NEWSPAPER HEADINGS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 272, 14 May 1912, Page 7

NEWSPAPER HEADINGS.

To the Editor. Sir. —May I enter a mild protest against the adjectives used in tlie headings of newspaper items. Many who are too busy to read through the paper just scan the headings and so get their news. This morning (Monday) gives instances,! viz: "The Native Question" is really ] "The Liquor Question"; and "A Mild i ■Riot" is a "Drunken "Riot." and so on. Now, people 'blame the natives for the evils they commit, and the young men's high spirits for the riot; whereas readers should know that the native is as harmless as any one else, if free of the liquor; and so with the young men. "Honor to whom honor is due" is sound practice; so is the converse thereof: "Blame where, blame is due"; and the blame in the above cases, and in many more as they appear in your columns, should be piit on the alcohol consumed 'by the participants in these troubles, riots, and debaucheries. By the way, Sir, T would thank you for so arranging the matter on page's of your paper, viz., that Admiral Fawke's idea of what the British Navy should do in the Pacific was put so close to that cablegram about South Africa. The Admiral knows what is the cause of the mischief. —T am, etc., M.