UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Don't Be Discouraged, Editor of Delineator Tells Magazine Class
Ability to Persevere First Requisite of Writer, Says Mrs. Honore Willsie
Dearth Of Good Authors
Periodicals Are Constantly On Lookout For New Blood, She Asserts
If a person hasn't the quality of "stick-to-tiveness" in his makeup he has no business ever attempting to make his living by writing. Mrs. Hughson, editor of Magazine Director, told the class in Magazine Writing last Friday afternoon.
"Without this ability of persevering in the face of discouragement, a person will never succeed as a writer," she said. "The first story I ever wrote I sent to The Atlantic Monthly, then to Harper's, then to The Century, then to Time, and now these offices I sent it to McClure's. The story came back, but with it came a letter from Mr. McClure.
"He told me the story was miserably plotted, but that it had possibilities. I've got a newspaper syndicate which publishes daily short stories," Mr. McClure told me. "If you've got a newspaper syndicate, stories of from 1,200 to 1,500 words, and stick to it, you will become a writer."
SHE TOOK HIS ADVICE
"I took his advice. And for three years I wrote stories for the McClure syndicate. It usually took me two days to write the story, and the rest of the week I spent in boiling it down, in cutting out the unnecessary words. I would cut an entire paragraph down to one sentence.
"Most young and inexperienced writers are too wordy. Magazines today want short short stories. If a story is longer than four thousand words we cannot use it in The Delineator. If it is a good story we tell the author we will accept it if he will cut it down to the required length.
"The biggest writers do not object to having their stories cut. It is the novice who objects most strenuously to having his stories altered in the office. But Kipling makes no objection if he is sent a proof of the altered story before it is published in the magazine."
WROTE SEVEN TO SELL ONE
WHEN she first began to write for the magazines, Mrs. Wilsie declared she usually wrote she seen stories to sell one that she was able to cut to about one that she was out of four. Twenty-three seemed to be her lucky number, she said, for frequently a story was sold on its twentieth-trip. Her husband made a collection of her rejection slips and wrote this little verse on the envelope containing them.
"How can I lay a little by,
If no one will buy my little lay?
“This is the golden age for the author.”
Mrs. Willisle asserted.
“There never was such a dearth of good writers as today. The old supra-
numerous names I have used names is a mistake. What keeps an editor reading over the 40,000 or more manuscripts that come in every day.”
year is the hope that a new writer or ability will be discovered. What will the magazines do when the present authors write themselves out if there is no new blood in sight? The Heart publications want only big names, but in every other magazine office the new writer is welcome.
WRITE WHAT YOU NOW
"Hundreds of writers come to see me or write me asking how they can become writers, and I tell them all the same thing. If you can imagine yourself an old man or an old woman still having the burning desire to write after many defeats, if you still feel you have something to say to the world, then go ahead; you will make a writer if you persevere.
"Write what you know. Most of the war stories come from persons in the Middle West who have never been wounded who died. Naturally, they are impossible."
Light Signal Practice Held for Jayhawkers On McCook Yesterday
No Injuries Result From Game With Aggies; Second String Men Show Improvement
After the hard battle with the Agnies last Saturday, the Jayhawker regulars were sent through a light signal drill yesterday. Kansans will go to the Oklahoma contest with every regular in the line-up unless some men are injured today or Wednesday. Only a light practice will be held Thursday before the men leave for Norman.
Second string men and substitutes scrimmaged the freshmen and scored two touchdowns in practice, yesterday afternoon. They are improving every day and the Jayhawkers probably will have some dependable substitute Saturday. This has been the case since fall, and the Kansas mentor has been working constantly to overcome the defect.
Ruble, who has been out only a week since the new Senate ruling went into effect, went into the Angie game in the last few minutes of play and made a fine showing for his first appearance this season. His two first downs in the Kansas march for K. U. It was a strategic move on the part of Olecott in the final game which he ran for the Kansas eleven.
Dennis, at right guard, seems to have secured a permanent position at the side of Hull, center. Mandvele showed a much better brand of ball in the Argie game than at any other play since he started his game Saturday he followed his interference with much exactness and the result was several long gains.
This afternoon the players will scrimmage against the freshman eleven in secret practice. Haskell probably be scrimmaged Wednesday.
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Basketball Men Report Four Days Each Week
1 Candidates Must Answer Roll Call By 7 o'Clock
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Basketball practice for both Varsity and freshmen will be held at 7 o'clock Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday nights from now on as suits and ready to answer roll call by 7 o'clock sharp.
The first Varsity quintet outclassed the freshmen in every department of the scrimmage last night. Miller, a freshman star last year, was at his best. He scored as many points as the other nine players combined. The score of the scrimmage was 36 to 4 in favor of the Varsity.
Bennett, former lola guard, played well for the freshmen and proved himself one of the best men on the floor. Harms, former Friends University player, did good work at center, but lacked efficiency to make too many long shots.
The Varsity lineup was: Miller and Uhrlaub, forwards; Hoievkam, center; Stephenson and Welty, guards.
Students Handle Publicity For Teachers' Meeting
The publicity work of the annual meeting of the State Teachers' Association held Thursday and Friday at Topeka, will be in charge of Prof. L. N. Flint of the department of journalism. Prof. Flint will go to Topeka on Friday. Prof. Flint of the Hayes Normal will assist him in taking charge of the work.
Thursday, W. A. Dill, instructor in journalism, and five members of Prof. Flint's class in "Problems and Policies?" Harry Morgan, Donald Davis, Eugene Dyer, Ernest Mower and Millard Weir, will go to Topeka to report on the Kansas to Tupelo map and other Kansas dailies and weekends throughout the state.
The publicity committee will make arrangements at the National Hotel during the tour.
Add 100 New Lockers
To Woman's Side Of Gym
To relieve the congestion on the woman's side of the gymnasium 100 additional lockers will be placed in a room where boarding made from the old hand-hall court.
The lockers for the new room are being taken from the men's side of the gym. Two rooms, including the faculty room, have been stripped of lockers and still there are many vacant ones on the men's side. The woman's quarters have been crowded this year. There were only 200 lockers for nearly a thousand girls. Several new showers probably will be put in.
INFANTRY DRILL REGULATIONS
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Since the Senate has adopted the new system of grading using A, B, C, and D instead of the numerals I, II, and III, it will be necessary to rewrite the rule regarding the requirements for the A. B. degree.
Requirements for A. B.
May Be Changed Soon
"Just what the nature of the ruling will be," said Dean Templin this morning, "no man can foretell. What happens, however, will effect only the Collure."
The old ruling was that to be eligible for the degree the candidate must have received a grade of I or II in at least eight hours of his collegiate work. Under the new system it is required that a student be required in at least a hundred hours, with seventy of these hours in the A and B groups.
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Meeting of Men's Pan Hellenic at Beta house Wednesday night at 9 o'clock.
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Announcement Nebraska-Kansas Ticket Sale
Nebraska-Kansas football game tickets will be ready for distribution on or about Monday, November 12. Applications for tickets will be received by mail only up to the above date. Students may make application for tickets by mail at once without enclosing money for same, but price of all tickets MUST BE IN THE MANAGER'S OFFICE ROBINSON GYMNASIUM BY 6:00 O'CLOCK, FRIDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 9, at which time the allotment of tickets will begin, and orders must be filled absolutely in the order in which applications were made.
If it is desired that tickets be mailed, 13 cents additional should be included to pay for postage and the registering of the return tickets. POSITIVELY NO TICKETS WILL BE ALLOTED UNTIL PAID FOR. The management will not be responsible for any tickets ordered to be sent by regular mail.
A special section will be reserved for K. U. rooters in the center of the field. These sections are open to men students only and no guests are permitted. All persons desiring to sit in the rooting
section should make application by mail, as only enough seats will be reserved to take care of those who indicate they desire these seats.
The price of the tickets will be side-line box seats (chairs) $2.50 each, bleacher seats $2.00. Student ticket coupon No. 4 will be accepted as $1.00 in payment of any seat. All seats reserved with the exception that enough seats will be provided to take care of student tickets not reserved. Make all applications and all checks payable to W.O. Hamilton, General Manager of Athletics.
W. O. Hamilton, General Manager of Athletics