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Show Ignorance. Senator Medill McCormick said at a dinner in Washington: "The League of Nations has failed. To champion It is to show an lgnor- f ance equal to the copy reader's. - "You remember, I am sure, the es- I cape of A. Savage Landor, the explor er, from Thibet? Landor escaped, you know, but he bore the marks of ! brutal tortures. "This happened back In 190D or s 1010. There was a ropy reader In ' Chicago at the time who had never heard of the Explorer Landor, and t when the dispatch about him came In, the poor Ignorant copy reader edited i it so that It appeared In his paper In the morning like this: "A savage landor has made Its ap-i. ap-i. , pearance In Thibet but the beast escaped es-caped after bejng badly : mauled. " |