Big News

It would be far-fetched to describe as fights such events as the solar eclipse, the President's in auguration, the income tax publicity; but the element of strife is more or less discoverable in the following:

The Shenandoah disaster

Floyd Collins entombed at Cave City

Gunnar Kasson's race to Nome

The coal strike

The Caillaux mission

The Rhinelander case

Gerald Chapman

Amundsen's attempted dash to the Pole

Colonel Mitchell's attack on the Army and Navy

The Karolyi case

Red Grange

Locarno

Tammany's defeat of Hylan

Paavo Nurmi

The oil reserves

The fight over Charles B. Warren

The Italian debt negotiations

The PN-9--No. 1, disabled off Hawaii

Those were--according to three metropolitan news editors and to Charles Merz, writer for the New Republic--the outstanding or "big news" stories for 1925, with the Scopes trial at Dayton in a class by itself as biggest story of all. Having tabulated, the New Republic writer then deduced as prime dogma of U. S. journalism that the public likes a fight. "There is not much out of which to make a story in a love feast."