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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1940
Page
5
An Indiana county juvenile home reforms child welfare by replacing punishment with a merit based system. Boys earn merits for labor and behavior, pay for living expenses, and can profit by contracting work. They enjoy a swimming hole at Clear Lake and manage a merit bank with salaries and a commissary.
The superintendent punishes an idle boy by calling him a bum and banishing him to the back door for meals while inmates decide his fate. After days of cold treatment and neglect, the boy is pressured to work to avoid further abuse and be treated as a regular worker.
Three Basel youths were jailed for stealing bicycles found in classified ads and reselling them to advertisers. The trio's scheme relied on daily ad scans and quick, opportunistic theft across Basel. The piece also notes population figures for Estonia Latvia and Lithuania totaling 5,600,000 under Russia.
Adelaide Kerr profiles Carrie Chapman Catt on the twentieth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment. The suffrage leader, 80s era conscience of American democracy, warns of harder work and greater responsibility for women, urges renewed push for clean democracy, broader legislative representation, and a rewritten Bill of Rights.
A reader profile describes how a conversational, attentive woman makes a strong impression. She shows genuine interest, balanced talk, and friendly, nonjudgmental remarks. The piece portrays a warm, approachable personality likely to become a good friend after a brief acquaintance.
The Clinton Hinton Home Demonstration club met August 1 with eight members present. The program included Psalms prayer, a club song, and roll call on summer recreation. Plans were made for a community get-together, and a mattress tick demonstration was scheduled for September 5. A club social on the lawn involved a chicken supper for ten families and cheerful games, ending with thanks and a friendly mood.
A speaker recalls gender barriers once seen as too advanced for girls and voices satisfaction at gains in feminine rights over the century. She notes past beliefs that education and earning power were limited for women and reflects on changes in social norms and independence.
Cleveland authorizes Mildred McKay to run the Cleveland Automobile Club driving school teaching both women and men. Her program includes calisthenics, rear-vision practice, and a six-square-foot mock city with traffic controls. She has trained 200 pupils ages 4 to 73 with no serious accidents, and 40 percent of students are men.
At a National Guard airport in Houston the spin parachute, six by five inches folded, deploys into a five foot circle to stabilize a gyrating aircraft during test flights. Pilots pull a rip cord to spread the chute and regain control, then release it after stabilization.
As temperatures dropped, a Wichita man entered district court and filed a $1,000 damages suit claiming his heating plant malfunctioned last winter, prompting a civil action.
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