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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1925
Page
4
A 1925 King Features snippet argues women should charge men for housework, proposing fixed rates for chores from sweeping to mending socks and collar buttons. It mocks deferred payments and suggests cash upfront plus a no-credit policy, ending with a sharp quip about divorce for cheaper wives.
Dr Alexander Humphreys soon enters his seventy fifth year as head of Stevens Institute of Technology a quarter century. A native of Scotland he trained in a school run by his father and began work at a New Jersey gas lighting company. He later rose as a renowned aging engineering expert and has served prominent mechanical and technical societies. He has published extensively on his profession.
Joseph Caillaux, former premier and active politician, is celebrated today on his 62nd birthday. De Wolf Hopper, famed comedian and stage personality entertaining generations, turns 67. M. Bates, dean of the university, is also mentioned in this birthday list.
The piece argues Monroe should be the oil capital for Urania and surrounding fields. It notes many La Salle tests come from Monroe companies and asserts Monroe’s status as trade center for the world’s largest gas field. Support from local business leaders and the Chamber of Commerce is urged to solidify Monroe’s lead.
A middle west auditorium hosts World War I veterans as a speaker recalls camps in France and the trenches. The audience sings Keep the Home Fires Burning but gradually forgets the words, a symbol of time dulling sorrows and fading recollections. The piece cites Joseph Conrad and Lincoln to affirm that all troubles pass with time.
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Prosecuting Attorney Crowe of Cook County argues newspapers should stress convictions and punishment in crime coverage. He notes readers seek news as a commodity and that reformers overlook public demand, comparing crime reporting to a merchant adding unwanted articles with eggs.
The piece argues against widespread fear mongering about the nation’s future and birth control debates. It contends the United States outperforms other nations, maintains high morals and living standards, and urges steadfast effort to honor heritage rather than fret over imagined evils.
A proposal links the hundredth anniversary of Thomas Jefferson death with the fifteenth anniversary of the Declaration's signing and suggests including a commemoration of President John Adams death. The idea is noted as curious and not fully justified.
The Monroe grand jury completed its 1910 report to Judge Madison with harsh criticism of the Monroe and West Monroe police for reluctance to testify. It cited 76 investigated violations, 34 true bills, and urged repairs to the parish jail and courthouse for sanitation. Several indicted prisoners were arraigned, while plans for the Ouachita parish boys corn club organized at Calhoun drew local attendees led by Judge Schulze and Sheriff Parker, with Governor Sanders set to speak on good roads and youth clubs.
The text notes their deaths on July Fourth and outlines their contrasting personalities and policies. It highlights their later friendship through private letters, Jefferson’s popular hero status versus Adams’s autocratic temperament, and the decline of Federalist influence as Jefferson helped shape liberal free institutions.
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