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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1931
Page
1
City plans to improve power, roads, and sanitation while promoting business and agriculture. The Star urges support for the Chamber of Commerce, county highway projects, and tax reform to fund all-weather roads and practical rural benefits. The piece stresses state highway progress and efficient government asArkansas development.
An editorial commends a judge who arranged winter farm work in Nebraska for hundreds of unemployed men in exchange for room and board with promises of wages when spring opens. It argues the plan is a humane stopgap, not a cure, and warns against complacency about poverty and unemployment while broader systemic fixes remain needed.
A Texarkana Twin City News editorial argues that government ownership of private industries is socialist and anti American. It warns against federal venture into business, citing Muscle Shoals and Wilson dam as war emergencies, and asserts government operation would burden taxpayers and aid only a few while harming individual enterprise.
The text notes Oscar Underwood is dead and cites his work Drifting Sands of Party Politics. He argues that aggression organized minorities have drifted the nation away from Jeffersonian and Wilsonian constitutional principles, endangering democracy to radical minority rule.
An opinion piece attacks the Boulder Dam project on the Colorado River near Las Vegas, arguing it destroys desert land for irrigation and risks agricultural bondage. It questions federal priority, cites Farm Board actions under Mr Legge, and defends continued government support to balance prices and compete with industry.
News of Other Days highlights Dr. W F Saner returning home to uphold Democratic duties on election day. It recalls Bobbie Shelton, former captain and third baseman, visiting supporters for the national game. The column also cites an engagement in Oklahoma City with Edna Helle Me Inn is engaged to Harry Hellen of Shawnee and mentions Gertrude Duncan home from Ouachita College for Easter.
Providence mourns A L Beegle who died Tuesday after a three day illness. Widow and children survive: Fay Beegle Grand Island Neb Austin Lincoln Neb Cliff Albert Beaver Grand Island Neb. Several local residents and visitors are noted with social visits and a well attended singing event reported from the community.
In Akron Ohio the rubber center is noted as the healthiest U S city while workers in a business lull avoid fatigue. A voice questions if a wrestling match could be called a joint debate and Congressmen once paid 87000 for printed speeches. A geologic note claims Earth is over two billion years old. Mrs Jim Bearden went to town Thursday.
University of Missouri researchers led by Prof. F. T. Dufford added sixty compounds to the known list that produce cold light. The work aims to understand how fireflies light their lamps with minimal energy loss, contrasting with electric light where about 94 percent of power is wasted as heat.
Mrs Lizzie Jordan visited her mother Mrs Sanders in Sutton on Wednesday. Faye and Jessie Pickard from Rocky Mound visited Mr and Mrs Earl Fincher Tuesday night to test their eyes in their incubator. Mrs J J Daughter and Mr and Mrs A R Simmons and Texas kin spent Sunday with A R Simmons family. Jim Butler of Liberty Hill stopped by Thursday morning to get seed potatoes. Dipping cattle seems to be the order.
The community enjoyed pleasant weather ideal for gardening. Mr and Mrs M C Mc Millen welcomed a baby boy named Danion Malone last Tuesday. Grady Reece and family and Milton Caudle and family visited Bedcau Sunday. Mary Rovers spent the weekend in Hope. Nellie Leach has been on the sick list the past week.
Dr William Churchill Hammond organist at Second Congregational church directs a fourth consecutive year of Lenten recitals in Holyoke Massachusetts as part of the season.
Eleanor Slipher of the University of JoWa hag reports a new grasshopper strain that hatches quickly eliminating the long hibernation path. She plans to compare the quick-hatch breed with normal hoppers to uncover the mechanism governing dormancy.
Columbus report states that Professor Alex Laurie of Ohio State University demonstrates converting electric light into midwinter blooms. Over four weeks of shortest days a 150 watt lamp per 11 square feet produced longer stems and more flowers, notably China asters calendulas carnations and sweet peas.
Crowds gathered to watch electric arc welding and the ultraviolet glare from the arc caused eye trouble among many onlookers. Reports say scores developed eye ailments after viewing the spectacle near Bolzano where an oriental eye malady was initially suspected.
North Carolina State College students will skip Sunday night lunches for the rest of the school year to aid suffering in Raleigh and Wake County. A charity fund of 1260 dollars will be raised as a result.
New York report says Japanese chemists developed synthetic sake from polished rice as a national drink and food conservation measure. Real sake is traditional, while the synthetic version aims to support food supplies and provide a new beverage option in Japan.
In Livingston Montana A R Sanders a mail driver on a Wilsall route reported a jack rabbit leaping into his car through the windshield. He dodged to avoid injury but suffered cuts from the flying glass as the rabbit landed on the seat beside him.
Three American consuls and trade commissioners will meet exporters and importers in San Francisco this month to discuss new markets in the Far East. Cranville O. Wondard, returning from four years in the Orient, will share insights from Hongkong. Donald A. Smith, stationed in Singapore, will attend March 19 and 20 en route to his Oriental post. Consul William R. Langdon, returning to Darien, Manchuria, will also visit San Francisco this month.
In San Jose California veterinary Dr P H Browning reports a terrier that continues to eat automatically despite being unconscious after an automobile accident. The dog shows brain concussion symptoms yet regains strength through reflex feeding.
Edward W. Waggoner, plaintiff in a Seattle war risk insurance suit seeking $10,000 for permanent disability from army service, collapsed on the witness stand during the trial, stopping the proceedings.
In Seattle a man named Ray B. Lusk received a two year Federal prison term after being convicted of counterfeiting a single dollar. The case involved a gamble with a dollar turned into a larger crime.
Vandover British Columbia report says Arthur P. Dawe won 409,500 in the Doublin hospital sweepstakes last November. A tip abroad led to later notice that he was shorted and additional winnings bringing the purse to 217,500 were sent to him.
The rural columnist muses on missing pencils from The Star and links a lack of writing supplies to editorial and business choices. He surveys Ohio politics, noting Dayton’s National Cash Register impact, tariff backlash, and Ohio voters shifting toward Democrats. He argues prosperity will return slowly and tariff policy needs reversal despite time constraints.
Arkansas sets a 90 day residency rule starting June 12, aiming to rival Reno as a divorce capital. Hot Springs officials led by Mayor Leo P. McLaughlin say the spa town offers climate baths golf and nightlife to lure couples seeking separation. New law mirrors Nevada grounds for divorce and allows non residents to file after 60 days residence with decrees issued after 30 more days, making July 13 the first possible decree date.
The Democratic National Committee endorsed a private fundraising plan prepared by the John Price Jones Corporation of New York. It envisions a multi-million drive beginning in the fall, backed by a hired fundraising agency, with a payroll of tens of thousands of workers to solicit 750,000 prospects and about 150,000 major donors to finance the 1932 presidential campaign.
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