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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1937
Page
4
The Denton Journal lists its Saturday edition published by Melvin and Johnson Incorporated with Benjamin F Johnson as President and Treasurer and Mary Melvin as Vice President and Secretary. It notes post office mailing details and date March 12 1938.
An editorial argues 1937 highway deaths rose 4 percent to 39,700 while 20 states reduced fatalities. It credits education, strict law enforcement, and street lighting as key fixes and urges the remaining 28 states to follow suit for safer travel.
A column surveys global reaction to Anthony Eden's resignation and Chamberlain's appeasement policy. It highlights praise for Germany and Italy, distrust of Britain in democratic nations, and the risk that Britain may align with fascist powers to protect its empire, affecting U S South American interests.
Washington writes on ghosts of Congress and the founders guiding debates on military power and peace. He contrasts executive push for armament with congressional calls for restraint, notes European and Far Eastern tensions, and cites U S policy actions in China Hawaii and the Philippines shaped by expediency.
The piece cites Oswald Garrison Villard arguing England has become a third-rate power after setbacks in Spain, the Rhineland, Danzig, and Austria, while fascists gain ground and democracies lose prestige. It notes little change in business stats, with sentiment at low ebb and leaders looking to Washington as government actions drive current and future business status amid policy flux and uncertainty.
Boake Carter compares a clandestine 1940s operation sending American troops to Siberia to deter Japan, noting it violated Congress and aimed at shielding a Czechoslovak prisoner. He argues administration efforts suppress criticism by equating back-seat drivers with car owners.
Editorial notes trace the Panama and Nicaragua canal debates from Balboa’s dream to 20th century geopolitics. It weighs costs of widening Panama versus building a Nicaragua route, with naval arms race implications, treaty history, and a New Deal era cost comparison using Stanley Jones figures. The piece links canal fate to military spending, refugee crises, and modern communications shaping conquest perceptions.
The piece mocks columnist Frank Kent as a relentless Roosevelt critic. It claims Kent leaks confidential White House information via a starling signal from a magnolia tree outside the president’s office, prompting a cabinet meeting and a debate over exterminating the birds.
An excerpt discusses the challenges of conquest and occupation across vast territories including Manchuria and China, noting differing impacts on peoples and transport. It cites a 1937 International Institute of Agriculture gathering where experts linked artificial revival to rearmament and urged collective security and coordinated scientific development to meet human needs.
Anthony Eden highlights persistent international trade despite tariffs quotas and controls. He cites 1936 world trade at over 50 thousand million gold dollars, about 42 thousand million dollars in present value, the highest since 1992, with the United States and United Kingdom together accounting for nearly 30 percent of world imports.
Five decades back a cabinet crisis tested presidential power as critics accused Roosevelt era efforts to reorganize government of seeking stronger authority. The piece argues Congress can check or repeal such plans, while presidents historically faced charges of dictatorship for pursuing reforms.
An eight to ten year old narrator records a week of school life and misadventures with humor and misspellings. Entries describe a drawing of God, marriage thoughts, gender views, a blunder on ice, and a cautious reflection on rushing things. The voice blends rural slang with childlike wit and missteps.
Mr and Mrs Fred Fountain and Mr and Mrs Edgar Fountain spent Sunday evening with Mr and Mrs Earl Adams and family. Miss Mildred Lord and Mr Nelson Gilbert visited on Tuesday with the Fountains. Mr and Mrs George Wheatley were Thursday night guests of C W Adams and family. Mrs Louis Dennis called on Tuesday. Thurman Fountain visited her parents near Seaford on Tuesday evening. Gloria Mae Johnson spent Monday with her aunts and uncle here.
Uncle Jim argues many poor land parcels should be converted from crops to trees grass or legumes. He notes neighbors see higher costs to grow crops on bad spots than the potential value of yields.
We express gratitude to friends and loyal neighbors for every kind deed and words of sympathy during the illness and death of our mother. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Jenkins.
Mrs Effa Plummer and Miss Martha Bickling attended a lodge supper at Cherry Hill recently. Mrs Plummer is spending a few days in Baltimore this week. R B Rawlings was a Philadelphia visitor last Friday and Saturday.
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