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Show ROOM FOR YOUNGER CRITICS They Have a Place in the World and a Duty That Is Well Worth Performing. The vouneer critics, savs Itevwood Broun, are the lineal descendants of that little child in Anderson's fairy tale who, when the emperor was being be-ing made a spectacle of and all the world was being fooled by the sharp tailor, refused to be quiet and cried out, "He hasn't got anything on." These young enthusiasts who have no positions posi-tions to lose and no dignities to live up to go about pointing to all our literary emperors and calling attention to the scantiness of their ni;ire of greatness, and refuse to be silenced by their scandalized or terrific-1 elders. Good sense bids us welcome t ! i - : r honest hon-est gaze at even the sacrosa.ict persons. per-sons. It can't hurt anythnv: really fine, and it's about time we c 'ine out of some of our illusions. William Allen Al-len White sized it up about right from the conservative point of view when he said in praising "Main Street" : "Of course. I'm on the other side of the street myself, but that's just the reason rea-son why I like this book. It gives us fellows something to answer." |