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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1939
Page
4
A collage of brief opinions and remarks touching Thanksgiving prayer, highway quality in North Alabama, mosquito control, air travel, wartime attitudes toward Japan, farm programs, and political finance. The column notes remarks by Wallace and references to Dixon administration, union contracts, and Tennessee legislators unable to pay board bills.
The March income tax revenue lags behind 1938 earnings yet exceeds the amount needed to service the bonds it funded. The public doubted it would meet the debts, but officials say it remains adequate despite the shortfall.
The piece notes a shift in tone about the ABC in the United States. Early supporters mocked board members as saloon keepers while now the agency is treated as law enforcement by counties and critics alike as dry counties push to control wet counties.
The Montgomery Advertiser urges abolition of the fee system used to pay county officials as Morgan County and other counties seek statewide reform. A Dothan Eagle letter from W. Bish, a lawyer, to Senator Calhoun and Representative Hardwick highlights concerns with the system and calls for abolition.
The Advertiser urges Alabama lawmakers to replace the obsolete county fee system with a salary basis for officials. It argues salaries improve economy and justice, noting overpaid some and underpaid others, and calls for a statewide constitutional amendment backed by Morgan Limestone and Lawrence counties. The piece stresses modernizing county and city government to relieve taxpayer burdens.
Washington reports on how Sumner Welles and Roosevelt tie into European policy while Hull remains away. The piece notes cabinet dynamics behind the Supreme Court pick, health hits to key aides, and debates over a cash and carry approach amid tax plan caveats affecting banks and small business.
Hatton faculty plan to attend the AEA gathering in Montgomery late this week. Mrs. R F Harrison remains unimproved at home. Mrs Jessie Jeffreys ill with influenza. Mr and Mrs O H Butler and others from Chattanooga visited here. Cal Sanderson of Town Creek attended Sanderson Chapel service. Mrs Leon Posey hosted Miss Christine Anderson of Montgomery. A group of Okolona Baptist youths plans activities.
Dr. Bett recounts 1868 St Bartholomew's dispensary where the resident apothecary administered simple remedies to morning patients and where nurses were mocked as fairies. Dr. Robert Bridges, late casualty physician, cited abuses, noting 7715 patients in three months and 1.28 minutes per patient then, and lamenting industrial ills.
The expert says all symptoms stem from tuberculosis and recommends sanatorium treatment. Advise a normal balanced diet matching appetite. musterole on the chest is as safe as for a healthy person.
The Daily Sermonette urges believers to stand fast in the liberty Christ provides from sin self and Satan. It contrasts salvation by faith with works and stresses growth in grace, warning that worldliness and doubt threaten the liberty won by God’s grace.
The note offers seven pamphlets from Dr Logan Clendening available for ten cents each. Send coin plus a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr Clenden ing in care of this paper for delivery of titles on reducing dieting digestion infant feeding feminine hygiene and hair and skin care.
Rev W H Haddock filled his appointment at the old Town Creek church Sunday Van Hall visited his parents Mr and Mrs Oliver Hall here Sunday J M Wilson has been ill at his home here.
From the Daily of March 22 1927 J Wells head of Cooper Wells Company announces plans for Alabama's first full fashioned silk hosiery plant. Little Raymond Parks is ill with pneumonia at his parents home on Fourth Avenue South. Nancy Worth Jones ill at her parents home John and Mrs Jones. Louise Almon confined to bed with a severe cold on East Gordon Drive. Mrs C W Matheny very ill on Seventh Avenue West. O L Newsom left Sunday for Roswell New Mexico for six weeks. Mr and Mrs Lawrence Otte spent Sunday in Cullman with relatives.
James Lt. Miller prosecutor failed to lock his office safe for six years. A new secretary accidentally locked it with forged evidence inside. A locksmith spent a day on it and quit in disgust. The safe remains locked and the forgery suspect awaits a hearing.
Classified advertising offers a practical way to buy and sell items by phone. Call 46 to place or inquire about listings today.
Walter Winchell on Broadway reports Anna Roosevelt and John Boettiger expecting a child around April 27 with Anna's mother present. Sylvia Sidney stars in Gentle People while Janette seeks divorce, and Howard Hughes Brenda Zier are together amid high-stakes money bets.
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