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New Britain herald., 1929-04-25
She Finds Managing 1heater Just
 Housekeeping On Big Scale"

Hoboken. N. J., April e5.-Emiie Murray holds down a mans job by being utterly feminine.
 She is one of the very few wo- men managers of metropolitan thea trs. Her stamping ground is Ameri- ca's new Bohemia. She manages the Old Rialto here, where the world journeys in holiday spirit-a theater where. one might feel, a Dempsey would be needed to keep order.
 But quite the contrary.
 Young. slight. and extremely chic looking. Miss Murray finds that soft Southern voice is effective in turning away complaints and that a gntele request usually will halt the occasional obstrc porous members of the audience.
 She Just Cries a Little
 Sometimes, I just cry little if they won't be quiet after I've asked them" Miss Murray looked very appealinsiy out of big brown eyes, and all of a sudden seemed like girl in need of protection. Just few tears do the trick, usu- ally. Only twice I've had to resort to calling a policeman"
 Perhaps it was Miss Murray's early training that gives her this understanding. She was convent educated, entering before she was old enough to remember. Or maybe it is because she has several broth CTS and has kept house for two Of them for years-sweet potato pie and lemon meringue pie being her specialities.
 Most likely. however. it is her own stage experience that makes her so efficient She left the con- vent to take the part Of one of the children in Blue Bird" later gradu- ated into grown-up chorus work, made hit in Nothing But the Truth" and had couple of other leads. In between engagements she broke in box office work and liked the regularity of ticket selling bet ter than seasonal hard strain and then nothing to do. She sold tickets in many New York theaters. finally being the only woman seller in one Of the large agencies.
 Now she hires. fires. and man. ages the staff of 20 or so ushers, doormen, ticket sellers. porters and so on, has charge of the payroll for the whole theater and is active house manager and on occasion bouncer. She has three assistants.
 Managing a theater logically is a wonan's job. according to Miss Murray. who refuses to think she is unusual just because she saw il could be done.
 still the HOtIsekeeper
 Tt is just housekeeping on large scale" she said There is the house cleaning to be attended, and everything kept in order. There a"e many personalities to keep in mind. thing woman's in tuition prepares her for. and many little adjustments between individuals. another woman's job.
 Last. but not least. woman's patience is sorely needed in box office work. For the world has a complex in believing that all ticket sellers are holding out all the good seats for friends"
 Miss Murray is sure her own fu- ture lies in her present work. She has the ambition to pick up her pet dog and her whole Old Rialto theater and set them down in Ber- muda for a season. If this ever happens, she believes she will open dry cleaning establishment in those charming islands, on the side. Wherever she goes. however, one feels assured she will be busy and successful.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-25

him, a furry form made two swift bounds. For a second Farmer Browns Boy thought that the young gander was fairly caught. There was q tremendous thrashing Of great wings and splashine Of water and at the same time, Farmer Browns Boy could see some feathers fly. And then he saw the young sander s&t,u- ming trantica.ly out to join the rest Of the flock while al the edge of he water stood Yowier the Bobcat, spit ting out some feathers. which were all he had succeeded in getting from that young gander.
 It was int, resting and fl was amusing to see that young .anI. r hurriediy try 10 get into the very middle Of the flock. He was as ba l. ly frightened as ever young g4n- der could be He had had a lesson he never would forget Honker. the wise old leader. swan over to him and Farmer Browns Boy wouil have given much if he could ha Q understood what Honker was saying. Then, with q few swift blows Of hIs bill, which the young gander didn't oven attempt to return. Honker left him and began to swim slowly around the pond, searching the shore with those keen eyes Of his in quest Of other enemies.
 Copyright. 1929, by T. W. Burgess)
 The next story: Departure and
New Britain herald., 1929-04-25

child guidance and the teaching of normal juvenile behavior has been rapid.
 The effects of this reform will not be immediately noticeable. but 70 years from now, when the children concerned have become adults, the good of the method will make its presence felt in the community.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-25
CLOTHES HANGERS

Coat and skirt hangers and shoe trees are absolute necessities 10 the %ait-grooIled person. One needs an nm p!c supply Of all, too. for the urge 10 Iarg things Up carefully should De aided and abetted bg ways and means of so doing.
New Britain herald., 1929-04-25
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1T you add Il ."aspoonfJl Of fine ta ap!oca to rhn7acb Or fresh berry i,j" when ,od Lake it. 1t will thick ra inc filling just enough to keep il . rnll rUnnlNg
New Britain herald., 1929-04-25

The next story: Departure and Arrival"
New Britain herald., 1929-04-25
jIJtit RAGS

i.ottuce bags JTr so easiiY made, everyone should h.t9e the-n. y'sc fire chcescc,ntl and make ;dr2c enough 10 hold q couple O. heads os lettuce after is has been washed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
A Wise Decision

Frank E Gannett has acted with promptness and
courage in serering all financial connection between
his newspapers and the International Paper and
Power Company
MIR. Gannetl is recognized a publisher of high
character But while his fellow publishers did not
question his motives in accepting loans from the In
ternational they felt that such relationship most
unvise.
AS he himself expresses it in an editorial in the
Brooklyn Eagle; The absolute independence and in
tegrity of Ganrfett newspaper must never be in
doubt
Therefore, while repeating his relief that his re-
auonShip with the International a straightfor-
ward legal business transaction he has chosen with
good grace to conform to the view that newspapers
should not be associated financially with power COM
panies
We share the judgment Of large majority Of edi-
tors that the Internauonas acquisition OF stock hold
ings in newspapers is a menace to a free press.
Revelations by the federal trade commission that
this company alone has penetrated thirteen news
papers in various parts of the country indicate the
extent of the danger
The issue is clear power company has private
interest to serve in its relations with the public
newspaper must be above such interest The two
can not mix ANY attempt to make them mix only
can njure the newspaper in fact and in public con-
fdence
Mr.. GannettS courage in dissOciating MS neWspa-
ners from the International should be an example tc
other publishers with whom the power companies are
negotiating for stock
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
Not a MaSt0fDi0CG

FTHTS seems to me a curious atti-
l. tude upon the part Of per-
son who assumes the magnificent
pose Of bringing forward the first
ray of common sense yet produced
in the controversy. Often it is
quite helpful to be familiar with
the matter which one is discussing.
The Sex Side Of Life is not, III
my opinion, a masterpiece 1t is
entirely conceivable that any one
of a number of persons could write
a better pamphlet.
But if Mary Ware bennett goes
to Jail it will be impossible for any
one to write any sort of essay on
sex education without resorting to
euphemisnS annd innuendOes.
In essence Mrs. bennett Is not on
trial so much as natures scheme
for reproduction. I would not even
insist that this is altogether mas
terly
Sex may be, as some have said
the fundamental blunder Of ere
alton" Still not all the Summers,
Stratons and Wilkinsons have yet
come forward with any feasible
scheme for abolishing it.
The twelve good men and true
were asked in effect, rs maternity
g dirty and a shameful thing?' They
decided that it was.
1t is against this opinion that an
appeal is being made, This isn't
a private fight. Anybody can join in.
lConvright. 1923. for The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06

releasing new credit which would be absorbed in
speculation
THE last ten years exempify a monetary policy
which adequately has met our national needs and
brought unprecedented prosperity he said. If
those who have administered that policy that it's
continuance imperiled, it behooves all prudent men
to heed and not to rail"
Others spoke in similar vein. Colonel Leonard P.
Ayres Of Cleveland diagnosed the present trouble
largely to the invisible banking system" that has
grown up He referred to the practice of corporations
loaning excess funds in the call money market, and
suggested their regulation The federal reserve system
Colonel Ay9es asserts is in no way to blame for this
condition
Harry A. Wheeler, Chicago banker appealed to the
chamber to cooperate with the board He argued that
the board should not be blamed for the present credit
situation but that banks brokers' dealers in securities
and those who speculate should shoulder the RESPONSE
bility. Re would curb stock issues.
While the chamber was in session. the National
City Bank of New York in its May review called for
a further check on speculative credit. and warned of
the danger to business if interest rates not low
cred Charles E. itchel who has criticised the board
FOR its policies, is president of this bank
Thus it would seem that whatever the cause and
the cure business men and bankers are awakened to
the dangers in the present trend and to the necessity
for restoring conditions to normal
Realization that pickering and assaults on the re-
serve system will not remedy conditions, and that
there is need for cooperation is distinct gain The
combined forces of business, finance, and industry
working with the reserve system, should be able to
avoid a condition that would bring general disaster
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
Cooperation Replacing Criticism

Bankers and economists disagree what has
caused the orgy Of speculation III stocks and on what
should be done about it
They do agree however, that the present situation
unhealthy and that high interest rates caused by
use OF credit the stock exchange are having ad-
verse effects on business and industry and may affect
foreign trade. The pinch is beginning to be felt.
They now seem agreed also on the necessity for CO.
operation OF all elements with the federal reserve
board in its efforts bring conditions back to normal
The United States Chamber of Commerce, for in
stance after long discussion Of finance and credit at
its annual meeting, adopted resolution Which said
among other things, "the chamber has confidence in
the federal reserve system and its adaptaby to
conditions and holds that the system is entitled to the
utmost cooperation"
The chamber had heard John Foster Dulles Of New
York tell of the accomplishments OF the sys-
TEN in restoring conditions 70 normal here and abroad
in the troubled postwar years and dispute the claim
of c. Durant that industrial leaders of the country
s7s per opposed to the policies OF the board
Dulles believes the present problem primarily is
one of psychology. He warned agaipT the danger oA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
Tax Burdens

Increases Of taxation over a period Of five years
alarms the state organization Of property owners,
large property owners. They want economies
That there is vast waste public funds is readily
apparent It would take no financial genius, if given
a free hand to reduce the burden and give the peo-
pie much more for their money than they get at
present
A private corporation. for instance, engaged in
the building of roads would think OF buying its
cement and paying heavy profits when 1t had the
raw material and the labor within its own control
The state, if it we're wise could materially reduce
the cost of road building by installing cement plant
at the state farm where the materials abound and
are owned by the state The labor to the state would
be free and plentiful long as bootleggng is crime
Red tape and tradition prevent this very obvious
saving OF course. te activity of cement lobbyists in
the legislature and around the statehouSe may have
something to do with this particular plan
large burden in I'll taxation comes from interest
on debts This state has bonded Indebtedness. but
it does have some debts that near to bonds as
the constitution permits The debts armories built
by bank with a subsidiary construction company is
debt against the state requires big interest pay
ments each year.
In the cities and counties the interest charges
pyramid taxes until It IS small wonder that the
farmer wants relief
The building OF schools IN many of the rapidly
growing cities of the state has become a problem
Some cities are seeking evasion of their debt lni
tations in order borrow money for necessary build
ings.
The tax situation might induce a few OF the ex~
perts to study very carefully the plan recently ad-
vanced bv Henry Ford. That makes it respectable
It is the same plan which General CoXey has ad-
yocated for thirty or more years as the remedy for
unemployment and the freeing of industry and bust
ness from unnecessary interest charges public i'm
provements
The plan is simple. He would have each govern
ment unit which issues bonds continue to issue them
under the same limitations that now make them very
attractive to private investors.
He would deposit these bonds with the government
and receive cash for them which would be expended
on the improvement.
Each year he would raise per cent OF the total
by taxation the same is now paid in interest and
return this to the government. The money would be
destroyed.
At the end OF twenty years, the bond would be
fully paid the money retired and the people left with
no burden of rehnancng or taxing themselves for
The principal,
The plan is gaining favor. Not only Henry Ford
but others like it, Farmers and taxpayers might II
they understood it,
For three decades Coxey has carried on his cam
naign OF education. At the last congress the house
banking committee considered it. He had tic Ycte
in the committee
Those who do not like high taxes might write to
the senator's and congressman and ask them to find
out whether the Ford or Coxey plan would help 1t
is lust possible that furnishes solution for many
economic evils.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
Three Months

IT'S not every day that million dollars is sent
TO Jail"
That is what they say about Harry Sinclair He
is going to iail today or tomorrow for three months
Sinclair conspired with Secretary Fall to defraud
the government Of its naval oil reserves at Teapot
Dome But that Is not why he is going to jail Sim
clair also was charged with trying to obstruct justice
in one of his trials by having members OF his Jury
shadowed But he is not going to Jail for that.
It is because he refused to answer senate questions
regarding the Teapot Dome deal that he is going be
hind the bars-for contempt.
Sinclair is fortunate in his offense
How wise OF him not to oriticse the MusSolni
dictatorship
Then he might have been sent to Atlanta prison
for a whole year. like Carlo Tresca Of New York.
If he had sent sex education pamphlet through
the mails he might have got five years
If he had sold liquor under the Jones law he might
have got five years Or up in Michigan he might
have got life sentence for selling pint
If he had distributed literature Of the Workers
party a legal political organization he might have
been sentenced to five years like the three workers
recently convicted in Pennsylvania.
Or if he had been an innocent labor leader like
Tom Mooney. whom the local authorities wanted to
get" he might have been sentenced to hang and
then received Communication to life Imprisonment.
But it is not every day that million dollars is
sent to jail-even for three months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
IT SEEMS TO ME By H sHooS

to do with the bennett case as
footbinding in China,
The Post is aiding and abetting
the prosecution in its reference to
Mrs. bennett and cher radical sup
porters." Mr.. wilkinson, by some
extraordinary stretch Of the mag
nation, told the jurors in summing
up that the pamphlet was com
muniSm.'
Such stuff, Of course. is merely
bait for boobs. The issue does not
lie between conservatives and rad
icalS.
The American Civil Liberties
League has interested itself in the
defense Of Mrs. bennett as it has
interested itself in numerous other
cases involving freedom Of speech.
But there is no reason on earth why
a. person should not believe in high
protective tariff, one hundred new
battle cruisers, Jonah, and Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, and still hold
that it is monstrous for Mrs. Den
nett to serve three hundred days in
Jail for writing the simple truth
about Sc kin plain language.
I have yet to meet anybody who
SAYS that the pamphlete is holy. In
discussing the case I have one adj
vantage over the editor Of the
Evening Post, who proudly eXclaims:
1--WE haven't read it. We don't
want to read it."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06

of the air can be accomplished in two ways. One is
to heat the air. A gas always expands when 1t is
heated The other to release the amount OF pres
sure under which it is held
1t seems obvious that if yoU heat gas to expand it.
you will not succeed in getting enough cooling as the
result of the expansion to cause the formation OF
clouds. And this would be true if the ali was en-
closed in some sort of COntdiner.
But let us suppose that of air over certain
region is warmed a result of sunlight. Sunlight
does not warm the air as it passes through it. The
suns rays are absorbed by the ground which then
gives up the energy in the form of long heat waves
which the air That is why the air nearest the
ground becomes the warmestl
Now. then. when the air becomes warmed it eX-
pands and hence becomes lighter than the cooler all
surrounding it. AS result the cooler air pushes in on
it and the warm air is lifted or pushed up.
The air rises just warm air rises in a
chimney But though speak of warm air rising in
the chimney il is important to remember that in re-
atty the warm air is pushed up the chimney by the
colder air entering at the bottom through the draft
opening or fireplace opening as the case may be.
AS the warm air riSeS-we are speaking again OF
the outdoorst begins to expand. because the general
air pressure encountered at higher levels is less than
that at the ground
membered that heat is merely molecular motion AS
the molecules spread out greater area they lose
energy and slow up.
DR.. Humphreys says that air Of average humidity
will lose degree Fahrenheit every 178 feet it
rises
AS the air continues TO rise, expand and COOL ii
finally passes below the dewpoint. AS result, the
moisture in it condenses and clouds formed a
result.
Here again is one of the paradoxes of meteorology
Heating of air slightly results in it eventually
becoming colder.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06

TTHE country needs much more
i specific data for building ade-
quate policies and plans for the
utilization of forest lands and for
the practice of forestry. E.
Marsh, Forest Service.
ct would rather think Of my
religion as a gamble than to think
of it as an insurance policy. DR.
st-3hen Wise. outlook
There is no old or new Tam
many. There is and has been Just
one Tammany. Tammany always
has been Tammany. john F.
Curry, new leader Of Tammany
Hail
THE Republican party. that rose
with Lincoln and fell with Grant
that was auctioned off by Mark
Hanna and given away by Roose-
NelL. mas DScI OpEl dICU do d PRIV "
enterprise for several decades. The
Democratic party of jefferson and
Jackson fell TO pieces in the Civil
war: and neither the tar Of public
plumber nor the glue of noble words
has ever been strong enough TO stick
Humpty Dumpty firmly together
again. Donald R Rlchberg
counsel of the National Conference
on the Valuation Of Railroads.
eff any young man wants TO get
married and can't afford it, just let
him get a job teaching in a prep
school. "-Robert NJ. Hutchins, new
ly elected president Of the Univer-
sity Of Chicago.
Mankind is incorrigibly lazy,
would like to stop progressing and
especially would always prefer to
stop thinking. The hardest work
in the world is thinking, and espec-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
YoUng'S Compromise

ERMANY having offered too
NJ little, and the allies having
asked too much, Owen D. Young,
chairman Of the reparations confer
ence, proposes a plan Of his own.
The plan is not a compromise, we
are told. Young having worked it
out very carefully by taking all
factors" into account, but since it
provides sum in between, it
amounts to little else.
According to what are described
as authentic sources" Young's
glan provides for annual payments
by Germany which average S494,-
100000 over a period Of ff5y-eight
years. making grand "otal Of
about twenty-nine billion collars
The item of interest cuts some
figure. especially when reckoned at
81 per cent, so that the present
value of what Germany would pay
under Young's plan is between eight
and nine billion collars.
Schacht. head OF the German del
egation, has agreed to the Young
plan. provided the allies will accept
it, and provided further that Ger
many will be credited with all prof.
its OF the international bank which
the plan authorizes if it succeeds.
but VIII not be held liable for its
losses II 1t fails.
The allies have not arrived at any
conclusion, but an atmosphere Of
hopefulneSs pervades their delib-
ersfiors
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
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| ANNIVERSARY
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THE BIRTH or PEARY

TODAY is the birthday of Robert
a E. Peary, discoverer of the North
Pole and the man who determined
that Greenland is an island and
not an arm of vast Arctic contin-
ent. He was born May s, 1856, and
died in 1920
Peary credited most OF his success
to his practice Of adopting Eskimo
dress, food, snowhouses and manner
of life in general. He believed that
the centuries had taught these peo-
pie how best to combat their rigorous
climate and bleak surroundings,
His first expedition to Green
land. in 1891 was maIred by an
accident in the ice foes Oft the
island which broke one Of his lega
In two places. A few months later,
at o Christmas party he gave for
the Eskimo5, he OUTRAGED on snow q
shoes all the natives an his own
men!
Peary reached the pole on a sub
sequeut trip. on April 8. 1902 and
claimed it for the President Of the
United States.
With the flag Of the United States,
Peary planted at the pole the colors
of the Delta Kappa Epsilon frater-
nitv-into which ne had been
initiated during his undergraduate
DAYS at BoWdoin college.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-06
Burden of Poverty

IT is hard to live, much less sue
Aceed, in the face of poverty, es-
pecially when most other people
seem SO well of and when the cry
is all for spending.
Poverty, like other things, is not
so bad if there is a crowd to share
it.
What really hurts is to bear it
alone, to be the worst off in a COM
munity, to realize that one can not
have, or give like other folks.
Prosperity only doubles the bur-
den.
The poor in this country are poor
er than they ever were because of
the contrast.