| Show AN AUTHOR IN A DILEMMA the new york world recently offered a prize of for the best democratic campaign song there were several hundred competitors and the choice was made by a committee appointed for that purpose it turns out that the author to a 06 republican hold ing a lucrative position in one of the departments at washington and as suckie refuses to give his name preferring to forfeit the prize if necessary the world declares that to alve alethe the money to a competitor who deel declines I 1 nee to publicly acknowledge its reception raises a question of literary ethics which can only properly be decided and the whole matter has by experts ex been submitted to such a committee it would seem that in any event the author Is entitled to something since the paper publishes both the words and music of bis bin production |
