| Show STAGE AND PRESS The men In lit at Den Dener er fr have attention to a subject that hat l Ia 18 of ot general public InterN interest On motion of ot Mr lr Ir James It II Noland of oC enver a n was wa Introduced condemning CO the on the stage uC of f the newspaper reporter as a n silly III nal without brains i ion on In the ground that such uch ml ln atlon have hart a II dt d Wed ltd tendency to tn the craft raft In the nit eye re of or the pub pubic J he ic The condemnation might alto aho have hue been teen pronounced on oa the Ih even nil stronger ground round that such are re r barefaced tI the th newspaper nel re no reporters porters as All a a II rule being among the moot mOlt and useful class of ot cItIzens citizen Protests of oC this kind should not net be limited to 10 one cla lal s It Is Ia I customary 1 with some JOffIe playwrights playwright to represent for tor foreign forlan lan eign nationalities In as absurd k Ii light as asI I Sometime It Is the Irishman that hat Is It made ridiculous sometimes the Iha theo German lerman o Irma n the tit Hebrew or the visa lan That such stage creations are and convey Onvy false Ideas to 10 th tM the detriment of or the classes ridi ridiculed calM II Is It U Ii t high time timeo timeto If to o at the abuse that has bal assumed the dramatic form Anti and pre pee tends ends to 10 be art Satire is II legitimate w when hen n the lb purpose of It I Ic hi correction or l hut nul the Ih evil 11 complained of It ofIs Is II s neither Instructive nor corrective It Its Itis is II s not nol even en amusing except net to In those thole whose hOM taste has become bt orM corrupt Feme toma time Stale ago a n contributor to Tt Tto Monthly attacked the Ih no railed comic romie supplement 1 that baa bae be bt become come color part pAn of DC a number of ot Sunday SUnda news newspapers papers lie He showed how the Lbs creations of the alleged In arts artists of ot those hens lon are an calculated to destroy respect for lor or property for lor parents for law Ia for decency for tor truth for tor beauty for tor for tor dignity and for Cor honor The paucity of 01 Invention In toll be says reys less leas I remarkable than the tat will lall of f use the If Inventors to sign their product or the of editors to o them theist Hut In tit the age aJI if Ic no one In which editors under underrate rate rat lit and Insult the nu public ce This ta Ii equally true of 01 the UNI Inventors of naN Mane caricature They are arc morally and their pro prod d n la ill an n insult t e the I public May we not nol hope h that thai the Ille newspaper newspapermen men after tr r the stags Mage It 1 will 1111 lum tum I their heir attention to the te sin of 11 which the press preci 1 I Is III |
