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iters Under 40 Produce Very Few
Good Novels, According to Erskin
CLEVELAND, O. — “Few good
novels are produced by writers under
the age of 40,” John Erskine, author
and president of the Julliard Music
Foundation in New York, said in an
interview here. “I don’t want to dis
courage young writers, but too often
they are sucked dry by their first suc
cess. Then they go into retreat in a
closet with books and we hear no more
of them.”
Erskine advises that every author
has lots to do besides writing. Other
work would furnish the writer mater
ial to write about, he said.
In wrting a novel, Erskine rarely
writes more than an hour a day. Us
ually he puts down only 300 words,
which is about a page of print, he
said.
This is his program in constructing
a novel: a first draft with no revis
ions, after six months spent collect-
ting data, then critical revision, and
finally rewriting often two or three
times.
Erskine is a tall easy-mannered
man with a heavy but pleasing voice.
He doesn’t care to talk about his
writings with most pepple, he said,
because they try to be complimentary,
and to “play up to a successful au
thor.”
Erskine is on leave from Columbia
University, where he taught English.
He is striving to “make America as
much a music loving country as Ger
many.” He dreams of seeing the ma
jority of American schoolboys pian
ists and most of the aldermen ac
quainted with the organ, and the
whole country as versed in music as
it is in baseball.
This country suffers more than any
other from inhibitions, he said, and
defined the term as “unwillingness
to do the beautiful or delightful.”
People are afraid of being laughed at,
he said. Music is underrated as a
method of mental training, he added,
and is one of the things laughed at
in many places.
Too much money is wasted on pri
vate music lessons, he said, which stop
! in two or three years.
Warren H. Chase, engineeer for the
Bell Telephone Co., has invented a pad
on which to rest the telephone, which,
when the telephone is lifted to be used
automatically turns off the radio.
42 out of 54
colleges choose
this FAVORITE
pipe tobacco
and Yale agrees
Henderson Addresses
Economics Forum Thus.
Advising the public to scatter its
investments over a large part of the
investment field, S. H. Henderson, of
Halsey Stuart and Company, address
ed the economics forum Tuesday.
There are many people, said Mr.
Henderson, who can inform the lender
where to invest, but by far the best
is a well established bond house which
regards its reputation at stake. He
did not condemn speculation for cer
tain types and classes of people, but
for a young man who is contemplat
ing marriage it is not the proper
thing.
CHANGE CALL-TO-QUARTERS
Through the action of the executive
committee call-to-quarters on Sunday
nights has been changed from 8:30
p. m. to 7:30 p. m. The reason given
for the change is “to assure to those
men not attending the evening church
services the extra study hour.”
I consider the modern deification of
self somewhat anti-social in its ten
dencies and therefore retrogressive.—
Lady Allenby.
TOOK CJP at the windows of
J t Harkness to find out what
the Yale man smokes. In the spring
time you’ll see him sitting in his
window seat with a pipeful of
Edgeworth between his teeth.
On Chapel Street... out at the
Bowl. .. everywhere the Yale man
goes, his pipe and Edgeworth go
with him. And at 42 out of 54 of
the leading colleges and universities
Edgeworth is the favorite tobacco.
A tobacco must be good to win
the vote of so many discriminating
smokers. And Edgeworth is good.
T o convincey ourself try Edgeworth.
You can get it wherever tobacco is
sold... 15^ a tin. Or, for a generous
free sample, write to Larus & Bro.
Co., 105 S. 22d St., Richmond,
Virginia.
Only when we paint our pictures
with our blood and feed the fires with
I our bodies do we reach success.—Can-
J on J. Forbes.
You would like to see music engaged
in pacifist propaganda? Well, music
engaged in portraying the horrors of
war would be horrible music.—Padere
wski.
Grammatical pedantry often side
tracks thought, and so leads to confu
sion.—H. C. Dowdall.
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Sug-areff Says Balkans
Planning Revolution
Saying that through secret planning
and scheming under the direction of
several influential men, a revolution
for complete independence has been
brought on by the people of the Bal
kan states of Europe, V. K. Sugareff,
of the department of history, spoke be
fore the Social Science Seminar Mon
day. His subject was “The Significance
of the Macedonian Question.”
Austria, Russia, and Turkey, said
Mr. Sugareff, have had control of
Macedonia at various times, and it
is because of this that the revolution
is receiving such attention from the
world powers at present. Should the
revolution be successful, he believes
that a government by a legislature
which would allow the predominating
tongue of each state to be the official
language, could prove to be the solu
tion to the problem of personal free
dom in the Balkans.
FACULTY DANCE SATURDAY
A Valentine dance will be given
Saturday by the College Dancing club,
according to Thomas F. Mayo, sec
retary. It will be held in the mess hall
annex.
This club is a faculty organization
with membership open to anyone con
nected officially with the college.
The Aggieland orchestra will play.
Thomas Ustick Walter, 67, grand
son of the architect by the same name
who designed and built the dome and
right and left wings of the United
States Capitol as well as other gov
ernment buildings, died recently at
Newport News. Walter was himself
an architect, as was his father.
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