New-York tribune., 1920-01-03
The Coming Tower
EXPERT VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
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'Cui trdads, Lupe. fli.m maoistro"
After much long and anxious cogitation
Upon the subject Of the education
That you may give your son most properly,
Good Lupus, you are now consulting me.
Ny first advice Is Keep him out Of college,
And never let him have the slightest
knowledge
OF Cicero or Versil: he needs must
Leave these to some professor dry as dust.
And If he should write verses, and you
know It,
Why, lose no time In casting of the poet.
If he should have taste for art, don't bar
The way: Just let him be movie star.
But IL you think in intellect he fails, man,
Just make him a contractor or . salesman.
ADELAIDE.
Mr.. William W. Ellsworth's "A
Golden Age Of Authors" is rich in
reminiscent value. He quotes James T.
Fields on the increase Of crime, which
Fields believed was owing to the read
ing Of immoral and exciting cheap
books. "Mr. Fields" says Mr.. Ellis
worth, visited notorious boy crimi
nal under sentence Of death, and found
that dime novels had been his chief
reading. The boy thought he had read
at least sixty, most Of them stories Of
killing and scalping Indians and rum
ming away with women"
"It IS worth while to quote this"
continues Mr.. Ellsworth, "that we may
appreciate how much better are the
conditions that surround young people
to-day. Many Of them are buying the
Saturday Evening Post (at half the
price of the old dime novel and other
inexpensive but usually clean maya
zines" Like most editors and writer's,
Mr.. Ellsworth overestimates, we be-
lieve, the influence of the printed word.
AS to dime novels,-and we can't re-
call one that we ever paid moro than
&c for,-our guess Is that tho percent
age Of distinguished men who read
them is greater than the percentage Of
criminals who were influenced by their
overstimulation. The last we heard Of
the boy we used to borrow most Of
our Golden Days" and "Old Cap
Collier" from. he was Professor r.
Llewellyn Henry, Of Latin, at Tulane
University, to which post he was ap-
pointed after having finished his course
as Rhodes scholar.
Probably the worst influence in our
young literary life was Horatio Alger
Jr. 1t was so strong that we never
have been able to expunge the con-
viction that fortune, success, and hap
piness are the inevitable reward Of
honesty, chivalry, and industry.
Mr.. James T. Fields, whose idea it
was that the dime novel helped to
crowd the prisons, was the author of
1--WE were crowded in the cabin" two
lines Of which sustained us as we
passed through the war zone. They
we're
Isn't God upon tho water
Just the same as on the land?
The Fourth Dimension in Parties
[From the Baylor County (Tex.) Banner1
The party at Mr.. w. G. Highs Monday
night was not enjoyed SO WE'LL on account
Of no one being there.
Reading the Mayors New Years
speech, we get the idea that what we
are now enjoying is business admin
istration, as opposed to one Of theorists
and faddsts and self-seekers. Doubt
less the new boss of the Garden Of Eden,
after the Adamses had been dispossessed
told the voters that thenceforth there
should be no special privilege, that
the people should rule, and that a
business administration would be the
aim and goal of the speaker.
Sartor Resartus; or "The Review Reviewed
Sir: In the long review of Marshall's
"Sir Harry" in The Review for December
27. the critic says: Thereafter the plot
develops a strained mechanism. Sir
Henry goes to war and learns tho brutality
of life, and returns to marry Viola who
turns out to be of as good blood as his
own"
1t Is perhaps too much to expect of re-
viewers that they should read the books
they review, but It is sometimes unfortu-
nate to strain the mechanism Of the plot
BY taking a chance. Sir Harry is killed
in the war, and does not marry Viola. The
change of his name TO Sir Henry Is merely
in keeping with the dignity Of The Review
TIGER TUESDAY.