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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1938
Page
4
Town voters face the duty of participating in the state primary elections under the direct primary law. Voters must inform themselves about candidates as party nominees for state, district, and local offices, since accidents and unfitted candidates can reach party tickets, especially for state offices. The piece notes voters in distant areas may lack full information on qualifications and merits.
The piece argues citizens should vote in party primaries to select capable officials for national state and local offices. It notes many offices arise from primary outcomes and stresses the duty to participate, highlighting Iowa voters facing national attention as they decide Monday. It contrasts American ballots with foreign voting practices and urges exercising the ballot to preserve the system.
In London and Prague society circles adopt gas masks as fashion and social commentary. Salons feature smell like gas events, raid behavior classes, and decorative masking while Prague shops sell gas mask accessories with playful selling displays. The piece satirically links fashion to the costs of war.
The excerpt presents a humorously chastened narrator noting Bob’s paradox of poverty yet owning a car. He jokes that Bob cannot bear to give up his “pretty wife” despite financial strain, highlighting a comical domestic dynamic from Claud Calan's piece.
A special school election approved a $6,300 bond issue for Ezat and South Muscatine schools and the high school. In other notes, 25 years ago today a sewer plat was approved and a new city hall was discussed. Thirty-two Muscatine High School graduates joined the alumni association at a reception. The Wildcat Den state park road was completed.
Washington report details a cross‑section of business leaders labor heads and brain trusters urging Roosevelt to convene a high level conference to craft national recovery plans. They warn one man cannot solve the crisis and note slow economy with rising unemployment and tight credit.
Pulitzer Prize poet Audrey War Demann describes childhood education in her father's library, noting how growing taller aligned with reading on higher shelves and expanding her literary world.
The piece profiles Gerhard Gesell and Bill Douglas as newer professors shaping Roosevelt's policy era, noting their roles in the Whitney investigation and Wall Street handling. It discusses the Roy Roosevelt brain trust, later retirement of reforms, and payroll needs for academics in government. It also surveys Colorado political shifts and Harry Hopkins’s reception, plus New York’s Hopkins gubernatorial prospects amid Roosevelt connections.
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