Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-07-24 | Page 13 | A Warden Looks at Life

I 1 I A W Warden n Looks at Life T t b Q y rHE HE warden of Sing Sing prison having t 1 presided over some convicts and andI I having seen over of them get th the death 1 sentence should rightly be a pessimist of deepest hue but Us not so Casting a t speculative eye over the flower flowerbeds I beds of his domain the warden has given out l 1 k in n form formal l. l int interview an unequivocal indorse indorse- indorsement 1 ment of life it is 4 just justas as f s t Why the warden chose one of the hot hottest est days of the year to start this metaphysical controversy is hard to understand for when th the m hovers near the century mark markit it is no time to wax philosophical Be these reasons what they may the warden has put the issue on the table for the world at large in plenary session to discuss The warden varden is no sentimentalist He sl sticks to cold facts to prove his hypothesis Life says he in beginning fj fis growth and action while death is stagnation and decay f t 1 Unassailable a axioms these beyond all fault fault- finding Life at best is short he says True again but hardly original The argument doesn't seem to be leading into paths or orp p pastures new Looking further the meat of the whole thing is discovered Life is worth living as a sporting proposition i if it for no other reason reison Here is philosophical beefsteak for the thinkers Life is a sporting proposition a ac at tt t c game a dar dare Twenty-three Twenty years with the v I 1 seamy side of life have brought the warden 4 to this conclusion Life to those of the wardens warden's wardens warden's wardens warden's war war- dens den's belief is not something to be lived for forT T J future glory but a thing to be lived for its thrill of the present What life really is all about has been a source of argument since the human race be be- gan That the warden of Sing Sing has found the answer in his Life is a sporting fv proposition is open to grave doubts The rhe churches material evidences of the belief in ins s life for a hereafter a future reward and a at t future punishment are still stilt thriving in incite spite I. I of the ravages of wrongdoing and the pestilences pestilences lences of perfidy t 6 A