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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA-, THUR8DAY, DECEMBER 31, 1925. THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, DECEM BER 31, 1925. Genius -Unhonored andUnsung O i In a well-known eastern university By CLAYTON HAMILTON an intelligent youth dawdles disinter¬ Institute of Authorahip estedly with his Pre-Medical course. President, Palmer At twenty-two he is already bored [Al RMED with ink-wet. sheepskins anti the optimism of youth with life, and somewhat sullen and the recent crop of graduates is beginning to consider bitter. The frustrated ambitions of 'Try*. seriously the problem of buckling down to the adolescent the father have been hoisted upon his !V-.;vy dream of setting the world tin fire, The lure of the unwilling shoulders. Because his par¬ sparkling water, the* thrill of the combat tin tennis courts, the ent did not gain his coveted M. D. the zestful life of a camping trip, the fascination of the many 4U > son must forego his own cherished divertiscmenUi of a long, lazy summer are terminated. College desire for a I.itt. D. days and vacation days no longer occupy the center of the stage. 17. So much for the blindness and /m v. selfishness of parents. The carving of a career is t he next act. an / z 1 •. To it is the end of dreams [ endeavor. They Mii a r. The Lure of Mammon 1 many sm and the commencement of the drudg have become k Then there are those | ery of earning a living to others It lawyers, teach¬ 1 ! m r who are frankly in pur¬ la time for pulling aside the books ers, merchants, $ SI ' ; -« suit of the pecuniary a politic lane, u: t n YV 7M f, rewards be found in of thought, of culture end charm, and V jm Am f/7/mPJJ'J/t/wf'M/fftYS to paying attention to thorn- books that bankers, proportion to In I l-‘ r i f/JJ•//**/■ f* business ions. Naturally and the gift- pro spell order 1 ’’’ / 'fan 1 ' are more apt to success- t.he great num¬ m 1 vUS ft ‘- ,he 11 books, account books, medical tr¬ \i Mi mm ' e, "' ' 1 u ea,i professions crowded Uses, legal will volume that receive are Hi ad already the lamest like. over nmn The j nt bers son) oh forth . who of grad each , bios- „„ ti¬ h I Jf/ P m ■iH V/a ' 'iffaIV/lfl Ufa/7faff//' ' S'if/f/ I * SkSWr college Itteratur ’ deliberately and re- BSpir force rs, ", themselves bur turn upon llle away T leaving, y from , Ca ber of these new recruits , ,u the law, , ‘spring, | pnr- Ml WF'/ff //' vlsill to go engim-ring; few will .^ ‘ . few I® Wi ’ If!- lnt0 non ' cr, -at tasks Literary ■ medicine the and ministry, others a will dr fl ^ tup|| * :7; ty/ffij //, /’/■////1/ t/J-y //Iff ! 7 'fafau* dream? broken on tin wheel of ma tuler ar| for ■M / terial ' All berau- these that stmt- H. , A* sue < into teaching, *-i.-|.,. ng ( „„ lr v dreamers are daunted by the age-old I broader fields; an om Ion n grade . m o ’i mirage which picture's writers as) ranch; ani i ■ .... ...... —. ■ — ste goes back to the farm or patltetic starvers in rat-infested gar¬ social service, journalism, manufac¬ T 'fl -fc all few followers. :—- rets. turing, garner a vVo.v llow pitiful and needless such Business In lls manifold opportunities ART 3 VLETTER 3 TRADED are attracts In greater numbers every sacrifices! This Is the golden age year the more promising wearers of V for authors. Never before have there the cap and gown. - ■ existed so many periodicals whose L> pages must be filled with material of After College—What? Interest to satisfy the clamorous de¬ What becomes of the college men XL ■ ■> glowing with the joy mands of their multifarious readers and women whose Interests during mm-- ft of life and consumed j market for plays, novels, scena their university courses have lain J. with the desire to put r j og as wt1 [[ as f or technical and sci — '■m* vT/-, on paper her reactions entitle anti educational manuals has along the pleasant paths of litera¬ to everything about gt t0 develop the proper ratio be T Where today the college - 4i return y \ ture are I ITJ* her will soon : tween su;) p|y an ,i demand. No one editors of yesterday? The editors of * wFg-* -y Tfifr ‘7 to the flatness of her peed relegate to oblivion his desire ti - the dally, literary the humorous miscellany, publications, the campus the !> (a native are the utterly beauty Dakotas, devoid and which of Gutter write because exigencies, of the or daily because bread-and of the year books? Where are the budding r/fe /fl ,7 v .v *-< HA OK mance which are the to lack lllU-8. of proper instruction and stim playwrights of the -Sock and Buskin, T* ft. touchstone of her exi.-: * V •t'/i Literature is as difficult, as Intri tlie Mask and Wig, the Triangle Club r He and as honorable a profession as > would-be and countless otiier college dramatic 0 ^ r *. - - %rs or medicine, yet many associations whose slapstick come¬ I The poets, writers, sculptors and a /ti become discouraged if their dies riotous alike In color and wit. i painters that are developed In T' is not in immediate demand musical extravaganzas glorifying the ! the American colleges are rare in¬ Ma editors and publishers. They dead In comparison to the number of >v V l -ealize that years must be pulchritude of the female impersona¬ graduates that readily absorbed pecialized studying and as historical pageants depleting ihe are in and noils business upon n tors, the more prosaic occupations. This .<4 splendor of by-gone romance, and sol¬ condition exists not because of graduation, He frankly ad j a mits that he has not the s t f* emn cadences of Greek tragedies dearth of genius in this cosmopolitan slightest interest in such a \W have won for them the enthusiastic land of ours, because nowhere else artistic pursuit, but he is cflyi praises of their local constituents? may mute. be Inglorious found a greater Miltons, wealth bondaged of non the only son and he must '*v £ A \ those spirits who and Their and carry the hard won business - Where are shyer Beethovens and shackled Sargents. arts letters. eagerness on have labored with the patience of a Halher is the blame to be laid on the interest were refreshing, their spirits of the father. Job and the hopelessness of Sisy¬ crass materialism of the age, the na¬ and visions unbounded, Yet when A somewhat similar ease in a questioned of their future plans—as another university is that of a ;A> phus?—ridden by the desperate urge tional mania for industrial success, Included the being literal¬ LTr and the popular attitude of contemp¬ to whether these plans young man who is to write, yet too self-conscious to ex¬ tuous misconception towards those professional pursuit of literal ure — ly forced Into the ministry be¬ -pv ' pose to possible ridicule or misunder¬ who seek to adil to the world's store the answer was almost invariably cause the oldest son of that \ standing their, in many instances, of beauty. negative. name has for seven successive euce. nereiucio l 3iu* really worthwhile efforts. In recent lecture tour of the Thwarted Ambitions generations become a clergy¬ ! will find their life of endless toil Lg.'X my man and he must uphold the tradition briK htened considerably by her I Tread the Beaten Track United States addressing universities One young man who, his English yy% e of the family regardless of his person i comlng> but what of the spark The truth of the matter Is that and colleges in the interest of Sheri professor Informed me, has natural al ambitions, whieh lie in the direction ot genius possessed by the girl? many of these embryonic writers dan's masterpiece, "The Rivals,” It creative ability of a high order, 0 f short story writing, Is It to be smothered in the fi who In college have demonstrated was my fortune to come Into close but who is one of many who At one of the large co-educa- bleak Dakota winters and the their creative ability drift more contact w'itli many brilliant young must he constantly urged and stimu¬ tional institutions of the Middle barren droughts of a misnamed or less unwillingly into other lines of minds, keenly alive to the appeal of lated, expects to go into the wool i West a charming young woman summer? • 9 \ L S u Quality Printing >■' \ % % Good every time or tve make it good , and , “by the sweat of the brow” tve are boosting for you all the time I " 0 > The Leader-Tribune I l Telephone 119 \ & \ A m ei ma stduous practice, just as in other pro¬ fessions, before the writer can hang out his shingle which proclaims to the world his arrival at the goal o( his desire. Stimulus and Guidance Necessary When circumstances make the con¬ tinuance in university courses an im¬ possibility, the conscientious worker can obtain, splendid results from books on literary technique, from cor¬ respondence courses, from personal association with others of the same craft, and from a diligent study of the masters and their works, It is well. however, to remember. when ac quainting oneself wiih the great writers of the past, that study does not mean imitation, either in styla , r j n manner. Write of what you know, of what you are. and, above all, tio!l develop , H your 1 own peculiarities of dic- r Seek out those wito have acquired a facile knowledge of the tools of the rath- and learn wisely from the fruits of their experience. It is a pleasure t0 come into contact with the suc cessful author who finally has reachs eomplishment ed the broad, after smooth the plateau long, hazard¬ of a ^^jp ous uphill struggle, when, after those initial years when he was burdened with crudity, lack of style, ignorance of method and superfluity of words, he has achieved a success that is worthy of emulation. Usually his hard won knowledge is freely given to his younger fellow-craftsmen. We call them artists—these master writ¬ ers who have achieved fame and greatness, but in reality they are the most pains taking of workmen. They tse the method that Is open to all. Anyone with the elementary knowl¬ edge of reading and writing may feed upon dictionaries, encyclopedias and popular works of reference and there¬ by string together words and sen¬ tences into carefully built-up narra¬ tives which do not violate the usual rules of rhetoric and composition, yet the result may be a galatea of leaden limbs Pygmalion ful manipulation and of inert imagination to pulse breathe without and in>** skill¬ 'he *t * I the spirit of life. The Reward of Effort ' There is fame and fortune for those writers whose genius carries them to the top cf the heap; some fame and less fortune for those of average cre¬ ative abilities; and neither the ac¬ clamation of the multitude or the pleasant clinking of gold for those who have buried their one talent un¬ der neglect and procrastination. There is no royal road to literature ,1 any more than there Is to other V things worth while; but the roughest of tortuously winding, grass-grown ruts can be smoothed and straighten¬ ed by application and perseverance. And the genius that today is being strangled and denied may. when un¬ leashed. produce the masters of to* morrow. /