The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-08
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TINE newspaper treatment Of the trial mas peen
i the highest example of restraint conscience and
public service within your correspondents experience
in the press Inspired by the purest motives and
mindful of the sanctity of sober justice the papers
have imposed rigid discipline upon themselves
through the long hearing in Pennington.
1t may have been noticed too, that only the regu-
lar staff reporters or trained observers as they are
called, have been employed on the trial TO the eX
clusion of lady noveists, detective story cruhoo-
gsts broadcasterS, trained seals and all other pro-
fessional miscellany whose essays might have had
tendency to dstort or exaggerate the proceedings
If at the conclusion of the trial any newspaper
should find that despite its conscientious efforts, IL
has come through the period with lift in circula-
ton and profit above the normal, the management
will feel very unhappy about the extra circulation
and will donate the surplus money to school OF
ethics for the movie industry
Of all the attorneys in the case, Edward j. Reilly,
for the defense has established the finest record Tor
dignity, professional integrity and decency Perhaps
the nobeSt act in all his department, II one may
single out one instance from the general pertecton
of his conduct his unsupported insnuation that
old DR.. Condor, the Jafsie of the ransom negota-
lions, at some early stage in his career had been
disciplined by the New York Board of Education for
wetting his lips and faring his nostris at females
the teaching staff.
Still Mr. Reilly's expeditionary letterheads, bear
ing on the left margin red drawing of the Ndnap-
er's ladder, the symbol of the case, is in almost
equally good taste. So perhaps it would be better
just say that Mr. Reillys conduct has been perfect
throughout and always conducive to quiet justice
and the prestige of his honorable profession.
The OfenSe Is Forgotten
THE radio companies in broadcasting the trial
have been equally high-mnded and governed
strictly by desire to further public education and
public health Consistent with this policy, they have
sought to mnge their tidngs with honest praise Of
a commercial commodity intended to assist digestion,
promising a handsome educational booklet on the
trial. replete with pictures, in return for dozen
coupons If profit should to the radio COM
panes or the manufacturer of the little remedy that,
of course, would be too bad and great humiliation
to them.
Some moving picture companies, however, seem
to have been insensibe of any of the fine motives,
ethics and feelings with which the trial other
wise invested. Such companies took moving pictures
of the trial for the that they take pic
lures of festivals, the launching of coast guard
cutters, and parachute jumps, namely, to their
customers and make money for the executives and
stockholders.
These companies have not even the grace to pre-
tend that this done in the interest of justice,
education, peace, the farmer the rights of small
nations. It is about the most cynical and callous
act in the entire Lindbergh since the original
crime, which, Incidentally seems to have been some
sort of kidnapping although the exact nature Of the
offense has long been forgotten.
Copyright, 1885. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc)