Imperial Valley press., 1920-07-02
4 STORY OF F4ELURE

The other evening handsome young attempted
suicide in a Los Angeles hotel. For day or two she
unconscious and impossible to determine her dolti
ty. Then it found that she girl who had be@a
trying for months to sell stories and plays, with IN
different success.
Before attempting her life, she had written farewell
in which she threw the harpoon into this cold, cruel
world saying in effect that woman could not succeed
an author unless she willing make impossible sacr
fees Her life has been failure she said and there
nothing left for her but sepuchre down by the
tomb by the sounding
Of her logic and conclusions all wrong
to the piont of absurdy but she young and took life
seriously 1t Is the misfortune OF young people VINO rave
gift weakness for writing to keep writing They
vince themselves that they have of the utmost
Importance to deliver they ahead trying to deliver that
message when they might be better employed walters in
a restaurant
The world isn't suffering for MESSAGES it is getting more
Of them than it knows what to do with million printing
presses are whanglng away, DAY ana nght, pfoquchS
messages and no great wonder that the world IS bored
that it tries to dodge into alley when a writer
orator along with freshly cooked message.
1t is useless to advise young writer's whole lot might
be said The trouble with young with
that he she is bound to overestmae its i'm
portance The who writes thinks that the first effort
of his should enrapture the world and bring fame and
fortune.
Now and then something Of this sort happens. youth
full genius strikes note, and is cassed with the I'M
morals at once, but rule the writing trade is like any
other trade man has to serve an apprenticeship aad
learn the rules and study before he is acknowledged
competent workman. Many remain unknown to the
Some of the abest editorial writer's IN this country un
known outside of the offices wherein they work
young Italian had an idea, and accumulated Junk,
strung together and put few poles and wireless
elegraphy accomplished fact His fame is
but his does prove that the invent THINGS
is to throw few pieces of junk together and put
poles.
Thomas Edison the greatest living inventor works by day
and night year after year He takes vacation. lie
eats and sleeps in his laboratory and all his thoughts
given his work. He has invented useful and
derfu things than any other He has encountered
failures than anything else, but he didn't write
farewell denouncing the world bum joint, and
saying that there is no such thing as appreciation here He
bucked down to his work all the harder. He had
and mission, but he didn't talk write about them, and
thought Of them
Young writers, who fail to take the world BY storm
prone to profound dscOuragemen They don't all commit
suicide, but they all feel like and then The fact that
they blame everything upon the world and upon them
selves evidence that they have lot to learn before they
qualified to write for public that has little for
Mysteries and hypochrondris.
The Edison plan is good one for all people, whether
they writers, blacksmiths farmers. When
counters failure it does good to abuse the world and
commit suicide The best way forget the failure and
get down to hard work determined to
or later
Harmless" fireworks like chickens with teeth
snakes in Ireand-they do exist. Fire dangerous
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