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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1938
Page
12
The June 30 1988 Charleston Gazette includes a Thought For Today attributed to H W Sylvester. It notes that belief in appreciation enhances power, linking progress to gratitude and the concept that the soul of an instrument grows with each step in its tuning.
The piece argues the Democratic Party must support Roosevelt and his New Deal through the 1938 campaign. It critiques opposition as imprudent, urges unity behind the president, and warns against guerrilla style party infighting and independent action.
The article discusses federal handling of alleged foreign espionage schemes and the risk to military and naval secrets. It notes potential guilt if proof is established and outlines the offenders facing severe penalties.
The piece argues that governments use spies to obtain military secrets and that value of leaked information depends on perspective. It notes how spying is praised when useful to one side and condemned when done by the other, and contends secrets are often not as exclusive or important as claimed. It cites Japanese spies and naval plans as a paradox.
Readers mock Senator Minton proposal to print only the truth for newspapers. The piece imagines brutal honesty in obituaries and wedding notices, then cautions against applying the idea to the senator himself.
Bluefield Telegraph reports a government project in Idaho using a beaver army to construct dams along watercourses to curb erosion and boost watering facilities. Six hundred beavers will be settled this year, with rapid annual increases expected as the effort expands.
A Philadelphia postmaster Joseph F Gallagher sends a poem style notice promoting Letter Writing Month and renewing social and business ties. The piece includes cheeky lines about civic service and a sheriff and garbage department quip. Separately, rail data cited by Railway Age says rail loadings rose since early May, signaling a potential end to the recession driven by natural supply and demand, not policy.
A Spencer Times-Record note explains a four name chain letter promising $64 per participant. It shows that to guarantee any payout thousands to millions must mail and forward letters, making the scheme reliant on a vast web of recipients and revealing the fraud.
In Washington, Solicitor General Bob Jackson and Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold outlined anti trust enforcement and tax effects to big business at a Patterson home gathering. They stressed facts over headlines and vowed to enforce the law while keeping doors open for discussion.
Many speak on housing policy across private enterprise and government roles. Langdon W. Post argues private enterprise cannot rehouse the very poor and government housing is necessary, citing New York City experiments and cost comparisons to show government projects offer cheaper rooms. He urges workable private involvement within public support to address slum housing.
Dorothy Dix advises a wife married nineteen years with two boys to consider separation rather than remain tied to a husband who loves another woman. She cautions that reconciliation is unlikely, urges the wife to learn a trade for independence, and suggests ending the chapter to pursue a new life.
A reader quiz page presents a jumble of Q and A covering methane lore to census data. It includes questions on Leap year days gamma rays and moon shape, plus historical notes on Prohibition dates, U.S. population counts, and wages in Mexico.
In a humorous courtroom scenario a plainspoken neighbor named Honest John Citizen testifies to what he saw. The defense mocks his motives and tone while the judge gently wades through the slapstick, exposing the comic fragility of truth and trust in court.
A rambling satire mocks a solemn judge and district attorney as it muses on Honest John paying taxes while a burglar robs him. The piece jokes that burglars in prison might joke about John's public finance duties, highlighting a comic view of law and humor.
A humorous riff on government overreach and a debtor named John. The speaker envisions a federal role in amusing yet critical tax and loan schemes, highlighting the wit and bewilderment caused by imagined bureaucratic antics. The piece ends with a jab about a burglar in Haw-haw-hawi.
A fragmented, hard to parse piece by Arthur Bast appears to mock stock markets and a banker figure Giannini. It references Wall Street profits and a vague downturn, with garbled phrases and unclear events.
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