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NEWSPAPERS AND TRUTH.
AN AMERICAN COMMENT.
An old subject is taken up afresh by the. Arbitrator, which devotes almost an entire issue to
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a plan of its own for "Compulsory that is true but not sufficiently Veracity in Newspapers." This striking for the
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is a large order, as the English sense of the artistic. A mind say, and into the details of its ex-trained to select the features ecution here proposed we cannot of an occurrence that make it. go, says the New York Evening news, to see the "story" where Post. One suggestion is that others see only a fact, readily official newspapers" be publish perceives what many an almost ed, of which the editors would be good happening lacks of being "elected," and then, of course, completely interesting. It is like they could not tell lies. We watching a pageant.
Here is admit that the ordinary estimate something in actual life that. of the relation between news- with just a touch, would do for! papers and the eternal verities the novel or the stage. Why is not complimentary to the not add the touch? No one will newspapers. If the critic ia ever know the difference except kindly disposed, he observes possibly the persons involved, that the press is inaccurate be- and they will probably be pleased cause of the stress and strain they are only the stuff out of inseparable from its work. Its which good stories are made, mistakes are to be accounted for anyway. In this way the door by the necessity for haste. If, swings open to the -widest however, the critic is cold-blood-possible divergences from the ed, he draws a blacker indictment, truth, divergences which In his view the press is a sinner nevertheless grow out of the by choice, a deliberate and legitimate story-weeing. news- malignant falsifier. It shuns the recognising gift.
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truth. It is fiction posing as fact If news is that which is not without the justification of the only new but interesting, it is fiction that is also art. Neither obviously something not to ba critic, however, puts his finger on colourlessly clothed. To spoil a the real causes of the conditions good story in the telling would be criticised. Those causes lie unpardonably stupid and in- deeper than haste or depravity. artistic. Therefore, the secoud The causes have a two-fold half of the newsman's energies basis: the peculiar nature of the are directed toward making the product which the newspaper story that struck him strike exists to supply and the manner others. How does he do it? Bar- of its presentation, The news-ring such childish devices as giant paper's business is with the newa.type, red ink and drawings made TRADE MARK What is news? The news is the on the spot, there are certain more new and something more. And serious technical means of getting it is that something more which the news read. The chief of them makes all the trouble. The train-all is the anticlimatle method of ed eye of the news expert secs in telling the story. A novel, open- a particular happening the ing gently ecough, intends to element that renders it news, that give you a whirlwind finish; the makes it what he calls a "story." author reserves his best fireworks Often this is easy.
If the writer for the end. Not so the reporter. of these words did fifteen miles in He reverses the process. He puts three hours, there. would be no his climax at the beginning. You hurrying of reporters to the tele-know the worst at once.
Then,
graph instruments. Should the your interest caught, he leads you President, however-but that by easy steps to details that at would be vastly different. Ten the start would have had no thousand Americans stroll down attraction for you, stopping short Broadway in the course of a few when he thinks you will take no hours without exciting any com- more. Incidentally, he tells his ment. Let half that number of story three times: once, lacon- Japanese do the same thing, and ically and vividly, in the the wires would be hot, The headlines, which
are them- Mayor of a fairly large city may selves a technical development die without emblazonment in the of prime importance; thea, Hall of Fame. An obscure miner more fully, but still summarily, is entombed alive, and the world in the "lead" or first sentence of reads dally bulletins of the bis opening paragraph, and final- progress of his rescue.
ly, with detail, in the body of his News is not simply the new; it writing. is not necessarily even the im- It is easy to see whither all this' portant. It may be merely the un- striving after effect leads. The usual, in one way or another the story is written for anybody who interesting. Perhaps. a com-bappens to read it. It must be prehensive statement of the sure to catch him "at first sight. nature of news would be that it is lost it do not get him at all. As any new event to which attaches an inevitable consequence, the some element of human interest. newspaper, whatever else it may Some element of human interest or may not be, is not the symbol that is the something more" of dullness, of lack of colour. In that is at once the glory and the order to be sure of being heard, bane of journalism. Forjust as it its shouts at the top of its lungs; is impossible to draw the line be- to avoid being unseen, it puta on tween legitimate apeculation and its gaudiest dress; lest it commit gambling, so it is to distinguish the unpardonable sin of seeming between legitimate human in uninterceting, it forces sensation terest and sensationalism, since into every item that entera its all buman interest, however "pages.
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ANTIQUITY OF ALE.
BEER TRADITION OLDER THAN ENGLAND.
Beer is very much in the public mouth just now,says an exchange. Well, not exactly in it; but the public, the publicans, brewers, and the Government are in unison as to the matter of its importance. It is all a question of specific gravity. It is the want of specific gravity that leads to profanity.
Small beer is the last word in feeble hops. There is a legend in Hampshire of a grenadier who caught his death by drinking it. You may tell that story to the marines--and the marines will probably swallow it. What they and ordinary laymen will not do. is to swallow contentedly the grenadier's death-draught.
The beer tradition is older than England. From the remotest ages men have lived and thrived on it. A beer made from malt, or red barley (which has more local colour to it) was mentioned in Egyptian writing as early as the fourth Egyptian dynasty. That beer was real right thing. Papyri of the time of Seti I. alludes to a person who had too much of it. That human old record makes one's mouth water.
The Greeks learned from the Egyptians how to brew beer, but either the Greeks nor the Romans had much opinion of it. They called it a barbarian drink, because it was consumed by the Germans. No one, at any time, has ever had much impression of lager beer outside Prussia and the English garden cities.
The Britons and the Saxons were great bands at browing. It was one of the many good things com- municated to them by the Romans. At the time of Henry II. beer was l'a universal drink in England, and the monasteries excelled in ales.
The Abbots of Burton, thanks to the properties of the Burton waters, turned out a superfine brand. In 1630. Burton beer began to be sold in London, at "Ye Peacoke" in Gray's Inn-lane. Right up until the time of the Stuarts beer and ale were the only drinks for the people. Sam uel Pepys drank a cup of tea out of curiosity, but there is no further mention of it in his diary.
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With good Queen Anne coffee and tea жете. established beverages of elegance for the ladies. The gentry, for the most part, stuck to their claret.
Many people trace the alleged declension of England to the introduction of mineral waters in Victorian days. Certainly better songs have been written about malt than about seltzer. There is no hymnology of "swipes," but there is a gathering chorus of commination. It has reached even the aloof ears of Mr. Bonar Law.
AUSTRALIA AND EX-SOLDIERS.
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The War Cabinet have under consideration a schema by which it is proposed to emigrate 36,000 British ex-soldiers and their dependants to Western Australia during the next three years,
This project is the outcome of the Imperial land settlement scheme, which provides for free passages to ex-service mer to the Dominiona.
The proposals have been in- stituted and developed by the Hon. J. D. Connolly, Agent- General for Western Australia, who explained to the Evening News that if the scheme is adopted 12,000 men and their dependants will be taken out each year for the next three years.
"What we are asking the Im- perial Government to do,” he said, is to advance loans to the men on similar lines to the loans.we are prepared to make to our own settlers.
*My Government is willing to accept full responsibility for the men on landing. --
"Western Australia comprises a third of the whole Common- wealth, and has a million square miles of rich agricultural country, with a bountiful rainfall and a magnificent climate.
"The loan scheme which. If suggest would enable every man to develop the 160 acres of land we are willing to let them at 10%. an acre, payable, with 5 per cent. interest, in thirty years.
"Advances would be made up to a total of £1,000 for the pur- chase of stock, machinery (ór plant, and for enabling improve- ments to be made.
Roughly we are asking the Imperial Government to guar- Fantee each man £500, repayable
in thirty years, and the
"Only approved settlers will be accepted by the State Govern. ment.
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