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PAGE FOUR '•V / " If You Don’t Take Advantage of the Opportunity to Sell Us Your Used Car ■% For Considerable More Than It's Worth THEN YOU WILL BE THE BIGGEST LOSER This is an honest-to-goodness offer during the Carolinas Exposition, but won’t hold good a single day after it closes Saturday, October 4th. We sold and traded cars every day last week regardless of the rain. Five new Andersons were sold Saturday afternoon. One new Anderson Coupe was sold thirty minutes after the Exposi tion opened Monday morning. Don’t let the rain keep you away -the roads are wet, of course, but they are not near as bad as they used to be, rajn don’t stop us any more. Here’s Your Opportunity—Don’t Let It Slip • CAROLINA AUTOMOBILE COMPANY, Distributors 209 South Church Street ' , Charlotte, N. C. ANDERSON MOTOR COMPANY, Manufacturers Rock Hill, S. C. - ; , f v | Story telling as an Indptiy By FREDERH Vice-President Palmer SHK centuries-old concept of an author as a queer person with long hair and shabby .clothes starving away at his trade in a garret has been cast on the acrapheap with other outworn and erroneous ideas by everyone who has any acquaintance with the modern business of word-working in America. Instead of that caricature of a manu facturer of stories we have the actu ality of thousands of young and older men and women living all over the country (not merely in Greenwich Vil lage, New York), who work every day at their craft, amid just such sur roudings as those chosen by auto salesmen, bond brokers, and manu facturers of paper boxes. The present day writer gets his hair cut regularly, has his clothes pressed, eats three generous meals a dpy, and has a bet ter acquaintance with the market re ports both of his commodity and oth ers than he has of the fanciful Bohemia in which those of his ilk for merly .were supposed to revel. Fiction-hungry America Quantity production explains _ the metamorphosis of the writing craft, just as it explains the advance of the plate glass industry, the general use of canned goods, and the cheapness of ready-made suits of clothes. There . fs in America a huge demand fo.r priced stories’ and for those that ap pear on the moving picture .screen. Thousands of them are supplied every week to a public which is hungry for make-believe, for the romance and ad venture which the necessities of mak ing a living prevent them from obtain ing in any other way. In the writing ... business as in any other a large de mad is the natural precursor of a Otjaf* supply and of handsome prices for the goods desired. Persons with imagination who may have been con fetent to revile the public taste in a ?; garret, when no one wanted their |S wares, have yielded to economic de mand. They have seen the bright Writing becomes a Business. Not only have most of Ups teadi "/jucnl.ooZv'and but thousands of others with ICK PALMER Institute of Authorship business possibilities ta telling stories aud have joined the throng pf profes sional authors. Under the influence of these new practitioners, and in ac cordance with known facts concerning public taste and appetite in the matter of fiction, there have occurred stand ardization, specialization and simpli fication just as they have occurred in other supposedly more prosaic indus tries. Writing, like government and painting, has been put under a busi ness administration. Teachers and Tramps Together For several years past I have been intimately associated with hundreds of successful fiction-business men and women who have heard the call of the new industry, and who have left school teaching, engineering, tramp ing, stoking, selling, promotion work, reporting, canvassing, housekeeping, work and a score of other occupations to work.in and to gain the rs'wards of the newly organized busi-' nesg. I have known others who have been only occasional practitioners. They have kept on with their ordi nary vocations whether the raising of children or the practice of medicine, and have dealt in written words mere ly as sidelines for securing the up keep of their motorcars or the pur chase of new fur coats. Farewell to “High-Brows" The printing press has beep praised or blamed for many things, but the majorjty of persons of whom 1 speak have had nothing but praise for it. When it made possible the production of hundreds of magazines every . mouth' some of them with millions of readers, it revealed for the first time just what stories the great mass of persons wanted to read apd opened the way Mr thousands who had good stories in their imaginations to make the sort of living they privately han tered for. When stories were limited I output, pnd these was no way to ascertain what the people at large real ly wanted, only the so-called “hlgl.~ tfep lofty jtbd s{s>» very ob- 1 scure author, had any reason for prac ticing literature. If Is products could be circulated wdll enough to satisfy tom small group** persons When the to read, nn had little relation U/ the rather raw, full-blooded existence that the masses knew about and wgnted to read about. The high-brows delighted in long, slow, involved and quiet sentences that probably meant something in the end, but which didn’t aay anything to the grocer on the corner, or the driver of the grocer’s delivery wagon; if In deed they were ever Intended to so. The n t might he democratic, but eerily wgs not It was the most snobbish and aristo cratic pursuit there was. To the coal jm|aer it was on a par with china painting and other drawing-room ac complishments. He had no Use for it. Naturally, under the past restricted output of magazines the sort of peo ple who could have written under- for the coal miner, the ri*>- bon clerk, the tired housewife, and the peddler, Went right on in the i *»«**-APd-bbtter occupations t $ e y then gtaced. They even did their part to further the popular frepression that writers were queer ducks whose private lives would not*, bear'investiga tion ap<| wh()s.e though! processes It wap during this Period that the impression Os a Bohemian soul living Itegr.g.at.ssS; r- *-w THE CONCORR DAILY TRIBUM) activity of the prining press changed thing?. The traditional impression of the Bohemian changed with them. You now correctly have the picture of a successful business aian. who writes for bts living, and who is ft constitu ent part of one of the greatest indus tries in the country; an industry that feeds the movies and the magazines with their life bleed- The persons who in the past let their imagination ride, and who too|, out an obscure indignation against the snobs of liter ature by caricaturing them, noticed the' multiplication of magazines and the growing power of the moving pip tures and wept into the business of literature themselves. They are now showing how it should be run to bring the greatest good to the greatest num ber. - , Ho Pifk'Tgg Novels , Tramps, prize-fighters, sailors, min ers are" themselves writing storfcs., novels and photoplays. They Jcnow what the pe«p|» want to read abapt,' because they enm* f# om th< £ themselves. They have also!, evpifi eaced the 'harsh otfataets with We that make lor the creation Os vivile fiction,: told with a snap and a punch, once the technique of writing storjjpH hasjjgpp WAftteref They do oot hgye [picked nn atjfink tga s: cuc^ohse^- Drive your car to the Exposition, see; one of our representatives at the Anderson booth, and make the deal then and there. .{ Every Anderson equipped with a full Aluminum “Coachbuilt” body. It saves 200, pounds in weight, makes the paint last twice as long. - The good looks and refinements in the 1925 models will make you feel good to own one. tions as were quite sufficient to, inside the reputations of an earlier djy. \Vt\en it comes to day-dreams apd phantasies, they know the kind that amuse and beguile the ordinary man. Knowing the market and having the goods, tluey proceed to practice just 1 the way a manufacturer of steel shov els would start to manufacture if be found h.ltnpelf ovjr an iron mine. The Tcols of Trade There has been only eni other thing necessary to dfqet this tr.anatqnpji • tlon. It is the same thing that applies to the hlginaor in any business or Jp ' duatry—that is the mastery of the • tflpja with wfclch ho iptentls to wor£ 1 Itere-/-were v,,thQßfia»df! o#v parsers ' t&rorughout the cobatry who had tije f ptoper imagination to beguile the in terest of Hi air fellows, men opd , women pith. Intelligence ur.cl export ! epee Whp Uftd storia:) to te*l for tajtto i the world was ready to ptv batui ■ jsociely; but. -bjjvy; S ;in -r jpation l of writing as ’ a futile and i profitless one, tljey had neur learned i the graft of setting forth their stories in -a form that wapiti give them the greatest eCect oti the printed page. They had the rdw material that was demanded by a HMugtry, with out tlje training to pat it into manu- ] factured forir. J i - No better evidence of this condition I can he found than in the springing to 4 brah a decade dr so ago ef> the first j ecbooic in -which, mostly by corre- < spomlence, flipje inarticulate story r«&a of the business they yearned to enter. £ intmbor of men and women had learned the fates < Ttiursday, October 2, .19# * ■, \ such of the traditional of literature as were wilting to reveal the methods of their craft, and they bad combined with the laws thus dig. covered tha newer prinntpies that practice according ta the popular de mand had developed. -These persoqyp had assembled a mass of data thi* meant the salvation of the Ipartlculatp throng* who felt,their stories but W offer was itnappcd up from the most unexpected places- A'great new ep perfmeut In thy fictlfto manufac|pri»« proved a succoas, which the size and output * of the Story -tolling industry i .j
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