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Show Public Exploitation. We find nothing of Interest in the volumes of smut," filth and carriou that many metropolitan papers and filthy magazines publish in their avari-ciouj avari-ciouj grasp for mere circulation. An exchange of ours, however, recently took note of an Item published in the Chicago Herald - American signed by Catherine Stuart and expressed in connection therwith sentiments In which we heartily concur ' This female proudly flaunts her moral degeneracy In our exchange we find this quotation: "I have had almost everything this world can offer in the way of yachts, Jewels, wealth and power ad well as romantic adventures. 1 have been the wife of an Indian prince, the favorite wife in a Turkish hart ha-rt m, the wife of a wealthy Spaniard and of an Engllsman. In short I have lived the kind of life that I know many young women, even of high print! p es, at times yearn to live." But we find no neoed to quote further from the vacuous drlvil of this distorted mind. The above merely serves as an example of the shallow rub-lish rub-lish that on may read in hundreds of taudry journals that encumber news kUnds. But what is the effect of all this upon Immature minds? One wonders. It misfit almost make one favor a rigid censorship, if censors were not, as a rule, such unintelligent Fellows. Too often they suppress woiks of artistic valu, intended solely for intellectual people and treating th subject of sex In a serious manner, which they permit thie presentation of smut In greater and greater volume for the benefit Of undiscrlminating raders. No. censorship will not do, but there is an antidote for this smut. It is classic literature, the works of grea masters recruited from the centuries. There young people will find thrills, ? human interest, romance, and adventure advent-ure in abundance, and with it all they will find something that will stimulate stimu-late a taste for true art, for beauty and understand It will give them a broad and intelligent view of life and help theni to adjust themselves to the society In which we live. Some of the world's finest sermons and greatest moral lessons ar to be found In the literature that time ha classified as Imperishable art. |