If You Have To Be Burned At

After Being Turned Down By Numerous Publishers, He Had Decided To Write For Posterity.

Even The Elders Can Give A Number Of Helpful Hints.

I Got The Breaks. Starting From Nowhere In The Corn Belt, I Helped Edit A Country Weekly, Then Was Jack-of-all-departments On An Obscure Daily, So That When I Arrived In A Big City Everything I Tackled In The Line Of Column Conducting And Syndicate Peddling And Playwriting Had To Bring Promotion, Because I Had No Social Standing Which Could Be Endangered, No Reputation To Toss Away And No Pride Which Might Suffer A Setback. Everything I Acquired Had To Be Velvet. You Cannot Lose Your Silver Spoon If You Are Brought Up On Pewter.

In Scattering Seeds Of Kindness, Do It By Hand And Not By Machine.

It Is Not Time For Mirth And Laughter, The Cold, Gray Dawn Of The Morning After.