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6 THE ATLASjCA GEORGHAJir -AHP 3£EW& BATUBDAY, MAY 18, 1907. y. CECIL METER, Caslitlr Business Department. JOHN A. CHARLTON, Circulation Manager. SOUTH’S NEWEST AND BEST MAGAZINE IS PRODUCT OF YOUNG NEWSPAPER MEN Uncle Remus’s First Issue Makes Its Appearance. Uncle Remus's Magazine, which makes its appearance today. Is the product of the concentrated labor of a coterie of young Atlanta newspaper men. With these qualifications to the gen- Something About the Young Atlantans Who Make It. mirably equip him for the position he holds, which Is really that of general manager. Don Marquis Is associate editor. His editorial and feature work on The At lanta News and during the past threo years and a half on The Journal have made him known throughout the South, JULIAN HARRIS. Business Manager. Inntans when they joined the venture have already fallen into the spirit. And those two or three who are no longer basking on the sunny side of 32 In actual years nre still wonderfully youthful In actual fact. Joel Chandfer Harris, for Instance. All of them are Just out of newspaper work, and every one of them could handle a court trial, a murder or a baseball game, or coax an advertise ment out of a merchant in jam-up good shape. All, from the eminent editor down to his youngest son, who Is on the staff of the advertising manager of the magazine. They have been through the newspaper game and each has serv- ed with more or less distinction. All Youngsters. As has been said before, they are all youngsters. Roby Robinson, , who financed the venture, is not 35. Julian Harris, the prime mover of the maga zine, is only 32. Don Marquis, asso ciate editor, Is 28. 8. E. Duvldson, ad vertising munager, is 32. John A. Charlton, circulation manager. Is with in the same limit. Rdwln ('amp, man aging editor, is 24. Charles R. Cun ningham, subscription manager, is known In the office as "Father Cun ningham" because he has reached tlte advanced age of 37. And while Joel Chandler Harris and Charlie Pritchard, foreman of the mechanical department, can reminisce over newspaper work or The Constitution two decades ago, thev ore, in everything else but years, Just about the youngest of the bunch. Youth and newspaper experience are a hard combination to beat; so you can play Uncle Remus's Magazine to show Continued on Page Fourteen.. JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, Editor of Uncle Remus's Magazine. among the six best sellers and to set a merry pace from the very start. First Issue Out. The first issue, which bears the June imprint, is a splendid magazine. It is alive, alert and vibrant with interest ingness. It Is not merely promising of good things in the future. It is a ful fillment of the best hopes that have been entertained for the venture. From cover to cover Its forty-eight big pa;e.< are filled wjth "stuff”—to newspa:»er men, everything is "stuff"—that has quality. It is splendidly illustrated by the leading artists of America—su'd* people as Charlotte Harding, Chari** Livingston Bull, Charles A. Winter. James Preston and Walter Whitehead —and In typography and press-work compares with the best of the long- established monthlies of the Rost. It Is the most ambitious attempt ever made to establish n first-class literary monthly In the South. A glance through the magnificent publishing plant at 20 South Forsyth street will give one some idea of the magnitude of the venture. The plant, housed in a new erected especially for the purpose. Is perhaps the only magazine home in the country which has no office for its edi tor. Joel Chandler Haxris says there are not enough trees there, and after a brief visit each morning to the various departments he boards a West End car and returns to the Snay-b?an farm, where the noise of editing may be heard at all hours of the day and night. That Is. when the birds don't sing too loud and the passing trolley cars don’t make too much fuss. Men Who Make It. As to the personnel of the editor’s staff: Julian Harris, oldest son of Joel Chandler Harris, is business manager In title. He was, before taking up the work of starting and organizing the magazine, one of the best known news paper men In the country, becoming munaging editor of The Constitution at the age of 24, after brilliant service on The Chicago Times-Heraid and on the local staff and city desk of The Constitution. His thorough knowledge of the details of newspaper work in all Its departments, his indefatigable en- and his originality of ideas ad- ond the publication by Scribner’s, Put nam's and the American Magazine of his poems and short stories has car ried his name before the entire coun try. He Is regarded as one of the com ing writers of the South. If it were an original remark, it might be said of him that his versatility is exceeded only by his verse-utility. Poetry rip ples from his tongue In a gentle, never- ceasing stream, the flow sometimes be coming a raging torrent of lambic pen tameters, bursting all bounds, Ignoring ail cesuras. and sweeping on to a grand climax, epical and epochal. That’s what one of the genus press agents might say of Marquis. But the fact of the matter is that he is a tre mendously industrious young man of undoubted talent, who is bound to make a big hit. He has already begun to arrive. Edwin Camp, Managing Editor. The work of getting the magazine from manuscript to the press—In tech nical phrase, the "make-up”—Is looked after by Edwin Catnp, who Inst fall left the city editorship of The Georgian to take up his new duties. He hus put In four or five years of newspaper work on the local staff of The Constitution and The Memphis Morning News, as sporting editor of The Atlanta News, night city editor of The Constitution and news editor of The Macon Tele graph. S. R. Davidson is manager of the advertising department. Though a na tive of Illinois, he is a Southerner by EDWIN CAMP, Munaging Editor.