Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1929-02-01 | Page 2 | Western Novel Heroes Draw Rap from Critic

Western Novel Heroes Draw Rap From Critic I wonder why. whep a lellei picks up a "VesUjni novel uowdays. fhert-has fhert-has to be so much smoke and dust smoke from sis-shooters am. dust from one man chasing another It seems like there's no rest for the good any more than there is for the wicked and a fellei wonders how come all the characters ain't killed in the tirsi round ot the Irst chapter, but it till!" was ihe case there wouldn't be History Hi-story much, so the characters have got to sulTei on through and live any how. only the bad boys are relieved at the end. by sudden death 01 ty n term in the pen Thai's propel ..nd us it should be. sure enough, hut :hai ain't life. I don't object to the guns as lonr as they ain't pointed toward me. what I object at, by making that big fuss over em. Is that so much that's good in Ihe Western life Is covered cov-ered up by em. Will James in the Bookman.