Show I II I Letters rn t to Ic td depart depart- epa but i B 7 M N 1 L a will Jl not b accepted ce relt relic relic- rau t be no lonter than P m- m mf f t jl I 1 I O CJ I C ID II O I m. m anonymous leUtu will I held words on OD Names Name l. l Write with with- I e f eo X o l Vf I p pes IB I e s K- K o 0 Vr rn r X n II er V e r I a not t be accepted def m torr tru leton leton let let- on on one side aide of paper ten teta not ot be tie tolerated No Modern l Books Among Four Best Editor Peoples People's Comer Corner John ort Gals Galsworthy who Is on one of ot the greatest living li novelists has named what he considers the th four great greatest st American novels He re- re e- e Tom Sawyer and Huck Iberry I- I berry Finn by Mark Twain The Scarlet Letter r by Hawthorne and by Frank Norris Hawthorne belongs far back in an earlier almost forgotten generation The present generation usually lists him ilm with the great unread Mark Twain likewise although far from being Ignored toda today represents a vanished era Only Norris comes close to the present and even he concerned himself with ith the San Francisco of the nineties But where are the writers o of t today day those writers whom earnest critics exalt mightily as If they and only they amon among all Americans had been permitted to s see the true Inwardness of things Where are arc the great ex exponents exponents ex- ex of ot frankness the sober of or tragedy the acidulous critics of American hypocrisy and immaturity Immaturity immaturity Im im- im- im maturity Where t to be specific are I 1 Lewis Dreiser er and Cabell Mr Galsworthy Galsworthy Gals GlIs- worthy seems to have ignored them Above Babbitt and The Genius and Jurgen he lie places the thc simple tale of ot colonial New England two romances ro ro- mances manc s of or the pre prewar Mississippi and anda a story of Polk street in San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco at the turn of the thc century There arc are plenty of qualified Judges who are convinced that Mr Dreiser and Mr Lewis have more to say to tous tous tous us than had Mark Twain and Haw- Haw thorne horne But the English novelists novelist's list at least serves es to remind us that American literature was not born after the World war There were able writers Titers In theland the theland theland land before most of at the present-day present reading public were ere born and itis it itis itis is Just possible that some writers of ot the present generation have ha been praised a a. trifle trine more generously than they deserve STUDENT Too Much Sex in Motion fotion Pictures Editor Peoples People's Corner It seems to me that billings In the theaters here for a very long time have run uniformly along the line of sex x plays Many of oC them perhaps most of them of or the skimmed slimmed milk mUk v variety In so far as real art in authorship authorship authorship author author- ship and production arc are concerned People of at the film world with real ability have prostituted their talents In the these e weak cak shows Sex sex sex sex sex-ad ad r As I If U playgoers playgoers' have appreciation of ot nothing nothing noth noth- ing in else I have made a painstaking check of the last 50 motion pictures advertised for the local theaters one Forty of them have been tainted drama drama- gripping thrilling romantic I grant which I would be loath to have my children see I maintain that drama which Is not fit to be seen by young people Is unwholesome food for the minds of older people And I am no Puritanical old fogy at that There is no rational defense for this sort of so called entertainment It is stuff only calculated to lure- lure the young oung people whose lack of ot seasoned experience e makes them Incapable of Judging the thc harm they do themselves I have heard this sort of or stuff defended on the ground that it teaches tea a moral lesson How upside down and inside out is such an nn argument As well try to teach the thc sweetness of the perfume of flowers flowers flow flow- ers era by having one sniff at garbage paUse palls I would like to hear heat from other writers of the Peoples People's Corner Corn r on tills this subject K J. J H. H A light year ear Is the d distance traversed tra- tra traversed traversed tra tra- versed by light in one year rear which Is Ismore ismore ismore more than times the distance between the thc earth and the sun English scientists ts have developed a pt plant nt known as that produces produces pro pro- duces a a. textile fiber wood cod suitable suit for manufacturing into pulp and seed that is an excellent cattle food |