The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-03-22
NEEDS TO BE IMPROVED.
A Supposed Special FOr'ns the Text for
Lecture by the Albany Herald.

Lecture by t0e Albany
"The morning after the recent storm,
Mr.. w. f. Prince, in his buggy, drove
thirty miles in thirty minutes in his haste
to notify the agent of the Columbus
Southern railroad in Dawson OF an OBJ
struction on the track between this place
and Parrot. He arrived here just in
time to prevent disaster.
Tho above paragraph, taken from the
news columns of yesterdays Constlt4-
ton. dated Dawson, Ga, March 10th, is
either a gross error on the part Of the
printer or the result of the very poor
Judgment of the Constitutions Dawson
correspondent, neither of which is ex~
cusable.
Even the most casual reader will at
once see the incorrec mess of such state
ment--that is, a part oft. Every school
boy or girl in Georgia knows that a horse
is utterly incapable of locomotion at the
rate of mile minute. Very few trains
have to runa schedule of a mile min
ute, and when they do it is at the immi-
nent risk of a human life and the de-
struction of valuable property. Saliva
tor, probably the fastest running horse
IN the world, never covered a mile IN a
minute Nancy Hanks, the worlds
greatest trottlng horse, never went mile
in less than two minutes 1t is possible
that Mr.. Prince, of whom the cOrrespon
dent speaks, has horse that can equal
the flight of western tornado OF fly like
a carTer-pigeon? Ii he has, a fortune
equaling that of an Astor is awaiting
him on either the American or English
turf.
But. of course, no one believes any
such thing, and it is the Herald's purpose
to call attention to the naccuracy Of the
teleeraphic service of the metropolitan
press. Every day these papers ars tenn
inc with Just such items as the above.
The evil has grown to such aPr0PortlonS
that very little credence is given, even, TO
those statements which are, to all appear
ances. bona fde and not contradictable.
This practice can and ought to be
stopped. The fault is about as much
thatsof the correspondent as the editor
the former more frequently. Not more
than a week ago the whole cOun ry was
thrown into fit Of excitement because
of certain statement emanatiug from
Washington, which was found TO be, not
only unwarranted, but without an iota
of truth in it. A newspaper correspond
ent cannot sit up in his easy chair and
make correct 5 atements any more Than
a fish can sing.
The fake" business is growing tame
very tame, the relding people are tired
of it; they want news that they can rely
upon. and the paper that is run after this
plan is bound to be the paper Of the fu'
ture.- Albany Herald.
The Dawson correspondent of the
Constitution is not responsible for
the item that the Herald complains
Of. This special was, doubtless, man
ufactured in the office Of the Constitu-
ton. as the identical item, with the ex-
ception of one word, appeared first in
THE News of last week THE News
stated that Mr.. Prince rode seven miles
in thirty minutes, and when the Consti-|
tuition, by some process known only toI
itself. converted it into a Especial the
word thirty was substituted for
seven"
THE News joins the Herald in con-
demning the seeming careless manner in
which some of our contemporaries project
with the truth.