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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1949
Page
4
Subscription rates listed for carriers and mail in Middletown area. Prices include 5¢ daily local, 25¢ weekly carrier, 35¢ weekly combined edition, and annual mail rates with regional and international options. Scriptural verse from II Samuel 19:1 noted.
The piece warns of machinism as a growing danger alongside statism, noting how machines threaten to outgrow humans. It cites electronic brains, brain implants, and wartime tech, and discusses Navy downsizing and unification politics, urging caution about humanitarian cures becoming human irrelevance.
A Russian educator analyzes American progressive education in the Journal of Soviet Pedagogy, accusing its theory of original sin and social contempt while noting U S critics fear indoctrination and patriotism. He observes Bolsheviks briefly experimented with such ideas before adopting Marxism, suggesting possible merit for a free country.
Dr George W Crane counsels a married man faced with divorce amid a wealthy father in law. He warns that cohabiting with the wife’s parents fostered jealousy and undermined the husband’s authority. The remedy is establishing a separate home and mutual appreciation to rebuild trust and communication.
Washington debate rages after Admiral Denfeld loses chief of naval operations post for his testimony to Congress. Leaders accuse actions of politicking while defense chiefs defend loyalty and predict a clash over unification and Navy autonomy.
The author reflects on Shirley Temple and John Agar, recalling a sunny San Francisco breakfast with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. He argues marriage is ongoing work requiring nurture, beauty, and equal effort from both spouses, comparing it to maintaining a home and both partners’ duties.
Grace Downs, who built a modeling empire since 1921, runs a school and agency in New York where dogs on a billboard threaten cover girls’ pay. She recalls early days, shifts from hats to fashions, and models now selling garments while traveling with reps. Downs notes pay growth, longevity in the field, and the challenge of aging into mentoring the next generation.
Genevieve Kemble notes sustained energy and initiative with originality and practical execution may lead to a surprising climax. Monday foresees an illuminate day for original ideas attracting high level cooperation, with long range benefits and adventurous, distant opportunities for a creatively talented child.
The piece jests about newfangled inventions potentially surpassing marriage and urges readers to make the best of current unions. It uses playful, observational tone to reflect social change while preserving traditional bonds.
A newspaper ad urges couples to join a church and have weekly dates to avoid divorce. It offers a publication titled Tests For Husbands and Wives and invites readers to mail a three cent stamp, a dime, and a self addressed envelope for a psychological chart by Dr Crane.
A fragment hints at election importance tied to voter registration and a stubborn adherence to law. The text mentions a stickler for rules causing friction and a remark about mothers and children not being told much.
Twenty years ago in Denver Ray Williams four slid down a bannister in a downtown office building and yelled alerting a frightened stenographer who summoned a police surgeon and riot squad. The splinter was removed by the surgeon and squad. City Manager Louis A Waldner pushed to fill a channel along the Miami Erie Canal to allow parking downtown. Phi Beta Psi sorority held a musical tea for mothers and friends at the Girls Club led by Mrs R M Pierson and Mrs Arch Gray. Eagles coach Dick Layer was injured at Middletown Hospital and Kenny Polly assumed coaching duties after Layer tore knee ligaments in a game at Sidney.
Dave Regan explains Tuesday’s election concerns and urges voter conscience. He outlines city commission terms and candidates, school levy and bond, charter revisions toward a city manager, and state issues including party designations removal and oleomargarine coloring.
George E. Sokolsky surveys three physician types in the debate over socialized medicine. He argues most American doctors oppose state control, fearing loss of clinical freedom and progress, while some seek government pay or socialist aims, and he notes political power rests with voters who back physicians who can deliver support.
A reader asks how Vincent van Gogh died, answered as a self-inflicted death in 1890. The Navy's Viking rocket is said to reach about 190 miles now, with an improved model planned to extend the range significantly.
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