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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION. UTAH National Memorial of the Elks Is Dedicated Scene at the dedication of the beautiful national memorial of the Elks In Chicago. Inset is Judge Willlan grand exalted ruler, accepting the building on behalf of the order. H. Atwell of Dallas, Texas, outgoing All These Cadets Have Learned How to Fly Under revised conditions in air service training In the army, all West Toint cadets must now know how to fly. The this years detachment have just completed their training at MItchel field, Long Island, and In celebration of the event posed for their picture with a big Murtin bombing plane. men of writers turn a of getting their stuff into print than at any time in history, Mu look at a news or magazine stand will tell you w hy. Where one magazine held forth twenty-livyears ago, two or three arc1 in the rack today. And, despite the Wall of publishers, inoru hooks are launched and sold today than ever Indore. Consequently, with all this space to be Idled, there Is a continued and increasing demand for tiller. Ucaliz.ing this demand, nearly everyone who can compose a grammatical sentence and many who cannot fed deep within themselves a strong desire to contribute to the supply. In most persons tlds desire rarely gets beyond the "want to" stage. To sympathetic ears they will confess tladr desire, adding perhaps that they know they could write if they but took the time. If they do take the time and compose something which at least 1ms a beginning and tin end, their troubles start. Tin manuscript generally comes back with tin rejection slip. This great demand begins to scent not so pressing after all. According to George Horace I.ori-meeditor of the Saturday Evening Post. the young writer is tlte victim of no conspiracy, nor are there any secrets, which, once learned, will land him on the royal road to fame. Mr. l.orlmer Is the hope of thousands of stragglers after fame, who "feel that they could do much bettor tlum anyone who U writing at present if they could only attract bis attention. "Learning .o write Is more ditHcult, perhaps, tnfcn learning other professions, said Mr. Lortmer In an Interview published In the International I'ook Review, "because It Is a lonely process. The thing most young writers fail to lealtze is that they must To be a docserve an apprenticeship. tor or a lawyer one must also serve Is It less painful, an apprenticeship, but because It Is laid out along prescribed The lines. young student of medicine must have years of training at school. Then he becomes an Interne and finally starts out to build up a practice for himself which Is a long, arduous proceeding. The best thing for the wouM-b- e author to do Is to take a position on a newspaper. The training he receives there Is Invaluable. He Is probably pretty young when he goes there, Isand to the first thing It does for hint give him experience toand a perspective write every day on life. He learns about what he sees. He begins to write for magazines, and he sends out things which promptly come back to him. Now, the difference between learning to W'rlte and learning other professions comes here. When a young doctor begins to practice, he does not consider it a personal affront If people do not come to him at once. He tells himself that he Is not well known as yet. He has not made enough acquaintances. But the young writer who creates something a story, a poem, an article has put something of himself OULD-B- E HE HAS THE PAPERS better chance today Coolidge Church During Vacation This Is the First Presbyterian church at Saranac Lake, where President and Mrs. Coolidge worship during their vacation In the Adirondacks. well-stocke- d croinr Qitra&rvsoorf into It. He draws upon Ills very soul for his material. And wiien it comes back to him with a printed slip of rejection, lie cannot help feeling that it Is a reflection upon himself. This is natural. There Is a feeling of hurt, however sensible he may be, which him deeply. Writing Is, after all, the expression of ones ego, and the ego Is a sensitive affair which Is easily wounded." "When we get a manuscript which we think shows promise, we try to get In touch with the writer. If possible, we send a man to see him. We talk the thing over with him and make We try to help hint to suggestions. develop ills own talent. For, despite impressions to the contrary, we welcome new writers. We want the fresh point of view of the young person. It Is like Injecting new blood into an old ts body. r, Famous Roman Tempi The Maisen Carree Is a Corinthian temple at Nimes, In southern France, erected during the time of the Roman occupation of the country. It has been carefully restored, and is used at present as a museum. The structure Is rectangular In shape, measuring 85 by 45 feet The Malson Carree was at one time attributed to Augustus (2T B. 4 A. D.), but a closer study of Its architecture has C.-1- "The public Is not made up of fools. is ns enthusiastic over the good work of an unknown author as it is over that of the man with a big name, l.ig names sell stories, of course. That is because the public has liked some n man previous work of the and looks for something ns good again, liut if his work falls below the standard he has set for himself, If It does not measure up to what the public has learned to expect of him, it is worse for him- - and for us than If he had been an unknown, because there Is the element of disappointment. "My advice to the young writer Is this: Serve your apprenticeship, knowing It for what It Is. Learn all you can about life, about men and women, about history and the affairs of the world, about literature and the conflict of ideas. Learn to think. Make yourself a master of words. Develop your individual style. Then, when you are ready, if you have anything to say, you will find your market." Another authority on the writers art who wag caught In the far Southwest and interviewed for the same magazine Is John Galsworthy. Asked to tell how he got the ideas for his stories, he said: "Really, no Idea, ae such, comes to me at once for a story," he began. "Usually some little, ironical incident some occurrence, some character, appeals to me and takes form so that I see it in the shape of some kind of a story. I do not deliberately shape it to carry out an idea; it seems naturally to shape Itself. It Is Impossible to give you a rule for this. "One can Indicate it by taking some definite example. In The Broken Boot, In Caravan, you will find a short story that grew out of an Ironical Incident. Ironlcil situations, somehow, always appeal to me most "It happened that I met an actor in a country town where I was stopping. It well-know- led to the opinion that it was erected during tlte period of the Anumlnes (138-ISA. D.). It is said to have' suggested to Thomas Jefferson the plan of the state capitol at Richmond, Va. A- - L'rm e r wo o cf knew him slightly many years belie had acted In one of my plays. talked with hint not more than two minutes. I noticed that his boot was slit across the toe twice between lace and toe-caThe Irony of it occurred to me. lie was making the best of tilings, putting on the air, almost, of a swell! The Incidents that follow In that story are pure invention not Incidents of Ids life at all, I assure you, for I knew nothing of it. I have not seen him since that brief conversation, liut the broken boot suggested the Irony of his life. The rest is imagination. Writers are a lazy lot, according to Henry L. Mencken, editor of the American Mercury. Their conversation is just as hanal as that of the Babbitts of which some of them write, he declared recently, lroceeding on the theory that they are lazy, Mr. Mencken took it upon himself to point out some of tlte opportunities which have boon staring American writers In the faee. "Tlte republic swarms with creatures who are intimately national and Immensely amusing, and they cry for the services of the novelist. Yet our writers neglect them all, from the university president to the police captain, and from the pastor to the realtor. Worst and most incredible of ull, they neglect the American of Americans, to wit : the malignant moralist, the Christian turned cannibal, the snouting and preposterous Puritan, he said In a copyrighted article In the Chicago Tribune. "I know of no American novel In which this most typical and gorgeous of Americanos Is even half limned. What a great novel la In him! Indeed, what a shelf of novels For he has as many forms as there are varieties of human delusions. Sometimes he is an evangelist, sweating to transform Oklahoma City or Altoona, Pa., Into the New Jerusalem. Sometimes he is a strict Sabbatarian, bawling for the police whenever he detects his neighbor washing bottles on Sunday morning. "I throw off the guess that there are at least forty novels In him. What are the springs of his peculiar frenzy to harass und punish his fellow men? What Is hi,s typical life history? Here Is the work for the novelist, which is to say for the professional anatomist of character. I fore. 1 p. CHILD VICTIM Memorial at Zeebrugge Unveiled 1 the captain replied courteously, "Just ns If nothing had happened. And the old lady was greatly relieved. Lon- don Among the scores of Injured in the naval depot disaster at Lake Denmark, N. J., were many children. One of these little victims Hazel Ileddy. aged four Is seen being consoled by Evelyn Pierson, a Salvation army girl. Tit-Bit- Losers Fuchsias High Place The fuchsia is one of the gardeners Here It Again most valuable plants, not only for the A nervous passenger on the first day beauty of its flowers and graceful of the voyage asked the captain what form of the plant but also because It would be the result If the steamer Is adaptable to flower beds and borshould strike an iceberg while it was ders and grows with such freedom and The Ice- such little care. As a house plant It plunging through the fog. Is very desirable. berg would move rUht along, madam. h Sergt. Hubert F. Williamson, who has served in the marine corps fifteen years, and four times has sworn to uphold the Constitution, recently became a citizen of the United States by taking the oath in Federal court, where he was awarded naturalization papers. Sergeant Williamson recently learned he was not a citizen because His father, with whom he came to the United States when only three years old, was not naturalized. The sergeant is on recruiting duty In Kansas City, Mo. Waterloo When Napoleon fought the battle of Waterloo he met his greatest defeat. It was a decisive one, which marked the beginning of the end of his career. From this circumstance we use the word Waterloo to signify that one has met defeat In so decisive a way as to preclude the hope of future success. ' - 8 Prince Charles of Belgium, wearing a uniform of a sublieutenant of the British navy, unveiled a tablet marking the spot where the attack on the Zeebrugge mole was made by H. M. S. Vindictive during the World war. Photograph shows Prince Charles, on right, saluting the plaque Immediately following the unveiling ceremonies. |