Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-13

and prodigality that makes this writer
dig deep into the facts of modern
life as it is lived. that makes his stor-
les hit a man where he lives" as l
heard a business man confess one day
in a Pullman smoker. and that makes
women bristle and protest al the mer-
CHESS tearing away of carefully con-
lstructed feminine masks? Maybe il
Phillips had Joined the country colony
he would be satisfied to write about
the four hundred or golf and tennis
girls, or the bold reformer who carries
all before him in stories.
This line of thought was interrupted
by h entrance of Mr.. Phillips him
self. He wore a long dressing gown
and explained that he had u shortly
finished bath and breakfast. The
time was late forenoon but this does
not mean that Mr.. Phillips sleeps NOR
than the allotted hours of the average
man. As he explains deprecatingly
IT is the survival of habits acquired
in the days when he was a newspaper
J reporter which leads him TO do much
Of his writing after midnight, 20 retire
shortly before sunrise and to begin
his day well or toward noon
Leaning owe a reading desk like
that habitually used by clergymen ana
public speakers, on which most Of his
work Is done, for Mr.. Phillips writes
his stories standing up at this pulpit
like desk, the novelist smilingly shook
his head at the explanation had
formulated of the particular tread Of
his literary activities.
That's an interesting theory he
commented, but I am afraid it is
hardly correct. Each one of US must .
write about what interests him. what
appeals to him, what demands to be 3,
written by him. The setting may diff /,
according 10 environment but the !
essential truth must be life as we see f,
IT, or those phases of life which we !
see most clearly" :
But you must admit that your :
books result in far more controversy =,
and discussion han do the stories Of =
many other successful writer's. How do :
explain that? p" !
Il don't" said Mr.. Phillips prompt
y. Il never thought of 1t. Stin it
nay be true and it may be because .
write about what is as distinguished !,
rom what was or what ought to be.
lou see nobody gets very angry over a..
what's portrayed in a story in which
he action takes place several ZEN :.
uries ago or in what happens in that +,
'urely imaginary world where an the -
nen are marvelously handsome strong
nd good, except the few who are
bad, and where the wo-
len are invariably perfect and inn "
eccable. But when a woman sees her I
retty deceits and shams put into -
.pe and a man reads an u-nvarnished {,
escrtption of the particular piracy =
. which he has become wealthy il
urts and they protest and %denounce ~
get red in the face with their =
utcry against the author" "
Then you don't consider it a writ
IS duty to please the public2 X
No, | don't" said Mr.. Phillips,
18th an emphatic gesture. while ne
# his stand n strobe up and down
lie room. Il consider it a writer's
lty to write about what he knows.
hat does he know? The life that
les on around him is all that he can Br
Suppose I were to write about av
e past, about what was. But er,
mt know was and the more / th'
ad those who profess To know the iur
'onger grows my suspicion that mo- we
dy knows"
shall ! write about what, ought to "a
? How do ! know what ought to be? tbe
ion't even know what ought not 10 The
for many things | once thought Mr.
rses u9on the race / now see, We're Cir
fact the means to its development gar
strength and well being. Out OF
lth comes life. out of vice comes NlI
tue, out of injustice comes justice. ~
things breed decay and disease: "a
Dad Things breed h8di'h. War cloi
ches peace, cruelty teaches mercy, wit
teaches brotherhood and free clai
the
! write my opinions Library alie
Ives sag under the weight of count mac
volumes of opinions that have app
we'd simply to give pleasure To ego hdu
ic writer's, to spare other writer's n,,
ally worthless the trouble of think M
ana TO obscure IN dense envelopes stol
the facts of life that some day that
on!iShtcn ~.G redeem lho void. cf
So you see, all that is left 10 "Br
te about is what is" he continued, n
hing with an outward sweep of the yer
DIS that seemed to brush all but
initial facts aside. 1T might seem II,
ms 't"""e"- p"' Dist
~ DO not HiGSt OF these can
about the thing that Is really Brot
e about what they think ought to Brya
or what the world has agreed simiI
exists though it does not eX- Wort
what creeds political, social, re- p"is
- =, veal
my arr ialse anu Lu'ii'' HNpu 81
."l anu RIDICULOUS l tiE y" Ten fusio
To- a. H NJ T...m
les Try TO prevent myself from BRO.
ng in with truth little doses Of
7 t mink w oug5' .s to De b otsn; or Of We
q be more pnnular. FOR The Truth