Article, July , 1929

"THE MOST DAMNABLE TRAVESTM ON JUSTICE The above is the term used by the New York World, in its much quoted, proudly vaunted editorial of May 10th, 1928, on the #adium"poisoning" situation. The World is wrong, however, t best, for it should have stated "a more" rather than the most", for the most damnable travesty on justice in this case is represented by the action of the New York World itself. In this day of degenerate journalism* the public with justice does not believe all it sees in the papers. It is fed and are "fed up" on deliberate lies, distorted facts, half-truths, false inferences, unwarranted conclusions, dishonest emphasis, misleading headlines, contradictions between headlines and text, and internal contradictions within the text; Undue sex emphasis, undue and crime emphasis,/pandering to advertising by mergers along the chain store cut and dried boiler plate style which kills individuality and local initiative - inspirdpublicity printed from ulterior motives or because of laziness, Political handlicking and lack of editorial virility and honesty of purpose, such as characterizepsome of the great journals of the past, including the founders of the N.Y. World, from whose teachings the present publication has so irrevocably stmayed. When the N.Y. World in its editorial of - 1929, boasts of its sponsorship (and in so doing exhibits the same falsity of expression) of the use visious press attack on this Corporation that filled the papers for so long a period last summer, when other news was scarce and, when the New York World credits its editorials and other deliberately lying material with being respon- sible for the present half-baked report and recommendations of the U.S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics, it admits and even boasts of a deliverate 11 perpe tration of what can be most correctly termed the most damnable travesty " on justice in connection with the entire situation. In placing itself above the courts and the orderly processor the law, it denies the law and violates +