Show NOVELIST H. H G. G WELLS DEFENDS SOCIALISM LONDON March larCh 2 II G. G Wells tho the novelist Is a a. professed proCessed Socialist Indeed ho lie calls Socialism his chief luxury and Ba says Bays s 's It has cost him In time energy and duma damage So to the tho sale of his books hooks i In the last Jast four tour years cars and that Is merely merely mere mere- I ly h. the beginning of the lie damage It will I do to the solid worldly su success c ss that I have within m my grasp This Is an excerpt from a defon defense c of his ways of oC life that Mr Wells lies has been obliged to lo write In consequence of the comment that he lived In his own o house and had four tour servants ser and a gardener And he lie adds adds- I I live 11 In comfort an and as pleasantly asI as asI asI I po yean so that I can cnn work without without without with with- out stress I want G er everybody to lo have hare at nt least as 18 much ca ease e leisure and freedom as myself and that Is wI why I am amri a SocIalist So So- I q cannot see FCC the sense of or making m myself my ray- self and wI wIfe uncomfortable and Inefficient cleat and risking the lives and education of or m my amy children b by going oln to lO live lI In some infernal slum or other at a i pound a week What it possible good would that do I dont don't believe e In an any aimy one living like lIko that WIly Why ty should I make malco tho the example |