Judge — June 2, 1923 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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TO BOOZE OR NOT TO BOOSE by Walter Prichard Eaton ‘Tue Rise xn Fart or Promrrios, by Charles Hanson ne Rise axp Fait oF Prom time is sorting out the hip toters, and flippant words, will accuse us of a nasty they are becoming less heroic day by implication, and tell us his work is pro- oop orp Chuck Towne is all het day. Anyhow, we cannot, try as we foundly serious and poetic. Possibly up over prohibition, We've seen will, get into a moral sweat over an scientific is the word. Maybe so. But People have attempt to outlaw alcohol. We think — it makes us feel nasty. It is sex obsessed. bout it these a great many people have lost their Normal men and women are not sex e we find Lawrence's , Without reality. others that way. alking books full Now it seems they are sense of values. We think Charlie obsessed. Ther s lost his sense of humor. And books false, turgic all this we may lose our job been many moons. writing books full about it. The’ fact that Charlie's book is illustrated by ; Peter Newell well as the fact that on Jvpe it is written by Charlie Towne) led us to, ; . 7 H hope it might be humorous—unlike the Tye, Cyrtts’s Dotty by G. HL Lawrence: Thomas of rather exceptional interest. The one-hundred-and-five-foot shelf of books . hero, if such he may be 1, enters full we hi rd talked on the subject. H" is another book by the sex- Washington and the tale outhiul But, alas, it isn’t. Charlie writes exactly haunted Mr. Lawrenc book traveling salesman, with all that implies Carrot Huu, by Harvey Fergusson: Alfred Knopf. RE is a story that just escapes being as the rest of ‘em talk. Life is real, life of three long short. stories, ions of brash vulgarity, cocksureness, and is earnest, and the gin is now its goal. on his eternal theme which, after all, general ignorance of the Higher Things of Charlie well nigh bursts with moral Lord Byron once stated in a couplet and Life. Being smart, adaptable, glib and i tion. Too bad, but we person- then went on his way about other busi- ambitious, he stays on in the city, em- ploys the Y. M. C. A. as a dormitory from which he sallies forth to grogs ly have lost all our capacity for moral ness. However, Lord Byron lived befor: indignation over the removal of our the discovery of the “new psychology.” bottle. We consider alcohol a not very We read the first story all through, sur- and bawdyhouses; gets a job as pr minor variety of poison, and would prised to find only one rhapsody about — secretary to a Congressman and ad os rather welcome its complete removal — thi Can it be that Brother Lawrence from prostitutes to stenographers; then from the world. That the removal is js losing his grip? Of course, his serious from his private secretaryship to the far from complete, of course, we knew and earnest admirers (and they are many post of Washington correspondent of a before we read Charlie’s book. We and include men whose judgment we Philadelphia newspaper and from stenog- belong to four clubs. But we think greatly respect), should they read these raphers to the daughter of an F. F. Vi; The Non-stop Flight—Still going! 20