Show JOURNALISM Most newspapers of the United States will wl have to plead buit guilty to taking taking taking tak tak- ing at least an unintentional part In rather a nast nasty piece o of Journalism re recent recently re- re cent when a cruel statement was wa published concerning Mrs Irs Mary Baker G G. G Eddy founder and leader leder of the Christian Science church The stor story was published In the New York World rorI an and was wats wai made rather the big news feature feature feature fea fea- ture of the night on the wires to Western Western Wes Wes- tern papers paper and and the they took It and and ue used it because it looked hooked like news and had the warrant of the Worlds World's orIs approval approval ap ap- ap- ap pro al behind it I. I In brief the story was that Mrs Irs Eddy was dying that she was wa practically Can cally unconscious and mentally incapable incapable able that her affairs were ere manage managed b by her footman that she was no not really making the dally daily drives drives' about abou her Concord home but that her place In n the carriage was fraudulently taken b by another woman slightly resembling her her If I the whole thing were true 1 it I really realy was n the business of any anyone one unless It might be that members member o othe of o the Christian ChrIstan Science church would woul tako take a natural Interest Interest For FOI the res rest of or us the matter mater could have o ha had no reasonable interest for Cor wo we do not a a great at deal care for the tho private and Intimate affairs of Mrs Mrs Eld Eddy nor o of any uny other person whose personality does docs oes not affect the tho public events e of or the Every one would regret o of course cour to know that an any woman old 01 or young oung was near death but that circumstance circumstance circumstance cir cir- cir cir- would not warrant u us printing the fact tact concerning ono one three thre thousand miles mies awa away And the average average average aver aver- age man would have ha a a passing interest In the health or sanity of or any person who ho could organize af and ad Instruct the very ery lar large c bod body of o goo good men and women women women wo wo- wo- wo men who are arek known by the name o of Christian Scientists But Dut even en e that tha would woul not warrant repetition of the st statements printed In tho the New York YorkI I t I i. i i i l 2 World and telegraphed all al over the country Perhaps the greatest trouble with some ome newspaper makers Is that they do not realize the fact that the lute late James S. S Kirk ninth made a n great reat fortune attending to his hiM own business It I Is IJ not the business 88 of the country that Mrs hs h's Edd Eddy is In feeble health If If I after ater all al her years and her labors labors- so o singularly helpful to her race she race she she were not In feeble health it I might be worth telegraphing that fact to Salt Lake and papers paper here might be warranted war war- ranted In printing It I But the offensive ofTen offen sive point In the Incident Is that the Ue value alue of or that World orld slander lies les Inthe in inthe inthe the fact that Mrs Eld Eddy Is famous for forthe 01 tho the good she has done She I ls Is for Cor the number of people who reverence reverence rever rever- ence and ami love hove her The news value of or the publication to the World was the surprise e that would be felt by Its Is r readers adErs that a woman of character r ro so o lor lofty of or reputation so enviable was vas after all al only a a cheat all Mrs Irs And It was not true at al n She is not J Eddy dy Is an old woman in In robust She wilt will wi die seine pome time But Rut she Is not nut a cheat che The rhe statement statement statement state state- ment that she was engaging In a deception deception deception de de- de- de wounded a great many people who ho have ha E not nol given provocation for fur such Much infliction There Is probably ly not world which an or organization In the better iter to Its Is own IJu business than lion thant t that lat which she has founded There i 18 is none which enrolls In Its membership membership member member- ship a better beter citizenship There Is none that bases Its Is work more persistently persistently peris- peris persis persis- on love Jove for all al humanity hud tind Id right life for each Individual And AmI I there Is hone which de deserves erves fairer fairel I treatment from lom the rest o of the world It I Is extreme extremely I unfortunate that any pu publisher l her other other than the publisher of or orthe the World orld should have hae been heen surprised Into giving currency to anything which could wound a people so blameless or malign a woman so worth worthy |