Show LEMON FROM TEDDY I TO JACK LONDON Says White Fan Fang Stories Present Present Present Pre Pre- sent the Sublimity ofA of Absurdity A b S u rd it y DOESN'T KNOW WOLVES Famous Writer Is Called a I Romancer of Fairyland Fairyland Fairyland Fairy Fairy- land T Type ype New Ness lW York May ay 21 President President Roosevelt's Roose velt's vIls famous Ananias club Is growing The Tue new nw candidates are arc Jack London I and several other not not-d writers on nature na nn- un- un hire ture tire and ami animal subjects In th an ar ar- entitled noO elt and the Na Nature tore ture Fakirs by lIy Edward B. B ClerIc Clark Ii In III Inthe I the tho June JUlie r o of I Everybody's Magazine Meg Inc azine jut just t I Issued SHI President Roosevelt Is IN quoted as n- nature writers wi-lLer of t telling untruths and anel being guilty 01 of also falso statements lie Ill ons par liar particularly rh tho lie au authenticity then of or I Incidents tl relating to wolves wol In Jack it il Is In an ar Ping Fang and declares I outrage that hat stories that distort lIstort na nature un- un ture tore sho should Jd bv lie placed In the hands o of ol school I children n After el somo some introductory tory remarks r reciting the circumstances ces s of the Interview and the tho authority of the tho President for or Ol his statement Mr Clark lark quotes him us IS follows I dont don't believe e for COt or a minute said sald Mr Mi CI that somo some of oC thes these men who ar are aie writing nature stories storie and anti putting tho the word vort truth in lii th their lt preface and know the art itt of or the lie wild things thinS's Neither I do I I J believe c that lint certain men who while they thoy may say a nothing specifically truth tb do claim attention ns as real ral Its because of th theli animal stories hll lave succeeded In lc learning arning the tho r real secrets of the tho life of tho the wilderness dont don't know kno or ot- If the they do know lenow lucy hey indulge In Iii the wildest exa n- n lon ion under N the mistaken en notion that the ra I they hoy arc arl strengthening their stories As is 9 for thiS the mutter matter of ur giving gl these I j I I books to the children for or trio purpose of lf teaching them the facts of or natural history why history why its it's an nn outrage Je Jack Tal Take Teke c this chapter from Jack London's Lon dons don's White i i Fang that tells tolls th the i stor story of a CI fight ht between the great Northern wolf White Fang Pang and anI a bull hull Ut Rending Reading this I cannot be- be lieve lic ie c that Mr 1 London knows knovs nuch much about the wolves wol and I am certain that he knows known nothing about the their l' l fighting or 01 as a a. realist he ho would oliM not tell teU the lie tale Here Hero Is a a. great wolf of the northern breed bret d Its strength 18 Is such that hat with one stroke It can hamstring a horse or gut a a. steer and anti yet et it is represented as a- ripping and slashing with Ion long tearing strokes strokes' s again gain and again and again and again a dog bull much more than a a. third its size and the lie dog hull which should he be In Ibbons ih Ib bons boos keeps on fighting without haing having hay hav ing su suffered any appreciable injury This thing thing- is the theer er very sublimity of ab ab- ab- ab In such Nuch a fight the tho chance chanco I Ifor for the tue dog would ouM be only one in a j L thousand It its victory being possible only through getting a throat grip tho I instant that the tho fight started Mm ply In the same book hool London ondon de describes ri ls l's I a great wolf dog being torn lorn In pieces h by a northern lynx This Is about a as sensible as ns to describe a tom cat tearIng tear lear Ing Ins to pieces a thirty-pound thirty l fighting terrier hull Nobody who realI really knows know nn anything about a real lynx or a wolf L would write such nonsense Now o I L dont don't want to lo be misunderstood ii If H f the tho stories o of these writers writer's were writ n tt-n n c-n In the tho spirit that inspired 1 and we c were wore told tales like 0 those of or the tho hi animals at nt tho Council Rock Hock of their theli r deliberations and anel their belt som something more moe S than human conclusions we should I know kno that we w were le getting tho the ver er very essence ss nce of fable fobe and we should be content content content con con- tent to read rend enjoy enjo and accept them a as z fables We Ve dont don't In the lie least last mind Impossibilities Im Im- possibilities in avowed fairy tales am and 1 and antI Halo and Kaa arc simply sim pi ply delightful varieties of or Prince Princ 1 Charming anti and Jack slayer of giants But Hut when such fables ar arc written h by a 1 male make realist the Athe matter as as- as shines an Cn entirely different complexion I. I ondon I should have visited the haunts haunt 5 of wild beasts c. have ha seen nui and 1 learned at least something of their thel r ways ns |