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Show DREAMLAND An argument has broken out among England's big writers, whether prohi bit ion will curb the output of great litei-ature. Some o! the New York magazine editors' expressed, the same fear when .the country1 went dry. There's a popular belief that writ jets have to be lull of whisky or opium to turn out masterpieces. It ;is pointed out that many of history's greatest literary men were drunkards or dope fiend.". The truth is. they wrote iheir stuff in spite of their alcoholic and drug vices, not on account of them. With writers working with clear brains, literature Will be afflicted with jless of the poison of decadency. That will more than counterbalance any loss from the pens of scribes with al 'cohol engines. |