Show George Ade Gives Advice to Editor George Ade offered Hewitt H. H Howland Rowland some sage advice as to how how- to run Un himself and The Century Magazine at a recent dinner given to the new editor by his friends be before be fore tore he left Indianapolis for tor New NewYork NewYork NewYork York where he mounted the tle quarterdeck quarterdeck quarterdeck of ot Th The Century on October October Octo Octo- ber her 1 Mr Ade Ada said For a good many years the publishers publishers publishers pub pub- lishers on the Atlantic seaboard could not get a fair view ot of this part of ot the country because the immediate immediate im im- im mediate foreground was congested with Harvard graduates We have havea a great respect out here for Ha Hat yard vard graduates but we recognize the fact that a man who puts in ty-four ty hours a day controlling his accent has very little time for toll toil Every Hoosier discovers sooner or later hater that he can not acquire fie te sound of ot a a as in codfish so he gives up the attempt and buckles down to o his Job and becomes a a. personage personage personage per per- In the world of ot letters We do not wish to advise or In Influence influence in- in fluence Mr Howland but we do hope that he will mal make e a list of all authors and near-authors near and house- house party celebrities who have looked at Indianapolis through the telescope tee tele scope and compel them to wait walt In Inthe tle the outer office ottice while he is In conference conference con con- ference terence with the writers of the Middle West who are waiting waiting- for the new editor to become settled settled set set- tied at his desk b before fore they start East to operate co-operate with him If he will now apprehend 1 all of the geniuses geniuses geniuses gen gen- who are waiting to be apprehended apprehended apprehended he will find it possible to get out ut an entirely pew new kind of ot magazine and devote to dialect po poetry poetry poetry po- po etry all of those pages which are arenow arenow arenow now being wasted on fiction This dinner to Hewitt Howland Rowland has been planned and put under very happy auspices Tonight he lie is surrounded by his friends and to prove prove that they are his friends not one of them ha has a a. manuscript concealed concealed con con- on his p person I suspect that at this moment Mr 11 Rowland Howland nas an almost emotional regard for anyone anyone anyone any any- one who Is not an author I can stand here and praise him without falling failing under suspicion because I Iha ha have ve been sold down me river and have a contract with the Cosmopolitan itan It is a well known fact that we who write for this magazine never heard of ot the Century Besides I understand this tills magazine of ot which Hewitt Rowland Howland Is taking charge is I printed in the English language We are waving good good-by proud of him because he has been called from Main street to Fifth avenue and trembling a little In the fear that I he may forget us when he arrives in the big city where a party such as we are now attending would be pulled off ort at 2 o'clock in the afternoon afternoon after after- noon and be called a When his digestive apparatus and native virtues are being put ut to a supreme test we ye want nim mm to remember re member that the folks back home are pulling pulling- for him him and hoping that he will show his loyalty to Indiana by observing all of ot our restrictive Jaws laws even though he is far Car removed from our police supervision We Wo want him to 10 be bo not only an editor out Dut a hero And every evening when wo we check up on the day to make tomake make sure that we have not made mado ourselves Hable li liable liable li- li able to Jail sentences we will lo look t tat at his picture and think of him away off oft yonder surrounded by Gods God's chosen people and actors and andI excursionists and pray that he will I sometimes think of ot us out here In workaday lives sUE sustained by local color tolor and atm atmosphere |