Show I What of the Man AN FRANCISCO newspapers ne have been devoting columns of S SAN space to a sordid tragedy It has held first page position and andl 1 l' l every detail has been told and retold overshadowing in prominence v j t the great events of world importance being enacted in Europe k It Il is of course presumptions for our humble self to criticise theof the editors of the great dailies of the coast metropolis or fo to suggest asi a 1 that their judgment of news news' must be warped when they displace si Ll vital historical progressive and constructive news to make room 9 i for the detailing of a low scandal but we boldly brave their wrath Wt i th Their best reporters have muckraked the alleys and the byways for t r- r hi j rl a a. a new single angle to the scandal and the sor sordidness d. d of it a all 1 I Jias I has las r it v tt been the only possible excuse for its publication A moral might be pointed but not a San Francisco newspaper has mentioned it It appears that a nurse daughter of a humble f f. f and who had been employed at an army hospital was w-as found dead Her HerfA HerrE fA rH rE body had been hurled into a ravine She had died as the result of I an all operation performed in the hope of hiding her disgrace A AJ I J to physician has been arrested and charged with performing the illegal iT operation The charge is murder t l' l If The was neither She Had girl pretty nor prominent never ec done anything to attract fame She took a desperate chance t avoid her disgrace becoming known and she lost She died The 1 r very disgrace that she so forlornly hoped to hide has since been i blazoned forth in great headlines She tried to save her good goods s name and she lost both life and reputation But there was nothing 1 1 In her life her disgrace or her death to justify extensive newspaper r r attention Nor is the physician who has since become involved n of any prominence whatsoever The story is what any honest 1 t newspaper man w would uld style as cheap no class And it doesn't fJ make pleasant reading It helps no one does docs no good to anyone unless you look for the moral 11 1 7 i The he moral might make it worth while It can b be pointed 1 is t to by asking the question t Vh What t of the man in the case The detectives say they know the name of the man mall but it is j J r not ot to be made public He has no part in the case under the law t ii I say ay the hc police authorities The man escapes all an disgrace The law cannot reach him n i. i But the woman lies dead in a branded grave And yet who was the the real reaf murderer Was Vas it the girl girt who risked death in ina a vain yain hope of saving her hert t of J J reputation Was Vas it the physician who heeded the girls girl's pleadings Jolt Or was it the skunk who the girl and then discarded her II Where is the justice that permits only the girl and the lid physician to be punished I JOh |