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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1930
Page
2
The Delphi Citizen outlines Democratic ideals and cautions against government overreach into business. Governor Albert C. Ritchie is quoted praising free enterprise, urging equality of opportunity and minimal government interference to sustain prosperity.
U S export trade fell sharply in October 1930 versus October 1929, dropping by 200 million dollars, with ten month total decline at 1.092 billion dollars. Imports for the same period fell 1.102 billion, yielding a combined U S trade loss exceeding two billion dollars.
Dr. Julius Klein and Sturgis Dorrance argue that advertising saves money and fuels recovery. They cite a 1921 study showing firms increasing advertising cut losses by half and, a year later, gained about seven percent while others fell 22 percent.
Government farm board funds grape growers to produce concentrate that converts to wine, though wine making is illegal. The fragment notes neglect in medicine cabinets and contrasts holiday and winter chores with golf and radio culture. The piece toys with questions about public reaction and poetry.
Robert Hanna of this city and IU student leads a campus subscription drive for the Arbutus year book. Forty-one IU students from various houses form the captain corps with William Forkner in charge and Rebecca Whittington assisting. Charles Hoover of Wabash serves as editor in chief. A dog was defendant in Grundy County Tennessee's first ever lawsuit.
A 1930 opinion piece argues a small elite of fewer than one hundred men controls the nation and big business, urging farmers to demand change. It notes decreased demand and unemployment as factors, and criticizes the Farm Board for not challenging big business to replace some machines with labor to boost purchasing power.
The piece argues against proliferation in the shoes and auto industries, urging workers to push for reduced overhead and slower expansion. It notes high potential and actual production, capitalist motives, and calls for the grain board to curb surplus buying, with Russia referenced as a factor.
The text argues grain prices fell in Liverpool and Argentina crop estimates raise exportable surplus. It laments industrialists controlling markets, warns of tariff threats, and urges farmers to oppose a small elite governing unseen, urging action against isolationist policy and urging unity to break their power. It cites Owen Young and calls for political smash of the invisible government.
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