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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1939
Page
6
The Charleston Gazette Independent Democratic Newspaper is a West Virginia daily with Sunday insertions. It notes subscription rates and AP news use, and features a daily thought urging alertness and fair play.
West Virginians are urged to book cabin week reservations in 81,000 acres of state parks and forests. CCC built log cabins with furnishings offer rustic comfort at five dollars per person per week, with 17 areas including Holly River and Kumbrabow Parks inviting visitors and locals to enjoy nature and recreation.
City officials push rapid undergrounding of utility lines as streetcar tracks are torn up for Kanawha Parkway work. Conduits will be laid with minimal delay to paving, while water gas and other utilities also upgrade. Backers say modernization and beautification drive civic pride and faster progress.
The article contrasts Warsaw's tourist districts with nearby squalid slums and widespread poverty. It notes fine buildings and parks in the capital but highlights harsh rural poverty and the lingering hardships faced by Polish people.
William F. McDermott reports peasant villages in Poland survive on tiny profits of twenty cents a day with seven percent earning about $27 monthly and 93 percent about $4.50 monthly. The piece contrasts Polish frugality with hospitality, notes sympathy if drawn into war, and praises enduring virtues. Dunbar readers hear a forum on mayoral transition and claims of a competent current administration with significant city assets and careful budgeting.
Washington reports confidential talks on sending the U S fleet from the Pacific coast to Pearl Harbor to pressure Japan and back British interests. Public opinion to be stirred by publishing American protests over Japan’s conduct in Nanking and by Agnes Inglis’s lobbying for child immigration.
The Boston Daily Record blames Hull trade treaties for unemployment and urges embracing world peace through justice and reason. It calls for open access to colonial resources, broader Hull treaty policy, and international cooperation rather than punitive nationalism.
The article notes steel as a key industry and bemoans Tory critics as U. S. Steel shipments rose from 1,124,851 tons in early 1932 to 2,235,209 tons in early 1939 under Roosevelt, signaling a stronger steel business than seven years earlier.
Young people in Jackson county are urged to understand that wealth mostly comes from hard work. The Ravenswood News argues that the many successful individuals gained value through diligence, not luck, and that youth should focus on earning rewards by effort to build a stable future.
Dorothy Dix weighs the pros and cons of sending children away to college. She argues that separation can bring peace at home and build self reliance, but warns against college for financially harming unintelligent children. The piece urges parents to assess finances and their child’s ability before choosing college.
Readers can submit questions by mail to The Gazette Home Service Bureau in Washington. Include a self addressed stamped return and three cents for postage. Try five of these sample tests and turn to Page 7 for answers after attempting.
A New York viewpoint argues Americans favor national identity over state status, boosting tax avoidance via residency in tax-free states like New Jersey Connecticut Pennsylvania and Florida. It critiques state sovereignty, pari mutuel betting pressure, and the drift toward costly, irresponsible state governments.
A collage of quiz answers covers topics from Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Simplicity to Edgar Bergen’s Charlie McCarthy script writer Bergen. It notes RCA acquiring Marconi assets in November 1919 and lists 643 cities with special schools for mentally deficient children. The Dahlonega mint operated 1838 to 1861 for gold coinage.
The piece lampoons budget theology and federal debt limits with satire on the Plimsoll mark and Hamilton era governance. It imagines a future secretary who signs off with ink and mocks auditors peering at the nation’s added figures.
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