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Show HOW TO DODGE PUBLICITY. Five great railroads have been in deep tribulation. They own a terminal termi-nal station in Chicago and propose to rebuild it. Lawyers discovered in the title a little flaw, purely technical. To cure the little flaw, a little bill was introduced into the legislature. The bill seems to have been an entirely en-tirely worthy one. But the great railroads rail-roads wished to keep their predicament predica-ment secret. They put gum shoes on the bill, laid their fingers on their lips and held their breath. Of course, the newspapers presently discovered the mysterious, shrinking little stranger, stran-ger, and pounced upon it with a yell that echoed far up the shores of Lake Michigan artd way, down in Mississippi. Mississip-pi. Then the railroads spent a busy week eagerly and copiously explaining explain-ing all about the little bill in columns of type. If, before introducing the bill, the railroads had sent to the newspapers a neatly typewritten statement of its purpose, about a hundred words long, probably most of the papers would have thrown the statement into the; .waste basket and the bill would have gone through with a couple of lines of perfunctory notice. Occasionally some misguided citizen citi-zen takes great pains to keep his marriage mar-riage or divorce out of print, and usually us-ually has the felicity to see himself exploited on the front page a little later as the chief sensation of the day. If you wish to escape publicity) don't try to dodge the editor. Write him a letter telling all about it, and he will ignore you. |