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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1938
Page
8
The Charleston Gazette urges voting for Kenawha Street boulevard bonds. It cites river city visitors praising the Elk River bridge and boulevard completion, property value boosts on the West Side, and broad state support while urging residents to vote December 28 for the project.
The Daily News Journal Murfreesboro Tenn urges festive motorists to stop by the office before driving after quick drinks to leave notes for their obituaries. Editors note responses were negligible but motor mishaps were also down.
The Indian chief Delisle of the Caughnawaga reservation in Quebec argues the swastika is his tribe’s emblem long before white contact and accuses the Nazis of theft. Scholars note the symbol’s ancient presence in India and China, with H G Wells calling it the oldest symbol known to civilization.
The piece argues for strict regulations on smoke emissions, improved fuel and equipment standards, public education, and constant inspection and enforcement. It cites a Pittsburgh census on foggy smoky days showing 62 percent with throat irritation and 53 percent with stuffed noses, while only nine percent felt unchanged.
Yale professor Dr William Lyon Phelps claims following multiple newspapers keeps life lively and has not had a dull day in 13 years He says front pages show world failures yet sports pages local news drama music and fashion provide balance He reads four New York papers and two local papers daily and suggests clergy focus on boxing stories for triumph and victory
Government brain trusters push a plan to cap advertising spend and ban claims of product superiority, arguing it would confine ads to selling rather than hype. Critics warn regimentation could cripple self funding and independence of the American press, while defense of free press remains strong. Hurricane freeze.
Huey Long warned that fascism might arrive in America under a name of anti fascism, promising to defend the constitution while centralizing power. He warned it would cloak itself as radical and left leaning, yet pursue strong centralized authority and vague promises to the common man.
Washington dispatch notes a feud between Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring and Assistant Secretary Louie Arthur Johnson. Johnson, active in the American Legion, aims to replace Woodring, who resists promotion. Roosevelt’s defense program sidelines Woodring, entrusting Johnson with key tasks, leaving Woodring largely uninformed. The piece also covers Farley’s post election moment, lectures by Mrs. Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and Wall Street traders reacting to New Deal changes and SEC regulation.
A fragmented note from an event yesterday references a crowd and belief in Santa Claus, noting an inhalant moment but preserving only sparse readable details about the scene and sentiment.
Dorothy Thompson, once a leading voice urging aid to Czechoslovakia, now attacks admin plans to build up the army arguing the US would not fight overseas. She cites Vermont GOP platform about resisting war to protect liberties and warns democracy requires a navy and expeditionary force abroad. The piece contrasts Thompson’s positions with Chamberlain and Roosevelt in 1928.
Dorothy Dix counsels that a marriage between a noncollege working woman and a college instructor is risky if social and intellectual disparities would cause ongoing discomfort. She argues it is wiser to marry within one’s own class and values, noting clashes in conversation, lifestyle, and environments between campus life and a quiet home.
A scrambled OCR style item presents a Q and A feature from a paper in Washington asking readers to submit at least seven test questions. Example prompts include naming the theater of war in World War I era participation, where Herbert H. Lehman served as governor, and defining a semicolon like a dot separating fin from North America. The text is garbled and incomplete but suggests a reader engagement quiz with historical questions.
Westbrook Pegler reviews Father Coughlin's remarks on Jews and Catholics, noting misstatements and double standards about Communism and Nazism. He traces claims of Catholic influence to Tammany Hall and recent local politics, cautioning against broad blanket accusations.
In a mock editorial tone the piece critiques Republicans in Washington pressing for action. It imagines a strong silent candidate with a radio voice, links deficit fears to a looming crisis, and satirically comments on political petition and media ironies from 1938.
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