Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1921-09-22

ohu NlAe WoiiiA8 puyeTS WHO hdu
hitherto been doubtful as to fur
ther deflation begin confidently
placing orders
The Charlotte News of day
or two ago observed that the cit
les composing the South Atlantic
league had bad all the baseball
they wanted for the present sea-
son and that the attendance ut
the games had fallen off recently
to practically nothing. All of
which doubtless is true. And the
statement being true, why do
The News and other papers pub
lished in the league cities con-
tinue to print practically as
much matter about the games as
they did when there was real i'll
terest, shared in by many, in the
outcome of the pennant racer
There is quite as much to be said
in behalf of the club owners for
giving the public a longer season
than it wanted as there is for the
newspapers which are printing
long accounts of the games which
the same public does not care to
read. Bat however much inter
est in baseball may have ranrd
III this section in the last three
or four weeks, there still is more
general interest in the gamr than
there will be at any time in the
football clashes which are sched-
uled to take place within the
next two months. Baseball; is the
national pastime. Practically rv-
crybody understands and likes
Ihc game. Football is largely a
college game and by and larg"
interest IN it is confined to col
Icee circles. In the face OF this
statement of fact, why do tn" dai-
ly newspapers print column after
r'lGmn in their every issue ior
weeks prior to and during the
football season about the game
when they must know that it is
Of no interest to Il large section
OF those who buy their papers,
The Times holds no brief :ol
,he ku kluX klan. The urtc.'
may be even worse, AS this paper
naS before observed. than it's en-.
.nles paint it, but before we be-
.icve all or even considerable
part of the charges of lawlesSncSS
which are being made against the
klan we shall demand trustwor-
ehy evidence-not the evidence
OF prejudiced witnesses such aS
he New York World or Leslies
Weekly. both publications which
improve upon every opportunity
20 criticiSe the South and every.
hing Southern. Nominally the
New York World is Democratic
Al. politics-usually it supports
the party candidates for the pres.
ldency and vice presidency and
prefers to be known as Demo.
cratic III State politics. From
this fact it would seem therefore
hat The World would be kindly
disposed toward the South, but,
strange as it may seem, just the
reverse is true. Let lynching
'ake place III the South and The
World Immediately fires broad
side of denunciation at this whole
'ectlon,apparently vieing with tho
Chicago Tribune III the use of ly-
!hg adJectlves to misrepresent the
people who live south of Mason
and Dixon line. Unfortunately.
ihe World has national circula-
ton and is one of the most infm-
entail papers in the country. Its
attitude of hostility toward and
misrepresentation of the South
has done this section an immeas-
urable amount of harm. In con-
nection with its opposition to the
hu klux klan, The World, as
was to be expected, has gone out
o. ITS way to denounce the South
as a lawless section in which nei-
ther life nor property rights are