| Show r THE TilE ASSUMPTION OF GENIUS Again Jack London has been convicted convicted con con- of ot To 10 the tIne char charge that ho cribbed Frank Harriss Harris's Candid Candid Can did Friend short story and mado made It a n apart apart part of ot his novel The Iron Heel London blandly replies What of ot It Who ever heard of ot either Harris or orThe orThe orThe The Candid Friend J eI E Every one will know the story atory now it St Is a n. part of ot m. m my any book II A famous opera singer Inger educated at atthe atthe atthe the expense of ot a Chicago merchant I and grown ver very rich with the earnIng earnIng earn earn- Ing lug of or her voice and the tIre display o oher of oC her person repudiates the moral ob oh- to repay tho the money her patron patrol advanced to her and even cuts the thi acquaintance of ot her benefactors benefactor's tam fam ily lly When the tIne benefactor out of i j patience at nt the ingratitude files tUes sul sull for tor the money mone tho tim diva dl repays It it- it without Interest and then tries to tc scorch with scorn tho tIre people who made malle m her rise possible There seems to be bo a different code of morals for the genius Jack Jook London I cribbed Stanley Waterloos Waterloo's Story of or Ab for tor use In a novel of ot two years i iago ago Ins Ills only defense when caught with tim the goods was that he made abettor a better bettor stor story of or it than Waterloo did Which rna may be a matter of ot opinion Most people still sUU hold to to the notion that the J IQ Ic h all nn agree that If Ir London could mal make c ca a better story he could make a new story And If Jt the woman who was lifted from train penury to opulence by tho the kindness kindness kind kind- ness of a n rich patron can see no moral reason why she he should repay the mone money or even recognize her helpers as aa her friends she ehe suffers surfers from blindness blindness blind blind- ness ne-as which Is beneficial only to the tho bad They sa say that Shakespeare originated originated origin origin- nothing an and that George Georgo Eliot Eilt ca cafe a r rap pt fi for r society's sety Jets con conventions on The Tho world mo may be willing to let all the and all alJ the Geor George e Eliot treat trea t the F p primrose path to hearts heart's delight But t these hese later violators are not entitled t to o the tIre suspension of or an any laws The They a are re not good enough to be bad without r p penalty |
