| Show A RS ES Some time ago a 0 Chicago professor was quoted us no having predicted that the human race would become extinct amid give glo room for tor tho the birds These tholo would could then be the highest typo type of ot ant maul life Ire on earth as S tarot man Is II now The change would take place piece It was said In H it 1 million or om so 10 Many absurdities 8 are cre credited to the tha learned l men ascii of ot Chicago but Jut In this thin Instance at least the professor ja III In Innocent Ho lie now protests protest against being written down an ass n asslie Ho lie denies having given expression to the views attributed to him by report reporters ers are Title This denial Is he gratifying It helps the reputation of ot a great Institute of ot learn learnIng learning Ing Rut Hut the probability Is that tho the falsehood first published will reach reah much farther than tho the denial and nud that r t j many a IL tool fool will retain tho the first Im Impression ns os a 0 scientific dictum MItake of ot this kind are aro generally rall duo to the reporter who too often otten makes up u a n readable story etory with n a 1 arely rely few facts for tor nucleus Instead of at giving ing log n R straight account of something actually en said ald Id or done That nn an Injustice injustice tice by this means menns li Is perpetrated on the public as IS well as IU on the time person perRon whose whale words or actions are misrepresented resented Is hardly over ever considered Very often otten there thero Is some soma excuse for tor forthe forthe the tho Inaccuracies by b which prominent Persons persona mire lire misrepresented and the tha public devolved deceIved decol d Reporters do not al nl always always ways deliberately Invent stories Many of ot their shortcomings shortcoming are really duo to haste or to Ignorance Sometimes however tho the Journalists of ot our day knowing the tho power falsehood temper temporarily exerts upon tho the unthinking mass masses mn 8 es Os deliberately avail themselves of ot that despicable meant means to gain their own selfish ends antis dR They Thoy falsify knowingly and methodically perhaps to Inflame public sentiment against persons whom thoy they In III no other way wn cnn can reach per perhaps poi hops haps to Injure Interests to fur tur further ther thee their own There Thero is no excuse for tor this kind of at Journalism Those who engage In it arc enemies An It encouraging cn sign of or our time lime is the sincere protests pl test made lately against the obtuse abuse of ot the tho press licese for tor pur par loses tf ses of sensationalism e n as well as deception Such protests prot hl Indicate nn mPh awakening wakening 1 of the tho public conscience to toa a of ot the tho dangers dan ers threaten threatening ing lag anti and gives promise 1 Iso of lit omo way of ot escape We Wo have noticed tho the series of at articles on yellow Journalism which ap op appeared In Opinion exposing the theun unscrupulous un methods of at those who sho deal cleith in that kind of ot literary fraud The ThO Ht ift Paul Globe of ot recent ditto date calls nt at to the tho saffron colored features of at the magazines magazine The magazines says tho the Globe have hao gone gon mad In proof of at this proposition our contemporary points out that one ommo magazine la Is devot deot devoted ed to the denunciation of ot tho the system In finance another clamors about the tho evils of ot wealth and demands that the rich give over buying sable sabi coats con its IS and spend the tho money for tor coal coo for tor the poor One writer shrieks about the tho Iniquities of the th trust tract another shows how the tho country Is being debauched by bythe bythe bythe the Importation of at foreign criminals the shame of at somo some city is exploited by one space writer Titer and when nil other subjects fall taU there always Is some un unhappy unhappy Unhappy happy Individual momentarily In the public eye eo who can CM be dissected In public to the tho th Infinite satisfaction of a n rabble The Tho Globe observes And the tho truculent rot rut written in Inthe tho the name nama of ot studies in social conditions condition Is he varied 1 In 11 spots by fiction that deals with tho the doings of at some modern modem crim inal Whoso Whose evolution baa hoa gone beyond the tho mask the dark lantern and antl tho ho bludgeon or going to the tho other ex extreme extreme through rapid sentences to nn an unconvincing Impressionistic pie pic picture ture There Timers nrc or somo some partly sane pub publications of ot course but the tho conserva conservative tive tivo magazines having suffered tem tern temporarily by tho the competition of the cheap ones are not touch much better Just now noV than those to whoso whose levels they havo have been brought down These observations are but too trite but the awakening nw of or the tho public Is a I promising sign of ot a n return to morally healthier conditions A 11 few tow strong leader In the right direction would havo a IL powerful Influence for tor good |
