'Telegraphako!"

William Harrison Dempsey defeated Tom Gibbons at Shelby, Montana, one afternoon recently. The same evening, about eight o'clock, the New York American (Hearst) appeared on the streets of Manhattan with a picture labeled a "Telegraphoto." The American's contemporaries, the New York Tri bune and The New York World, discovered that the American's picture was a fake. They printed side by side with the "Telegraphoto" a picture taken at Toledo in 1919 when Dempsey knocked out Willard. The pictures were identical in every attitude except for the "doctoring" of a few details and putting a Gibbons head on Willard. Under the picture the American printed: "Gibbons began to back away from Dempsey's terrific body blows in the fourth. Here he is pressed up against the ropes..." The Associated Press reports said that the only time Gibbons "went to the ropes" was in the fifteenth round. This correction was incorporated in later editions of the American, But the American was not at all flustered by the expose. It accused the Tribune and the World of mudslinging. The American truthfully pointed out that it had not said in so many words that the picture was an actual photograph of the fight. Its readers--"the most intelligent class of readers in New York"--certainly had not made such a mistaken inference. "From hundreds of pictures at hand, the ones most nearly corresponding to the wired-in reports of writers and artists at the ringside were chosen and details from other pictures were selected to fit the care fully worded reports. "This was all done at great cost to the newspaper." So successful was the attempt, added the American, that "the method will undoubtedly become an important part of modern journalism in the future."

Crimes Against Journalism

Following the Dempsey-Gibbons prize fight at Shelby, The Christian Science Monitor published, editorially and as news, accounts of how the newspapers of the country gave publicity to the fight. The Monitor was incensed because The New York Times printed 19 1/2 columns of fight news and 6 inches (about y 1/3$ of a column) of news on the important conference of the National Education Association in San Francisco. The slogan of the Times is "All the news that's fit to print," and the Monitor commented: " A curious conception of what is ' fit to print.' "

Next day the Monitor published extensive statistics on how the newspapers of the country treated relatively the fight and the N. E. A. conference in regard to space. Figures represent columns of news: Fight N.E.A. Eight New York papers 70 4 1/3 Seven Chicago papers .. 64 1 3/4; Four Washington papers 19 1/4 8*; Four Philadelphia papers 23 1/3 0 Nine leading Southern papers 140 0; Four San Francisco papers 58 22 1/2 Eleven other Pacific Coast papers 96 1/2 6 The champion fight news carrier was the Hearst Chicago Herald-Examiner, although The New York Times ran it a close second. The champion N. E. A. news carrier (aside from the Monitor itself and San Francisco newspapers) was The Sun and the Globe (New York), which carried about three-quarters of the N. E. A. news printed in Manhattan. The entire story is not told, how ever, without giving the Monitor's own record. After printing 14 columns on the N. E. A. for two days running, on the day following the fight when the other statistics were taken, the Monitor printed about 9 1/2 columns on the N. E. A., surpassing even the local San Francisco papers. But on the fight the Monitor printed not a line.

Still the Monitor advertises its departments as "Finance, Sports, Politics, etc.," and adds, "You will find all that a clean informative daily newspaper should offer you. ..." The Monitor outlawed the fight as " an event which is not merely mercenary in intent, but degrading, brutalizing and demoralizing in character."

The heavyweight championship of the world is a matter of sport news. Many another editor may realize that his own record is not entirely enviable in view of the Monitor's statistics, but he may also feel that the Monitor is equally guilty of a crime against journalism (which is the art of newsgathering) in ignoring such an important news event as took place at the little town of Shelby.

" Let Them Squirm "

Latest and not least of Mr. Hearst's acquisitions is the autobiography of a rebellious inhabitant of " American Society's one Mount Olympus, a golden clique of Astors, Vanderbilts, Goulds and those akin to them in blue blood and vast riches." In close proximity to the teachings of James J. Corbett, Jack Dempsey, Gene Sarazen, Prudence Penny, Mrs. Clara Phillips ("hammer slayer") and Arthur Brisbane, appeared Chapter

I of " Behind the Curtains with the 400."

The author of these " amazingly intimate revelations of the loves, feuds, intrigues, pranks, and personalities of Society's ' circus,' " is Mrs. Thelma Morgan Converse, daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, American Consul-General at Brussels, and wife of James Vail Converse, Jr.

Excerpts:

" Society has made me, at 17, a disillusioned woman, married to a man she does not love . . . sophisticated . . . surfeited . . . contemptuous . . . and very tired.

" If I tread on anyone's toes, let them squirm."

In Chicago

The American Legion accused of being "bums, tramps and vagabonds" and "bought with British gold to suppress truth" was vindicated in Chicago. Arthur Lorenz, former editor of the Illinois Staats Zeitung (German), made the above remarks editorially. Suit was brought for criminal libel and Mr. Lorenz convicted by a jury. Unless he can secure a new trial he is liable to a year in prison, a $500 fine, or both.

In Dearborn

Henry Ford is liable soon to be sued for libel, according to Herman Bernstein, editor of The Jewish Tribune. On August 20, 1921, Mr. Ford's paper, The Dearborn Independent published an article which according to the Jewish editor was "scurrilous and libelous."

Mr. Bernstein wrote to Mr. Ford asking that he accept service in New York State. Samuel Untermyer was retained to fight the suit.

In Nicaragua

Augustin Sanchez, editor of El Radical of Leon, was shot four times, but not seriously wounded, by Dr. Rafael Ayon. Dr. Santos Abella, editor of La Information, newspaper of the town of Bluefields, was shot to death by Adolfo Orteza Diaz. By these means Nicaraguans resent "defamatory remarks."

*Inches not columns. The Monitor calculates an average of 21 Inches to the column.