s will show the company's appreciation of
Mr. Gomble's loyal and unswerving allegiance to his duty, implying that
any one else who does his duty for fifty years will also get his
picture in the paper and a notice by the Superintendent.

It will easily be seen how this sort of house organ can be made to
promote good feeling and esprit de corps among the help. If only more
concerns could be prevailed upon to bring this message of weekly or
monthly good cheer to their employees, who knows but what the whole
caldron of industrial unrest might not suddenly simmer down to mere
nothingness? It has been said that all that is necessary is for capital
and labor to understand each other. Certainly such a house organ helps
the employees to understand their employers.

Perhaps some one will start a house organ edited by the employees for
circulation among the bosses, containing newsy notes about the owners'
families, quotations from Karl Marx and the results of the
profit-sharing contest between the various mills of the district.

This would complete the circle of understanding.

LVII

ADVICE TO WRITERS

Two books have emerged from the hundreds that are being published on the
art of writing. One of them is "The Lure of the Pen," by Flora
Klickmann, and the other is "Learning to Write," a collection of
Stevenson's meditations on the subject, issued by Scribners. At first
glance one might say that the betting would be at least eight to one on
Stevenson. But for real, solid, sensible advice in the matter of writing
and selling stories in the modern market, Miss Klickmann romps in an
easy winner.

It must be admitted that John William Rogers Jr., who collected the
Stevenson material, warns the reader in his introduction that the book
is not intended to serve as "a macadamized, mile-posted road to the
secret of writing," but simply as a help to those who want to write and
who are interested to know how Stevenson did it. So we mustn't compare
it too closely with Miss Klickmann's book, which is quite frankly a
mile-posted road, with little sub-headings along the side of the page
such as we used to have in Fiske's Elementary American History. But
Miss Klickmann will save the editors of the country a great deal more
trouble than Stevenson's advice ever will. She is the editor of an
English magazine herself, and has suffered.

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