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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1938
Page
6
A fragmented Charleston Gazette item reflects Independent Democrats and a thought for the day about happiness and adaptability. It references “First in West Virginia” and notes a maxim on finding contentment by fitting circumstances.
The column asserts American heiresses wed foreign nobles fail to blend values and chivalry. Barbara Watton and Count Basgwire-Reventlow face a split with custody questions and a rumored $2.5 million settlement while Danish noblemen reputedly demand high prices for American heiresses.
A banking and finance lecturer’s weekly Good News Letter lists upbeat items from June including Standard Oil of New Jersey filing for an 85 million issue with the BEC, Great Lakes Steel Co adding furnaces, W F Dodge reporting May contracts up 16 percent, TVA yardstick fairness, Czech municipal elections, a dull stock market, a 25 percent rise in fertilizer sales, and a suggestion that absence of such news might be bad omen.
An American correspondent in Paris argues that democracy means minding one’s own business. It stores value in private and public life and could aid international relations, without implying isolation. It describes an attitude and behavior that frees practice from narrowness cruelty and busybody scrutiny even when benevolent.
In 1938 Kanawha County politics, the scene feels like a Republican candidacy hard to find and as hopeless as a GOP primary entrant. The vivid similes illustrate a tense, crowded field with persistent doubt and strained prospects across party lines.
A planning group proposes decentralizing London to a wheel shaped road network. Inner rings house culture and commerce, middle rings rise with towers in parks, outer rings hold neighborhoods with light industry and schools. The idea argues roads, not tubes, will drain the center and improve health and livability, urging other growing cities to consider similar decentralization, including Charleston.
In Stockholm for King Gustaf’s 80th birthday, Hendrik Willem van Loon notes the royal car moves unobtrusively with no guards. He contrasts Sweden’s crowd safety with Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin’s regimes, praising the people as the king’s bodyguard.
Madame Chiang Kai Shek argues that western democracy’s leniency toward China shapes Chinese thought and urges deeper interest and sympathy from democratic nations. She notes China fights for freedom and independence, warning a Japanese autocracy would threaten global democracy and alter Asia’s balance.
The piece notes President Roosevelt’s private aim to name a woman to the Supreme Court, following his earlier cabinet inclusion. It traces women admitted to the Court bar, recounts pioneers like Mrs. Lockwood and Miss Carlos, and mentions notable figures connected to the Court’s history and to Mrs. Roosevelt.
Washington off the record highlights Hoover’s courtroom style for cracking kidnappings with quick, blunt questions and risqué humor. It moves to a stamp-boxed image of embassy visitors and gossip about TVA and congressional figures Vic Donahey and Virginia Jenckes, ending with a jab at a relief check anecdote.
West Virginia editors debated limits of free speech after Col Frank Knox criticized the national administration at a White Sulphur Springs gathering of the National Editorial Association. Republican papers backed Knox, Democratic ones criticized Holt, with mixed views from state papers and The Echo differing on blunder or rights.
Lieut. Col. Vladimir Capic, former commander of the 15th international brigade with the Loyalist army in Spain, notes that American volunteers had little military experience yet made good records. He cites their initial naivety about discipline and says in action they were excellent in attack but lacked endurance, recalling the rebal yell and its origins with early American and Indian warriors.
The text argues that Copia’s view of American volunteers shows they lack trained officers and soldiers of the regulars or National Guard under seasoned commanders. It notes volunteers fought for a cause with less motivation, yet resemble the nation’s historic fighting types. It recalls earlier wars where Americans were inexperienced but essential.
A reflective piece argues Americans once prided themselves on rifle handling and marksmanship from frontier life. It contrasts urban recruits with woodsmen, notes Revolutionary era soldiers often returned home, and praises volunteer units for their independence and drive while acknowledging American aiming to keep moving. It also compares American and British tendencies in combat, asserting the American system remains strong.
Column by Arthur Baer notes how bumper wheat crops reshape markets and the wheat dollar, while experts claim advances in early, late, and pest resistant wheats fail to stabilize prices. The piece mocks price pegging like a cabbage board amid a volatile agricultural economy.
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