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Show WOMEN IN NEWSPAPER WORK I Edna Ferber, Who Has Tried It Her- I self. Tells About Their Life l as Reporters. f HJ The iinuMial Wu of tho newspaper I man has been dlverllngly set forth br numerous writers, but the experience. ,of the newspaperwoman the writer or I J "i-ob stories" and "human interest- views." has seldom been told eo welP os by Miss Edna Ferbur. herself a re- I porter of wide experience, who hna- I made It. the background for her newJ H i novel, "Dawn O'llara " Miss Fe-rber I makes Dawn, hci Jouruallstlc heroine-,. I say regarding hor own craft: "If a woman reponor ere to bursa Into tears every time s,ho saw onio- thing to weep over she'd be gdag: 9 nbout with a red uoso and puffy - BJ lids half the tlmo. Scarcely a day fl passes that does not bring her fnoe to- face with human suffering In sonic form Not only must she see tiieso il things, but sho must write ot thoja so- fl that those who rend can nlac oeo- 'fl them. And Just because sbo dots noc flj wall and tear her hair and faint ubo jfl popularly Is supposed to be n Blnty. fl clgarettesmoKlng creature who ram- IB pages up and down the land, seckin,-. '9 whom she may rend with her pen andt ifl gazing dry-eyed upon scenes of honlCi ifl bloodshed." M |