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CHAPTER LXVI' 339 butted over the fence now and then. It is the habit and nature of the goat, as you should know. 50. Go into the business knowing that it is one requiring a long and tiresome preparation, and be prepared to spend that time and patience. 51. Know that it is a business unusually abundant in vexatious delays and prepare to encounter these delays. 52. Realize in advance that there are all sorts and conditions of men and do not feel surprise or anger when you encounter the boors. 53. Play the game as the veterans play it. If you feel that Editors are thieves, do not try to do .business with them. If you feel that you will not receive fair treatment, do not subject yourself to this treat- ment. Do not demand any fancied rights. You have none. The seller has no other right than to offer his wares. When you can write good scripts you can rub the editorial countenance into the dust of the road, so through your application advance the day. If you get ten dollars where you think you should be paid twenty, learn to write a script for which the Editor will offer you fifty and will be glad to pay a hundred, if he has to. 54. And lastly remember that if you can write stories that are wanted, you can sell them, and on top of your stamp box write: More stories are sold with patience than with postage. (2.XIX:16 XXIV :5-7) (7.LI:9) (26.11:7 XXVIII :5 XLIII :3) ('27.11:14) (29.VIII:13 LXVI :4) (35.11:15) (42.XXVI:13) (45.XXIV:7) (46.XXIII:3) (47.11:16). CHAPTER LXVI EDITORS AND OTHERS FAR too many authors make the mistake of trying to press too hard any seeming advantage. Others waste time and invention that might better be spent in plotting in trying to devise schemesr for obtaining a supposed "pull" with the powers that be. Still others cherish the belief that there is some short cut to success, known to successful writers but which they jealously guard—and spend more time in the quest of this than they do in practice work. 2. Editors are persons of good literary judgment who are employed by film manufacturing companies to overlook the manuscripts sub- mitted and select from these such as may be used for production. They are not hired to conduct correspondence courses in script writ- ing nor to act as disbursers of their employers' charitable donations. You are impertinent and offensive when you argue that an Editor should divert his attention from his duties to impart to you the in- formation you are supposed to possess before you presume to ap- proach him.