Chats with the editor
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Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People
- Title
- Chats with the editor
- Creator
- The Editors
- Language
- English
- Source
- The Young Citizen : the magazine for young people 5 (11) November 1939
- Year
- 1939
- Subject
- Conversation
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- THE YOUNG CITIZEN November, 1939 j~'~_C_H_A_T_S~w_it_h_th_e __ E_D_I_T_O_R_-~l THIS chat is addressed to writers-young and old. If you have ever written anything for publication, or if you think you might write anything for publication, the Editor asks yqu to read this chat. But· first of all, let us stop a mo~ent and reflect that this is the month when everyone who is under the protection of the flag of the United States observes, at least to some extent, that great American holiday known as Thanksgiving Day. The Philippines, as a nation, has every reason to be thankful at the present moment. No war, no great disaster, and employment and food for the great · majority of all who live her.e - in short, I know of no other part of the world in better condition than we are in right now. So this year to a greater extent, perhaps, than ever before let us give thanks for our happy and prosperous condition as a nation. Now for the chat with writers and would-be writers: Don't forget that the Editor of The Young Citizen always wants to secure suitable material for publication, and that good articles will be paid for. We are dependent largely upon our Philippine writers for worth-while material. and ideas for this maga. zine. C'nless teachers and capable friends of our magazine help us by producing suitable, worth-while material for publication, we cannot give to the young people-the boys and girls -of the Philippines such an excellent magazine as we are now pri~ting. Just now· the. Editor would like to receive more short stories.-Little Stol"ies fol" Little P.eoplefrom 100 to 200 words in lepgth. We would like to publish more stories such as Gloria's Sacrifice which appeared in the September, 1939, number of The Y ounq Citizen. (Wasn't that ~ beautiful story!) Also, we would li.ke to have some longer stories to use in the section known as Reading Time for Young Folks. Any length of story -from 200 to 2,000 words -will do if the story is interesting and wholeso,;,e. We are always wanting clever material for primary grades. Every primary teacher in the Philippines is able to write some good material of this nature. Why not send us several artides and earn a few ext~·a pesos? · There are many other kinds of articles, too, which we can use. We suggest that again you read.the Announcement 'to All w,.iters on the inside front cover of this magazine, and then prepare us an article. But, writers, please do not expec.t your article to appear in print immediately after it is accepted. We plan our magazine several months in advance of the date of issue, so sometimes we wait a long time pefore publishing a certain article, even though that article may be excellent. If you send in an article you will hear from it sooner or later, and if it is a good article, or one which we can use (sometimes we cannot use even good articles), y.ou will see it in print, but probably not as soon as you expect. The Editor appreciates. very much the splendid contributions which have been sent in during the past few months. We extend our thanks to the writers.· Community Publishers, Inc. wishes you one and all a happy Thanksgiving vacation. Goodbye. - The Editor.
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