A French reader, under the circumstances, would be compelled to go
through as much as thirty or forty lines of small print before he
secured the desired information. Thus it requires but a brief experience
with American headlines to recognise that when the Chicago _Evening
Post_ says
FINDS ENGLISH FOOD
FOR LAND TAX FAITH
it means that an American single-taxer, who has just returned from Great
Britain, believes that the English people is ready to listen to the
principles of the single-tax theory. And when the New York _Sun_ says
LA FOLLETTE TALKING BOLT
it does not mean that the Senator from Wisconsin is a manifestation of
crashing, celestial eloquence, but that he is advocating a secession
from the Republican party. Can you not see, my friend, what magnificent
economies of time are effected by headlines like
WATCH SPRINGS TRAP
FOR JAPANESE SPY
over a story dealing with the capture of an Oriental suspect by a
sentinel at one of the Pacific Coast forts, or
SCREAMING FRIARS TORTURED
CHILD MOTHER FAINTS
which does not mean that a society of howling friars have been guilty of
an atrocious crime upon an infant in the presence of its mother; or that
a band of religionists are driven by torture to cries of pain, while a
young mother faints at the sight.
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