Show WHO'S NEWS THIS t WEEK rBy By LEMUEL F. F PARTON I EW YORK YORK l Mrs Ella A. A Boole N NEW the iron chancellor of prohibition bi- bi tion goes gocs into action again with Sen Morris Sheppard of ot Texas and several other fa fa- mollS old time old time Girds Sword in dry leaders who think they see sec anett a ary D ry J C orne b ac k new nett an and d u uday and acid day dawning A friend of this writer writ writ- er scouting material for tor a magazine magazine maga maga- zine zinc article on a trip through the Middle West says the drys are arc coming coming coming com com- ing back like an army with banners Too many saloons too much coeducational coeducational coeducational co co- co- co educational elbow bending too many tangles between barley barleycorn orn and automobiles too much cutting of corners to meet heavy tax am and license costs costs all all this and more is rallying the drys for fog a return engagement engagement en en- say the above and other detached observers The massive and deliberate Mrs Boole is 80 years old and looks much less In New York she addresses the luncheon of the state stale W. W C. C T. T U. U commemorating commemorating commemorating rating the centenary of oC the birth hirth of Frances E E. E Wil Willard 11 rd founder of or the W. W C. C T. T U. U Her firmly set spectacles with gold bows her crown of abundant white whitehair whitehair whitehair hair the stern godliness of her features all are as they were Nothing whatever has been repealed repealed repealed re re- re- re pealed in Mrs Booles Boole's person or ideas For more than 50 years she has been fighting alcohol With her husband husband husband hus hus- band the late William H H. Boole pastor of the Willett Street Methodist Method Method- church she waged war against the Bowery flowery dives away back in hi the eighties She had come from Wooster Wooster Wooster Woos Woos- ter Ohio an alumna of the University University University Uni Uni- of f Wooster where immediately immediately immedi- immedi after her graduation she had taken up her work life-work for tor pro pro- From 1909 until 1919 1019 there was no important piece of antiliquor anti legislation in which she did no not participate In 1925 she became national president of the W W. C. C T. T U. U and in 1931 world chairman Du During ing the prohibition years and andIn andin andin in the preceding years of strife she was the head of or the combined combined combined com com- prohibition board of strat strategy egy shrewd resourceful tire tire- less Fittingly her citadel Is still a little Van Wert Ohio bio hedge bordered house set down downin in Brooklyn holding its middle- middle western ground far in the enemy territory As docs does Mrs Irs Boole still standing firm and unshaken in her heeled fiat shoes I TN N THE last 14 years Dr Donald A. A Colgate university has written 14 b books and articles but has inspired many more than that He has Novel Ideas been heavens heaven's I of Dr Laird blessing to the Rate Display mak make up up man r needing a snappy snappy snap snap- I py little box to dress a page As Dr Laird retires to engage in research research research re re- re- re search at the callow age ge ot of 41 41 here are arc just a few of his stimulating findings Horizontal thinking is best It ItIs Itis Itis is quite possible that a new stage of evolution is setting in in which will take us back to all- all fours When you feel jittery snap up some red meat Some cases of oC second sight are arc explained b by an odorless scent which almost but not quite wells up into conscious conscious- ness ness ness-If If you feel rotten today you will be happy in just 28 days das as that thaUs thatis is the ordained lire cycle I of or hope and despair The Dionne are arc in danger danger dan dan- ger of growing up to be man- man haters haters on on account of women nurses and governesses Brains arc are sluggish in hi sum sum- Eat candy to fight oft off sleepiness sleep sleep- ness at work Never count sheep to put yourself yourself yourself your your- self to sleep It doesn't work Noise makes city people s smaller small small- aU- aU er cr than country people Women employees are arc more adaptable than men and stay longer on thee the Job Many of these discoveries have been made by Dr Laird in his research research research re re- re- re search bs as s a consultant for tor concerns in heavy Industries in which field he has been busy and distinguished He is a world authority on noise and md sleep reared Farm in Indiana Indiana Indiana Indi Indi- ana he lie was educated at the Universities Universities Universities o of Dubuque and Iowa and taught at many universities before joining the Colgate faculty 14 years I ago He has been out In front inthe Inthe in inthe the above novel ideas with the exception exception ex ex- of the Uie one about our getting getting getting get get- ting back to all That has been evident for tor at least seven years as revealed by prevailing trends in world politics e 0 Consolidated News Newa U Service |