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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1933
Page
5
The Helena Daily Independent reports farmers dump milk on highways in protest strikes by labor unions in packing plants. The piece argues farmers are harming workers at the cost of urban labor, questioning who pays for the unrest and predicting the laboring classes bear the burden.
A Montana editorial mocks the high federal spending total of 71 170 317 dollars while warning that Secretary Ickes could trim it. It urges excluding the 25 million Fort Peck dam project as not a Montana project and notes broader regional benefits and misaligned allocations. It also mentions lighting the northern airline route and Roosevelt liquor laws.
The piece recalls Gettysburg as the nation’s premier battlefield monument and argues monuments honor heroism, not war. It contrasts battlefield preservation with memorial aims, noting Alabama’s monument and Washington’s approach to wartime remembrance, and closes with a nod to Al Capone seeking release before prohibition ends.
For years editors teased about a fusion of labor and farming groups. Now the real shift is visible as farmer leaders echo calls to unite with union labor to push shared goals, signaling a turning point in the so called Farmer Labor movement.
Australia announces the two year drought in its southeast is over and signals relief. The message notes a reply indicating the thirteen year drought in the locality should end around December 6.
An editorial contrasts old memory based schooling with modern approaches arguing memory builds knowledge and aids work. It laments reduced emphasis on memorization amid new principles like reason and self-expression, noting enduring personal benefit from recall even as values shift. A Chicago dispatch reports 125 carloads of whiskey moving through the city in four days, implying authorities colluding with the Al Capone gang and other bootlegging groups.
A gloomy decayed Chicago house hosts a strange slaying with a nude basement corpse, read like a Philo Vance scene. The column mocks sensational crime fiction while noting 100,000 nudists in the U S and comments on Bullitt’s ambassadorial assignment to Tuesia as a sharp pastiche.
Dr. Wiggam argues that future memories of mothers will shift from the traditional gingham apron caretaker to dynamic leaders who run households farms and social causes. He urges readers to study 1932 offerings and accept evolving models as daughters and mothers compete with the rising generation’s traits.
The Rev Roy J Smith pastor of Simpson M E Church Minneapolis offers brief reflections on virtue. Each line presents a concise truth about charm truth nature music children humor faith and serenity in simple terms.
The Haskin Letter analyzes the total costs of World War I beyond obvious outlays. It estimates that direct federal expenditures and lost public value exceed ten trillion dollars when including wartime tax revenue and economic disruption, noting peak national debt around 1922 and long-term fiscal effects.
The article argues federal postwar spending rose sharply, detailing wasteful outlays and large programs like agricultural adjustment, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Reconstruction Finance Corp. It notes new debts, insurance and tax measures, and local recovery costs, stressing that war costs reappear in peacetime budgets with no free tickets for the nation.
Oberlin Ohio prepares a centennial observance marking the first higher learning institution to adopt coeducation. Oberlin College, founded December 2 1833 by Rev John J Shepherd and Philo P Stewart, will hold exercises in Finney Chapel as Betty turns 100 this Sunday.
Readers query Frederic J. Haskin about sending questions for factual answers. The item lists responses on topics from Phi Beta Kappa honors to radio stations, turkey origin, demographics, Mayflower, Dorothea Wieck, the current pope, the American Hebrew medal, Hubble, and the U.S. flag symbolism, citing names, dates, places, and organizations from the era.
Old medical brief explains chilblains from cold raise pain and burning. It covers warming, thick footwear, and avoiding exposure, and notes treatments like paraffin baths but emphasizes circulatory causes and possible medical interventions for varicose veins or arterial issues.
Unh ay les FE Stricklin Oregon state engineer yesterday was elected president of the Western Association of State Engineers to succeed George F Krinp chief engineer of the division of water resources in Kanaan. T H M Humphreys Utah state engineer was elected vice president and Wnapp won chosen the aid member of to executive committee. The meeting followed a two day conference of Western Invernors and the National Reclamation association. The group urged extending refinancing authority from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and increasing the 50 million dollar fund. Final date for securing funds was set January 24. The convention’s next location to be determined by the executive committee.
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