and dropped a prohibition bomb into a class smoker, the CRIMSON has been getting letters about it.

They have been good letters. Some have been pro; some con. Some have been printed; some suppressed.

They have shown that, given a live subject, that hits him, the undergraduate will shake off the torpor of indifference that too often marks his attitude toward current affairs, and will take up the cudgels with vehemence.

But there has been one feature about these letters not quite so creditable. Many of them have been unsigned.

They are honest expressions of opinion for the most part. But as they are opinions, they are generally worthless unless the author makes himself known.

Of course there are some letters, like some books, which have such intrinsic merit that the name of the author adds little to them. But ordinarily anonymity is simply a cloak; the nom de plume is an ambush from behind which the author harpoons his enemies or the projects he disapproves.

So the CRIMSON, in the present instance or in any other that may arise, will feel no compunction about committing to the waste-basket unsigned letters.

Letters on any pertinent subject are welcome. But as a guarantee of good faith they should be signed.