Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-08-02 | Page 7 | Kipling Started Something

I J 1 KIPLING st STARTED RTE J SOMETHING 1 r r 5 S. S F. F CHRONICLE When Ru Rudyard yard Kipling remarked casually the other day that the last 2500 years have produced a doz dozen n literary immortals he ne set a formidable forI for for- I task to anyone who undertakes undertakes undertakes under under- takes to make up the list If It we consider it by nations we might nominate Homer Homel for the Greeks Virgil for tor the Romans Fir Fir- clausi for the Persians Dante for forthe forthe forthe the Italians Shakespeare Jor 1 or the English Cervantes for the Spanish Moliere for the French Goethe for forthe forthe forthe the Germans But when we come to the seconds seconds seconds sec it Is not simple There are I Euripides Euripides' Sophocles and I Horace Pliny and Ovid Milton and Balzac to consider And this leaves us without a single nomination for foran foran foran an American Have we produced no immortal Shall we give no place to the Russian school or to those hose hose I durable Scandinavians who have been so Industriously winning Nobel prizes Inevitably in such an attempt one sooner or later encounter a chauvinistic spirit and since we wedo wedo wedo do not want to start any unnecessary unnecessary essary es- es sary wars we prefer to leave th the choice to Mr I Kipling pUng He started this thing and If he does not want to finish It It is up to him to kipple no mor more Aw a nickle will ya ya ma I wanna vanna go down to the tho store Say ny when you want money Just go to yer pa Explain what yer it for I lave ave a hard time gettin money myself With spendin spend- spend in I hatta go slow A quarter is all aU Ive I've got u up on the thel shelf shelt Ask I father father hes he's hes got all aU tIle the dough