The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-08-22

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tive concepts may serve for q night
Of spellbinding, but settled exactitude
cometh with the bi-party morning.
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The printers In eight Job ofices OF
Salt Lake City are out on strike,
but the employers are keeping open
house for bushes and say that they
the taking all the work which Is be-
ing offered. Striking just at this
time shows more foolhardiness than
patriotism on the part Of any body
Of workers. {
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The Bubon.c plague epidemic In
New Orleans Is more than such hys.
teric OF y health commissioned as the
people Of Seattle claim they were re-
Gently afflicted with. In New Orleans
they have been twenty deaths TO date
from the dread mslady.,
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A assusc,rArso
WRITER
The Saturday Evening Post of to-
day has an article on "Safety At
Sea" BY Morgan Robertson.
NJ. Robertson wrote the auto-bi.
ographed narrative, Gathering No
Moss In the same weekly some four
months ago.
The latter writing was anonymous,
and told very Interesting and pa
thetic story Of writer who, after
having published fourteen books and
over two hundred short stories, had
lost the punch" and could not sell
his manuscripts.
Booth Harrington, who writes real
literature wrote to the editor Of the
"Bookman.' insisting that Mr.. Rob
ertson was mentally possessed OF
many good stories that the public
should have, but that the food Of
new genirses was submerging him.
Harrington recognized the authorship
of the anonymous Moss" story from
the writer having been sailor and
q diamond setter and asked II some
thing could not be done to aid Rob-
ertson.
= 1t Is almost an old saw, that 1t re-
quires genius to discover ability in
another; but the fact that Sydnor
Harrison's "Que1d" was rejected by
two publishers seems quite enough to
prove that Jack London was none too
severe when he lambasted the critics
in his mastery way in Martin
Eden''
II the authors would form an as
ISOLATION to publish magazines con-
tanning their own work. each promi-
nent writer to serve month or two
each year as final Judge Of manu-.
script, then this wide arraignment Of
supposititious critics might soon
wane to negligible size.
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SIGN OF sMooT
STRENGTH
At the recent Republican primar-
les in Salt Like City Senator Shoots
forces won q complete victory. which
forecasts. without any credible SEM
blance Of doubt, the senior Senator's
victory in November.
The fact that Senator Smoot Is
known throughout the nation as one
of the ablest ana most energetic Of
U. s. Senators has trickled SO thor
oughly through this state that thous-
ands of former Progressives have
seen the cross imprudence OF voting
to send new, inexperienced man in
hic place and our senior Senator VIII
be triumphantly reelected, regardless
of the fact that he is opposed by
many active politicians who wish to
see a new division OF the offices.
Senator smoot is working for Utah
interests all the time, and has there
fore, little or no time in which to
placate pie hunters.
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THEN WHY NOT
BE TOLERANT
There is no legal reason why big
business should not hire ready writ
ers and publicize its position. Just
as the government does its attitude.
But big business pleads guilty be-
fore it is accused, and fears the fact
will come out that 1t has paid for
legitimate services rendered.
Let Brandeis jump out of dark
corner and Shout "Boo!" and big
business shouts for mercy.
It is idle to berate Washington,