The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1891-03-19
BUSINESS "wRITE-uPs. !"
a Source OF Large Income to Many En-
terprising Writers.

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A pencil is one of the cheapest things
a man can buy.
And yet there is fortune in it for the
right man.
To use it profitably requires push
not mere physical movement, but the
brainy, electric push that shoves great
enterprises forward, startling and daz-
zling the world.
Hundreds of sensible and well-edu-
Gated young fellows seize their pencils
every year and rush into journalism and
literature, determined to win fame and
fortune. They do good work and make
bare living, and are lucky if they hold
their own at that
They lack the pushing quality or
push the wrong way.
Ii writer wants to find fortune in
his pencil he must recognize the fact
that this is business a1e-business
dominates every circle and it has lit
erature of its own that has money in it.
We are living in an age of gigantic
enterprises-of phenomenal industrial
development Material progress is the
thing, and it occupies the first place in
| Ino mlnQS OF men.
This is the field for man who is mas
ter of his pencil. There is work, and
pleasure and profit in it. The mon who
are building towns and railways, devel-
oping mines, turning the wilderness
into gardens, erecting forges and fac
tories, and inventing labor saving ma
chimes are in search of historians to
.l | to NJ hoi nA Z 1,of
the world in the proper light, and they
will pay well.
Many writer's have found this out, and
they are growing rich.
An advertising writer who was here
at one of our expositions makes SO, 600
year. He confines himself to no one
paper, but enjoys rowing life. He left
Atlanta to go to australia country
where the newspapers are even larger
than ours.
A young man established himself in
Western city as an advertising writer on
commission for big daily in the East.
In two or three years he had an annual
income of $40, ,0OO
A Southern woman grew dishearened
trying to make a living out of the ordi-
nary routine of journalism. In despair
she tried writing up towns and enter
prises for New York paper. She now
makes $4,000 year and travels very
often in a special car.
A we'll known humorist who has writ
ten and lectured for years making very
little money, is now deyoting himself to
what newspaper men call "write-ups, ="
and for the first time in his life has all
the money he wants.
The college graduate who wants to be
an editorial writer may sneer, but these
business writer's make $40 where he
makes one.
1t is a mistake that these progressive
and pushing writer's lack the ability and
culture of the gentlemen who work in
editorial sanctums. They are brainy and
gifted writer's and the world is indebJed
to them for suggestions, facts and figures
that are of incalculable value.
1t is another. mistake to suppose that
they can succeed in their special line if
they have only average ability. They
have to invest their ''write-ups" with
the charm of an attractive style.
These special writer's soon grow en-
thusiastic. They know that their PEN
ellis are important factors in the devel-
opment of the country. They appreci-
ate the magnitude of our material inter
ests. They know that their articles may
shift population, build up business eeE-
ters, influence industry and commerce
and turn long neglected resources into
millions of money. They know, too. il
they are careless and unreliable they
will find themselves out of employment.
while if they are honest and truthful
they will command high wages and ba
quoted as experts in their various feldf
of work.
The average young man may think il
bigger thing to write political editori.
ais, stories and poems than to write uL
fields, furnaces, factories and trade mat
ters. All right, let him think so. Al
the end of ten years he will be at work
on moderate salary, with nothing else
in view, while the youngster who started
out to push his pencil in business way
will be able to own good paper and
hire others to do his work. Plenty Of
brainy, business push will make pen
Gil pan out like little gold mine!-
Wallace P. Reed, in Atlanta Constitution
Mink and MoccasIn.
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