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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1952
Page
4
Col Robert R McCormick of the Chicago Tribune urges readers to focus on Congress not Eisenhower or Stevenson. He favors ousting old members for new ones except a few he approves and hints at running for President in 1956.
In Morgan county Alabama voters will cast ballots in September and November with three polls in Decatur and two in rural areas. The key appeal is to mobilize turnout with a broad range of issues including municipal elections the liquor question and the Stevenson Eisenhower race. The editor urges every qualified voter to participate to achieve a decisive majority.
Senator J M Bull Bonner proposes an amendment to Section 393 to ban executive or secret sessions by public bodies and require open viva voce voting with recorded votes. Aimed at curbing corruption by removing temptations and ensuring transparency in agencies handling public funds.
In A New Jersey prison riot context inmates urged Drew Pearson to relay their grievances directly to the public. The pattern shows prisoners seeking to have their problems explained by a newspaperman famed for shaping public understanding.
The piece notes many state prisons date from the 19th century and are aged, overcrowded, and lacking modern dining and living facilities. It argues rehabilitation demands better conditions, calling older dungeons obsolete for modern custody and retraining aims.
The piece laments underfunded prisons with few full time psychiatrists and low pay for guards. It cites that 80 percent of the 150,000 prisoners are overseen by staff earning less than construction workers and often below minimum wage, noting 70 hour weeks in Tennessee.
A piece urges a conscious moral life guided by conscience and the Golden Rule, outlining steps for personal ethics and critical view of prison systems. It condemns understaffed prisons with scant pay and inadequate care, calling for national cooperation, humane staffing, and meaningful work to reduce recidivism.
Hal Boyle comments on split loyalties in American households as political divisions widen. A couple's quarrel over Eisenhower versus Stevenson mirrors broader state driven juvenile delinquency programs and the call to modernize prisons for real reform.
Drew argues that juvenile delinquency stems from inadequacies in courts probation and schools. He cites about 3900 under age 17 sent to state training schools annually and calls for state level boards to coordinate funding personnel and methods to aid troubled youths.
Pegler attacks Paul Hoffman and the ECA now Ford Foundation head. He claims the Marshall Plan era misdeeds show Hoffman’s self serving praise of George Marshall. Hoffman’s testimony is labeled opinion not fact, amid broader attacks on Eisenhower era policy.
The midland note states that laws in England during the Middle Ages prohibited Christians from charging interest on loans. It explains the religious and legal basis for the prohibition and its impact on medieval finance and commerce.
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