Show Writer Says Sanitarium 1 Is Place for All Ail Poets I S By Universal Service I BUENOS sanitarium sanitarium sani sani- AIRES Dec A rA m for poets is proposed by Pastora Pastora Pastora Pas- Pas tora G G. de Lascano no writing in La 1 Senior Lascano cannot see seewhy seewhy seewhy why the public is not protected against the boozy and hysterical ravings of modern p poets ts He points out that methods for inoculating the populace against epidemic diseases have been found but as as' yet no one has been courageous enough to propose a method meth meth- od for inoculating society against writers writers writ writ- writers ers of decadent poetry What would we say of a family I suffering from smallpox or Or cholera that I would throw their vile germ ridden germ ridden clothes clones out of the windows and down on the tSie Ie heads of f the passers by asks Lascano Can you imagine what a fury of I protest and reprisal would follow such an act But not a a. Word is said to the dissipated poet who loads the ozone with his inspired hooch-inspired verses and launches insane and sounding ill vituperation vituperation vituperation against a n state of society which he hasn't t the e ability to ennoble The writer goes on to say that much thought on the unprotected state of society led him to the conclusion that the establishment of a sanitarium for this type of poet was necessary for the safety of the populace and their I Lascano with great seriousness declares de declares declares de- de clares that a double c commission and a superior council would be necessary to pass judgment on all the poets thought wicked enough for the sanitarium The council would be made up he says of authors of books booles which have I been recognized as wholesome If the poetry of f a writer is such as as' asto to m meet t their disapproval the man mati will wiH be condemned condemned condemned con con- but sentence will be suspended until the double commission puts its O. O K on the condemnation This commission will b bo be composed on n the one hand of the mother sisters wife or sweetheart of the doomed poet and on the other of young clean poets whose work has won th the approval of the council These will endeavor r to exert their influence to turn the wild and long-haired long youth aside from the path of loo loose e writing If the poet proves intractable he will willbe willbe willbe be straightway condemned and sent to the sanitarium Somewhat floridly Lascano declares that th sanit sanitarium will b bo be 10 located in ina ina In Ina a sun flooded country on a lofty plateau plateau plateau pla pla- hard by a constantly singing river banked on both sides by interminable woods and ringed about by great mountain ranges flower covered in spring and summer summon autumn and S winter whiter I The poets will be obliged to accept a permanent cure of their ailments aliments administered administered administered ad ad- ministered by plen plenty ty of air and sunI sun sun- shine There certainly they Will not I find brass rails and cabarets nor clubs nor libraries b bookshops nor anything to tempt the susceptible and arid highly Inflammable youth Lascano concludes that nature will supply the poet with the drama and the music and the beauty that his soul craves and this way fill his soul With Uh normalcy and return him to civilization civilization tion a a. man and if not a poet at lela lel leasta least leasta t a good |