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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1931
Page
4
Fragmented OCR text appears to reference The Monroe News Star World and an address at 110 114 North Second Street. Readable bits provide no coherent event or action to summarize into a clear item.
A United Press survey notes growing discontent with government taxes across the nation with some reductions funded by deficits and loans. In Louisiana on the eve of a primary, voters face a volatile climate where property owners are urged to act against high assessments, while Milwaukee residents once protested taxes ending with a $4 million city surplus.
Kibukai led administration moves quickly to suspend the gold standard and bar gold exports, a policy backed by textile interests and inflationists but opposed by others who fear adverse consequences. Premier Inukai remains a long time political veteran guiding the minority Seiyukai in a volatile Diet. Kenkichi Yoshizawa as foreign minister supports settlement leaving Manchuria under Japanese control for now. The Seiyukai urges adherence to the League settlement and cautions against provocations.
The piece questions whether fear fosters morality and if religious institutions should emphasize love over fear. It traces fear’s use in torture and oppression, notes fear’s waning deterrent role, and argues historical cycles of fear fuel war and crime while citing the old remedy of perfect love banishing fear.
In this 1931 essay John Blake reflects on Bryant and nature, noting birds migrate under a guiding power beyond science. He compares starling invasions to instinctive right and wrong, arguing a Master Mind underlies both natural order and human ethics.
A Waldorf Astoria birthday tale recalls a late guest in Peacock Alley unsure of the time and date, hoping to meet a lady for dinner. The piece shifts to a catalog of humorous epigrams, roles, and social foibles, ending with a wry reflection on human quirks.
Roosevelt faces a potential Democratic nontobattle as Garner emerges in Texas and Baker campaigns in Ohio. House and regional backers threaten a contested convention with strong regional blocs, while New York Tammany and Byrd Virginia power shape delegate selections for a tense 1932 Democratic race.
Since 1912 research has advanced pneumonia care using horse derived immune serum. Type one sera are effective against group one germs, with newer sera for groups two and three. Early diagnosis and germ typing are crucial, as sera are type specific and must be given within the first hours.
Randell Darmenter of Rayville enlisted as a cook in the field artillery at Fort Bragg North Carolina. Walter E. Butler of Choudrant joined as a cornetist in the Eighth Infantry Band at Fort Moultrie South Carolina.
A 1931 commentary likens the political scene to a horse race, suggesting some may rush to or away from the Roosevelt movement, signaling lively public debate without specific endorsements or events.
A compact note on Hambowe's Meditations by J P Aley. The fragment hints at verse, rhythm, and dialect style with a focus on street slang or performance language. It captures a rough portrait of a literary piece and its cultural texture through terse lines.
Hollywood buzz centers on Frank Fay and Barbara Stanwyck as they back the film A Fool's Advice Fay wrote the script to fit his elevator boy role in a small town hotel The Stanwycks hope the project proves Fay a box office draw and placates critics of his marriage image.
Warner Brothers molded Fay as a flippant ladies man and romantic lead in early talkies. He portrayed varied roles from a sun tan Mexican lover to The Matrimonial Bed and Gods Gift to Women, none of which saved his contract. Barbara Stanwyck backs Fay with belief and investment despite mixed reception.
The November box office leaders include Possessed and The Sin of Madelon Claudel sharing top honors, with Touchdown Are These Our Children Five Star Final Ambassador Bill and Cuban Love Song also in the top seven. The list features themes from sex and mother love to football and tabloid melodrama, with four titles boasting name draws like Crawford Gable Robinson Rogers and Tibbett.
In late December 1916, alerts list Mrs. T. T. Webb visiting Ruston, Jonas Meyer returning from Winnfield, Phil Johnson of Minneapolis visiting Monroe, Dr. P. M. Gayle traveling to Waco, Huffman Lewis from Ruston attending Christmas dances in Monroe, H. McGinty from Wyatt on business in Monroe, William Carlton en route to New Orleans, Mrs. Robert Hanna visiting Pine Street in Shreveport, and the Potts hosting Mr. and Mrs. Everard and daughters from Chicago as guests.
The eight month old buck deer was donated to the municipal zoo by the Elliott Coleman family of Waterproof. Harry McLeod, the zoo superintendent, reported the gift. Coleman works for the conservation department.
Radio program listings from WEAF NBC WABC and partners show a full day of music, variety, and orchestral programs. Notable entries include Sanderson and Crumit, Voorhees Orch, Denny Orch, Bing Crosby, and Olsen Orch with multiple affiliate stations listed.
Peter Molyneaux’s appeal in the Texas Weekly argues restoration of a European cotton market is essential for Southern farmers. He traces the 1921–28 export gap, stock investment shifts, and 1930–31 declines, noting Europe financed much of the South’s economy and urging timely, policy-grounded action.
A collage of quotations from H. L. Mencken Warren M. Persons Edmun Lowe Hiram Johnson Bertrand Russell J Ramsay MacDonald Calvin Coolidge and Mahatma Gandhi reflects on conflict infidelity democracy beauty and the human search for belief and meaning in public life.
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