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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1932
Page
1
A fragment from the Dothan Eagle notes May 24 1932 items with stray lines about Thomas Jefferson, Jean Harrow’s hair dye, fish calendars and Southeast Alabama gardens. The text presents magazine blurbs and local curiosities with no clear event or人物.
The Selma Times Journal argues taxpayers cannot fund bloated school budgets and calls for pruning. It favors a nine month common school term, closing state supported colleges, and views college education as a luxury with limited earnings payoff. It contends most students go to college for leisure rather than serious work.
Opinion piece arguing for immediate government retrenchment to avert deficits. Criticizes officials for wasteful spending from 1925 to 1931, cites figures on federal expenditures, and advocates cutting bureaucracy and relief abuses to balance the budget without new taxes. Holds politicians responsible for inaction and urges bold fiscal restraint.
A historical overview of Dixie as a Confederate war song with roots in the North. It traces Dan Emmett's life from Mount Vernon Ohio to the Bryant Minstrels, how Dixie originated from a walk-around, and how the tune came to symbolize both Union and Confederacy after the Civil War. The piece notes Emmett’s North-leaning sympathies, his copyright sale, and postwar tributes and interpretations by The Free Press and the Ohio Daughters of the Confederacy.
New York letter recalls a time ball atop Seamen's Church Institute and outdated devices, notes on balloons for sale, Bonelli's birthplace, stage superstition, and shifting city habits. It reflects on numbers guiding travel and neighborhoods, from Ruth Etting to Park Avenue changes, ending near 110th Street and a poorer stretch.
A brief poem-like piece attributes growth of Batchelor's buttons to mischief and miracles. It laments human nature, noting truth is mighty but error can be mightier, and calls man a religious animal whose covered sins reveal themselves.
A London Time and Tide piece reflects on taxi drivers from New York to Leipzig to Moscow, noting their differences and shared insistence on safety, communication, and trust. The narrator observes how each driver explains their city and culture, while a London cabbie embodies resilience amid the urban scramble.
Oakland Tri- editorial remark notes a shift in political strategy from resource division to factional infighting and inheritance of power within the party. It frames the current scene as a betrayal of earlier populist aims.
Do than hosts the Americas Ga baseball unit for a three game set. A Dothan SBooster's club is being organized here with 20 000 people in 1930 adopted as the club slogan. Local visits include Mrs Deal and Miss McIntyre. Marriage license issued to H L Herring and Miss Bertha Martin. Elmar and Albert Cumbie travel to Sherman Cuthbert and nearby towns.
A humorous note mocks someone who tries to reform a lively woman. The speaker, known as Eimer to Babe, jests that no kidding is a birth control society slogan, poking fun at social norms in Sub Base Ballast.
An observation compares unemployment in France and the United States. It notes about 0.5 percent of France seeks relief versus roughly 8.5 percent in the United States. Factors cited include France's peasant agriculture and proactive government relief measures. The piece praises French self-reliance and governance.
Chicago Daily News argues that resubmission of the prohibition question to the states via congress is the path to a clear national verdict. It notes Senate dryness and presses that Republican and Democratic conventions likely adopt a state-submission plank. The piece urges moving the dispute from national to forty eight state battles to allow voters to focus on economy and party choices.
Herbert Plummer reports on how Democrats in Congress discuss the Smith Roosevelt feud after primaries. Senators Dill Barkley Wheeler show interest, carrying strength tables and telegrams as they mingle in cloakrooms and the senate restaurant. Republicans tease yet listen as Democrats debate, awaiting the House action on the economy and tax bills.
Scottie McKenzie recalls Dr. Brad Ford Knapp at Alabama Polytechnic Institute shaping students by spotting potential and placing them in roles to build talents. Anecdotes include a cow helper who funded Harvard, a workman reading to a leg-injured student who became a dean, and a student Bill who rose from failure after hearing Knapp’s lifelong-lesson speech about resilience.
A mother and child walk at sunset as the parent praises the sky. The piece argues parents often inflate their ego by shaping a child’s experience and urges fostering independent discovery for genuine pleasure and growth.
Dr Lago Goldston discusses the function of tears noting tears lubricate the eye and protect it from irritants. Tears also contain lysozyme, a bactericide, aiding eye health. infants begin weeping later, and tears may evolve from experience rather than being learned.
Peggy and John plan and start a small fern garden beside the house. They gather ferns from woods with a friend, dig up a spot, transplant the plants, and water them, imagining ferns growing in shade near a stone marked with tan engravings.
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