New-York tribune., 1921-06-01

der if the Prohibition Parade
will fall to have the 100000 who said
they'd march in it.
Perhaps the Committee will guaran-
tee drink to all who have completed
the line of march. Speaking of which,
one of our various and disintegrating
maladies, according to our physician,
and II he cures US, we shall promote
him to a Brigadier- -Generalship-is
lew blood pressure. 'How about
drinking?" we asked. "Better for you
than not" said he.
The best anti-prchibition parades
we know anything about are those that
occur during the hour preceding pub
lie dinners. The tip is passed that if
you go down to Room 1861, Eddie
wouldn't mind giving you one. Room
1861, you find, is replete with earnest
and militant marchers in the anti-pro-
hibition parade.
we never have had our stuff edited.
In response to prayer from The
Michigan Gargoyle we wrote, for The
Gargoyle's Old Timers number, four
stanzss. The Gargoyle elided one
stanza.
If The Yale Record ever edits our
stuff we shall resign our honorary
membership on the board and return
the gold charm we received yesterday
Somebody wrote The Emporia Ga
zette the other day to ask why 1t had
omitted mention of two big divorce
suits. care you shielding them be-
cause they are big bugs?" the letter
writer asks. "Does the fact that man
has money keep his name out of the
paper when he runs around with other
women and when poor devil gets
drunk you slap his name in the pa
peri" Whomunto Editor W. A. White
responds thus:
That is fair question The answer
is this; For 26 years The Gazette has
made an invariable rule to keep di-
vorce scandals out of the local news.
Also, we have had an invariable rule
to print the actual news sof divorces,
the names of the parties, the causes
briefly stated, and the disposition of
the children, if any. The community
has right to this news. But the har-
rowing details that mark the wreck Of
any home are not news; they are often
saiacious, sometimes debasing, and al
ways abnormal. We have felt that the
wreck of Il home is bad enough; but to
pry among the wreckage is ghoulish.
SO readers of The Gazette who want
Emporia divorce scandals elaborated
should subscribe for some other pa
per.
Now about the drunk. The man who
fills up with whisky and goes about
public nuisance. If permitted to con-
tinue it he becomes public charge.
The public has an interest in him.
Publicity is one of the things that
keeps him straight. His first offense
Is ignored in the Gazette, but his Sec
ond otTense is recorded when he is ar
rested, and no matter how high or how
low he is his name goes in. We have
printed this warning to drinkers time
and~agaln; so when they come around
asking US to think of their wives and
children, or their sick mothers or poor
old fathers, we always tell them to re-
member that they had fair warning.
and if their fathers and mothers and
wives and children are nothing to them
before taking they are nothing to us
after taking.
The bum and the divorce are treated
always from the standpoint of the com
munity interest
In Brookline, M. B. S. used to sing it
":oh say can you see by the Dornseriey
Light" And for a long time a contrib
whose card has been lost thought the
line was "A boob and Adams made
their tribe increase"
AS for us, it was years after before
VIC knew who the gentleman was that
Poe referred to as Mr.. Midregion
O'Weir. T. p. A