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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1940
Page
4
An editorial urges a middle path between fear and overconfidence in facing tuberculosis. It notes 530000 Americans affected and 70000 deaths last year and stresses self awareness, timely chest X rays, and regular doctor exams. Families should tuberculin test children, while communities should hospitalize spreaders to protect others.
The Lake County Tuberculosis and Health Association urges community cooperation in an Early Diagnosis Campaign. It highlights that early diagnosis and treatment offer a hopeful path to complete recovery, and free pamphlets are available to inform residents that tuberculosis can affect anyone but need not.
In a reverent tribute, Lincoln, Michigan reader R. E. Prescott extols the humble weekly paper. It favors everyday rural life over sensationalism, sharing crop reports, market prices, social happenings, and neighborly acts that bind small communities.
Health groups push milk use despite uneven living standards. Milk marketing cooperatives promote a clean high quality product and farmers improve production and handling. More cow juice would mean better health for ninety nine people out of a hundred.
The passage argues that banks now eagerly issue sound loans and actively solicit borrowers. It notes banks advertise leaflets and literature to attract legitimate borrowers and emphasizes that figures support this shift toward productive use of funds.
A survey of 6,000 banks reports near 6,000 new loans totaling over 10 billion dollars in six months. They renewed about 5.5 million old loans totaling 7.7 billion and issued 127 thousand mortgage loans totaling 412 million. Banks remain eager to lend to sound borrowers under applicable laws.
A letter dated April 5 1940 from Henry P Victor in Arkon Ohio to Mount Dora discusses a harsh winter with extensive snow and repeated cold weather. He notes plans to return next winter and mentions prior experiences with dirt sheds and discomfort, signing with cordial regards.
J R Lyles urges strengthened individual patriotism as the key to national defense. He warns that free speech and a free press invite subversive foreign influence and stresses knowledge of the Constitution, rights, and history to counter internal threats. He cites Washington and Lincoln as models and calls for daily patriotic acts.
In New York a fiftieth anniversary dinner for the Y M C A World Service program highlights half a century of global activity. North American secretaries helped develop movements in 32 countries as more than 800 native secretaries and 10 000 past secretaries served, with 500 000 native business leaders involved and ten million boys enrolled. The speeches emphasize world reconstruction through Y M C A ideals and continued international work amid wartime.
Asher Frank of the Florida Safety Council notes national traffic deaths rose about 3 percent since 1939, while Florida’s totals remain steady. He cites March fatalities totaling 54 in 1939 and 54 again this March, a respectable national trend but a disappointing Florida record.
The First Baptist Church at Sixth and Tremain with Pastor R. W. Acree holds 11:00 a.m. morning worship and 7:30 p.m. evening worship. The Osm School is led by C. M. Hall as superintendent, and the B. T. U. at 5:30 p.m. is in charge by Margaret Bruner.
Westbrook Reed presides as pastor Florence Gilbert Hanscom directs music for an 11:00 a.m. worship service inviting all not attending elsewhere to attend.
Services next Sunday at 11 a m with Holy Communion on the first Sunday and prayer and sermon on other Sundays. A cordial welcome to all. D T Johnson Rector.
At 11:00 a.m. there is preaching and communion and at 7:30 p.m. evening services. Thursday features a 7:30 p.m. prayer meeting. You are cordially invited to attend each service.
The Church of God Pentecostal on Liberty Street invites worshipers with Sunday services at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday School begins at 10 a.m. A prayer meeting is held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Join for worship and fellowship.
The First Church of Christ Scientist in Eustis Florida lists a Sunday School at 9 00 A M and a Sunday service at 11 A M with the sermon Are Sin Death and Disease Real Wednesday evening meetings at 8 P M feature testimonies experiences and remarks A free reading room at the Fountain Inn Building 117 Eustis Street is open daily except Sundays and holidays from 2 5 P M for Bible Christian Science literature reading borrowing or purchase.
A compact reflection on the effort required to support a household. The piece notes the need for discipline, resilience, and steady income to manage daily needs. It emphasizes personal resolve as key to maintaining financial stability while nurturing a family.
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