The Nome daily nugget., 1914-01-06

literary critics have never been known to write a good book or short story. It is said that very few dramatic crit ics can write a play. and a glance at tho 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 ne ither 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 crittcising others is liable to 50 warp the mind of the critic that he can see no good in anything and that he often thinks that because he sees 90 much that is wrong in the other feIwiow he must be perfect himself.
 It is bad habit. this criticising everything any anything. Some news rapers have fallen into 1t 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 the exception of the particular one on which the critic happens to be em- rloyed. There is some good in every thing. Even in bad play. or book or policy or paper.
 The eternal critic Is the destruc- tionist. the demoiisher of society and of social institutions and laws. It is one of the strongest holds of socialism. criticising and tearing down and that is why 1t appeals usually to the lower order of mind. There arc. 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 o. their own and not because they be- Iicve what they are preaching to their followers.
 The critic of policies and of parties md 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 # he has no soul produce anything half as good ns that which he crit icises.
 Ono of tho worst things about the perpetual and eternal critic of all mankind Is that after while he be- comes 90 warped In his ideas as to Dc unable to see anything good in his fellow men at all.
 Then hls criticism will come back upon himself and strike in and. while he will not know what is the matter with him hc will bc suffering from that most pitiful of all diseases crit icismitis.
 There are many men who have this disease. but more often 1t is found among the female of the species. We see her and hear her every day throughout the broad land. Shc is the woman who talks about her neigh bor 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. If this gentle little woman, who has her hammer always out for her friends. but knew it. she is far more open to criticism than are they.
 This criticism habit is one that married people often fall into and 1t Is the cause of more unhappiness in married lifo than any other one thing. For people may say what they like. it ia human nature to crave little praise occasionally.
 Tho vcry man who criticises art md drama and literature does so with tho hope that HIS work will be prais- ed. The man who critic:ses social conditions and political conditions dccs SO with tho hope that what he writes and says will meet with favor. s I,ut the eternal critic and faultfnd- CT is Q bore. curse upon society. He ought to be vaccinatsd and gst over 1t.