Show PATTERSONS PATTERSON'S S TALE TAIC STIRS UP lip A Little Brother of the Rich Makes Them Raise Their Eyebrows IS ls ACRID SORDID NOVEL Socialists Alone Said to 10 Re Rejoice Re- Re 4 joice Over Comrades L Work Chicago Aug hac rca with utmost Surprise e of the tho all om bracIng IndIctment leveled by Joseph Josept Patterson son of one of FO- FO o proudest families against so 61 clety In n his acrid and sordid novel V A I Little HM Brother df the Rich of the circle of very vCr richand rich rIchand and socially superior who ho have known mown the young author as one of themselves r raised their eyebrows and shook their theli heads and d were shocked Patterson im to tho the PurPle born son of a millionaire Tal Yale Yalo man brother Si of or a countess o an and l law In of a merchant r prInce c could uld not bo rebuffed re- re huff huffed buffed r there i It II was a 0 now new situation Therefore the C surPrIse surprise and and ft All Alt society begged fur tor tIme to think It over before answering Men cn and WOmen n who h aro are leading leadIng- spirits of or tho 5 circle I drag dragged sed ed through tho the miro mire bv Ly Patterson latterson n pleaded that thc they must read his book careful carefully and thoroughly boJ before before be- be J fore re the they oy can discuss the thc truth or falsity of or tho blanket Indictment The Socialists alone alono rejoiced To th them ho he Is Comrade Patterson and they nicy jollied In possession of one who can attack the tho rich and demand attention attention at at- because ho himself is rich And It U Is quito likely that when so- so M clet t ii formulates Its defense e It would i be that Pattersons Patterson's view had di diverged diverged diverged di- di verged from its true focus by his enthusIasm enthusiasm en- en for the thc cause which In Induced Induced induced In- In him to renounce his part In the th social and commercial affairs of his relatives and his natural associates to give he up I Public lIfo life and public and become a l stump speaker er and a writer of ot Socialist doctrines nc b Interviewers Besieged by i The author was be besieged V to today by hy II p Interviewers f and friends who ho longed t tc to discuss with him tho the pictures which the uio book bool holds out as revelations 01 ct i ithe tho the Intimate life of or the millionaires Mr fr Patterson cr on was nas not talkative When he e did speak peak ho he chose to discuss the thc book bool and Its Us characters and Us its scenes in a a. sort of Impersonal strain But what he said was enough to convey that ho meant It to bo be not merely fanciful fiction but a 3 portra portrayal aJ through th the tho medium of ot a story of ot love and money mono battles of lifo as he has seen It In the tho various avenues where he tod trod If Is ls needless to ask mo me whether the tho pictures I drew drow are aro true truo pictures ho he le said It Is given to none of us to toty say ty that he ho can draw S ns It 1 Is To 10 admit ad mIl that I 1 havo have done so IO would woud betor be bo for tor me mc to assume that I have havo created the highest hest and most perfect thin thins thing that art can accomplish But tho story speaks for I itself It My namo Is Js Json on nn th the fly 1 fv Jr leaf Have Havo you drawn drawn your our characters to represent types of or society or do tb thc they portray Individuals Is or distinct from the others In tho tX th if ai o of u thorn l 7 lio was k Again you seek to have mo rae set act n rn 4 nelt as ns a n. master answered Mr Pat Pat- Patterson person terson I I 1 do not to judge iu what what is 13 typical of 01 an any class But It is isfall lair fall to assume that thal in tho the walks In which you ou find my characters placed In the plot I have havo met mel characters who correspond to them In real life lite Thero was an Original Have you rou ever known l a Paul Potter Potter Potter Pot Pot- ter this is tho tle t e name ot of tho hero of f Mr MiS Patterson's Pattersons Patterson s novel no 1 I 1 have havo known men who started like him grew into what he grows Into iut u underwent n. n fh tho ino LIlO same social social and anu anu anti I n financial evolutions I have havo known of f women who began as Sylvia S1 Sylvia Is 15 the heroine begins and who lived as she lives experienced the same sam hardships and felt the thc same famo ambi- ambi ambitions lions were beset by the same samo temptations temptations temp temp- and the same conditions Is your our book an argument for Cor Socialism Socia So So- cia lI m Those who do me mo the tho honor of or reading It will find In tho 61 pages paged 3 much that is In criticism of ot many man in institutions Institutions In- In and conditions and accepted customs as they exist They The will find little therein recommending directly an any remedies excepting as position of or evils e often suggests means oC or correcting correct correct- ing them IT Un Have vou au nhI endeavored to In show linw con eon s' s and ad d institutions as you yourself your your- our self have havo found them of ot th the tho If It you ou will turn to one ono will see seo this sentiment you pages which one oue of the thc characters utters Patterson turning the leaves sald ald Mr until he ho found 4 of or tho advance ad copy the thc place and read Human realism Is tho the feature of ot th the thc drama Ibsen was the tho runner runner Gorky Gorl Shaw follow tollow him mighty of or a truer day Romanticism like liko other lies lieI must go What I express as a. Sylvias Sylvia's view of or tho drama is my view of ot the tho novel no ran tho the leaves over o Mr lr Ir Patterson f at his thumb at random and stopped I page pahe 3 iTo IIo glanced over the thc page pase too o read and the interviewer Inter I shoulder It contained a striking his bit of ot colloquy colloq in which the tho heros hero's who has been the tho divorcee wife 1 Co a Immensely rich man decries del de do- wife of ot an utter Insufficiency of ot her second see sec l 4 cries the tho husbands husband's Income a 3 year I ond end of her social needs neels In In tho the face faco In socIety so society so- so Is that typical ot of omen asked tho interviewer Pat Pat- Mr I r dont don't don t know W replied terson I r know though women who would regard an income of ot t a a year ear In a manner similar to tho the pa pa- strain assumed by Mrs l Potter in tho the book This pathetic strain reveals Itself forcibly upon tho the following followIng- page ir Jr inthe the same samo discussion between the tho hus bus band and wife when ho he has scouted her assurance as that they need a gar Sar ugo uSe and more moro automobiles and s she h say says says- Oh really a n. well equipped lara garage c is 15 necessary It would bo be almost wiser wise to affect eccentricity and havo no motor mo no tor lor or at all than only one |