The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-23

your various lines of work. If a man
has an idea worth anything. it has
| been initiated, and he is inclined to
resent it. l want to talk little about
this, and perhaps throw an entirely
new light on it,
Take a copy of "Everybody's Maya
zine" and glance through it hurriedIy
| If the covers were off that magazine
and two or three others, typographi,
cally I could not tell them apart or
distinguish the difference between
our magazine and others.
to say that the other fellows were
initiating me, but when l stop to think
| the matter over l remember several
balancing considerations.
| learned what / know of the bust.
ness side of the publishing business
from Mr.. Munsey, and when ] left
| his institution, with great regret,
availed myself of all the knowledge
l had learned up to that point.
brought into "Everybody's Magazine
Mr.. Munsey's department of storyettes
and called them Little Stories of
Real Life" l started a stage de-
partment and called it 1.-THE Players, -
and did everything could to borrow
from the Munsey publications every.
thing I thought gave them strength
that our magazine did not have.
! Then I went over to McClure's shop
and borrowed from him his conception
! of the needs of the American people.
Mr.. Mcclure was the first magazine
man to start these public campaigns
| against privilege and political crimes
| 1t seemed like remarkably good
| lead: 1t fitted with my personal feel
| ipgs and I had no hesitation in bor-
! rowing It and copying it In my own
! way.
Then 1 went to Philadelphia and
| found department Of short stories,
and borrowed that, calling it Under
the Spreading Chestnut Tree" Then
when necessity came along and |
could not turn the magazine out for
10 cents and live, / took another leaf
out of CuTtis's book and made the
| price Is cents and got away with it.
Then | got in another hole and it
| looked as if I might lose the control
| of ''Everybody's Magazine, and ]
talked with Ben Hampton, who Is one
of the cleverest men in American
| imitation as we'll as other things land
| is right in my own Glass, in fact, in
| that regard)-and Ben said, "Why
don't you advertise your stock in your
magazine?" l said | did not think I
could get away with it. Ben said, 81
think you can; so I wrote what
seemed the proper advertisement, and
| it sold all / had to sell in one is
sue. I borrowed that from Ben Hamp-
, ton.
The point am trying to get home
| to you Is that nobody is wholly origin
al, and that the man who cannot keep
out of the other fellows way with
| new things is going to get run over.
and it is up to him to keep out of
the other fellows way and not COM
| plain.
There is % man in business today,
however successful, who has not Dor
rowed right and left from every one
else who hss gone before him, and
who Is not Borrowing every day from
every possible source.
When I point out that view of the
case, you se,s how the situation begins
to clear sn% what pity it is to waste
! the time complaining about the other
fellow, that you might be putting in
getting out something new that would
take him little while to get around
| to.
One Business Helps the other.
Another thing in this same connec-
ton | would like to speak about, if
you will bear with me, is the appre-