Show < p J t I P ql + tfr 1 I I I NrlUipUltrr flithltriiy wru 0 tit OUprlt Ertm By JUDGE OTTO A RO5ALSKY Court of General Sessions New York City CAXJCOT agree with those who refer to what is termed the I I newspaper peril The newspaper is a pocket edition of the criminnl code and if it were not for newspapers the crime and brutality that v lire made by poverty and ignorance would be so prevalent that the country would be no safer to lire in than Russia or any m other country where they dont allow the people to read papers If it were not for the newspapers we wouldnt bo able to f combat with the growth of acts of personal violence and w < i could not have a police force large enough to cope with ttie acts of lawlessness 1 A woman of the tenements reads in the paper that a woman Was sent to jail for a number of years for abandoning her child and while she in t her ignorance would not consider it any crime to leave her child which has come to her in shnmo and poverty she sees that it means what is to her death itself in a jail sentence to do so and she turns from her purpose Many of the ignorant who come here are of the opinion that our jails j i are terrible dungeons where those who are in them live a life of daily physical torture and when they see in the papers how this one and that one is sent to jail for this thing and that thing which to them are trivial enough things they become cautious and lawfearing The spirit of ridicule running through the cartoons that are so plentiful plen-tiful today tend to foster the national spirit of humor and while a man may think himself a martyr who takes a heroic punishment for a crijno he will bow his head in chagrin when he is belittled by the pencils of the cartoonist The corporations are less a menace to the obliterating of the rights t of the people when there are many cartoons about their operations than all the campaign speeches made against them When the average immigrant arrives in America the first thing he takes to seriously is trying to master the text of a daily newspaper and while a mind may not have the ability to make much headway with the printed language the pictures are there for all to understand The picture pic-ture language is universal and all may understand it A cartoon with prison stripes in it teaches a plainer lesson that goes more to the spot than all of the printed things that could be written on the same subject I There is no peril in an institution like that It can go no further than the people will allow If a publication docs not soy the things that a majority of persons feel are right they wont buy it and it cant give any more and even if some one has the cash necessary to keep it going it means nothing because its purpose is nil when people wont read it no matter whether its a financial finan-cial proposition of any consequence or not |