THE "POWER" OF THE PRESS
Ruhl, Arthur
The "Power" of the Press By ARTHUR RUHL In "The A'ew York Tribune" THE "Washington Post prints a large black head "TRIES TO DYNAMITE MUNITIONS THAIN,-* and under it a despatch from Camden, N. J.,...
...He notiUed a policeman, and on the latter's approach the suspect ran...
...A pedestrian discovered a man chiselling a hole in the Pennsylvania Rlevated bridge, ovur which the train passes...
...There Is a good deal of this House-That-Jack-Built sort of journalism loose in Ameyca these days...
...Although the officer fired several shots at him he made his escape...
...In other words, the only thing lacking in the attempt to dynamite the train, was the train itself, and the dynamite...
...Its charms are obvious for tired copy readers, and its possibilities endless...
...For, of course the same gimlet that made the hole, that might havei been filled with dynamite, that would have blown up the train, if there had been any train, would also have murdered the train crew, and drowned the herd of elephants which, if the train had carried a circus instead of shells, would, on the collapse of the bridge, have been projected into the water...
...The war turns every mysterious black bag into a bomb, and gives every idle numskull the chance for easy melodrama, but it might be urged that this sort of silly emotionalism is not going to help any in beating the Germans, who are a serious people, with notable moral earnestness, and on the job day and nigh...
...The "Power" of the Press By ARTHUR RUHL In "The A'ew York Tribune" THE "Washington Post prints a large black head "TRIES TO DYNAMITE MUNITIONS THAIN,-* and under it a despatch from Camden, N. J., as follows: "An attempt to dynamite a train of from "0 to 30 cars loaded with high explosives that passes through here at one o'clock every morning, was frustrated late tonight...
...An examination showed a large hole had been cut in the masonry...
Vol. 9 • April 1917 • No. 4
