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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-29
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BROOKMAN
Author Of
MAD MARRIAGE"

ulous. Don't you sect means
II means Mark doesn't love me any
more. He couldn't do . thing like
this II he loved mel"
ITS his lying. underhanded.
father who's 10 blame." Chris NJ
most snorted tho words. "0h. i
don't say I admire Mark for what's
happened. but it's his father who's
responsible!"
Norma said between sobs. "
don't want TO live-if Mark
doesn't love me-"
A LITTLE later her mood changed
- to self-condemnation. She BE-
rated herself for n dozen eascns
81 ought TO have told Mark" she
moaned over and over. * ought
TO have told him about everything
even IL II killed me! II was wrong
10 run away from his fathers
house. III I'd stayed this wouldn't
have happened It's NIL my
fault"
Chris had all she could DO 10
silence this new outburst. She
made promises she knew were i'm
| possible. stalling for time. AZ
length her efforts were successful.
Norma lay perfectly still. seemed
TO relax.
"If you'll only shut your eyes
now and try to sleepl" Chris urged.
~I1l try" Norma said o~bediently.
She closed her eyes. The older girl
watched from her post mt the side
or the bed and noted that Norma's
breathing was regular and deep.
Minutes passed and then Norma
opened her eyes again. ~
I'm all right now" she said.
you ought 70 30 back to the once.
Chris"
You're sure there's nothing more
you want?"
Nothing"
"And you'll stay right here and
try to rest? I'm going to tell Mrs.
Bixby 10 send up your lunch"
4 couldn't eat anything. Honest
iy. Not now"
"Well-a little later then If
you're sure everything's all right
I'LL 70 now but I'll be back this
evening Just as Co as I can net
here from work"
Norma's eyes were closed ana
she did not answer. Chris put ON
her wraps. watched the other Rirl
a~nxiously for several momentA,
finally turned without speaking and
left the room She stopped FOR .
consultation with Mrs Bixby b.
fore she boarded q street car bound
downtown.
Norma heard the outer door
close. The house was unusually
quiet. She lay still, listening for
what must have been 20 minutes
Then an silently as possible she
arose and slipped into her clothing.
She put on her coat and hat and
opened the hall door stealthfly.
No n appeared 20 stop her when
she reached the ground floor. Five
minutes later Norma was at the
street intersection. "A cab driver
swerved In answer 70 her signal
and drew up mt the curb.
Norma stepped into the cab and
gave IN address. Her face. as she
sank back against the leather seat
was like parchment. A moment
later she leaned forward and tapped
the glass partition separating her
from the driver.
Hurry. viii your Norma
begged
Go - Continned) e.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-29
9Io5I BY NNNSSERVlCE INC.

Sorry. but ! assure you that 1t
is. Has she a h~usband?"
Chris hands had gone TO her
throat "She did have" she said
slowly. There's been q divorce.
Norma didn't know q thing about
II until last night. You see-he's
In Paris. Oh. this II dreadful"
"Parisf" the doctor said with =
show OF interest
"Yes." Chris hurried on broken
ly. On. ! might as well tell you'll
She's been working here as Miss
Travern but she's really married.
Mark Travers Ia her husband-I
mean he was. You know, Il. MI.
Travers' son. The family didn't ap-
prove OF the marriage. Mark 1Gt
abroad two months ago and she
hasn't even heard from him since.
Last night she got a letter telling
her about the divorce. Oh what
can she dot"
"She can 20 home and rest for d
few days and take care OF herself.
That's the sensible course. Unfor-
tunate Of course. veryi Ill tell
you what you do. Miss-er-T"
Saunders" Chris supplied.
Yes. Miss Saunders. My ONCE
Is on the fifth floor. Bring Mrs.
Travers in to see me In q few days.
Say on Monday. I'll give her the
examination Does she have any
thing beside her salary here?"
Chris shook her head. mo-" she
said Its not much but well man
age some way"
DR. wILLOUGHBY shrugged.
- Don't worry. I'll take rare OF
that. Sorry for the girl. Call my
secretary about an appointment.
will you?"
Chris said that she would. She
went back 10 the private Office
where Norma had been lying on
an improvised couch. Chris found
her sitting up. pale but otherwise
looking natural.
"The doctor says you're TO take
the day on" Chris announced. I'm
going to take You home and Mr..
Stuart's already called d cab Tor
u.s."
But l can't" Norma began,
only to hear her protests routed.
you can certainly do as your
boss tells you! These are Mr.. Stu
arts orders Shall / get your wraps
and bring them In here?"
Stuart put his head in the door
to say that the taxi was waiting.
Chris hurried to the advertising
ONCE to explain her absence and
came back wearing hat and coat.
The two girls descended to the
ground floor and went out on the
street The cab was drawn up a
little to the left As they stepped
In Chris gave the driver the num-
Der OF Norma's rooming house.
II was a silent ride. Norma
leaned back against Chris arm and
most OF the way her eyes were
closed. The older girl was strug-
Cling with her own thoughts Bat
thing o terrifying new problem.
When she did speak II was only to
say something %reassuring to Norma.
The cool air was refreshing.
There was the faintest tinge or
color in Norma's cheeks as she
stepped down to the walk before
the rooming house. Chris paid the
driver and dismissed him.
I'm coming In with you she
told the other girl. They don't
expect me back at the ONCE for d
while"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-29
REGIN HERE d

BEGIN HERE TODAY
Pretty NORMA KENT. 2O-yenr-
old secretary. mnrries MARK
TRAvERS. nsf1iionnire's son. In
spite Of the opposItion Of the In
Their. r.. vi. TRAyERS.
The story opens In Marlboro.
middle western metropolis. Mark
sells his rondsfer Ia get money
for nm eKtrnvnganf honeymoon nf
fashionable blue Springs. Soon
taeir money n gone. Mark bor-
rows $500 md they return 10
thing they have u gone nc finds
a job only TO lose a.. Finally he
becomes n f~oorwnlker In Biossom-
dnic's department store.
In spite Of poverty the young
couple are happy until Mnrk's
father sends for him. He Offers
20 take Mark back Into his w
business Organization " Mark Will
prove ne can make good. His nrsf
task Involves N business trip 90
France. Norma Is Ia remain nj
home. I'm spite Of her protests
Mark goes.
when Norma r. rudeiy treated
slips away leaving no trace OF
her whereabouts. CHRIS SAuND-
ERS. her former roommate, helps
Norma find n JON.
employs detectives 20
trace her. They discover Norma's
name I'm police nles nnd the record
hat three yenrs before n WINS
convicted on n vice charge. In
spite of evidence lint the charge
was framed and Norma
Travers sends mis- lawyer 10 Paris
with documents which Will enable
Mark 90 secure a diorcve. Norma
knows nothing or this until late
I'm January she receives q letter
telling her Mark Inns seceurcd n
divorce. HnIf-sick she goes 20
work next morning and faints In
the once.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER xxXV
CHRIS followed DR.. wiIloughby
- to the outer ONCE. Stuart arose
as they entered
shell be all right" the doctor
assured them. Better send her
homo for the day. though. Seems
TO be a little rundown" He turned
toward Chris. You're a friend oil
hers?" he asked.
yes, doctor. We used to live In
the same apartment. Tit isn'i
anything serious?"
mo. I shouldn't say that. Per
haps you can arrange to 90 with
her."
I'm sure I can"
Stuart said. "I'll call a cab foi
you." and picked up the telephone
The doctor nodded CURLY. put or
his hat and said. Good day." Ar
he stepped into the corridor Chri:
followed. Doctor" she said ear
nestly. you're sure she's going &c
be aIs right? Norma's all alone In
the world. II there's anything al
all to be DOME"
DR.. Willoughby eyed the girl mar
rowly. you say you're q friend Of
hers?" he repeated.
"Oh. yes. I'm the closest friend
she has in the world ! guess. You
see she's been worried lately.
That's what made me so anxious.'
"And you don't know what's the
matter with herr"
"Why-no-is
AFTER you get her home" the
doctor said slowly. "call In her
regular physician. He can tell
you"
"But-you don't mean-?"
Willoughby nodded Perfectly
normal condition." he said. "She's
evidently been under q strain
worried as you say-and something
brought on this fainting spell
Quite unimportant In itself. She
ought to have a thorough examina'
tion- Take her to an obstetricfan
\ you can. There are clinics, cI
course"
But d0ctor!" the girl exclaimed
oh. but doctor-it can't bel.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-29
AID TO WOMEN

The General Federation OF Wo-
mems Clubs is now offering medical
and financial aid to the Women's
Overseas Service League in assist
ing disabled women who served
overseas during the war.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-29

There's this thing congress
should remember. too: there are
hundreds Of thousands Of unem-
ployed people In this country who
are not generally known to be en-
ployed. Why? Because they are
down In their cellars making or
tending the home brew. They've
been laid off ut the shop and have
been using the time to make more
bear.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-29

"And another thing-has any
boIy stopped to think that while
the opening or breweries might
give employment to millions. it
would throw more millions out OF
employment. especially night en-
ployment? How about the crock,
jug. secondhand bottle and strain
er statesmen? How about all the
extra clerks that have been put
on since 1919 to meet the demand
for yeast. tunnels. cheese-cloth
and first aids to fermentation?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-29

Would 1t be square to me or to
millions Of other Americans to
throw open the breweries now and
make all this equipment SO much
junk? Is 1t just to ask the aver
age man to use his cellar merely
as a place to keep coal, wood and
canned fruits ag-in?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-29
The
Once Ocer
NJ II 4 puIIIIpa


Elmer Twitchell is all "het' up
over the campaign to legalize the
opening of breweries as an aid to
economic recovery in the almost
United States. IF congress does
anything about opening the brew
cries, 1 want to know what It's
going to do about compensating
the public for all the money 1t has
put Into home brew apparatus and
gadgets during the last ten years."
declared Elmer today.
Millions Of Americans have
spent the last decade building up
elaborate brewing plants in their
own cellars, and now, just when
the homes Of Americans are what
might be called perfectly equipped,
there Is talk OF opening the brew
eriesl" exclaimed Elmer. as that
-air?s
The American public's invest
ment In crooks, kegs. barrels, fir
kins, jugs. bungs, bottles, corking
devices. bottling apparatus, yeast,
hops. recipes. corks. metal caps and
what not, must run into the bill
Ions" continued Mr.. Twitchell.
1T staggered me today when ]
sat down and tried TO figure UP
what z had spent since prohibition
on equipment to make my own
beer. There's hardly a day that i
don't drop in at some stoNc and
buy a new gadget that's supposed
to be a first aid to the home
brewer.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-29

AIf you threw open the big brew
cries today these men would come
swarming out Of cellars from coast
to coast, increasing by many mil
lions the best federal estimates OF
unemployed. II would just about
flabbergast the nation.
why. home brewing Is keeping
a lot Of fellers from even realiz-
ing that they're out Of work. con-
cluded Elmer .
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-29

One Way Of Lifting the Depression
What business needs more than
anything else are some statesmen
and saleswomen who don't seem
quite 10 bored when customers
want a little attention.
The reviewers all agree that
George Whites Scandals" Is a
good, clean show. Mr.. White is
reported in conference with his
lawyers TO see what he can dc
about this ruinous comment.
Have you noticed how Russia
has slowed up since Bernard Shaw
gave 1t his approval?
ITO Deport More Kurds"--head-
line. Sending tn Kurds on their
way" suggests AL Adams.
HI:
Speaking Of appropriate names
In the brokerage business. there
was once a broker named Cutting
A. Mellon.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-15

tached to it, or the great humanitar-
ian, civil, social and beneficial service
made possible thereby, but rather be-
cause of the trust placed in me by the
overwhelming number of national and
international unions and local unions,
including the American Federation of
Labor, in administering the affairs of
the Union Labor Life Insurance Com
pany as its president.
81 regard the news item, based as
it is on not the slightest evidence of
fact, and without an attempt first
having been made to ascertain it's ac-
curacy before publication and wide
distribution, as an act of utter disre-
gard to good character of men in
volved and the national movements
represented by them"
The story of Green's purported plan
to retire was given five-column head
and a column story. The denial, pub
lished next day on page 5, was given
a two-line 1O-point head with exactly
ten lines of story.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-15
''Help Free These, Our
People," Says Appeal
In War On Volsteadism

councils, printing trades councils and
union label legaues. We call upon
local unions of every craft and calling
and we call upon the trade unionists
of America to support the work en-
trusted to this organization to do by
authority of the American Federation
of Labor's executive council.
at is our belief that men and wom-
en- in all walks of life will support
this work because the human hunger
for liberty is, in this country, confined
to no section of our population.
"Our mission is to behead dragon.
Our battle will be won as soon as
voice can be given to the demand that
already exists. The fight is not alone
the fight of labor. 1t is the fight of
all, the battle of a people. In that
secure knowledge we urge support
adequate support. We ugge every dele
gate to this national conference to
take this message home and to there
spread the word. Make possible bat
tie on scale that will bring victory
with haste. We do not resitate to
say, we dare not daily with delay. The
forces of destruction but wait upon
our procrastination. Today is the day
of battle. If victory comes by stage
coach it may find no terminal.
All Called to Help
"Your committee feels that it can
do no more than sound this call to
generosity and speed. Naturally,
plans and methods must be worked
out by our officers who will sc to
work at once But we call upon every
man and woman in our movement, or
friendly to it, to help, for in helping
in this movement they help America
shake off a menace, a disgrace and
poisoning, throttling incubus of error,
Give money to help free these, ~our
people, to make the future safer for
our children, to set a new example to
a torn and heart-sick world"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-15
MISERABLE PAY
FOR LARGE CLASS
OF RAILWAY LABOR
Majority of Maintenance-Of- :
Way Workers Found Ex-
isting on Wage Scale Be-
low Standard Accepted as
Minimum.

Washington, d. C. ILNS)-Sixty
to seventy per cent of the families
depending for support upon employ
ment in railway maintenance-of-wa
work, which employs large number
of men, are reported by the Chill
dren's Bureau of the United States
Department of Labor to be subsisting
at standard of living below the
minimum declared to be essential to
phscial well-being. The study covers
$50 individual families, with 1,674
children, living in 10 states. The sur
vey was made between October, 1928,
and July, 1929.
Not one of the 469 fathers who
were questioned in this survey earned
as much as $3.50 as a section la
borer during the year of the study;
whereas the minimum standard form
ulated as necessary for health and
decency called for 81 400 to 81, 800 per
year Twenty-nine of them earned
less than $500; 129 of them earned
more than $500 but less than $3.50;
PIP earned $3.50 but less than 1000;
and only 101 of them earned as much
as $1,000.
The foremen's earnings were on a
different level, % of them having
earned $1,000 but less than $1,000; 38
earned $500 but less than $1,750;
while IL earned S1,750 or more.
The lowest wages were found in
Georgia, where most of the laborers
were negroes, and where only five of
the 72 studied earned as much as $3.50
per year. In Kentucky, where the
workers were all native-born whites,
the majority earned less than $3.50.
In all the other districts the majority
earned less than $3.50.
These rates of pay were the result
of low wages and irregular employ
ment; the rates varying from 16 cents
per hour (Georgia's) to 43 cents. Two
hundred of the $50 men had worked
every week in the year. For most of
the families there was some other in
come to supplement the wages of the
father.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-15
new COMMERCE
CHAMBER HEAD
BANKERS MAN
Silas Strawn's Background
Gives Assurance He Will
Not Run Counter to Views
of Big Financial and
Trading Interests.
By JOSEPH A. WISE

Chicago (ILNS)-Silas Hardy
Strawn, of Chicago, recently elected
president of the United States Cham
Der of Commerce, undoubtedly will
conduct the affairs of that organiza-
tion in accordance with the views of
the bankers and traders of the cuon-
try during his term of office, and will
be in entire sympathy with the policy
of the chamber in its declaration for
a revision of the tariff downward.
Mr.. Strawn's antecedents and back
ground warrant this assumption.
Mr. Strawn, now Ga, and a native
of Illinois, has a rather remarkable
history. Starting out in life as a
small town lawyer at Ottawa, ILL.,, he
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-15
A. F. Of L. Survey Reports Trade Trend Improving
Wage Cutting Is Scathingy Assaed AS Economic Suicide
and Cause of Mental and Physical Deterioration

Washington, D. G. GLNS)-That
business has made some headway in
fighting its way back from the all
time low mark of 255 per cent below
normal, reached in January, is re-
ported in this weeks survey of bust
ness by the American Federation of
Labor.
"For the first time since the decline
began in July, 1929, indexes of bust
ness activity have risen for two
months in succession" the survey
says.
AS to employment, slight better
ment is shown, the decrease in unem-
ployment having been steady through
February, March and April, though
Improvement is not as rapid as had
been hoped"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-15
Business Makes|!Some Headway
Toward Recovery From Slump

has achieved an international reputa-
tlon as corporation lawyer, diplo-
mat, banker and business leader.
Headed Bar Association
He was president of the American
Bar Association in 1927-1928 and pre-
viously had been president of both the
Chicago and Illinois Bar Associations,
He is an eX-president of the CONNER
cial Club and of the Industrial Club
of Chicago, the two most powerful
business groups in this city, and at
present is vice president for the
United States Of the International
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr.. Strawn was the delegate of the
United States to the special confer
ence at Peking on the Chinese Gus
toms tariff, and was the American
member of the Chinese extraterritor-
ial commission.
He is director of the First
National Bank Of Chicago, of which
Melvin A. Traylor, one of the or
ganizers of the International Bank for
Settlements, is the president.
Chairman of Mail Order House
Mr. Strawn has been for many
years the chairman of the board of
Montgomery, Ward & Co., gigantic
mail order house and chain store
operator, which pursues a thorough
going non-union policy. This firm
has given many millions of dollars
worth of printing to the notorious
r. R. Donnelley & Sons Company and
in other ways has shown its an
tagonism to organized labor.
The Strawn law firm is general
counsel for the Union Stock Yards and
Transit Company and solicitor for the
Michigan Central railroad. Mr.
Strawn was appointed counsel for the
receivers of the Chicago & Alton
railroad.
He is a director of the Wahl Com
pany, manufacturers of pens and pcn-
cils; of the Chicago Corporation and
of the Electric Household Appliance
Company.
Speaks for Financiers
Mr.. Strawn is the spokesman for
the La Sale street financial inter
ests, La Sale street having the same
relationship to Chicago that Wall
street has to New York During the
several crises which this city and
state passed through in recent
months Mr.. Strawn represented the
bankers and laid down the terms upon
which the bankers would lend the
various governments money to pull
them out of their financial difficult
ties. AS a result of this situation
Mr.. Strawn has been able to set up
a supergovernment which assumes to
dictate to the local elected public off
GERS how they shall and shall not
conduct public affairs.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-15

Washington, D c. (ILNS)-Secre-
tary-Treasurer l. NJ. Ornburn, of la
bor's national committee for modifica-
tion of the Volstead act made public
in full text the call for funds adopted
by the recent national conference held
in Philadelphia. The call is III the
form of committee report submitted
to the conference and ratified by
unanimous vote.
"Your committee on finance" says
the document, impressed with the
knowledge that our movement must
have financial strength to back up the
moral strength of our organization
has carefully considered the question
from every point of view.
Our conclusion is that the detailed
planning of methods Of raising
money must be left TO the officers, al
ready over burdened with work, but
that the inspiration to give must be
created by the rank and file, and par
ticularly by the delegates to this con-
ference who will go from here to their
homes in every state in the Union.
1T is the purpose of our organiza-
ton to remove a great stigma from
the good name of our nation, to re
move a great curse from its midst. 1t
is our purpose to restore temperate
ness, to restore civic cleanliness, to
restore the trend toward enlargement
of liberty. We engage in this battle,
pitting ourselves against great wealth,
for no evil has ever been so richly
endowed with money in all human
history. The great Goliath of today
is practically impervious to sling-shot
treatment, because the Goliath of to-
day can and does buy and corrupt on
every hand.
Generous Support Needed
1--WE shall not need unlimited funds,
but we shall need money in reason
able amounts to battle the way
through for truth and decency and we
have no right to refrain from calling
for the money that will be needed in
this battle Of people against bigotry.
We call upon trade unionists, in their
organizations and as individuals, and
we call upon the friends of freedom
everywhere to give generous support
to this national committee for modi-
fication of the Volstead act, so that
Labor's Liberty Legion need not be
crippled in the waging Of its fight.
We call upon national and interna-
tional unions, upon state federations
of labor and city central bodies, upon
building trades councils, metal trades