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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
4
A brief, dated sounding moral line contrasts proverb for the drunkard and glutton with a warning about excess. It cites Proverbs 23 21 and a quoted line attributed to Evermond on the danger of innocent pleasure turning criminal.
The Raleigh Register weighs potential successors as Judge McClintic nears resignation. Candidates from Beckley and Kanawha figures appear, with Judge Ben Moore and Judge McKenna named amid shifting rumors. Kilgore and Neely political alliances shape the patronage debate, while supporters urge a strong, distinguished choice.
Washington gossip claims senators discuss limiting presidential tenure after Roosevelts controversial third term. Senators Hatch Wiley and Adams urge a clear people’s vote or constitutional limits. They propose six year terms or life tenure in the senate, arguing the election did not settle the issue.
The passage argues that many Democrats abandoned the third term ticket and others refused to vote, warning that without a constitutional limit an incumbent could seek endless terms. It cautions against unchecked power and self declared indispensability.
The West Virginia Issue reports a clear majority in both the state senate and house of delegates favor classifying beer as intoxicating and allowing local option. It cites 47 dry to 37 wet in the house, with several others considered favorable or doubtful, urging local control due to bad conditions in beer joints and license issues.
The federal bureau of investigation produced a 2500 page report on Harry Bridges the West Coast strike leader. The CIO convention condemned deportation laws leaving Bridges status debated between labor and government. The piece urges aliens to naturalize or leave America.
The article reflects on a long debate about what children owe their parents and argues that current policies have shifted the burden to future generations, piling up debts for children and grandchildren to bear.
State and National Editorial Comment argues that many proposed bills threaten taxpayer wallets. It cites the National Consumers Tax Commission estimating over 60,000 bills across 43 legislatures next year, with about 11,000 tax measures and 1,800 likely enacted. A moratorium on most bills is urged.
A poem by Maude Frazer Jackson contrasts a simple family scene with a wealthy couple in a car. The mother longs for riches yet laments an empty heart and lack of children, imagining a life of wealth is not happiness. The verse ends with a reflective sigh and a willing sacrifice of wealth for emptiness.
A satirical dialogue portrays Mayor LaGuardia assuming a wartime secretary role. He issues ultimatums to nations, presses naval and aircraft matters, and juggles contacts with Hull, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Emperor of Japan as a comic device about leadership and diplomacy.
Edward S. Liyod a Yonkers Wall Street broker spotted a bright green bird with a golden breast in his garden after a lengthy inquiry he identified it as the Golden Fronted Green Bulbul of India. The bird has no known presence in the country and was captured and placed on exhibition in the Bronz Zoo as a major sensation.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek authorizes a child friendly booklet A Letter to Boys and Girls Across the Ocean detailing China’s war orphans and Japanese bombing hardships The Golden Awe Foundation will distribute 100000 copies at ten cents each with funds supporting orphanages and refugee care in China and the interior presses.
The passage notes Mr Lloyd could name the bulbul if he had reached John In fo Kieran, famed as the bird and bee man, but finding John nowadays is as difficult as locating the bulbul itself.
A humorous or cryptic note references Bulbul from Delhi and Indore, asking why the bird travels far from its base and questions a broker. The fragment hints at a comic or verse piece about a greenish Bulbul near Yonkers and interactions with a Joker figure.
A quirky swap ad notes a 16 foot rowboat for standard pene and woodworking machinery, and a Vermont parlor organ for a used sedan not older than 1937. Census notes shift in sexes may affect numbers, while movie attendance rises and households endure dusty dishes.
Washington outlines that British needs are described as credit but the term misleads. Officials say aid could be gifts or sales with repayment in territory or resources, not loans or ordinary credit. Treasury objects to misnaming assistance to avoid public deception.
The Treasury trims the China funding to a two part arrangement. Fifty million straight advance earned by Chinese shipments of tin and other raw materials. The other fifty million is a currency defense buy of yuan to counter Japanese currency moves. The plan relies on China sustaining itself and its currency.
The piece explains a new monetary backing system described as a cash underwriting plan distinct from prior gold purchases. It notes potential extensions to protect Latin American currencies from German influence and mentions possible non interest bearing dollar advances to Britain, contingent on direct congressional approval.
In a closed congressional session Hull and Morgenthau defended a new defense and monetary policy for the hemisphere and China. They could not guarantee no stronger measures will be needed, noting further embargoes are not being pursued now and suggesting Japan may yet pose a risk, though “we are not in it yet.”
The Roanoke Times quotes President Roosevelt signaling support for reducing government spending, a stance that unsettles skeptics and suggests further policy shifts may follow.
Ten years ago a ten day grace to profit by a 212 percent discount failed to boost tax collections. A large turnout of ministers from Bluefield and nearby towns attended a revival at Trinity Methodist Church. R C Wilson from a Boston firm surveyed the proposed police telephone system the Bluefield city leadership planned to install.
Twenty years ago sleet rain and snow slowed interurban service in the region. Trustees of Bluefield College asked and the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce directors agreed to turn over 60 acres of ground donated by the chamber to the school. Beaver High School junior class announced a play titled Oh Oh Cindy.
In Crum Mingo county residents petition Judge W W Marcum for a certificate regarding Col 8 M Smith who was injured on a slippery sidewalk but remained able to sit. Prazewell county residents held a roads meeting and discussed a bond issue.
Forty years ago today Edward Appleton of Ashland Kentucky visited the city. Mr Wysong representing the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen came from Norfolk. Col James S Browning of Pocahontas was also a city visitor.
A column notes Alice in Movieland and the Lane sisters influence on cinema. It recalls Four Daughters and sequels, Harold Lloyd nicknames, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz rumors, and wartime era song lyrics with Tin Pan Alley.
A fragmented wartime dispatch notes British officials back in London from the United States in 1941. It comments on hopeful signals over Berlin and warns about a self promoting figure who may be a lemon. An Italian soldier claims Mussolini’s forces lack clear purpose.
The secretary notes R. E. Rosie Maker’s unsuccessful campaign spent 891.06 dollars. The Buckhannon Republican records 200 dollars, and the United States has 122 towns with populations over 3 000, plus 2 875 cities over 3 000.
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