Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-06-13

rIodicnI PubIishers' Association IL,
said Hoosier state Writers Are In.
cubating Enough Manuscripts e
Inst Ten Ienrs-Declares One Car
Hear Romnnces Grow.
George AIDE. author and playwright
was the first speaker at the second an
nual dinner of the Periodical Publish
ers' association recently held at Lake,
wood, n. j., where they entertained
more than 300 editors, authors, artists
and public men. says a Lakewood spe-
cial dispatch TO the New York Times.
Called upon TO respond to the toast
''The Business End of a Periodical
From the Authors Standpoint" Mr.
AIDES patriotism asserted itself, and
before he was fairly launched on his
remarks he was singing the praises of
Indiana as the fountain spring of mod
ern literature.
Il think | am an author because /
am from Indiana" lie said. Every
HOosier is an author by instinct. You
gentlemen are in the publishing bust
ness. and no doubt you are looking for
hot stuff. If so. do not worry for an
other moment | bring you tidings of
great joy. There are now being incu-
bated in the state of Indiana enough
manuscripts TO keep all of you going for
the next ten years. Every summer the
authors of Indiana meet at Eagle Lake.
They assemble in the open air because
there is no building in the state large
enough to hold all of them.
You know how many authors we
have in Indiana; | do not speak at
haphazard. | make no careless esti-
mate | give you the figures compiled
by the Society of Authors, and we have
in Indiana 22,s3T authors, classified as
follows:
Historical novelists, 1903: dialect
poets, 6.39T; magazine poets, 1.625; real
poets, 400; dramatists, 1,216; syndicate
bumorists, ga; short story writers,
1882.
I'VE can give you anything you want.
If you wish the scholarly essay. with
a dash of craftsmanship and politics.
90 down into the Beveridge belt, where
the Saturday Evening Post is house
hold word, where John Hay started
and where Schuyler Colfax, Benjamin
Harrison and Daniel w. Voorhees, la
bored. There you can get an essay
while you wait II you wish a novel
with burning love interest. go and in
spect what is known as the Harrington
outcrop in and around Marion county.
Here you will find +. Meredith Nichol-
son, Charles Major and hundreds Of
others, each writing the book of the
year.
Northwest OF Marion-.cou2 t51 IN.
will find flieMcCutcheon family, and
eight members of the McCutcheon fam
fly are now writing and illustrating for
Dodd. Mead & Co. They have day and
night shifts, each author working eight
hours.
South of this tribe and east OF In
dianapolis is the romantic novel region
made famous by General Lew Wallace,
Maurice Thompson. viii Thompson.
David Graham Phillips, Mary Hart
well Catherwood and countless others.
John Clark Ridpath of Greencastls Is
one of the pioneers Of what has now
become permanent industry. He
wrote school histories and sold them
TO college students for so cents a copy,
and afterwarl it was discovered that
by putting in Christy pictures and dis
torting minor incidents the books could
be sold for $1.JO ON all trains and
news stands.
The present activity In the region
between Vermilion and POsey is some
thing unprecedented, and every young
man in this region says. Well, IL Tark
ington and the McCutcheun boys can
get away with it there's a chance for
me-
go through any village in the corn
belt on q peaceful summer evening and
you will hear from out of the vague
somewhere a low. buzzing sound. At
first you will think it is the dynamo o.
an electric lighting station. Not so.
It is some slXteen-year-old maiden
thinking out q romance. Next year
she will have her picture in the Book
man unless she is careful Go south
and west Of Indianapolis and you are
in the home of ]. Whitcomb Riley, Tod
Sloane and Kid Mccoy / will not
burden you further. Suffice it TO say
that whatever you want you can get
It in Indiana"
Mr.. AIDE was frequently interrupted
by laughter and was warmly applaud
ed when he concluded