The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-24
PARKER DlSLIKES
CENS0RING PLAN
Sir Gilbert Says No One
Should Propose to Pre-
scribe Literature
~ RonERT STARR rHoRNnURom

By ROBERT STARR rHoRNBuRGH
J. ~ s staff Correspondent
NEW YORK NO man should set
himself up TO Judge what others
should or should not read. in the
opinion Of Sir Gilbert Parker. whose
Right OF Way" and THE Weavers"
were among the literary productios
Of the age
sir Gilbert has just arrived in
New York from abroad. lie de-
nounced the censorship OF books IN
no uncertain language. declaring
that the idea is absolutely absurd"
such censorship would be an
attempt TO impose the tempera.
mental and intellectual limitations
of the censor upon the general pub
lie" the eminent English anthor
said.
Let the public decide whether a
book IL moral or immoral The laws
Of the United states cover the ques-
tion OF obscenity. Enforcement Of
the statute Is sufficient safeguard
for the reading public"
Writer'S generally. wl'h SIR CT
bert, have been emphatic In their
protest against any censorship OF
literature.
Strong proof Is presented that
Some men" nre descended from
monkeys.
william Jennings Bryan. the old
democratic war horse. admitted as
much when he was In the CITY the
other day.
Proof is in favor OF those who
adhere 10 tho tenets OF Darwin, ac-
cording TO the "Commoner"
However" he remarked, "as
much az would like TO attribute
the origin OF the evolutlonists 20
the ape | cannot do this without ed-
miiting my own ancestors once
swung by their tails in the Jungle
trees"
But Bryan still maintains that
Darwin was laboring under a mis-
MISUNDERSTANDING the wrong
hunch ms ~ were--nnd that the
present human race didn't spring
from worms, bugs. monks and the
like.
The authorities here seem un-
duly concerned over the question
Of women smoking cigarats IN pub
lie They've figured the statutes I'm
vain. finding no law which would
forbid n fair flapper. II she 80 de-
sired to mount the Statue OF Lib
erty and puff ciEaret smoke In the
direction OF the city hal'.
Now lady may walk down
Broadway putting a fag, without
having TO Jam the smoke into her
vanity case when she sees n police
man approaching.
Some hotels and theaters main
tain smoking rooms for women.
Women smoke while waiting for
the elevateds and on the park
benches.
The general opinion is le. 'om
smokc---it's their funeral.
Walter p. Frank. n weil-krown
bachelor LAWYER. who lived in a
fashionable apa-'mcnt. dressed 70
go out to dlanor the other dgy.
Then. without apparent reason,
he removed his coat, obtained n
pistol and ended his life.
Frank was so years old. He was
n Harvard graduate, man OF
wealth and apparently without trou-
bles. His servants said he was n
victim of loneliness. They declared
he never entertained friends and had
no love affairs.
TX Marvel, in his famous REV
cries OF n Bachelor" described nptly
the feelings Of n single man. as he
sat before his fireplace and dreamed
OF a wife. OF little ones and happi-
ness.
Two I!t,le country girls from
somewhere in Connecticut appeared
near Broadway and Forty-second
street the other day. They were
the pictures Of health.
Admiration they had, as they
peeped into cafe windows for the
fashionably nttired ladies supping
iced drinks and whiting perfumed
cigarets,
They wanted to see Pearl white
and get into the movies.
A policeman took them 10 n sta
ton house. There the pretty coun-
try lasses heard two stories.
The first was OF a young woman
whose metropolitan mother loved
her no more and whose fiance had
deserted her She threw herself in
front Of subway train and was
sorry when rescued.
The other was Of n girl who end
ed her life because n year I'm the
city, with the attendant cheap
hastily eaten food robbed her Of
health.
Guess Wen go home" Mary
sotnlck. 10, and Laura Dion, IL,