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'17-* THE PIQUA'CAI THAT “SCOOP”WAS SCOOPEDThe Munchausen Philosophers Are Not ‘All* Dead Yet—Some Still Live to Tell Theirit:'-'DEATHLESS STORY0000Of Wonderful and L1.' id Events Which Never Occurred.—Unfortunate Evolution of Sunday School Scholars Into a Bunch of Irresponsible Prevaricators and “Yellow Writers of the Press.icI.\lMany yours agoBaron Munchausen made a reputation Cor ilu* .Icsoriplfam of the mat-rollons, the thrilling. the unreal, lit* Impossible, the absurd ami I ho untrue. The rcrult was thathe established his ffiiult;U5 a delinea-ior of ibe fictitious and his name lias ennie down io onr rimes as the rep* icsoutaMve writer of Ihose ihinga which never occurred. But the Baron wa* never routf literal a model for writer? nr the press for it was the original conception of the fathers of journalism to publish the news and prill lt;the truth nearly us It could he ascertained. This is still the standard doctrine of respectable journalism. ami misrepresentation, false coloring, exaggeration and the pro* lueLicin of falsehood for gain is ta-ISbyjfrLlooks and -‘prominence of the neat’ | victims and the' lt;!anieglu niedulu— most of which Wver'teciirrcd—arfof* lows:Belle font a Inc. Ohio., July '±2— Friends of City • Solicitor Bell of I’iqmi, who uaved from drowning beau tiful ID-year-old tllth Crauston and her hither. B. M. Cranston. at Ru» sell’s point last-week, naked the Car-' ncgie hero fund commission 1o pro-sent him with :i mcilal Wednesday, They say Bell's feat Is almost without parallel.According to those who sow the itfscuc, Bell was silting on the bank of ihc Lewistown reservoir when Miss Cranston dove oul of a boat In which she and her father were, and tar toil to swim toward shore.She was making good progress when fihe suddenly called nut Oh, pap and sank.Cranston, who tvns following the. girl, leaped uul of the boat and SFtrucV out for licr, Imt wjis taken with cramps and sank, ton. Bell lushed down the.fcauk and made for the polut where Ihc two had gone down.Me found them struggling in the water and brought Ihcin to the sur-fuee together, Me look one on each arm and buoyed ihvin lu tho boat.Witnesses say his double rescue is wonderful because it was nccom plishcii in loss • Lluui a minute. They also point out that lie had not been in the water for 15 years, and was out of practice. His wife and two babies saw the act.Cranston !s .a wealthy- manufacturer of Piqua. and his - daughter fcMitli. ji*«l out of preparatory school Is the belle of the lowu.Slic is a bounty of the willowy blond lype and is very popular She s very anxious that Belt he given a Tuectn) ami is herself working in his behalf.''B. TBTha HiCaro!Older1The Covl Evening*bv honorable writers every-hancetfenonuni is his mi don s alsoturnedhad a of the t yeariverl n * Nafa* asking pupils e-in anco to soon csill giveilien beme ox-i hopes ^•ho will and thethe way hort dis-stnntfts to try In sn. TFrims andfirst pub-wlmming leads in and bas-not lead»use near Cheap atGEMANRE WASppcoached ic and Sy y evening ids iwjigon ng wherlt;* ch of Ihr g to drive be struck n coming, ht-5 attract-jd Lindseyty of room is tiec-css-the tract* east I rack going over e wav wasbooedwhere In Christendom. When doing Ihrir best to eliminate I he untrue and separate the wheat of fact from the chaff of gossip the most conscientious of workers will make some mistakes and have an occasional error to rectify..But one reading Juch a newspaper will nnt often he misinformed or led into serious error and can generally bank on his printer.However, within a few years a yellow. Insincere, sensational, extravagant and flamboyant style of journalism has knocked at our doors find demanded notice. This yellow press ha.-* sought to change the primal standard of journalism from a rola lion of facts and ibe reporting of what really occurs, tn a neglectful attitude toward the truth and a lurid de scription of a lot of thrilling hut Imag Inarv events which never happen. In some slates they have laws tending to rapids this yellow genius but it is. hardly necessary as the man who resorts to H is soon spotted by ieput-ahle. people and rapidly loses the re* sped of those whose opinions are valuable.There is also another way whereby these exponents of the yellow'* are curbed. That is by the clashing of their own lurid stories, which Tre fluently overlap, and scoop each oth er. These yellow geniuses are always talking of scoops. An in significant mailer in their hands gruws to enormous proportions while an important matter in the hands or another is tabooed, minimized andmisrepresented. Thus it will be seen an alleged scoop can bo. and frequently is, manufactured out of an ■ insignificant affair that does not mer-1 it a four line notice. Such was the )3tc Cranston affair which has fallen from Hie position of a scoop” to that or a iuasri of common lying and it has dragged 1ntu the ditch a couple young journalists who have been cultivating the yellow” at the expense of the sincere and the conscientious. In order to vindicate Ihe principles - of honorable Journalism wc piojume to snow how absurd these people who color their statements and who clvaw un I heir Imagination become.it will he remembered that a sensational story was recently published in the Leader-Dispatch concerning Ihc rescue of Miss Edith Cranston from a watery grave at the' T^ew-istuwn reservoir' by City Solicitor 1*7.M. Bell and it was duly labeled a scoop. Bui the jjcooper never dreamed how his kind or yellow rulks andcircumstances MIGHT :SCOOI* HIM. He did not know that another yallcr” bird, one that could give him cards and spades and then beat him a mile, was on his trail. it.isn't, well for a yellow tn lay loo much unction to liis -oul that he Is a liar. There arc olhera. Some people are only common Mars and they are knocked galley west un,9 crooked when the ar-ifellc yellows- break into ihe game.Now. over at Bellefontaine they I thing. When the first IThe truth about tbis whole mutter was obtained by a' reliable reporter of the CALL'S siaff and au published in aur columns last week is as follows:.Mr. John Cranston, the father of liss Edith Cranston, the young lady who has been made-very iincbriiforta-3le by a story written by one of the so called reporters'or editors of the Leader-Dispateh, that told of he narrow escape and thrilling rescue ol the young lady gave a CALL teporler . ttils morning the complete story of Mias Crauaton’s adventure.Mr. Cranston said he took the boat which was always used when the. campers were in swimming and then rowing out until he reached water about ion feet deep called to Edith, who was bathing Just on the edge 6t deep water, telling her to swim to the boat. Miss Cranston did so and when within a few fcut of ’it ho says she thought, the boat was moving away from her and called to him Io put the oar oul so .she could take held of it.He did *o,. his daughter .attempted io take hold of the oar but missed it.Any . person knowing anything about awimming. knows that a parly in attempting to do what Miss Cranston : at temp led will for a second go under water. This he says is Just what happened t,o Miss Edith. Mr. Cranston Jumped out of the boat and when he cnmo up Mr. Pelt -who was within five feet of thy scene had hol.t of Miss Cranston's arm. The young lady just laughed at the affair and was not even strangled by ilie water, as she kppt her mouth shut. Nothing was thoughl of the matter anil the three t]id not even leave the water. Miss Cranston is well able toswim aud her father told the CALL reporter that he had no fear for his daughter, and if she had not been assisted. she could * bare reached iho boat easily.The joke of the above is that:-. Miss Cranston was in no danger.2. Mr. Cranston was In no danger.3. Mr. Bell did not rescue either of them4. Nir. Bell doc* not claim to have done sn.5. Miss Cranston did not say Ohpap .5. Mr. Bell is in the water frequently and probably takes a hath as often sik once each week and possibly every day.7. Mr. Bell has. no children, and bonce two of them - ,jid not witnessFriday ington Kitorally dfwas whal rhe at ten wag plea with the Ben R. ' the even; iiig » laiof the C«grounds., ■When i duced Sf fork- Oral to • approused the then he * farmer a had his came, pi owner c his dog not use plied,-ill that wa;The s Jects to The cu clans. t; lies and • The i first on the sec third s \vas giv the nvi •Mr. 1 er havt but if he won things i but he tell ii a a tor Ti Southe subject amend, gro wj vote a He I \Var w for const r the SBagge contrt told own i fhen to titt imaginary 'near-tragedyfroiu theof beauty willowyraen’t ride a ‘I’lure from of Kugiess, other rcra mica Salve for Piles, Ms, Fcver-•im. Cores, . Hedges.Dryrs=* t Ahave the real wild and woolly story got on the wing lhat follow begun to sprout giant bean stalk* in his imagination and scent-' mg ihn quarry from afar he rustled down io PJqua, interviewed Mr. Bell oud presumably became cognizant of Mac facts and then to let the Leader-Dhpalch writer know that that parly only the rudiments of color and an cmbryotic imagination, he sen nur io the Columbus Dispatch and oilier papers from Bellefontalne a wonderful story about Mi$s Cranston, aril her father. 15. M. Cranston, or Ptiyia being vn^ -io.i from a damp, wet, liquid and w.\tei grave, at the Lewlsluwii reservoir, that would make nngeL weep.It Is not cojicrivalde that Mr. Beil gave him anything on Vhlch to r.on-■slruct iiis telegrams except the far.l*} htd is we have said facts cut no Ice with th's modern school of yellow jourunhsts. They do .bettor without being hampered with, fads. -. However. as ihe lurid yblmgsicr of Bel-Mont nine throws In'the shade and lt;hning les I lie local lian ’w e reproduce riesrripllon of the . near tlrownfng.thetank or any qHict place..8. Miss Cranston’s Rtyle is no I particularly of the order.0. Miss Cranston never thought or such a thing‘as asking Mr. Carnegie to give Mr. Bell one of liis old' pot-llds. * •LO. Mr. John B. Cranslon js a traveling- salesman, and' no one of the name nf E. M .Cranston lives in I’i-; qua and, • ,It. With the otim-lt;* exceptions and a few dozen oliiers the Bnllefon-.aine- yellow writes interestingly charmingly and tvuihfnlk coDccruing he late much discussed swlni In the Lewlslown reservoir.oamc ing ii the s 3.000. publiiYomaydoiuchan•Resinctthealland one war. see T iy i con peri I! Son •Nbinio. ina h:ir diebutwathlt;ofCI1aa:tin!»*•IIHbisIherecoup liie Jtftro andthe /^oodvMayor of Cincinnati 111.Cincinnati. CV. July 86.—Colonel Leopold MarkljTcit. mayor of Cincinnati ajid editor of the Cincinnati Valksblatt, la critically III aa the result of an cpCTatlon pcrformcrt several month* ago.wtspIxUitolt;l«deinihenrh(Flt;Little Soldiersthe mlIIlone defend youIn your tHoolt;1 of corpuocley that ag*tnat dltoaso.To make and keep these little poIdlers healthy ^nd ftror.g, is aimply Io make and keep Ihc hloo-d of the right quality and quantity.This ih just what Hood’g Sarsaparilla dow—it helps the little ^otdiere in your blood to ffght dioeaoe for you. .It cure* scrofula, eczema, eruptions, catarrht rbeumatiim, anemia, iictyoos-n«*e. d^’spcpeia. general debility, *ud bulWi up the wboia mtem.. r •nelrhi•ii
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Piqua Daily Call
Piqua, Ohio, US
Mon, Jul 26, 1909
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USA 10 Jan 2019
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