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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1939
Page
4
A reader notes that raltia falls steadily as in the past month and references the Gamma water flow system in Tennessee. The remark frames a comparison to the region's water management.
A local column blends a Bible verse from Job with civic ambitions for Decatur. It urges building an airport and a five terminal, condemns street garbage, and calls for a strong manufacturing plant to employ 1,000 more people, arguing industry will propel growth.
The Tuscaloosa News and The Montgomery Journal comment on New York Governor Lehman’s civil rights bill and Alabama road naming, arguing tolerance and free enterprise over government mandates. They clash over public accommodations bans and private business rights, urging retention of the Bee Line highway name.
Tuka plans a newsprint mill funded by 2.5 million dollars private capital and 2.5 million from a federal loan. Texas claims the first southern newsprint mill, challenging Canadian manufacturers and benefiting publishers nationwide, with implications for the southern pine industry.
Washington reports that White House pressure shifted House Foreign Affairs Committee votes toward repealing embargoes on arms, with Roosevelt and Hull driving strategy. The piece notes private influence on two wavering Democrats and hints at broader aims to push other legislation while finalizing neutrality moves.
In a medical school clinic on the eastern seaboard a lecturer uses a 15 year old boy and his sister to show that excess food intake causes obesity. The boy describes heavy breakfasts with milk fruit oatmeal eggs bacon wheat cakes with butter and maple syrup, eaten three times daily, versus his thinner sister. The demonstration argues that the mathematical excess of food leads to overweight.
The sermon centers on the question what must I do to be saved. It argues salvation is a gift yet not passive and requires personal obedience to the gospel and faith in Christ. It stresses individuals must act, obey, and accept God’s salvation through Jesus. It notes God provides salvation and humans respond.
Question asks about an 11 month old with knock knees. Answer: yes, likely rickets. Advises consulting a doctor immediately.
The editor notes seven pamphlets by Dr Logan Clendening are available at 10 cents each. To request one pamphlet, send 10 cents, a self addressed stamped envelope, and three cent stamp, to Dr Logan Clendening care of this paper. Titles include Three Weeks Reducing Diet Indigestion and Constipation Reducing and Gaining Infant Feeding Instructions for the Treatment of Diabetes Feminine Hygiene and The Care of the Hair and Skin.
A collage of humorous lines and vignettes including teacher student exchanges about learning ages, looks and diet, and quips about public office, manners, and legal humor. A lively mix of one liners about etiquette, friendships, and everyday absurdities.
Walter Winchell recounts a Billy Rose Aquacade moment where British crew and 11 000 spectators saluted the American flag then heard God Save the King. He notes US German hostility mail to Berlin listing LaGuardia Winchell Thompson Ickes Kuhn as targets if Hitler wins.
Reports describe the royal couple on their last Hyde Park day as weary yet admired. The Queen’s gracious gesture during a London show and her calm influence on crowds are highlighted, along with commentary on her photogenic appearance in American images and editorials referencing the royal reception in New York Times.
A dialogue reveals congressional tensions and a family dispute about punishment for habits. Jack complains of favoritism, noting he is punished for biting nails while baby’s missteps are excused. Congress supposedly seeks economy but cannot afford it.
A customer explains his name Shir by Jepson and mocks the clerk by mishearing initials O K as Oh and O. The clerk struggles to record the name correctly while the man reflects that overthinking thoughts makes a mess.
The danseuse Tamara Geva complains in a public exchange that singer Tamara consistently receives her fan mail by mistake. The singer notes she often gets Tamara Geva’s mail, finding it amusing, while Geva insists she was first to use her own name and expresses irritation.
Reporters assigned to the royal couple face rough day as promised luncheon arrangements by the State Department fall through. Broun notes LIFE rejected Heywood Broun's piece on Westbrook Pegler. Zoo of Hollywood names and anecdotes fill a chaotic fair scene with chatter about taxes and celebrity goss.
Readers are invited to submit vivid reportage in any preferred style. Examples praised include cliff Melton praise from Jack Miley and Shapiro's Joe Louis Galento fight picture, plus Brisbane’s crowd description for the Dempsey Carpentier bout.
Before 1936 the Chicago Tribune ran a daily countdown on page one from sixty to one as the election neared. The sequence included playful fronts like Fifty-nine Days To Save Your Country and Fifty-seven days to save your country, reflecting anti-New Deal sentiment. Louis Rupert of the Chicago Times later noted the New Deal victory with Forty-six Days Itm Christmas.
The Jays of the Junior Chamber of Commerce have scheduled the first game in a series against the Jaycees of Athens. Mrs. Law Lamar of Selma is visiting relatives here. A. E. Greenhill is recuperating from illness. Mrs. Louie Argend is visiting relatives in Florence.
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