Buddy Bacon's Bill

Rare is the neighborhood that has not at some time had its "boy editor." With a great earnestness and selfimportance, the young man canvasses for subscriptions to a four-page weekly, wheedles the corner grocer for an advertisement, makes himself generally a nuisance. But not every juvenile journalist is not to be taken seriously. For example: Charles ("Buddy") Bacon, 11, and his sister Marcia, 12, of Douglaston, L. I.

Buddy and Marcia, manager and editor of the Douglaston Weekly, filed suit against Petro Oil Burners & Fuel Co. of Jamaica for nonpayment of an $182 advertising account (TIME, Sept. 29). Last week Justice Thomas C. Kadien Jr. in Jamaica Municipal Court awarded judgment to the plaintiffs. The oil company had contended that its representative, one Charles Matthews, was without authority to contract for advertising. But Justice Kadien ruled the company responsible, inasmuch as it was aware of the appearance of the advertisement for 14 consecutive issues yet made no effort to cancel.

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