"Funny Old Bat"

Like the New York Evening Post, the august Times last week gave an editorial shudder at the picture of a corpse on an autopsy table, front-paged by Macfadden's blatant Graphic (TIME. Sept. 28). The Times charged the tabloid with "ghoulishness," revealed that the forbidden picture had been snapped through a window which "may explain, but it only aggravates, the offense."

In an editorial captioned OUR PHOTOGS ARE KEEN BOYS, on a page headed with TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE-- "God is Love," the Graphic replied: ". . . It was the least gruesome of all the pictures New York newspapers published of the murdered man's body. It . . . encompassed the whole Collings mystery story. It was a picture of murder and the forces of society at work attempting to unravel the mystery. . . . "As to the matter of theft ... the Times would count any photographer on its staff a total loss who folded his camera and went home merely because some one told him not to make a picture. The Times is a funny old bat of a sheet, anyhow."

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