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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1938
Page
4
Voters list supports several local initiatives including Adequate Sanitary, Secret Music Building, Northeast Center, Reserve Fishing Streams, Municipal Civic Center, and a City Beautification Program. The slate emphasizes infrastructure, public facilities, and environmental improvements.
Washington commentary notes parallels between Iowa and Kentucky primaries and the role of state machines. It discusses Senator Barkley and Governor Chandler, administration backing, WPA influence, and the impact of White House endorsements on the Kentucky race, with attention to pay levels for WPA workers.
Washington reports the social security board aims to cover about 16 million additional workers beyond the 39 million current beneficiaries. A proposed stamps-and-cards system would fund farm and domestic labor, with employer and worker contributions. The advisory council, praised as the perfect panel by Senator Vandenberg, expected to press for inclusion in December.
A reflection on Father’s Day praising the father figure as a vital, honorable institution. It notes that while jokes portray fathers as pocketbooks, real fathers influence sons and civilization. The piece wishes dads in the Twin Cities and Ouachita Parish many happy returns of their day.
A Saragossa dispatch tells of insurgents killing a loyalist gun crew then sparing a dog that protected the gun. An officer forbids shooting the dog, the animal is wounded and adopted by the men, prompting accusations of propaganda and moral outrage.
A Whitewater Kane high school senior visiting New York notes locals eat with faces down while easterners dine with neighbors nearby. He warns that rising tension and relentless pace leave little time to enjoy surroundings or socialize, implying life here moves at high gear compared with Latin and English peoples who travel more slowly through years.
Bruce Catton argues Britain now favors settling the loan to the United States. He notes the Baldwin plan of 1923 and calls for a lump sum compromise, suggesting a half billion dollars might end the issue but warns future wars could still taint the value of such a settlement.
The reviewer assesses Charles M. Andrews third volume covering New Netherland the Jerseys the Carolinas and Pennsylvania. It completes a sweeping panorama of early American beginnings, detailing manuscript sources and world influences with dramatic, exhaustive analysis and promises a final volume next fall.
A compact reflection by John Barbirolli, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, noting that both conductors and newspapermen appear to loaf while actually laboring hard. The remark underscores unseen effort behind public personas.
Thirty night at Chilham castle Sir Edmund and Lady Davis report a staged art theft. Thieves took five frames including Rembrandt Saskia at Her Toilet and two Gainsboroughs Reynolds and a Van Dyck while a gold idol was left behind. Scotland Yard handles a historic case with Mona Lisa theft parallels. Leonardo da Vinci’s La Jaconde tale links to long debate over originality and genius.
The article examines Washington's schooling in colonial America noting limited colonial education and his early focus on mathematics and surveying. It highlights that most learning came before age 16 and credits surveying with boosting his reputation among Virginia leaders and underpinning his path to leadership.
A review of child welfare advances in the United States highlights reduced infant mortality from 288 to about 70 per 1000 live births since 1880. Efforts credit pure milk and water, nurse home visits, infant consultation centers, education, nutrition, and the 1912 Children's Bureau. Programs include school lunches, open-air schools, preventoriums, sanatoriums, and special classes for disabilities, aiming to prevent defects early.
A 1938 NEA Service manners quiz asks how to handle car trips and social visits, including scenarios about stopping for friends, littering at picnics, disposal of cigarette stubs, public name carving, shorts in cities, and vacation hosting conflicts. Also noted is a climatic solar calendar from ancient China used by Yellow River farmers, describing the river’s length and basin area with a population figure.
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