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    "ocrText": "\"THE MOST DAMNABLE TRAVESTIES ON JUSTICE\nThe above is the term used by the New York World, in its much quoted,\nproudly vaunted editorial of May 10th,1928, on the Radium\"poisoning\" situation.\nThe World is wrong, however,\nat\nbest,\nfor\nit should have stated \"a more\" rather\nthan the most\", for the most damnable travesty on justice in this case is\nrepresented by the action of the New York World itself.\nIn this day of degenerate journalism* the public with justice does not\nbelieve all it sees in the papers. It is fed and are \"fed up\" on deliberate\nlies, distorted facts, half-truths, false inferences, unwarranted conclusions,\ndishonest emphasis, misleading headlines, contradictions between headlines and\ntext, and internal contradictions within the text; Undue sex emphasis, undue\nand\ncrime emphasis,/pandering to advertising by mergers along the chain store cut\nand dried boiler plate style which kills individuality and local initiative -\ninspiripublicity printed from ulterior motives or because of laziness,\nPolitical handlicking and lack of editorial virility and honesty of purpose\nsuch as characterizepsome of the great journals of the past, including the\nfounders of the N.Y. World, from whose teachings the present publication has\nso irrevocably strayed.\nWhen the N.Y. World in its editorial of - 1929, boasts of its\nsponsorship (and in so doing exhibits the same falsity of expression) of the\nUSR\nvisious press attack on this Corporation that filled the papers for so long a\nperiod last summer, when other news was scarce and, when the New York World\ncredits its editorials and other deliberately lying material with being respon-\nsible for the present half-baked report and recommendations of the U.S.\nCommissioner of Labor tatistics, it admits and even boasts of a deliverate\n11\nperpe tration of what can be most correctly termed the most damnable travesty\non justice in connection with the entire situation.\nIn placing itself above\nthe courts and the orderly process of the law, it denies the law and violates\nthe law and the whole spirit of human freedom.\nWhen it fails to apologize for its vicious attack on the probity of one\nof New Jersey' smost eminent jurists, taking advantage of its geographical location\nto cover it as to being in contempt, it is not only in contempt but contemptible.\nThe delays about which the World complains in its editorial, were delays\ndue to the policy pursued by the attorneys, with whom the so-called \"victims\"\nalined themselves on a contingency basis.\nWhere decent journals are fighting ambulance chasing, the New York World\nalines itself with an outstanding example of this contemptible legal practice\nand boasts of its success. It welded the power of the press to selfish endse-\nit used the freedom of speech, for which our fore fathers fought, to blackmail,\nby creating public sentiment so inimical to possible justice, as to force the\npayment of money to people, who while fully deserving of sympathy, had not and,\nhave not, proved the responsibility of the accused manufacturer, and, whose con-\ndition while undoubtedly bad, time has proved to have been not nearly SO bad as\nthe N.Y. World represented it to be, The situation thus described by the once\nmagnificent World, did not actually exist and, they undoubtedly knew then, as\nthey know now, that such was the case. If such a condition had existed, if the\ndelays complained of had been the fault of the defendent, if the Judge had been\nbribed, as the World clearly indicates, then it would indeed have been a\nHunever\n\"damnable travesty on Justice\". 9th the situation had been even worse than\nindicated by the New York World it would not have been so great a travesty, or of\nsuch fundamental importance to the welfare of the people as whole, the damnable\ntravesty on Justice represented by the claimed ability of the N.Y. World to achieve\nsuccess, in its efforts log such misuse of public confidence as is represented by its\ndeliberately organized campaign of manifold and contracdicting falsities.\nThe accused corporation has been under the painful necessity of silent\ntolerance to bitter attack They cannot try their case in a hostile press\nthey\noffered the World their story in confidence. The World did not want their story.\nIt might have spoiled their ability to brilliantly crusade if they knew the truth\n-3-\nor had the truth imparted to them in such a way that it was known that they knew\nthe truth. The World did offer the Corporation the opportunity to submit the\nmatter for publication, knowing full well that the corporation could not under the\ncircumstances of impending litigation put its defense in their hands for, very\nprobable, further mutilation in Telling public.\nin\nThe New York World was perfectly willing\nfor the Serporation to use their space as a field of battle - the more space the\nmore news, the more opportunity to come back again, the more newspapers would be\nthey sell\nthen cany\nsold, the more circulation the more advertising the more advertising the bigger\nthe dividends for the N.Y. World, - But as to the matter of justice and a decent\nforbearance to permit the case to be tried by the courts, appointed by the people,\nthe N.Y. World was not interested.\nThe corporation is still in litigation.\nThey\nmust\nstill\nremain\nsilent\n-\nSO they we must ask intelligent people to continue to withhold judgment) to analyze the\nconflicting data supplied and to weigh the alleged facts, ver with a thought to\nthe responsible sources from which they come - and with a thought to the fact that\nthethe real source from which information is being given out may possibly not be\nthe known source.\nWe ask the intelligent portion of the American public to join\nin a fervent hope that the research work for which the corporation is paying and,\nwhich is in the hands of the most thoroughly competent physicians that it is\npossible to obtain, may be effective, and that the scientists who are studying\nthis modern day mystery may be successful in finding the real answer to the situa-\ntion.\nIn the meantime it would would well befit the American public to give\nserious consideration to the degeneracy of their press and, consider just what is\ngoing to become of our nation when the power of the press becomes greater and is\nstill\nfurther abuse as the quiescence of the people permits them to become more\nand more flagrant in violation of the laws of decency and the laws of the people.\nis mosteasly\nThe breakdown of the barriers nay be accomplished through the championing of an\napparently meritorious cause, but the breakdown of the barriers is nevertheless\naccomplished, fact sometimes the principle involved is of greater importance than the\nthat\nimmediate\ncause\nused\nto\naccomplish"
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