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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1931
Page
4
Alabama Poverty group announced 7500 in checks to be distributed in Decatur this Christmas season. The funds will help families buy gifts and pay debts, following recent opportunistic donations from the power company adding to circulating Christmas savings.
The Decatur program reports completion of its last term with praise for teacher Mrs. Catheron. She has been invited by the federated clubs of Montgomery to conduct opportunity schools in Montgomery county for three months. The Daily notes her expected return next spring and credits cooperation from the Ave, Kiwanis and Rotary clubs of Decatur for last term, hoping for similar support in 1939.
The Decatur Chamber of Commerce emphasizes service to all citizens, inviting individual memberships for 1932. It urges financial support and active brainpower, stressing unity and collective progress for Decatur.
Mlarence Budington Kelland, noted author, voiced optimism in a statement released by Hentz and Company New York. He asserted that the nation's financial history shows cycles from low moods to greater prosperity, dismissing fear that the current downturn signals lasting calamity. Kelland argues depressions are recurring but manageable, not unprecedented calamities.
The speaker argues fourteen depressions in 130 years prove a rhythmic law of finance. Prosperity and adversity recur with nine to ten year prosperity spans and three year depressions. He dismisses financial geniuses, calls for common sense, and predicts another long stretch of plenty ahead, urging patience and belief in upward momentum.
A recent robber stole a wrist watch two suits an overcoat and a silk dress from T M Jones Jr on Oak Street. Albany seniors stage Tommy's Wife tonight with Miss Marjorie Rainey coaching. Brook Spight Wholesale Grocery breaks ground at Lee and Bank. Frank Inman injured at the Duple press. Thomas Hatton arrives Friday for Christmas. William Hardare returns from North Carolina for the holidays.
Arthur Brisbane reports on a Pacific peace theme amid gas mask discourse and a Gandhi angle. The piece notes a $95,000,000 figure linked to rights and a Hebrew language copyright matter.
The French seek pacifist peace amid League of Nations concerns while watching Hitler and Germany. French civilians prepare with gas masks along the frontier. In America, sil ver cocktail shakers symbolize Peaceful France as Prohibition-era stores sell wares. Thirty three cities have raised 95 million for the unemployed, yet unemployment losses loom far larger, with idle workers costing billions in earnings over winter.
Gandhi departs for home predicting hell and trouble in India as violence grows. A British official has been killed and the exact British response remains uncertain. The unrest comes with India’s population over 300 million and only 100 thousand Britons, highlighting long odds for British control.
The narrator notes that Britain will not use brutal punitive tactics like fastening natives to cannons and firing them, a method once used in the great rebellion. The speaker claims such tactics belong to past days and are not being revived in the current era described as peaceful.
The Mahatma Gandhi was received by a king in his shawl and breech-clout, while he did not meet the Pope who could not honor Gandhi’s dress. The Vatican traditions were offended by the attire, and Gandhi would not change.
Molly Picon plans a series of performances in Hungary but is barred on the grounds that Hebrew performances are not desirable during the Christmas season. The note questions why Hungarian authorities assume the language spoken where Christ was born and lived is not Hebrew, citing church tradition that God spoke Hebrew in Eden.
A reader note surveys the Chinese foreign office wreck by a student mob bent on war with Japan. It asserts that even patriotic leaders like Lin Sen would learn the hard meaning of preparedness if they pursue conflict. It also notes Russia’s wheat gains, relief for anti Bolshevik sentiment, and Ireland’s expanding public schools with growing pupil numbers.
The text notes that Gaelic in schools is waning, with testing falling off and difficulty finding capable teachers. It argues that fewer children will be burdened by a language deemed not adequate to meet current needs.
Two women accused of preventing childbirth in London were dismissed as not guilty by Justice McCard. He argued there are too many children born in England and called for legalization of birth control and widespread education on the topic.
A Basle cable reports the European committee on the Young plan favors another moratorium. Sir Walter Layton, Professor Rist, Dr. Carl Melchior, and others argue cancellation of all debts owed by the States would improve world conditions. A Paris cartoon portrays the League of Nations as an Asiatic God with fifty-ton arms failing to reach success.
The Savannah Board of Education calls for changing high school history texts to avoid portraying Georgia's original settlers as convicts and criminals. The piece notes some convicts migrated to Georgia or other states, and argues that many early dissenters opposed unjust conditions.
The text explains that oysters feed on microscopic plants or diatoms carried to them by water currents.
Reader letters praise soda bicarbonate as a cure for dyspepsia and as a restoring aid, while requesting an aspirin article. Dr. Clendening confirms aspirin’s benefit for certain arthritis cases though not as sole remedy. Editor notes pamphlet offers six Dr. Clendening guides for ten cents each with stamped self addressed envelopes.
Central Press reports wets in Congress aim to force a popular referendum on repealing or redefining the Eighteenth Amendment, seeking to record votes on resubmission while hoping for a start toward loosening prohibition. Wets push for a congressional record, with strategic rule changes aiding disclosure and accountability.
Paramount presents His Woman at the Princess theater today and tomorrow starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert. Features include Colbert’s Paris birth, New York schooling, bilingual fluency, and famed beauty. notes on travels, voice, and stage debut in 1924.
New York City unveils the world’s largest high school with about 8,000 pupils and 285 teachers. The new campus aims to accommodate a booming student population and expand curriculum offerings across multiple streams.
A reflective verse style piece urging gentleness, charity, and safety through small acts. It includes lines about kindness to those down, giving life, and promoting safety. It closes with a humorous exchange about a fly in soup and a waiter.
A brief domestic exchange shows His Lordship asking for restraint from the backseat driving and Her Ladyship replying she will stop only when he ceases cooking at the dining room table.
In old days a woman needed two fleeces from the fold to be dressed. Now jazz age times favor silk worm work with time spared. The verse contrasts past and present textile ease and fashion.
A quirky collection of old timey quips on coffee, onions, elevators, aging, noise, car costs, and advice. It compares opinions to slow freight, mocks chatter like a woodpecker, and notes an unusually large celecty this year with a playful tone.
A mail carrier entering the post office complains of foul air and is told by the clerk that he found a couple of dead letters, hinting at a questionable delivery issue or trapped mail.
Jeff asks Mabel about her worst sin and she replies vanity. Mabel admits spending hours before the mirror admiring her beauty. Jeff counters that her preoccupation is imagination rather than vanity.
Last Saturday a woman in a smart new coat and hat noticed her husband being unusually attentive as he introduced her to friends. She replied that he needn't take any credit, adding she bought the items with her own money.
A terse line praises a woman's appearance calling it pretty, but the phrasing signals irony or doubt about true merit versus surface charm. The fragment hints at social judgment or casual commentary without broader context or events.
Ed Spain was elected C C of Camp No. 487 Woodmen of the World for the coming year following last night’s elections. Officers named include J. R. Gibson H. L I. M. Eubanks E. FE. A. English B. SR. Garricon clerk G. C. Penny W. C. Spurlock sentinel S. L. Ryan B. D. Wright J. D. Winton managers. Installation at the regular meeting January 5.
A historic note records Saint Francis of Assisi establishing the practice of ringing the Angelus. The devotion centers on prayer during the morning, noon, and evening hours, tied to devotion to the Incarnation and the ringing of bells in communities.
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