Show j o u and Me Mec c n sense ts she most p D HELL BELL WRIGHT High Living tell lell 0 ot t what t live heart whatever high bIrt tor lorl ea some orae com com- I 1 knowS know nut Dul ria backwOods folks folk what what're in on mountains a re enoUgh than thanin than thaL Oi Oit fw ber what OU think t I i do not menu mean you jou stun l by 11 y Hi Ins of or expensive In Ire re thinking to eat and drink and oDd jf Jt f things thing which usually th Ib that soil sort of ot high living gb living which I 1 have ha In mind Brent lou Tau see after all all ones one's Indicate the upon UlUa which one une lives it Is la worth north while to observe u se mil may or may not serve ser God Goll Life site Dile mid and rm tot k L doubtful if tr one can cnn cultivate spirit and develop dc a case case at the some same time devil dellI finds lints It easy eusy to make ac ac- with one whose liver lI is on onIe le Ie e. e ut lid at life I Is a question of ot food o G way 81 the companion h b that deith death may muy also be bed d OD on the dinner table ID u II i man takes to dumping ham liches fiches ches strung strong coffee lItTee and mince I hio to 10 his stomach while his brain rk In at el eighty pounds preside pres pres- ide he needs a o guardian He Ue ma may Ld rid nd then Ihen crawl out of the grave digging for fur himself and take a aI I look flonk around hut but It cannot in inise inose ise ose be said that he is living Ing high dish living does not necessarily i lobster and champagne The Ther TheIs r Is not a bird that nests on In tops fops of life Neither Is issue agIle the drink of the hills living Is something more than I tier ter of restaurants lunch coun coun- lor or grocery bills Ilk of Henry Fabre Fabrel I For forty harassed by hy a terrible j about shout his dolly daily bread og ng the paltry plagues of And then his great wish real real- n nT n High ln living does not III mean toi lobster lobster ster and Cham chain se tie living Is something more moren moreD n D a matter of ot restaurants cb b counters or grocery bills e I It Is easily possible ll e high physically and at att t same lame time dwell mentally in ini i unhealthy morass And these swamp dwellers poor unfortunate creatures I 1 tell jou you even even though they 1 envied ended by some folk with with- I nn understanding gl I 1 would have us apply here e i tame same principles to which h 1 hold In our homes and In r social Intercourse A bit of ot abandoned barren arched land lond favored ored b by thistles It bf wisps wasps and bees A Inborn labora- ht b. called It It where without fear lug kg g troubled by the passers passersby passers by uld aid carry on his explorations the Inner life lite of the Insect world r tad Indy y that greatest of all nIi lifes life's w ems Instinct In Its loftiest lens exactly high living as hl high h liv generally understood And yet wit souls hate have ever er reached the won won- heights of life lite where this pov pov- Frenchman was so much fine DIe se IOU i Count this this thInking thinking me ex es- cant lu In m my remarks remarks read read what bas written about the common and aDd nd beetles and grasshoppers and r rs which you and und I swat or Underfoot with no concern n it Is s easily ensly possible Ike high physically and oDd at the e time dwell mentally In ID an Healthy health morass U d these swamp dwellers lore ire poor onate creatures 1 tell you- you though they are by some l understanding standing In these mental l levels level thought is stagnant breeds s disease and death pol- pol nukes makes slimy lizards unclean lad Bpd every ery kind of loathsome ure make their homes there nere- nere teal IOu links In black ooze and filth fevers of f lust burn out KW e n of men 1 know that book t M It is it always lUS k necessary to rea read 1 la In ord order r to know what kind of k r it Is This book Is much d I about out or rather whispered among Imong ceria certain In people Sev- Sev perSOns Dersons ha have Ie dro drawn n I me aside lones to ask In ln low ea- ea i- i It If I 1 have read ll It el ell What whal h I 1 of at these if 0 e People I Ire so 80 Interested sted does not nut make jt of value est ex es- exIl Il t It quite quile dp axes ll the t trot ot fc the llie l' l hunk k 11 n was Lincoln l Who ho lo sold Mid For Tor the people I. I till tL the sort ot of thing I a I Is I. sort utI ot of thing that thul such peo like I HI in aft not sur surre-d surre that hat It was M. M friend w will I II I e the lb 11 hll d bi be I Is to there t III ilia market Iel for fut I that hilI sort borl ol of thing if It the dear sisters would let It alone Hut But I cannot for tor my life lite Imagine lne what you have done that would Ju Justi tl fy her hr In thinking that you would care core for It And I 1 certainly would not consider her Judgment of or your taste as a compliment As to her beIng belag be be- ing lag your our friend t Well 11 I would rather think It Is 18 she not nut you jou oU who claims that honor Do I 1 believe In official censors I do not A system of or official censorship would put an end to all artistic or Intellectual development de Cant Can't you rou Imagine what would happen If ir every possible genius of or the future were to be measured by the thumb rule of or a apolitically apolitically politically appointed board of ot censors censors cen cen- sors And beav heavens ns above el I What a humiliating hu confession It would be I l Dont Don't you jou OU see To 10 Inaugurate official censorship would be to declare our very ery civilization ln a failure It would deny all the tile hard wo no progress of or centuries It would proclaim the utter utter ut ut- ut ter Inadequacy of lIf our educational systems IS I'S our home borne life lite and our religions religious If It It has hils become ue necessary to make common y u Illegal and to set a apolitically apolitically politically ully appointed watch over o ours ourselves our seh selves cs lest we give ghe ourselves and our children over to the evils lIs of ot obscene I Imaginings to what a sorry end have I we ell I e We must Indeed be living on ver very low ground I. I for Ifor Tor one urn uw not ready to concede that we have ha reached such tuch u a degree degre f f rottenness Hut But 1 I do du believe per cent In unofficial un un- official cI II I censorship 1 I would have hale us apply oNly here lIere the same principles to which we hold bold In 10 our homes bomes und acid In our social Intercourse ir It a person Is too vulgar Indecent or obscene In to speech or habits such a aone aone aone one is ostracized y oy 1 de decent ent society Certain characters you know are not tolerated in our best hotels Persons of or certain complexes ae never Invited lt In ed to our homes or permitted to associate associate associate as as- with our sous sons and daughters I mean by that that we should demand demand de de- mand for our books plays and motion pictures the same same standards of or decency decency decency de de- which by common consent regulate reg res our lives in ID all other things thing If It these dirty scavengers who glean the stinking materials for their books plays ate atC pictures from the sen sewers erg and cesspools of life lire are Justified b by 11 their contention that It Is art th then ll wh why place any limit upon their It is not true truo that the greatest art artIs artis artis is indecent The greatest art the world has ever known has been Inspired Inspired In Inspired by religion It is not true that more money U fa ma le Ie by these unclean books plays and pictures The greatest greatest great great- est money makers anion arnon books plays s and pictures have bel beet clean Think It over and you yon will see 1 I am right The plain truth is that these degenerates degenerates degenerates de de- generates who live by the putrid offal which self respecting artists reject live that way be because they like It They are that kind of people They are ure procurers for the purposes purposes purposes pur pur- poses of at mental prostitution They hey breed moral pestilence The filth they write befouls the mind and p pollutes pol il lutes the imagination They are InstIgators Instigators instigators In In- of degrading Immorality und and unmentionable crimes And to the degree that we support these people by purchasing their wares we are of their kind kind we we ure are In their class There Is no n law v requiring you oDd and me to support them Then why sneak down to their level Why not Dot keep to the higher ground These people may o 01 o. may not nol be Ill artists The artistic quality o o their wares wares wares-I 1 contend has contend has ig tg to 10 do with the case cuse Great ai al may way be unmoral unmoral un un- unmoral moral but that is no reason for labelIng label label- Ing lag obscenity art A book play or picture does not Dot become art merely by violating every ery code of human decency decea- decea cy Is it not possible for art to 10 be both great and Inspiring May not nota a work of genius be clean deun If It this be thinking make the most mORt of It Yes there are low lands too In Inhuman Inhuman inhuman human Industry occupations busi busl- ness Labor Is lowly only lInly when the laborer works on low ground You know what 1 I mean Crean As u Ii general proposition the man who sees In his work nothing but something for himself Is not lIot living If It are on a very high elevation ele you getting nothing from rom jour hour our Job but your pay check you are sure enough stuck In ID the fhe be mud No matter what salary one draws such low living Is not worth It One Onehundred Onehundred Onehundred hundred per cent profit does docs not Always Al l ways signify success It Is ts better belter to conduct business on the higher levels level for a 6 per cent return than to operate operate operate op op- erate In the swamps for a 8 20 0 per percent percent percent cent profit Another thing Most of ot us at some sometime sometime sometime time in our our lives have bave gone gOlle down to the bottom of or the hill hili for a 8 more or orless orless orless less protracted visit I am not talking talking talk talk- ing IlIg about such accidental or occa- occa very human excursions Between you and me I am rather suspicious of ot the person who never even en stepped In the mud Who Vho was It said The pride In never ne having fallen Is in Itself the greatest full fall 1 I em fia discussing the human hogs hos that wallow wallo In tin the filth The real danger Is that w we wa make our homes find our pleasures conduct our business that business that In to short we live on low ground To lo live high l Is o 0 o see lIel afar afir It Isto isto Is Isto to stand In the sunshine and watch It Ir the distance It is to sit In the till CliO cool I shade hulle or of the and desert below It U I Is IsI see H the Hie I lu o look down dow ri pul poisonous ca pore If II Is to III breathe und and blinding f t PH 4 air Ir und and to III toP see P P c the ft an pure i ur iaci S LI b M bJ ih the u hell Dell n n |