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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1940
Page
4
Margery Wilson argues personal happiness hinges on individual choice amid public pressure from optimistic leaders. She outlines a clinical view of unhappiness and prescribes strategies for happier living, presenting her recent book Make Up Weir Mind as a guide.
The piece argues happiness or misery is a personal choice based on perceived justifications. Everyday irritations during wartime magnify gloom, yet individuals admit prewar neurotic traits. adjusting to war proves harder, yet the right to misery seems reasonable given mounting reasons.
Debutantes begin the social season in Washington with limited embassy events and a shortened White House calendar. Girls balance traditional debutante duties with charity work, Red Cross first aid, Bundles for Britain, and plans for future careers in acting, modeling, art, or writing.
The text urges turning away from unhappiness and choosing a deliberate path of happiness through courage, effort, and self mastery. It contends happiness comes from attitude and action, not laughter alone, and emphasizes controlling emotions to endure change and shape the future, noting Switzerland as the world’s top milk consumer at 232 quarts per person annually.
A first degree murder indictment was filed in Pulaski circuit court against Texas convict Clifton Davidson for the October 6, 1939 slaying of U. S. Marine Sergeant Sigur Fosse. Fosse remains under life sentence in a Texas prison as the case clears old docket items.
St Louis residents celebrate returning sun and clean air after a winter campaign led by newspapers hospitals and the St Louis Medical Society. The effort followed a brutal season with dense smoke and near zero visibility prompting an aldermanic ordinance mandating smokeless fuels and restricted burning for all within city limits. James L Ford Jr claims a smoke free day, despite a frosty night and mist.
In Honolulu the dual citizenship issue among Hawaii’s Japanese community sparked the campaign. Sanji Abe, a first generation Japanese American, ran for the Hawaii Senate as a Republican and won after renouncing dual citizenship, highlighting long standing prejudice tied to birth and citizenship rules updated by Japan in 1924. The Hawaii Japanese association moved to appeal amid rising controversy before the election.
Cordell Hull is urged to press for looser Japanese laws while Sangi Abe, born in Hawaii to immigrant parents, advances from interpreter to deputy sheriff through WWI service and leadership roles in the American Citizens of Japanese Ancestry and local leagues. A stray 1938 hay rain in Norwalk, Ohio is noted.
All members of Whitfield Masonic Lodge No 239 are asked to assemble at the hall at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon. The notice mentions Marcel waves named after French hairdresser Marpeel Grateau.
Roy Hendrix, son of Mr and Mrs TA Hendrix of old 67 highway, is home from Chonute Army Air Field Rantoon Al where he serves as a private in the Army air mechanics school. He is a graduate of Hope High School.
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