Show I I I I I 1 I I I 4 44 4 44 44 4 4 44 I 4 44 4 4 EXI x n 4 4 liv BY HUMORISTS 44 4 4 1 4 Lo Los Angeles Sept 22 E. B E A A. 4 4 humorous writer 4 44 4 on tho the Evening livening Express of this 4 4 city after being given gl a a. till full 4 4 hearing on tho the charge o of or 4 4 extensively l el from the tho 4 44 4 works of or oth other t humorous writ writ- 4 4 ers elS el'S was expelled from Crom memI mem- mem 4 4 br iship bc in the time American Press 4 44 4 Humorists' Humorists n association in iii con- con 4 I 4 assembled here The 4 44 4 vote ote was unanimous 4 4 stool ol was ah absent ent from corn the city 4 4 and offered no defence except except- 4 4 45 through Arthur J J. J Burdick 4 44 4 who denied tho he truth Irmith of or the 4 44 4 complaint until member after 4 4 member tf testified that 4 44 4 stool tool had borrowed borrowe from Crom lila his 4 4 writings to the extent of or en- en 4 4 45 tire lire sections at a time Com Com- 4 4 polled to lo admit the truth of or the 4 4 charges c- c made mi-made n rI plea pica 4 4 of or leniency for hi his friend but butt 4 t 4 when the ballot was co counted It 4 4 was wa found to he be without a n 4 4 dissenting vote otc Tho The charges 4 4 r. r against aln t Brininstool were pro pre 4 44 4 f erred at the annual conven- conven 44 4 4 Uon one year ear ago tho the com coin 4 4 plaint at that time lime reading that thata 4 4 a certain Pacific coast writer 4 4 was so 10 seriously Imitative e In 4 44 4 his work worl that lint c entire sections of 0 4 4 other writers' writers works could be he 4 44 4 found In his columns While 4 I 4 no nn name was a mentioned d In the 4 4 complaint at al that time It was urns wasI 4 I 14 generally under understood among 4 44 j 4 the time members of or the tho a association 4 4 that was vas referred 4 4 to The Tho case casc of Brininstool 4 4 was n the first of or Its kind to 4 come collie before tho ho association a 4 4 though it I Is understood a 4 4 lar charge has been preferred 4 44 4 a against n n. Buffalo writer wi and 4 4 action would have been taJ taken cn 4 4 in hU huie ca case e had there been time 4 4 to bring it properly before the them 4 44 I- I 4 m mooting meeting ting 4 4 4 I |