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Show THE SPIKER CASE. ' ! What is news? That is rather a dlf- ' ficult question to answer, but il might be answered by saying that anything ; ' 4 out of the ordinary is news. There is interesting news and (hre is important impor-tant news and newspaper folk find that as a general rule more persons road the interesting news than the Important Im-portant news, unless that important news is interesting. The Spiker case meets all the requirements re-quirements in the definition of news. The facts are unusual and because they are unusual the story was interesting inter-esting and more persons followed the developments in the Spiker case than the developments in the treaty sltua- t inn oiv rj iVii Dnecln nuncliAn Here was the story of a young English Eng-lish war worker, who became the sweetheart in England of a young American officer who has a wife in j this country. Later the Englich girl j arrives with her child and she Is welcomed wel-comed and kindly treated by the ivife. And the brother of the American officer of-ficer agrees to marry tho girl. The baby Is to have a fine home. There Is not a sign of enmity or bitterness. Forgiveness and charity are present in abundance. The story is news. Therefore it concerns con-cerns the unusual. Muat wo believe that forgiveness and charity in such cases are unusual? Hero's what some of the leading figures in the case think about it: Miss Knowles said: "You know two people arc always responsible re-sponsible for a wrong such as mine and Mr, Spiker's, but I'm as much to bJamo aa he is. My mother stood by mo and was sympathetic, but she was afraid for my happiness when I started start-ed for New York. First she'd say I could come and then she'd say I couldn't, but if she could only know Mrs. Spiker she wouldn't worry. I'm bound to be a lot happier in a new country away from all the people I knew at home." As Emily was talking Mrs. Spiker sat beSide her, holding the blanket swathed baby in her arms and smiling. smil-ing. "It was my suggestion that they came here,'' she declared. "I don't blamo either Emily or my husband for what happened. Pearly has been frank with mc and I love him and trust him more than I over did before. Emily is a good girl and I refpect her. I want to adopt the baby legally, because he has a right to his father's name. It isn't a case of my forgiving him, for what happened was the fault of conditions. condi-tions. He and Emily wore thrown to- gomer ai ine Ji.nKii.su uviiuiuu umuii at Norwich. The future was uncertain and moral standards were relaxed on account of the war. If it hadn't been tor that it would be different. "I don't think there is anything amazing in my attitude, and the only i surprising thing to me is that any one should consider it amazing. I was brought up to believe in the golden rule, and what I am doing is only just and right." |