The Nome daily nugget., 1914-01-06

IL has been said that professional literary critics have never been known to write good book or short story. II Is said that very few dramatic crit ics can write a play, and a glance at the names of the writers of fiction and of drama and at the names of their critics would bear this out
 It is an acknowledged fact that the best art critics are men who can nt ithrr paint nor sculpture and that the lives of some of the loudest shout CTS in the line of moral criticism are not above reproach.
 The habit of eternally criticising others is liable to so warp the mind of the critic that he can see no good ir anything and that he often thinks that because he sees so much that IS wrong in the other felwlow he must be perfect himself
 It is had habit. this criticising everything any anything. Some news rapers have fallen into it and they become an eternal bore It is not good journalism to find fault with all things as they are. with all people as they are and with all other papers with in, exception of the particular one on which the critic happens to he em- ployed There is some good in every thing. Even in a bad play. or book or policy or paper.
 The eternal critic is the destruc- tionist. the demolisher of society and of social institutions and laws. It is one of the strongest holds of socialism. Criticising and tearing down and that order of mind. There are. of course some clever minds among the social ists. as there are among all classes Of critics These are the leaders and they are usually leading for reasons oc their own and not because they be- lieve what they are preaching to their followers
 The critic of policies and of parties and of world methods Is like the critic of the drama and of art and of liter. aturc. He sees and loudly calls at tcntion to the faults of others but he could not to save his soul. or his life it he has no soul. produce anything half as good as that which he crit icises.
 One of the worst things about the perpetual and eternal critic of all mankind is that after while he be- comes so warped in his ideas as to be unable to See anything good in his fellow men at all.
 Then his criticism will come back upon himself and strike in and. while he will not know what Is the matte. with him he will be suffering from that most pitiful of all diseases crit icismitis
 There are many men who have this disease. but more often it is found among the female of the species. We see her and hear her every day throughout the broad land. She is the woman who talks about her neigh Dor and spreads scandal and believes and magnifies all that she hears that is bad about her friends and acquaint- ances and belittles all that Is good. f this gentle little woman. who has her hammer always out for her friends. but knew 1t. she b far more open to criticism than are they.
 This criticism habit is one that married people often fall into and it is the cause of more unhAppiness in married life than any other one thing. For people may say what they like. it is human nature to crave little praise occasionally.
 The very man who criticises art and drama and literature does so with the hope that HIS work will be prais- ed. The man who criticises social conditions and political conditions dces so with the hope that what he writes and says will meet with favor.
 But the eternal critic and faulthnd- CT is bore. curse upon society. He ought to be vaccinated and get oyer it