THE OLD TYLER TALKS
"The Old Tyler" first appeared in print in August, 1921 when the
first of
four hundred and fourteen "Old Tyler Talks" were printed in the
Fellowship
Forum, a fraternal newspaper published in Washington, D.C.
In 1925 the publisher asked the author to select a few of the best of the
talks and thirty-one were accordingly made into a little volume,
copyrighted that year. The book, which sold for a dollar, ran into two
editions of five thousand copies each.
By the time they were all sold the Fellowship Forum ran head on into the
depression and disappeared and with it the Old Tyler.
His homely philosophy, sharp tongue and common sense, however, had made a
place for him in the hearts of readers; demand for the book has never
ceased, although it has lessened in the twenty-four years since the Old
Tyler first spoke from between the covers.
At long last the Old Tyler sits again before the door of his lodge, there
to repeat the tales which made him liked so long ago, and, from the wealth
of material of his hundreds of homilies, make thirty-nine new talks to the
book, a total of seventy in all...
...The author does not always agree with the Old Tyler- perhaps it is the
Old Tyler who disagrees with the author! Some to whom that statement is
made make answer: "Why don't you make him say what you think? You are the
boss man!"
All who have written know that, if they live, pen and ink characters have
minds and thoughts of their own, sometimes to the benefit, sometimes to the
grief of their fathers!
Therefore, with what is hoped is becoming modesty, this invitation is
extended; whatever you like in the Old Tyler's talks, credit to his
creator; if his sharpness or his ideas offend, blame the Old Tyler not
The Author
Old Tiler Talks by Carl H. Claudy
The Temple Publishers, Washington, D.C. 1949
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