Question Of Headlines

One -who has done institntional work aniong the Italians for years wonders why the printedstoriesof affrays aniong those people always are headed "Stabbed by au Italiau," etc. When the Irish or theGemiansfïght, attention isnotcalled to their nationality in headlines, yet ■whenever a man with an Italian sonuding name commits a crime this distiuction invariably is drawn. Italiana fail to see the justice in it. This particular man whose life has been spent aniong the Italians is snre that they do not have recourse to the stiletto as otteu as is represented. They are quick and sndden in quarrel, bnt so are the Irish. Why, then, shonld the Italian be singled out for obloquy? Often, too, it is a Greek with a matea name wno gets íuto a row and ís eredited with being au Italian. In the lower Italiau quarter the Greeks aud the Italiaus are hated rivals, and their similarity in ñames leads frequently to eoufouiiding their nationalities, wheu there is no need, according to this observer, of bringing tbe uatiouality iuto the ques-tiou at