Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-22
AS ONE WOMAN SEES 1T
Womsn's Back Hair as a Factor In
the Consideration OF the Press as
Mighty Engine for the COL
orlnq Of the News
BY SARAH ID. LOWRIE

l. Club one OF the guests of member sit
ting near me confessed to having two ambi
tons unfulfilled. One was to sing a scale
on the stage Of La Scala at Milan, and the
other was to face the Contemporary SO that
for once she could see front view of the
coiffures upon which she had gozcd for
many hospitable years.
l looked cautiously about me on the bach
brcadths of all the ladies' heads in my
vicinity, and had to exert self control not
to put a tentative and apologize hand up
TO my own.
Comparatively few Of us had what could
be dignifed by the word coiffure. We had
rather gone on the cooks recipe. 'What
you cant see won't hurt you, so far as
our own putting up our back hair went. !
was left wondering whether conceit or
absent mindedness lay back of our treating
ourselves like objects Of one dimension. And
those who do care to arrange charming
effect in the back-are they clevcrer than
the rest of US, or just more thoughtful?
T WONDERED if to psychologists eyes
i our fronts were really less chaotic. It
was a comfort to know that Mr.. Lippmann
and Mr.. Angell-thc two chief speakers OF
the cvcning-were not in any marked sense
psychologists Mr.. Angel is more inter
ested in what people ought to be than what
they are. lie is charming IL reiterative, and
has the endearing qualities and quaintnesseeS
of the 'Whte Knight" Mr.. Lippmann Is
"onntrv IN ~ ovr 'n%v own Class We looks verv
eastern. There Is almost n touch Of Mon.
golian Tartar in his face. And his gravity
and frmness and stability of assurance are
quite Tibctan.
IL - as natural that western cl'liHatIoh
snoC!u seem ineIectual ana ripe LOT snutter
from Genghis Khan down. Hordes of fierce
purposefu outlaws riding down the cfctt
Gaweilers % OF fertiie iahuS ana sucking CUE
@ nao ostn 'ie netnpu oceC suI'eu " VIZ 'e"
per Oh the t.ast Wheh moving WESTWARD. 49,, 1T
10 ~ ,le pIoou " i''hU W e'"qu'i '"'
"orIu ny lorce'
However, there was nothing that sug-
gestcd cOnqucring the world in Mr.. Lipp-
mann's few remarks on newspapers before
the Contemporary. Probably, when No.
found that he and Mr.. Angel had no real
antagonist to speak for what some angry
radical has called 1.-THE kept press they
lost zcst in speaking their full minds before
the Contemporary audience, who had 50
one or something that 1t must must nay nave oGCn s,i
aonporoi;t;o' poroI;at ''' " W ''''"' "'"n VIVA
r. t,'rroJ 40, a. ho n ,,or,, wild ouoripr
oven tbomob Wiss wireor ond Mr. Harrison
Nomr;s ."ehI;nnI ,ho o~J;onro,; Win = fcv
ronditions 81 tho;r old themes in verv good
roico ond .wannorisms
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'nlEhE was one thing sald by both Mr..
l. Angel and Mr.. Lippmann with great
seriousness, and some reteration that
seemed to admit to those who spoke later
of no question but which ] cannot for the
life of me see the logic Of, or the morality
Of, for that matter.
1t was to the effect that tho policy of
should not be permitted to color the news
OF tnG phprr, "''n'p ny ',"I,nsS vi eup,.o
introducing ~. hGNH, OF ny OMISSIONS OF
''oIS, I,o,,,,. T ro,.o o,,,.o,s e,.r.osou, .,,o.
!, ! clco'I"i'! M nv H'T%;;o ,I;; "Gptoatu '.iI
e','a ii. , ruu'ro Lu'ru a'i'
july, 'nr Io.to"ui.s ~ inm Hr," @ uIc 'nu ntMa-
hhl halo'lS anu tn' .I a.! I'r
Inc GullorIu!H nIc .nu 'aM!t's preliminary
SIcrc"I"' o'n''.S ..i "nC Tn"E tr.! ,mran ~
pr9'c uS tnc Us.i''onS u ii1 ieiiaune MiunesS.S
anu @ 'Hr ,"l1 ,h any h to,.or .L .h'
~ 10 soos ~ r,bicb tbo Ion,rcr for tbe
as as ne sees ~, ml''h ill., ,hh hu; ,nm!cr l1r ihe M
P'alIiIh OF "salnel MN uIlnks ouI ny MS
questioning Ut c'oS" 'Vu'S''on'is'
IF ONE believes that the soviet is
l. wholesome form of government for Russia
and possibly for America eventually, and
if he buys a newspaper to push that theory
how futile TO publish any news that he
thinks confirms his views without caption
that will give his editorial arguments a
gentle Jolt in the right direction TO n stupid
bur we'll meaning public The stupider the
public, the bigger the caption. And since,
being a genuine soul, no doubt, he is con-
vinccd that all the facts prove his theory
about the soviet. and only the falschoods
can be used on the other sdc, what more
justifablc than to omit what are obvious
falscho0ds or throw doubt upon them by n
cautionary caption?
>ro o,y>r-p q, ,ov.,no,or b,,rs .ho
NJ v" u o"'S '"'
~ paper 70 give the pupIic the news just
as news. re buyS thc paper to give the
genera public the news so cdlted as to make
IT th" right news IN ms mind' Tor the pub
hc to read, ana ne chooses an "dltor who
feels ina general way about the needs OF the
p"opI" and the tcllhg OF inc news to nj
,nc nccua " 'hc pIrG;p'' oIitouinI LIS icaS' hnu
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