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Show CoL T to the Unite I LLatci ca tL:3 1. '.t U cc-tillr etc 1 1' ?fo!lowirj ta da L0i:i J.-.. 1:" " iIlin tlrth rate eLows tl.:.t tie i cc; i aia tc; : ti thini for ttcnsclres. It is th ultimate, ttL.-.tory Solution of fell cur ici.il itvabLi later 'entities. Lir-a'.- titiillcs to ttdtixrllrj tliocs tie ah iiiexpre&aiule burden, ahd ttV overstocked over-stocked labor market leads to po-rerty, degeneracy and crime. The falling birth rate Is the best news of our time." . , - " - . ! '.) 'VfcU,r we "don't know. .. Large families may be burdens to working classes but the working cksses Seem to be willing and able to Support the burdens. There can be no such Ihiiag as an overstocked labor markfct. LaBor may be congested in the cities, but there is plenty bfdemahd for It elsewhere: , The country is growing and developing, and there is room for lot m6re families, large and small. ' A falling birth rate may, be good news to lir. Maine's, but when we think M Trance and then look i at our own hajppy and prosperous nation we. are ; bound to confess we do not regard news values from the standpoint of Mr. James. ' ' , liut what does he know of families? He lives in a orll as intangible aid as ghostly as the moon. He is the narrowest of the narrow. j &o tick to itttsUhi, Mr; Jeiaes; ' : Henry James, ah American author, who has , lived in England for twenty years, has come back I . ib see how we have succeeded in getting along with- j iat him. He will probably remain a f ew weeks and then gb back and write some novels about life in the United States. j j Mr. James might as well lite in England hs ahjr- I where else; He can be an Englishman as edsily as he can be. an American. The trouble is, it is diffl- iult for him to be much of anything. He hasn't a particle of humanity in him. j U in his literary career he has written a number of novels which some persons read ahd profess to ad-ihire. ad-ihire. Othes read them and wonder why good ink and paper are wasted in such a manner. Mr. James - is an artist, according to his admirers. He has a convoluted style and a gift of analysis of emotions that are highly unimportant. His characters are automatic and long-winded, j He has never treated jne that had any elements of humanity. Hjs work lis bloodless and mechanical. , . , ' But such a man has presumed to set himself up ; lis an authority upon matters that eoticerti people j . with red borpusclel in their Veins. Shortly before i' ' |