Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-05-27
ALL HOLSTERS WRITE.
George Ade Makes Some Interesting Re-
marks on Authorship in State
of Indiana.

VI 1hQlohd
George AIDE made a humorous speech
at the second annual dinner of the Pc
riodical Publishers association. recently
held at Lakewood. y. j. His topic was
the Business End of Periodical from
the Authors Standpoint" but his speech
was of Indiana and its authors.
AIDE illustrated his fun with chart OF
Indiana, divided into zones of literary
activity. He is modest young man
and spoke with some nervousness, but
the joyful reception he got put him
squarely on his feet right at the start.
HI said:
II am going to read my remarks, and
after | read them you will know why L
didn't have the courage to memorlze
them. \ good many years ago, when
selected journalism as profession be-
cause it is the only profession that
seemed to require no special preparation
or unusual mental equipment, l believed
that an editor was Il man who really
welded the Archimedean lever. After |
got into the business | discovered there
was another man who welded the editor,
and that he was known as the publish
er. | had to get into the inner work
ings of the craft i'll order to learn this
important fact.
L
paper | was asked have you attended
college,? said: No. | have attended a
university. We have no colleges III the
west
Accordingly i was assigned to the
editorial staff at SO Il week. ] was
sent to push pencil in a back room on
the top floor Afterward | learned that
if had not owned up to being n college
graduate | would have been assigned to
"a busiupsc dana with a roll ton
desk ut $50 a week.
The publisher and his favored asSo
ciai>s on the business end of the sheet
had beautiful quarters on the first floor
We could see them through the glass
partitions lolling in their leather chairs
They worked four hours a day and We
worked fourteen. | discovered / haL
made mistake and | could do better
in the advertising field. so | became al
author. ! suppose that is why | was
invited here tonight. | know / am al
author because | am from Indiana
Every lloosier is an author. He is al
author by instinct.
You gentlemen who are in the pub
fishing business no doubt are looking
for hot stuff. If so do not worry fol
| another moment. There are now being
incnbated in the state of Indiana enough
manuscripts to keep all you supplied fol
| the HtAL itll NtsdlS. IAftiy SuItiillCI INT
authors of Indiana meet at Hyde lake
They assemble in the open air, because
| there is no building in the state big
enough to hold them.
| DO You know how many authors we
have in Indiana? | do not speak al
| haphazard. | make no careless est
mates. We have in Indiana 22.S31 au'
thors. classified as follows:
Historical novelists, 1908; dialect
| ,ys,,
poets. 43O; dramatists. 1916: syndicate
hnmorists, Oh; short story writer's
3532
I'VE can give you anything you want
If you wish scholarly essay with 4
| dash of craftsmanship, so down into the
| Bcveridge belt, where John Hay started
where Schuyler Colfax. Harrison and
| Voorhees, labored. You can get an essay
while you wait If you wish move
with burning heart interest go anC
| inspect what is known as the Tarking
ton zone. There are Harrington. Charles
| Major, Nicholson, and hundreds of 9th
ers writing. In the northwest you viii
| find the AIcCutcheon family. eight OF
| the family going it with day and night
shifts. The southern part is the 70
mantle novel region, with Gen. Lew
Wallace, Maurice Thompson, Davit
Graham Phillips and others.
John Clark Ridpath was one of the
pioneers in what has become perma
nent industry. He wrote school histories
and sold them to college students at 81
| cents apiece. Afterwards it was discoy
cred that by putting in the Christy pie
| lures and distorting the main incidents
the book could be sold at $3.50 per.
"'rhe region between Vermilion an,
| PoSey counties is something unprece
denied. Everybody there says We'll, /
darlington and the McCutcheon boy
can get away with it. there's ii chanc
for me- Go to any village on peaceful
summer evening and you will hear n loy
buzzing. At first you think it is dyna
mo in an electric lighting station. Not s
it is some 16-year-old maiden thinkin
out Il historical romance. Next year sh
will have her picture in The Bookman.
! go south and west of Indianapoli
and you will find the dialect poetry
Riley started il. Now no one seems abl
To head it off. Every man who can
spell thinks he is an author
, Right in the heart of the dialet
, noetry region is 4 cluster of countit
which gave to the world names that al
unperishable. How shall we account fc
genius thus emerging from the tn
grasS2 Richard Underwood johnson
/ the humorist of the Century compan,
t came from Richmond, Ind. William \
p Chase, the eminent painter, came froI
Franklin. Tod Sloan. the worlds grea
est jockey, came from Kokomo. III
$ Mccoy, premier middle weight, can
Il from IionSville.
t Il shall not tire You with further r.
. cital Of our greatness. If You haven
: got what you want go to Indiana"
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