The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-11
TALK IF THE WEEK IN NEW YORK CITY SocaIIed Crime Wave Exists Only in Yellow Journalism DULL SUMMER FOR NEWS So Something Had to Be Done-serum Discovered for Cure of Meningitis.
 Evangelzing In Wall
 Street.
DULL SUMMER FOR NEWS
BY SEWELL HAGGARD.

New York, August 10.-News has been dull this summer, circulations were dwinding and something had to be done, | so the yellow newspapers started @ "crime wave" Persons outside of New York are doubtless under the impress | sion that the metropolis has passed through deluge of crime, the like of
 which has never been known in com munity that pretends to be civilized ; that it is dangerous for women and lit- tie girls to walk on the streets alone, and that the flare of a match will col feet mob that is only prevented from lynching by the timely arrival" of policemen with drawn revolvers."
 The New Yorker who knows his vel low paper knows that this is not true but two-thirds of the New Workers or probably more, are deceived by the sen sational press. Such is the power of the press. II might be said also that such Is the press the people demand The most successful of the New York newspapers are those that are absolute ly unreliable in their news columns. The editorial pages of the yellow jour nals are bold, fearelss and usually fair, but their news columns are a blot on civilization.
 The papers for the last few weeks have read like some, or at lest one, of the Atlanta papers when Atlanta 1 lost It's head. Every day numerous l alleged cases of Young Girls Attacked | by Human Fiends" have been exploited with black head lines. Every ordinary 1 fight was distorted into an attack on a man who had assaulted a girl. Every time the mob gathered and was about to tear the brute to pieces" it was checked by the timely arrival of a policeman with a drawn revolver" It's
 ef1 |, ,ft,rr 11,, nrlr mobs, the policeman is always on deck just in time to prevent trouble.
 The printing of these sensational re- ports has had it's effect on tue ignor- ant population of the Eastside. The oth CT night a man was arrested for some trivial offence and the members of tough gang, thinking he was one of them started in to rescue him from the policeman. Then some one shouted that the prisoner had attacked a child, The poor chap was pummeled bit and the policeman's uniform was torn. but the timely" etc, prevented more seri- ous results. A woman who suspected that her husband had gone on an ex- cursion with another woman went to the pier to meet the incoming boat sure enough there was the husband with the other woman. He was so overwhelmed by the kindness of his wife in coming to greet him that he
 
 yelled lynch him." and exciteable man and women took up the cry, aiding to 1t that the fugitive had attacked lit tie girl The husband got away but the crowd bounced upon an innocent man and beat him up so badly that he d'od The timely arrival" etc.. had failed in one instance much to the delight of the yellows.
 Dr. George r. Kunz, probably the lead ing authority on diamonds in the country, says that the diamond field recently dis covered in Pike county, Arkansas, is the real thing. and so far as he knows the only real diamond reef in the country.
 'rhe announcement of a diamond mine discovery here is a very serious thing sad the eminent gem expert. You know that the diamonds in many newly dis covered so-called diamond mines have been brought there-either In glacial mo- raines or by various people interested. There has been no locality in the United States where diamonds have been found
 In place. that is where they naturally belong. But so far as our investigations have carried we believe that this Ar kansas discovery is genuine. Further in- vestigation, of course. Is necessary to prove 1t absolutely right and to reveal It's value"
 An Arkansan, riding along a road saw two sparkling stones by the roadside about year ago.
 Local talent declared them diamonds and Dr. Kunz was summoned to inves- tigate.
 Dr. Simon F9exner. of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, has dis