Profit motive and regulation in modern society
Column argues that Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler highlights the danger of unregulated profit motive. The piece urges legal regulation and a shift in mindset to value service over dollars, noting some callings already enforce this ideal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Birthday Gift Drives Across Cities for Roosevelt Anniversary
More than 5000 American cities plan Birthday balls on January 30 to fund an endowment for the Warm Springs Foundation aiding infantile paralysis treatment. Proceeds aim to extend Roosevelt’s legacy nationwide and inspire broad public support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Errand of Mercy in Forbidden Valley
Curt Tennyson and Paul St Clair aid an injured Klosphee, Hai ee Tenn Og, found shot and barely alive after a night attack. They treat his wounds, earn his trust, and uncover a brutal band leader Liam Klale and the tyrant Le Noir’s faction, as Tenn Og shares grim tribal politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Northwest
Curt Tennyson
Paul St. Clair
Igor Mkarakhan
Sonya
Ralph Nichols
Nichols
Curt
Paul
Francois
Jocky
Cana
Tenn-Og
Tepee
Tenn Og
Liam-Klale
LeNoir
Will Hays Hustles Through Modern Showbiz World
The piece paints Will Hays as a tireless, busy industry figure who curbs chaos with swift decisions, inspiring both admiration and weariness. It notes his rumored blunt efficiency, public scrutiny, and impact on others in entertainment, alongside jabs at theater peers and social quirks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. O. McIntyre
New York
H. Hays
Vipers’ den
Daddy Browning
Influenza Epidemics Move in Cycles Says Dr Fishbein
Dr Morris Fishbein explains in his health column that influenza and past plagues show wave patterns. Epidemics rise when susceptible groups accumulate and fall after recovery, with cycles similar to measles driven by population immunity and time intervals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the American Medical Association
Hygeia the Health Magazine
Europe
Tommy Tit and the Mystery Bird in the Old Orchard
In Thornton W. Burgess bedtime tale a gray unnamed stranger stirs fear among the Old Orchard birds. Tommy Tit the Chickadee suspects the visitor after spotting a feather on a bill, while Yank Yank and Sammy Jay doubt him and the mystery grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy Tit
Sammy Jay
Yank Yank
Dotty
Linnet
Word Builder Puzzle Verse From Burgess Tale
A clipped, humorous dialogue unfolds with hints of wordplay as a narrator and birds discuss suspicion and manners. The tale centers on a suspicious stranger and echoes of a previous puzzle. The scene ends with a teaser for the next story, The Stranger Is Watched.
Moving through Hollywood holiday lights and stars
Hollywood on January 2 showsBou levard lit by thousands of colored lights with artificial decorations on lamp posts. Film folk mingle in Roosevelt Blossom Room Cocoanut Grove Beverly-Wilshire Gold Room. Claire Trevor sings, Warner Baxter jokes with a turkey, Lewis Stone sketches a cabin, Maureen O Sullivan resurfaces after hospitalization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Movieland
Hollywood Boulevard
Roosevelt Blossom Room
Cocoanut Grove
Beverly-Wilshire Gold Room
Claire Trevor
Warner Baxter
Lewis Stone
Stuart Erwin
Mauren O'Sullivan
LeNoir Plotter Moves Ahead of Curt’s Trip
In 1933 fiction, LeNoir planned an ambush and ordered killings with bodies sunk in a lake to mislead as a rapids disaster. He spared the white girl Sonya, possibly to keep her from warning others while Curt weighs a trip away from Russian Lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeNoir
Liam-Klale
Paul
Tenn Og
Lilluar
Curt
Sonya
Russian Lake
William B. Mowery
Prolific Writer Puzzle Clues Across and Down
A dense list of crossword style hints spans across and down, naming writers, body parts, objects, and directional clues. The mixed clues reference languages, numbers, and common phrases, inviting solver inferences and cross-connecting entries.
School Days on a School House
The passage quizzes readers with questions about road widths tied to surveyor chains and recalls campaigns and enlistment figures. It cites the Pall Dinner Pall Campaign of 1896 for McKinley and Hobart and notes the Virgin Islands supplied the Navy with only 59 volunteers in World War I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Hobart
United States
The
Virgin Islands
Two Negro men held in unnamed Texas jail for murder
Johnny Dade 21 confessed to killing Roy Lapham 54 in a dilapidated barn near Alvin. Mose Ingram 24 of Houston was implicated by Dade. officers said robbery was the motive. Lapham, once from Port Arthur, vanished six years ago after business reverses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angleton
Tex
Roy Lapham
Alvin
South Texas
Johnny Dade
Lapham
Dade
Mose Ingram
Houston
Port Arthur
Cade
Also Mentioned on This Page
Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
Globe-News Publishing Co
Sixth
Fillmore
Gene Howe
Wilbur C. Hawk
Ane
Associated Press
Cec Cs Ceseeesnerens
Amarillo Daily News
Globe
MAIL
Oklahoma
New Mexico
the Globe
U.S
Dr. Frank
Glenn Frank
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Plover
Sertanter
Forbidden Valley
Non Mowe
Dian
Willows Edge
Klosphee
Will Hays
Cinema Lord
Ethel Barrymore Colt
Morley
Jean Ferguson Black
the Lambs
Hicksville
L. I
Kin Hubbard
Abe Martin
Park Avenue
Atta Apothecary
Will Mahoney
Bedtime
Thornton W. Burgess
Slaty
Junco
Hawk
Spooky the Screech Owl
Old Orchard
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Word Builder
Tommy
Dee
T. W. Burgess
Dan Thomas
Moug
State of
Alfred Nobel
South