Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

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selves with nowadays? WHY. with q
Ilttle love affair, perhaps, or peoples
marital experiences for 20 years. or the
adventures of some dub in the detective
Worlo, or how terrible the world looks
10 some dub who has never looked at n
at ALL"
Mr.: Dresser attacked introspective
novellsts who Cannot step out into the
world and survey it as it is" He said
they were not writer's at all, but merely
autoblographers. He had hopes. how
ever, that despite all modern handcaps
American literature would become great.
Life Is life. 1t may be lolling, fat.
disgusting thing, but in the hand Of
master 1t would become a very sardonic
thing. The life of America today, fast
verg1ng as 1t is on social tragedy. should
lend itself 20 satire and irony Or, per-
maps, we might have a literature of
despair like that of Dortoevisky. That
might be good thing. Conditions
here are in many ways similar to those
in Russia before the revolution"
AS Mr.. Dresser talked, a beautiful
wolf hound, silky as a goat and three
feet tall, lay curled at his feet. The
big sitting room in his duplex apart
ment at 200 West Fifty-seventh street
was decorated with several modernistic
pictures, large as barn doors, and on
one side was a painting Of Mr.. Dresser
when he was younger. Lollipg in a
straight, uncomfortable chair, Mr..
Dresser kept rolling and unroling his
handkerchief. He spoke with great in
tensity, never taking his eyes off his
audience.
United States Headed for Change.
Il have returned from a tour which
l took to revive my understanding of
America" he said. II am more con-
vinced than ever that the country is
headed for great social changes that
will Illustrate the life of the ordinary
individual unless they can be checked
by really important stand on the part
Of the intellectuals."
He said that everywhere he had gone
he had found that corporations were
1unct1onlng as government. Indiana,
he said, had established the doctrine
that 1t was illegal to enter into unfair
competition" with anybody. This, he
said, was used by chain hotels to close
their small competitors
Having attacked the telephone and
ranroad companies, he said that in
Minnesota a radical newspaper had
been suppressed by big business inter-
ests on the grounds it was a public
nuisance. He said that graft and
crookedness in government was the
principle topic of every newspaper he
had seen during his travels.
Small dealers cannot make a living
unless they band themselves together
into racketeering groups that serve to
shut out competition by illegal meth
DDS, he said. Because the trusts" kept
them from getting a profit on their
crops, he added, farmers cannot make
living.
Misery Needed 10 Stir People.
Nothing will be done till so or 60
per cent of the people of the United
States feel the pinch that follows the
right Of the corporations to tax them
to DEATH" he said. THE only thing
that will stir the people is misery. They
are not miserable enough yet, but they
soon will be. Men could organize this
land so 1t could support three or four
times its population without any misery.
! have never seen a land more beautit-
full. 1t is self-suff1cient; it could close
its borders and live beautifully without
any contact with the outside world. It
could live beautifully"
He rose from his chair. BE sure to
mail me that &c." he said.