Show I WRITER MR LAUDS I NICK WICK CARTER I Author of Famous Detec- Detec Detective Detective tive Stories Dies In Maine By MASO Special of The Standard D CopyrIght 1924 by The Tho Th Con Con- Con Press association W WASHINGTON July 19 1 Nick Carter says ay so o used Jed to be the he heby byword byord by ord when whon wh n father w-w w Lri a 0 by boy TOday Nick Carter Is 10 dead lie Ho H i I died officially this w ek when hen John R Coryell of the tho th i Nick Carter detective stories passed ped away at t his hid summer home In Maine Only On a bo boy with a 0 heart In- In Indeed Indeed In Indeed deed could help 10 loving loring Ing Nick hick Iel Car Car- Carter Carter ter and his heroic dOP 1 d da of ot pro pro- pro daring and nd fearless chiv chivalry airy alry a 0 noted writer and pro pro- pro professor fessor feor of e hero here told hi his questioner loner toddy An And nd It Is good the lute boas bo s will till have Ie to 10 ml miss Nick Carter too m much for much uch-fe uch for r his work orl will live on forever rB T J When Dad hid his copy of a 0 hick Carter Cartr weekly behind hIs hia slate late In school and scanned canned It bot between he dill did not ex- ex expect ex expect words of learning beautiful descriptions of fading or fervid ld declarations of 10 lose e but buthe buthe buthe he did lId expect and the but beat of It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is that he h alwa always s found tales ot of Inspiring adventure thousands of hairbreadth escapes wonderful de- de dc psychology and rare e cv- cv cx am pIes of food money and po- po position position po tailing falling from th the skies akies upon our our hero In the tho th moss mosi astonish astonish- astonishIng astonishing Ing way And then when the th Idd kids of today to- to toda to today da day first t picked Nick C ncr out of the th ca cavernous darkness of Dad Dada 8 schoolboy book cases and squeezed ed them In between een the covers of the th eternal their hearts beat aj as hal bald haid d as s their forbears The Th question Is Nick Carter literature Does Docs Nick Carter Carler de- de desel dc sel serse sele e a 0 place In the hall ot of liter liter- literary literary ary dry fame famo fam along with orthy Churchill and others Most assuredly la Is the prompt response of Harriet Hold Dey widow of the late lat Frederick Van Dy Doy who wrote wrol nil all allbut but the first few tew of o othe the Nick Carter CartT stories started I by hY y Mr Cory Cory- Coryell Cory Cory- Coryen ell en What is 13 literature she phe h asks aska ask His Hia stories have lived 11 ed Those Thos written half a century ao ago are being read stilt still b bi by boys who wh love lov adventure They have hav preb- preb probably probably ably been b n read by a larger group of people than any other modern writer Rich and poor Ioor alike Zeal leal ned or Illiterate yo yin yoi n nr ng and old have ha read understood and been thrilled b bi hick Mck Carter s heroes e experiences They have had hd the th circulation But But probably the final tIDal test ot of literature Is whether or not they the have h T an Inspirational Quality and whether they ring rint true C cry boy who ho has read Nick Carter Carters s tales lales h his 9 lived with Bith their people through every eHry erT adventure ad Unable to lease lear them until the end ot of I otI their experiences and nd every boy boyhas boyhas bohas has Wished he were In Inthe the thc boots of the herr lie Ho H has been Inspired to further courage to tIght fight his way WilY with more atlie ath e and s to take what hat comes come Nick Carter hrs hIs held first place placa In Jn the th hearts of more American boys than any other author alive ally ten Isn Int t that literature No 10 I writer can ask aak mor more than that Harriet Harritt Holt Dc Des Dei t te t- t widow of otho the tho author of most mott of If the th Meld Mck Carter stories Is la herself a writer of note and was a friend of the late Mr Coryell who ho started the series aeries of ot yarns arns to which her hr hut hut- hus husband band gala fa g 0 his hl life |