The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
FARM EXPERTSON
A VISIT TO MADISON
Agriculturists Ascertaining
What Success Farmers
Are Having

Huntsville, April Special. IA
squad of agricultural experts is max
Ing tour of Madison county this week
to ascertain what success the farmers
are having in raising clover and also
to advise the planters to enter more
extensively into the diversification OF
crops in view of the expected early
arrival of the cotton boil weevn in
this section. The experts who are here
are r. e. Savely of the department of
agriculture at Washington, A. d. White
head Of Greenville, J. T. Watt of Tall
ladega and H. l. Lett of Eufaula, of the
state department OF agriculture.
Architects plans for handsome
building to be erected by Mrs. p. Mil
llgan on the site of the property that
was burned on the east side of the
square early in March are being drawn
ny Ed L. Love. The building will be
counterpart of the corner building,
"hlch is also owned by Mrs. Milligan
ana 1t will be built for big store.
way " Cooney have taken a lease on
the new building for a term of wears.
was enough 10 go further
was an offense against the common rule
of decency" The senator then AFTER
depicting the harm that comes to the
reading public by the publication of the
details of such crimes Views with
alarm and "deplores" the fate of the
newspaper reporter whose business IT is
TO write the stories" connected there
with.
Serious on the Reporter
He said; MIR. President however Sc
rios such an offense may be as affecting
the Individual reader, it is even more se-
rlous as affecting the newspaper men
VINO gather and publish such news They
live constantly in an atmosphere of crime
and immortality. Their purpose is to
trace down and send out to their fellow
man the details of misconduct of every
kind. They live in 1t, think about it,
ana give 1t out to others in all its hor-
rible forms. The newspaper reporter
must dive into this sea of crime and cor
ruption and dress it in such form as to
attract the readers of the paper To
make 1t attractive and readable he adds
to the horror of it, pads it with false
and more attractive matter to render it
more sensational He haunts the homes
OF everybody connected with the crime
The kodak man is his aid and
abettor. What is lacking in the written
story is made still more graphic and SEN
sational by pictures of everybody con-
nected with the crime. Mr. Presi-
dent, what life this is for any man to
lead. 1t makes one shudder to think
about It. And most of the men who are
instrumental in this wholesale poisoning
of the minds of the people are young men,
often mere boys. 1t is appalling to think
of such school of vice, falsehood and
violation of the sacred rights of others.
1t cannot but be degrading in the utmost
degree. No man can live in such an
atmosphere and not suffer from It's pois-
onous impurities. He not only suffers
from it himself, but he is constantly
nstilling it into the minds of others
Few Turn Out That Way
The senator is quite right. The news
paper man who writes the story of crime
would probably become innoculated with
the poisonous virus before the man who
reads it is affected, if the publication of
news of this character really has any
harmful affect at all. It is consoling
that the senator "shudders'' when he
thinks about it, but his admission that
the newspaper man would be the first and
surest victim proves that his shudders
are needless and his fears are greatly ex-
aggerated Few newspaper reporters in
the United States have "sprouted wings
or can lay claim to all the virtues on the
list, but in spite of their occupation few
of them ever originate a crime or land in
the penitentiary.
1t is not believed that the senator's at
tempt to ''bridle the press" will receive
much support, although 'sensationalism'
in journalism has few sympathizers. The
country is not ready for the suppression
OF the publication of the facts concerning
a murder. The fact that murder has
been committed and the guilty brought to
justice published in the newspapers might
be deterrent to some reader who dis
covers that it is daily becoming harder
for the guilty to escape. The newspapers
by wide publication of crimes and clews
have aided in bringing many guilty per-
sons to the bar of justice, who would have
gone unpunished if the senator's ideals
of journalism were effective throughout
the country.
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