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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1938
Page
4
Editorial urges systematic reduction of Alabama bonded debt and a shift from fee to salary for county officers. It argues for voter approval of amendments, notes Tuscaloosa savings, and insists government must deliver value for taxes to prevent continual failures. The piece targets state reform and fiscal restraint to save millions for residents.
About 500 educators from Alabama and Georgia started a conference in Atlanta on Thursday. The writer hopes the meeting will not fail like the Birmingham conference did.
Governor-elect Dixon meets legislators to plan a reapportionment commission that would calculate representation after each federal census and report to the legislature. If adopted, the amendment could grant recommendations legal weight without formal legislative approval, reshaping how constitutional mandates are enforced.
A mass meeting in Birmingham is called for December 13 to oppose subversive influences in state and enforcement officers. Congressman Luther Patrick, a welfare conference speaker and vice president of the group, resigns from the organization. Alabamians oppose welfare resolutions urging anti lynching and abolition of segregation laws amid suspected communist influence.
The piece calls Dixon and legislators to work on Alabama school funding. It urges pooling state income into a single fund and addressing teacher pay and term lengths, noting the need for steady, long term reform beyond emergency measures. It stresses service to the people and ongoing cleanup of state systems.
The Minneapolis baseball club, a member of the American Association, will train in the city this spring. D. H. S. students were chaperoned to a Falkville basketball game by Mrs. Fussell and Mrs. Garren. Little Joe Weatherly is injured at school and confined at home. West Decatur residents may get a new Ninth Avenue school building with funds from a forthcoming bond issue.
Washington reports critics left the premiere of an anti monopoly documentary after discussions on economic policy and debt ceilings. Observers noted Isador Lubin led a dense briefing with charts, while audiences debated devaluation and potential shifts in Congress.
In Johnstown Pennsylvania on December 3 venison supply is tight due to an open antlerless deer season. One butcher estimated about 10 000 local families are served while his trade fell 75 percent as residents killed roughly 1 000 deer in the first five days of the season.
In St. Paul a department hook and ladder truck front end arrived at the scene before the rear could exit the station. A warehouse across the street was reached after a sprinkler leak triggered the alarm.
Dr Logan Clendening explains the nerve fiber as the main path from brain to muscles, noting that paralysis often stems from nerve fiber disease. Regeneration occurs in nerves, unlike nerve cells, and recovery relates to proper diet and Vitamin B to treat neuritis from alcohol-related malnutrition.
A reader asks about two cups of carrot juice daily for a month and a layperson calling it a builder. The answer notes carotene converts to vitamin A and can cause a yellow skin discoloration from excess. no other harm. Another reader asks about black objects floating before the eyes and the response cites probable scotomata from opacities in eye humors, causing no harm and not improvable.
The newspaper lists seven Dr Clendening pamphlets available for ten cents each. Request by sending coins and a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Clenden ing care of the paper. Titles include Three Weeks Reducing Diet and Infant Feeding among others.
A compilation of cheeky anecdotes, local quips, and oddities from Adams and nearby papers. Highlights include a warning from Edwin Wilkins about highway danger, Oscar Limpet’s auto accident injury, and humorous exchanges about generous snacks and curious passengers in streetcars.
A mother tells a teacher to handle her son freely amid a tense classroom moment. The remark underscores a clash between classroom discipline and parental authority as a humorous or frank exchange unfolds.
The Walter Winchell On Broadway column riffs on vitamin pills rubber wear and lumbago as Winchell riffs on Van Loon Goebbels and the front page. He lampoons headlines film lore Hoagy Carmichael and a new theater gadget while noting radio surveys and city life from New York to Hollywood with a wry social commentary.
Dialogue shows a father criticizes his wife over car choices and jokes about detours during road work. He comments on Hazel’s marriage to an older man, while Wilma defends the age gap as true or exaggerated.
The Athens College Glee Club makes its season debut at McCandless Hall on the college campus Monday evening. The program is directed by Prof. F. M. Church of fine arts and Mrs. B. D. Peck, glee club director.
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