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to be done, each issue contains general information in regard to some phase of city government; and questions on district conditions to be an answered and returned. The League has departments of legal aid, finance, league affiliation, conferences, educational, labor bureau, excuse, tenement houses, lodging houses, labor membership and organization, baths and lavatories.
The central thought of the whole book is the advocacy of positive and constructive work. All other considerations and all discussions of ways and means centre around this as the ultimate end; to quote from Dr. Tolman, "in a word, municipal provision for the needs and even the comforts of all the component parts of a great city."
F. H.WOOD.
News.
Brief comment was made in these columns last week on the singular absence of the sense of the commercial value of truth in many newspaper offices, and the failure to appreciate the want, which one constantly hears expressed among readers of newspapers, of some journal which should give authentic intelligence. Another singular lack of perception in these same news-paper offices is to be found in the absence of the relative value of what is called news. A good many editors seem to interpret the word "news" as meaning only the abnormal, the immoral, and the sensational. Information about the normal, healthy life of the world is reduced to the smallest possible compass; its crimes, diseases, insanities, lusts, and perversities are magnified out of all propotion to their real importance. Not many weeks ago the first, and therefore the most important, page of one of the leading journals in the country was filled, on Sunday morning, with monotonous reports of local crimes and scandals. There was not a word about what was going on in the great world; no recognition of national, governmental, religious, educational, or philantropic movements; no comment on the industrial life of men; but an entire page surrendered to local
thefts, arsons, and crimes! The absence of the sense of the relative value of news is strikingly shown in the way most newspapers treat the colleges. There are a few journals of high standing which regularly report news but the vast majority of the newspapers, except at commencement season, surrender space to the colleges only where there is some disturbance to report; and every college officer knows from sad experience that the slightest infraction of the law, the least outbreak of youthful exuberance, is elaborated and padded until it fills a column or columns, and is treated as if it were a matter of international importance. The college reads with surprise a report which is practilcally fresh and novel to its members as to its other readers. The normal life of the college, the work it is doing, the healthy manhood growing up in it, the lessons of obedience, manliness, and sobriety learned by the great mass of students, the increase of endowments, the additions made to knowledge—these things are not "news." News consists mainly of reports of college rows! Evidently there is dense ignorance, not only of the popular cry for something addressed to the intelligence of men and not to their vilest curiosity and their meanest tastes, but of the meaning of the word "news;" for news does not mean simply the abnormal and the scandalous.-The Outlook.
Read This Letter. KANSAS CITY, Mo.FEB. 18th, 1896.
Dear Sir:
With the progress that is being made in Fine Tailoring, as well as in other branches of art, it is found necessary in order to get Individuality into clothing to make them, as it were, on the man who is to wear them. As it is not convenient for students to come to Kansas City to try on their clothes before completion; in order to give them the benefit of a "try on," I have arranged to come to Lawrence every week for that purpose and may be found in the Gymnasium every Thursday from 9 a. m. to 3p. m.
I shall make it a practice to press and keep in repair clothes of our own make which will be brought to Kansas City and returned the next week, free of charge.
F. B. ROBINSON,
824 DELEWARE ST.