Show WRITER EXCLAIMS AGAINST BOOK JOOK BORROWERS Frenchman Is Very Angry With Persons Who DoNot Jo po poNc Nc Not Buy uy Books PARIS Nov 13 He who can afford aCford aC- aC ford tord to buy a book and either borrows it or gets It from a circulating library is a thief thle With these words M. M Burnat one ono of oC the tho most brilliant younger writer sin France launches forth in ill a campaign to mal make e the public realize that an authors author's work is his property just as goods belongs to the man who made it and that the man who reads a book he lie hasn't paid for is a parasite parasite parasite para para- site and a thief You dont don't ask the shoemaker to let you OU wear his shoes While you go for tor fora tora fora a a walk nr th the t lend you a pot of mustard for your dinner to be returned afterward But Hut books ar are e different They are passed along from hand to hand in and out o 0 libraries Tile THE Ul U VICTIM Ive studied the matter carefully No one has any scruples about stealIng stealing stealing steal- steal Ing from an author shard earned pit pit- tance An author lives from his royal- royal Each boo book sold stands for a few cents The man who diminishes these royalties by not buying a book when lie he can afford it is stealing from theauthor the author hew Few 1 ew people realize this When I point out the wron wrong they are doing i in borrowing books they say I never thought of it But its it's time they did What is an author A businessman business businessman man If so let him get down to business business busi buss ness and organize e the sale of his books as wisely as the dry good merchant to t sells his goods for cash giving n no o credit But people protest literature is a an anart n art It is the pride of a nation the education of the masses You have n no nomore nomore more right to prevent a poor man ma manfrom manfrom n from the Inspiration of a good boo book k than you have to prevent him fro from breathing TUB TilE ALTI All AIl right But if authors are t to exist for the benefit of the nation let e the state indemnify them Why shou should t a everyone profit by literature except the man who makes it The state is not interested Th The e individual rich man is not interested No one cares hether the writer whose whoso words stimulate or uplift lives or diesI diesI dies I say this condition of or affairs i Is I ask justice for the author The man who honestly cannot atford af at afford arford ar- ar ford to buy boots books should naturally b bable be beable beable able to borrow them at a library Buthe nut Cut the class that has money enough t to o Satisfy every other conceit and doesn't t buy books but borrows them should b bo be e stigmatized I |