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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1938
Page
4
America’s motor tourist industry now amounts to over 4 billion dollars as travelers spend on clothes, food, lodging and recreation. The shift from European travel to domestic trips since 1931 has sustained many small operators, including roadside stands and homestay proprietors, amid economic gloom.
The passage notes how transforming river or lake frontage into tourist camps and starting small eateries or filling stations on a shoestring helped cushion the Depression. It argues that many families launched small businesses, using vacation spending to sustain livelihoods, and frames summer trips as aiding big industry and individual enterprise.
The Lorain Ohio area launches a coming of age party for 900 new voters this year, the first in a trend that other towns are adopting. The piece speculates whether these rites will include guidance on voting rights and the political process alongside celebration and pledges to participate in elections.
The Mason City Globe Gazette criticizes repeated pump priming with large-scale spending and new deals saying previous attempts failed to stay primed and warn of a looming repeat of the same approach. It emphasizes concern over injecting nearly 40 billion dollars into circulation over five years without lasting impact.
A dog stole a roasted eight pound ham from Charter Oak alove exhibition before Jacob Fisch's store. An attempted jewelry store break in at East Second Street left nothing missing at Cornelius Cecile. C. P. Hanley led Mississippi Valley Power Boat assn as motorboat men formed America’s first hydroplane circuit in Michigan City Indiana. Ten years ago drivers were urged to spec auto use as part of a Save-a-Use statewide campaign.
A fragment from Aunt Het by Robert Quillen references Bill as rich yet cautions that a rich man would not incur debt for something he does not need. The excerpt hints at humorous or folksy commentary typical of Quillen's column style.
Washington dispatch reports James Roosevelt urges his father President Franklin D. Roosevelt to stay out of primary fights. The piece discusses indecisive endorsements in Iowa and Pennsylvania, Henry Wallace's 1940 prospects, and politics inside the New York and national scenes.
Economists warn a new governmental move could spark inflation and devalue the dollar further. John T Flynn outlines possible forms including government credit, new currency, or direct devaluation, citing 1934 policy shifts and the risk of circulating more dollars to spend gold profits. He suggests agrarian demand may press for action to expand money supply and ease farm distress.
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