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"I said I would not go," the girl said today. "Mrs. Os- wald insisted and I ran out into the back yard to get away from her. She followed me, pulling my hair and slapping my face until I became angry and threw a brick at her. "She dodged and the brick struck my mother in the head. None of us thought the accident serious at the time. A few days ago mother began to feel badly and now she is dead. I did not think of doing anything so dreadful." The girl and her father, Herman Denlow, when questioned by the police, told a consistent story, which was corrobor- ated by neighbors. Many a reader who merely glances over the head- lines will get the impression that here is a murder caused by drinking beer. Those who read the item through will do so under the impression created by the headline that the whole trouble was due to the can of beer which no one got. As a matter of fact, beer had nothing whatever to do with the case. Now, why did the copy-reader who wrote the head- lines represent the matter in that manner? Simply because a reference to beer in connection with a fight makes good reading, and the brewer is an outlaw and entitled to no respect. It is a habit they have, our newspaper men. They do not mean any ill, and prob- ably do not realize the harm and injustice they are doing. But imagine the thousands of items every day