"She dodged and the brick struck my mother in the head. The girl and her father, Herman Denlow, when questioned newspaper men. They do not mean any ill, and prob- entitled to no respect. It is a habit they have, our None of us thought the accident serious at the time. A few doing. But imagine the thousands of items every day Many a reader who merely glances over the head- my face until I became angry and threw a brick at her. headline that the whole trouble was due to the can days ago mother began to feel badly and now she is dead. from her. She followed me, pulling my hair and slapping ated by neighbors. lines represent the matter in that manner? Simply caused by drinking beer. Those who read the item ably do not realize the harm and injustice they are As a matter of fact, beer had nothing whatever "I said I would not go," the girl said today. "Mrs. Os- through will do so under the impression created by the wald insisted and I ran out into the back yard to get away lines will get the impression that here is a murder I did not think of doing anything so dreadful." of beer which no one got. makes good reading, and the brewer is an outlaw and to do with the case. by the police, told a consistent story, which was corrobor- because a reference to beer in connection with a fight Now, why did the copy-reader who wrote the head-