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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1939
Page
6
A June 10 1939 Charleston Gazette Independent features a Charles Kingsley quotation. The selection extols cheerful hopeful men who pursue their work with a smile, embracing both good and bad times as life passes.
A historical column discusses Senate bills 517 and 575 by Senators Johnson and Capper to ban advertising for alcoholic beverages. It notes local option dry victories, questions advertising's role, and recalls Prohibition era harms and enforcement issues while urging readers not to reignite the issue.
A newspaper piece questions campus instruction on social correctness, praising polite conduct yet challenging its value for real work. It notes drills like ringing a doorbell instead of honking, removing hats in elevators, and asking permission to light a cigarette, while asking how such lessons aid youth in earning a living.
Virginio Gayda argues fascist Italy and Germany seek a territorial division for economic parity, not new aggression. He faults France and Britain for postwar colonies and urges a peace conference to reallocate lands, warning war if concessions are not granted, and questions what Neville Chamberlain would give away.
A financial writer notes fare reductions in the East and South may drive motorists to rail travel and encourage stay-at-home readers to visit relatives, predicting a surge in railroad ticket sales as rates drop.
The article details sharp reductions in passenger rates east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio River, with coach fares sliced from 2 1-2 to 2 1-4 cents per mile for 100 miles and 1.7 cents for longer trips. Upper Pullman berths and coaches drop as Southern lines plan a 10 percent round-trip fare cut. Railroads now seek voluntary approval to implement the cuts, arguing cheaper service can boost profits.
A compact daily digest from the Washington press columnists notes political maneuvers and public sentiment in the capital. The column traces shifting alliances, policy debates, and notable statements shaping the national discourse.
Washington notes celebrate Sir Willmott Lewis of The London Times now in Washington as chief British correspondent. The piece recounts his wars coverage from Shanghai to Mukden, his mythmaking rumor history, and his U s attachments. It also links his career to broader questions of entanglement and responsibility in U S foreign policy and cites his 1899 move from England.
Readers can mail questions to The Gazette Home Service Bureau in Washington. Try seven test questions about rivers, sports, places, history, and statistics. Answers appear on Page 13. Includes sample QAs on coins, gold standard, Lincoln Memorial, letters I J, and Four H motto Learn by Doing.
An opinion column assesses Harold Ickes backing a third Roosevelt term. It argues Ickes would seek public roles post-tenure, including radio, detective work, or a column, and notes his zeal for the New Deal and his contentious journalism views. It questions whether he would miss the power of office and whether the nation would suffer without his fiscal influence.
In Martinsburg Journal commentary, Congressman Starnes argues Americans must understand why democracy is preferable to other systems. He cautions against silencing foreign ideas and urges constructive, factual teaching of foreign doctrines to prevent discontent and protect Americanism through vigilant, intelligent public education.
The policy requires every marriage license applicant to show a physician certified health test for syphilis. If infected, the doctor must judge the disease noncommunicable now or in the near future. The measure seeks to limit spread, though out-of-state couples may circumvent by marrying elsewhere.
Ohio plans an 200 roadside parks network along major highways, including one between Belpre and Marietta. Land is donated, cost about 1000 dollars per park. Parks feature wells, shelters, fire places, picnic tables, sanitary facilities, and wood sheds. Construction backed by NYA CCC WPA and CCC labor, with maintenance by the highway department.
Intercepted message dated June 10 1939 addressed to Hendo chides him for slipping and asks why the king and queen were not invited to a Tuesday baseball game, signaling a discreet royal audience notice.
Dorothy Dix advises a wife to accept divorce from a husband who rejects domestic life and seeks freedom. She argues such untamed men cannot be tied to home and that the wife should rather release him, noting the harm to family and the unfulfilling nature of a trapped life.
Arthur Bugs Baer offers a satirical view of democracy as a gymnastic system. He defines democracy as the right to elect someone you dislike and then oust them four years later. The piece portrays democracy as reform waves that drown reformers and a structure of prerogatives and emoluments.
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