Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-01
THE ,rcsnd oil two nstabie articles
by Er. T.. \. Eqodhnc written during
MS ,i>il vita thr famous author in
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N 70 ho be ,au,e TIE 10y Social
list. and was arrested for street-taik-
ing. His heart was so full Of What
he considered the wrongs Of his class
that lie set about at once 10 right
them. and did what every youth does
wn0 feels tic social burden and has
iBIaGinatiOu enough 10 believe there
is a remedy. He turned revolution
list. anarchist. fiOuting the red flag.
Who can doubt that this attitude
towards "pIutoCracy, and the intel
leCtuaI force that backed ii were IN
large part responsible for the bull
dog tenacity with which he has been
misunderstood, reviled and denounc-
ed by the press?
Next. what do we see this literary
orang-outang," as he has been call
ed, doing to develop the latent pow
ers which were surging for express
sion, Quietly studying - leaving
things easy to do by muscular con-
traction, and taking up intangible
matters for mind food-perhaps the
hardest work an unframed student
can do.
Then the burden of the family
came. His father was dead and into
his youthful hands were thrust the
necessities of earning.
The few who know the story-fOr
it isn't told from house-tops - know
that Jack London's father left debts.
and that these debts were taken up
by the son and little by little honest
H., n1nthnr nr0ViH06
for. Her present home and mainte-
nance are free offerings from her
boy Sisters, nieces and more distant
relatives are recipients of his boun-
tiful generosity.
These are small things. Yes, but
they go well with preaching.
On child-labor Mr.. London uttered
his word Here I stand" he said,
"let the. fight begin" Now you get a
clear light upon the growth of his
character and upward tendencies Of
his active mind!
Strange, isn't it, that this brute,
this unfeeling, unsentimental upstart
should gradually, surely, take the
Christian and ethical position on ev-
cry great question? That he should
swing true like eternal equivalence!
A mans man, yet he defends woman
and grants her the right to suffrage.
Women are the true conservators
of the race. The men are the vast
rels, the adventurelovers, the gam
blers, and, in the end, it is by their
women that they are saved There
never has been a day when the wom-
en- have not resented mans use of al
cohol. though they have never had the
power to give weight to their resent
ment. The moment women get the
vote in a community, the first thing
they do. or try to do, is to close the
saloons"
AS to Prohibition, which his strong
proclivities have led him
to espouse:
"In the past, you see it is the men
who have attempted to enforce pro-
hibition-and failed. The women will
act with more sincerity and energy,
and they will not fail"
81 cannot think" said Mr.. London
recently to a New York interviewer,
that woman is in any great danger
4 OLI COll-
sciously or unconsciously is ever look
ing for the father of her children.
And for their sakes she will not allow
the stream of her own life to become
nor, where she can help
herself, the stream of mems lives"
In his novels We, have Mr.. London
opinions regarding woman and the
home. The other day in answer to a
question put to him by San Fran
cisco reporter. he replied: 81 be-
lieve in marriage. The march Of civil
liZation has proven our monogtomy
and shown it to be the best PROPOSE
ton along those lines for the human
race. l insist that all the people who
work for me be married. I'm not 60
iEg to have any promiscuity around
here"
A symposium edited by Or. Victor
Robinson classes Jack London as a
sociologist. and certainly his intense
in biology and allied subjects.
his extensive reading of the best sci
entific books upon sociology. Grimm
Clogy, entitle him to this name Dr.
Lydston has dedicated a book to Mr..
London. who says in late magazine:
Il believe that it is much wiser to
alter an ,indivfdu;T before puberty
than it IS to execute him by hanging
CT electrocution, or to execute by
hanging or alectrocution the seed of
his loins, because said seed has inner
tied the criminal and social destruct-
iveness of said loins. | believe that
the future human world belongs
to- eugenics. and will be determined
by the practice of eugenics.
dent believe in capital punishment.
1t is too silly. In my new novel
! just say what is said by every we'll
known criminologist in the world
Everybody who thinks knows it, and
they have been hiring little halls and
telling it to each other. I'm
trying to get some of these IDEAS over
to fiction readers. Dozens know that
today it is possible to sentence man