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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1939
Page
2
An editorial argues Americans should balance national worries with local civic action. It emphasizes community control of schools churches libraries parks and businesses and warns against passive reliance on centralized power. It stresses to forge good local leadership and citizen responsibility.
A public admonition condemns Nazi propaganda blaming Jews for all ills and warns that rising anti Semitism in America is a dangerous retreat from American ideals. The piece urges citizens to oppose bigotry as un American and un Christian.
Delphi suffers a four player loss from graduation after a disappointing regional tournament. Five straight defeats to the Monticello Indians underline a need to improve next season. Players gave best efforts and the team vows to avenge the setback.
Old Squibs reports Lafayette surgeon Dr A M Moore has unveiled a new painless tooth extraction method likely to replace older practices. Readers needing extractions are urged to try his gentleness and obliging manner. Other items include a 30 foot fall injuring Alford Chaney, a Black Eagle claw showpiece, a preview of the Continentals at Rinehart and Holt's Hall, Delphi relief society formation, muddy streets, maple sugar subs, and Indiana politics on Oregon's admission.
Ray Smith argues Republican leaders dictated 1940 platform aims, pushing partisan budget cuts to staff and departments, notably a 35 percent slash in highway personal service while maintaining construction. He warns this could raise long term costs from poorer oversight and calls GOP slogans of rubber stamps hollow.
Worldwide wheat stocks are high with 1 1 2 billion bushels carryover and 3 3 4 billion use projected this year. U S supplies exceed a billion with AAA payments aiding farmers but a permanent solution hinges on farmer adaptation. The republicans confront party leadership in a rare unified vote despite calls to return power to the people.
The editorial laments Republican protests on New Deal measures in Chicago and argues against name calling of Roosevelt. It defends social programs like social security and public works while urging reasoned discussion over factional attacks in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
The remarks by Rep John G Alexander Rep Jerry Voorhis and Senator Robert La Follette criticize foreign aggression and defend constitutional powers while urging restraint and rational debate. They mention red-baiting and Roosevelt-baiting by Hoover Coughlin and Fritz Kuhn as political tactics in a charged partisan climate.
In a reflection on Roosevelt era majorities, L D criticizes legislators who align with big business as the new yes men. He warns of reactionaries potentially shaping the Democratic Party in 1940 and predicts a Republican administration if big business narratives prevail. The piece notes a stalled 1939 legislative session and parries quotes from Whit and Punch.
A compilation of historic quotes from Senator Pat Harrison, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Louis A. Johnson, Pope Pius XII, Joe Louis, and Chief Justice Hughes. The remarks span fiscal policy, defense, peace, and personal jabs, reflecting postwar political discourse and public figures’ viewpoints.
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