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...thousands of troubled women who have turned hopefully to Dorothy Dix, none ever found a happier solution than the first. She was Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, sheltered daughter of a genteel but impoverished Tennessee family, and her problem was how to make a living. At 25, with an ailing husband to support, tiny Mrs. Gilmer was a women's-page slavey on the New Orleans Picayune, where she had started at $5 a week...
...name she took became the most famous byline of any newspaperwoman's. Last week, when "Dorothy Dix" turned 50, her creator was a lively 75. Both were still going strong, Miss Dix as an oracle in 216 papers, Mrs. Gilmer as a grande dame of New Orleans with an annual income of more than $75,000. Her column held a record for longevity, beating out the Katzenjammer Kids by a year and Beatrice Fairfax...
...syrupy. Recently a girl wrote her: "I went out with a young man of whom I'm very fond . . . I found it necessary to take several cocktails in order not to appear unsophisticated, although I am not given to drink. Did I do wrong?" Replied Dorothy Dix: "Quite probably...
...wrote to Dorothy Dix, Anne Hirst, Beatrice Fairfax, et al., to ask what to do about a boy of eleven who was unstrung, disobedient and disrespectful, who stole and refused to do homework. (She took these symptoms from an actual case, whose real trouble, she explains, was that he was unloved.) Some suggested punishment or a stiff school far from home. Beatrice Fairfax sternly warned against psychiatry. Elsie Robinson (author of I Wanted Out) gave what Mrs. Steiner considers the only ethical answer: "The problem of a disobedient child is far too delicate and complicated to be solved...
...cantonments for 1,200,000 men; that examples of "outrageous waste" were Camp Blanding, Fla. (near Jacksonville), where a bad choice of sites cost an unnecessary $5 million; Camp Meade, where the Army spent $17,364 to build the same kind of barracks which cost $9,822 at Camp Dix...