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After the choleric publisher of the Newark (N. J.) Ledger fired eight members of the Newark Newspaper Guild four months ago, 35 other Guild members walked out on strike (TIME, Nov. 26, Dec. 3). Last week the eight were still out of jobs but the 35 were back at work, their strike...
...Guild against a newspaper in a large city, was noisy and bad-tempered on both sides. Hot-headed Publisher Lucius T. Russell was loud in his derision of "Heywood Broun's children of the Guild." The Guild retaliated with a program of picketing not only the Ledger building and newsstands but also advertisers (including potent Bamberger's). Ledger circulation, 44,000 before the strike, slumped to about 30,000. By the advertising manager's own statement, the Ledger lost 15 of its fattest accounts, suffered deep cuts in many another. Supported by money donations from Guild chapters...
...submarines, he made his debut as a soprano in the choir of Grace Church. After a grammar & night-school education, he went to work, first as a telephone operator in an iron works factory, later in the art department of the Philadelphia Press, stayed with that paper, the Evening Ledger and Bulletin for five years as reporter and copyreader. Later he took to writing advertising, got fired from N. W. Ayer & Son for paying too much attention to music...
Cast up the balance of your life. On one side of the ledger put all your past pleasures, all the hard-won triumphs and unexpected windfalls, all the satisfactions, material, mental, emotional. On the other side itemize every trouble, setback and sorrow, all the pain, frustration, deprivation and boredom. Now add up your columns and prepare to make an immediate choice of two alternatives...
...Richard Washburn Child and Bainbridge Colby and indirect offers to become wavers of the Hearst banner did surprisingly little to alter their opinion. Drop in the bucket though it may have been, the money which rolled from the Hearstian coffers to smooth the surface can be written in the ledger with red ink. Mr. Hearst, it would seem, is pinning too much faith in human stupidity. The Daily Princetonian...