The Washington times., 1933-11-30

would why you are drifting
-- where you are.
GILBERT sELDES 81 remember your protest against
talking in vacuum of some time ago, and think
that you having effect. For instance what
ought to let the President know that we are ready to
face whatever suffering there may be in slow orderly
process of recovery
Sweating 1t OUT
Didn't he mean what all the big minds meant in
the old Hoover by the theory that depresons cor
rect the bankruptcy starvation
of couple of million people? And when people talk
about Sweating it OUT aren't they coming close to
telling the truth? that they are courag eously
willing to let other people take the rap and ready
to let the President know how brave they will be as
they observe the suffering of others?"
afraid that Mr. Forrest is, as usual, little
cynical. also afraid he is right. The proposal of
mine to which he alludes simply that every man
arguing for against initiation should tell whom it
affects and how. believe that many people imagine
they have the interest of the whole country at heart
ON both sides of the question. But it is pretty we'll
established that human beings not peculiar to dis
ngush between the interests of the country and the
interests of that tiny section of the country composed
of themselves and their friends
ulysses in Court
The most important involving the censorship in
the past Is years has to court in orderly
and intelligent way than the old prosecutions
under John Sumner provided The book at issue
is James Joyces "Ulysses;" and it has not been SUBJ
jected to the humiliation of arrest and trial. because
the importation and sale of this book have been for
" hidden An enterprising publisher Mr.. Bennett Cerf
wishes the decision reversed and judge John M.
Woosey takes the time to read the book, hears
SELL and-so far-reserves his decision One thing the
judge takes into consideration is that thousands of
copies Of "Ulysses' have been sold in this country
Another is that thousands will be sod "Ulysses
is extremely popular book.
The copy which have is the eighth printing in four
years 1922 to 1926. had copy of the first
thousand which seemed to have sold in every country
without trouble, but usually under the counter in
America. Mine, for instance, was lying my desk
when arrived at my office morning with no lndl-
cation of how it had come there l had subscribed;
the publisher in Paris had managed to deliver one
in 10 years has whispered to me, 81 the man
who brought in your Ulysses Of the second edition,
authorities (according to the flyleaf of the present
edton), and of the third 499 copies were "seized"
by the customs authorities, Fokestone England. |
do not know how many editions have been published
since 1926-several judge.
Troubled" Not Shocked
The present case is distinguished by the obvious
effort of the judge to be intelligent not only about the
book but about the whole idea of censorship He has
read the book carefully and said that it left aim
'bothered stirred and troubled" But Morris Ernst
defending noted, he did not say shocked" or ere
voted." The judge knows that words commonly
heard every street printed in this book
two or three words altogether which not used IN
over-pote society," He has to determine whether the
presence of these words sufficient to keep the
book from the open market. He knows, as we all DO,
that you cannot keep book from the eyes OF the
Young He also seems to know that we cannot reduce
all literature to the requirements of the under-expe
enced and the oversensltlve.
A Book, Today
Since you can not get "UIysses" openly and since
obedience to law is agreeable now that the laws
are becoming sensbly human, you may read, with
much pleasure a book about James Joyces Ulysses,
written by Stuart Gilbert and Mrs Joyces own Por-
trait of the Artist Young Man., published in the
"Modern Library" forerunner of "Ulysses' and
beautiful work in its right Or, hope, you can
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