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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Location
Arcadia, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1918
Page
2
The Arcadia Journal edited by A L Wooldridge details publication cadence and post office filing as a second class matter in Arcadia California. The item confirms editor ownership and weekly issue schedule for the newspaper.
The majority of Arcadia voters oppose Sunday amusements and a small margin decides against the Sunday picture shows. Proponents claimed support, but the councilmen who favored them are now judged correct in their stance. Arcadia proceeds with other plans and urges community participation.
Riverside Press argues men crave a slimmer look and practical attire inspired by soldier and sailor uniforms. It envisions white duck knickers, pumps, long hose, sport shirts, and middy blouse lines as cooler, cheaper alternatives to conventional men’s clothing, urging collective action for change.
A call to back a state bill awarding a bronze medal to farmerettes who toiled in fields while brothers fought in France. The piece praises their endurance and efforts in tomato and bean fields and orchards, and urges civic effort during Arcadia clean-up day to aid development.
The work or fight order draws young men into service, turning boys into men as they face conscription. A French inventor has developed an effective silencer for airplane motors, expected to appeal to husbands worldwide seeking quieter travel and reduced noise.
Descriptive piece portrays farmers laboring from sunrise to sunset in Iowa and Missouri, detailing summer heat, busy days, and the hard work of cultivation. It notes corn and wheat ripening, alfalfa growing, and rural life shaped by sun, streams, and shared toil. The narrator contrasts hardship with rural abundance and the drive to harvest.
Leading captains like Ryan of Anaconda Copper, Jackling of Utah Copper, and Schwab of United States Steel pledge yearly service to government at £1.00. George W. Perkins, famed financier, joins the Y M C A war work drive urging a postwar reconstruction and a bold new nationalism.
Collier’s editor Mark Sullivan warns of a 15 million man power shortage due to war. He outlines possible remedies including conscription for 18 to 50 year olds, reducing wastage by longer hours, and importing workers from China or Russia after the war, with moves already easing immigration from Mexico Puerto Rico and Canada and potential expansion to other nations.
A wartime verse calls for public sacrifice to aid France and defeat the Hun. It condemns stingy donors who decline to give, urging everyone to dig deep, even at personal cost, to support Uncle Sam through the Liberty fund. The piece ends with a call to give until it hurts, echoing Walt Mason’s wartime sentiment.
July 4th display proves west leads ship industry with Charles Schwab visiting to confirm capacity. Calls to legislate parity for American ship owners to compete globally and sustain long term shipbuilding growth. Also notes surf girls’ Wool Soap shrinking bathing suits this season.
A Downey Eagle reader notes a poem from Blanche Hagan serving as a nurse in Fort Worth Base Hospital to her brother who leaves for Fort McDowell to join Uncle Sam. The verses express sisterly love and faith that her brother will return as a man among men from France.
The piece extols face to face manners and a pleasant telephone voice as essential in modern business. It urges firms to cultivate cordiality over the wire and to ensure users adopt polite tones and prompt responses in all calls.
E. H. Sothern cables from France urging immediate dispatch of a jazz band to England with cowbells rattles steamboat whistles and cocoanut shells. The plan aims to introduce the jazz spirit in Y huts then move to France to compete with artillery noise at the front.
Arcadia promotes a growing city with 1500 residents, a free public library, two grammar schools, a weekly newspaper, a large packing house, and two overland railroads. It features a modern water system, gas, electricity, and telephone, 20 inch rainfall, 18 miles of oil macadam roads, a new city hall, and a climate cooler by five to eight degrees near Santa Anita canyon. The area thrives on oranges, lemons, berries, and other produce with significant rail shipping, proximity to Los Angeles, and easy access to theaters and beaches. Agleaf. For information about Arcadia to the Secretary of the Board.
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