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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1938
Page
4
The Charleston Gazette Independent Democratic Nose established 1857 proclaims itself first in West Virginia as a longtime newspaper.
A Monday morning reflection from June 13 1938 notes that sincerity is rare in conduct. It contrasts genuine heartfelt honesty with the common use of artful dissimulation aimed at winning others confidence.
A federal law authorizes 20 additional lower court judges after a Senate vote on March 31, with supporters arguing the move corrects past court resistance to New Deal policies. Critics note the Supreme Court was pressured, while several lawmakers who opposed earlier court reforms voted for the bill.
North Carolina notes that Montana Senator Burton Wheeler led a group pressing a federal court proposal that failed. The piece accuses anti administration press of ignoring loyalists while highlighting patronage, politics, and a pivotal Senate vote showing Republicans backing the bill alongside leaders like Borah LaFollette Hiram Johnson Lodge and Vandenberg.
In the coin of today profitably spent on leisure remains strong. Decoration day crowds show pleasure seeking endures with New York baseball games drawing the second largest turnout ever and Indianapolis auto races drawing 150 000. The piece notes broad discretionary spending while noting no drop in holiday amusement.
Russian scientists prepare to move a four ton mammoth carcass found frozen in Siberia to Vladivostok. The vast remains, preserved in ice for millennia, were uncovered intact with parts devoured by wolves. The operation follows notes of other ancient finds and public interest in Morgantown's progress toward growth and civic improvement.
A county family faces poverty with ailing mother and many children. After hospital care for the latest birth, she walks home miles away to comfort her brood, hoping for relief from a failing husband’s drinking. The story, from Grant County Press, highlights a mother's devotion amid neglect.
The editor notes that decades ago rural and urban West Virginia communities boasted many literary societies. Middle aged readers recall these educational and social events with oratory and eloquence, created long before cars and paved roads reshaping home life.
Washington notes reveal how state department advisers shifted after protests over the Nye resolution. Hull ally Jimmy Dunn influenced policy, with Dunn’s wife and croquet games at the Dunn home shaping views on Franco and Loyalist Spain, ultimately leaving the arms embargo in place.
A dated letter from June 19 1938 addressed to a Major suggests building state park cabins for poorer people at a modest weekly rate. The writer notes the current cabins are fancy and costly and argues for simpler, functional woods lodging. The tone is informal and reflective of public park access concerns.
Maj H W Shawhan serves as Conservation Commissioner in the State House at the City, directing oversight of natural resources and wildlife programs under state governance.
The piece defends Justice Black amid criticism during his first year on the Supreme Court. It cites Yale professor Walton H. Hamilton praising Black’s clarity and conservatism, notes his dissent on the 1896 Fourteenth Amendment interpretation, and discusses potential impacts on constitutional understanding.
A 1938 Dorothy Dix column advises mothers to begin life lessons in the cradle. It urges self restraint, modesty, and strong character to shield daughters from temptations. Emphasizes that in emancipated youth a girl needs inner guidance and personal defense, not reliance on a mother’s presence.
A reader composite features trivia prompts and answers on topics from geography to literature. It asks where Luzon is, Alaska’s status, the Boston Red Sox manager, iceberg geometry, Panama Canal Zone politics, humidity meters, Tennessee’s state bird, Ithaca University, presidential pardons, the first World’s Fair in Chicago, semi dwarf annuals, and veteran relief costs, with several factual Q A items and brief explanations.
A Washington Service Bureau notice corrects a misprint listing Brazil area as 2.985.319 square miles instead of 3.285319. The column acknowledges the error and provides the accurate figure.
Westbrook Pegler criticizes a political boss who runs a state backed paper with a personalized masthead while coercing subscriptions and suppressing rival papers. He argues such acts threaten liberty, insisting only trusted publishers deserve press freedom and warning against libel and intimidation as tools of power.
A critical commentary argues that advertising finances in a nationalist press, noting that governments and contractors alike purchase space. The author claims the paper’s circulation proves influence, contrasting it with suppression attempts and praising commercial American press, using Mussolini and Goering as comparisons.
The Democrat phallax reports the house at 328 seats with a NH Republican ousted for a NH Democrat. Voter miscounts alleged from the last election. Republicans shrink to 49 in the house. A departing member promised to return in November.
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