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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1939
Page
4
A survey of recent college commencement speeches shows a shift from long-winded orations to direct confrontations with real life. Some speakers still stress traditional virtues, but many favor blunt, policy oriented lines about personal initiative and democracy under pressure.
Speech cited by business government and church leaders warned that neglecting democratic systems weakens high living standards. It argued efficient production of needed goods funds freedom while lack of coordinated thinking risks fascism and revolution. Times change, indeed.
In Chicago the judge presiding over 40 juvenile cases called in the fathers and urged them to share responsibility for their sons. Judge Frank Bicek warned parental neglect fuels delinquency and stressed fathers must know their boys, support them, and guide with love and understanding.
Republicans in Iowa react with disbelief as the former governor claims to speak for the people following his decisive election defeat. The Lake Mills Graphic notes the reaction reflects distrust and political tension in the state.
A humorous note from the Clinton Herald states that while people may dress to appear young they reveal their age when they feel a draft, underscoring a common observation about aging.
Entries recall trades and transfers on Walnut street and river road properties involving Charles Fath Frank Hautsch and a 40 acre farm near the Horr property. A separate note mentions P P Crafts leaving Davenport to manage Mobile Light and Railroad, and Flo Hall receiving a $175000 legacy. Ten years ago bass escaped the Fairport station during a pond breach and the C D M Railway gained bus operation approval on the river road.
A fierce underground struggle for control of the Democratic Party’s political machinery has begun in Washington. Anti new dealers in Congress aim to strip the White House of economic and political power ahead of 1940. Hatch bill curbing fed employee activity looms large, while WPA reorganization and TVA expansion limits target administration influence.
A columnist ridicules Attorney General Frank Murphy for opposing a larger public payroll while praising President Roosevelt's spending. He critiques big government, then digresses to praise hollyhocks as resilient and self-sufficient plants growing amid urban debris. The piece ends by contrasting Hopkins with farming ideals.
Puzzle clues referencing historical figures and terms including Visible Speech and related inventions are listed in a vertical and horizontal grid style. The fill features variants on language, communication, and education with mentions of early methods and terms.
Chinese treat American fountain pens as marks of intelligence and wealth and began clipping them to uniforms of Sino-Japanese war heroes upon receiving citations. For months American pen makers could not explain the sudden rise in demand.
A. A. Harris, a Culver City humane officer with ten years on the force, trains and adopts dogs with his wife to become show animals. His charges have won hundreds of ribbons. Tomorrow features the bloodhound fish.
A brief note recalls Pa's final illness and a week of living righteously after giving up his evil ways. The remark cites Uncle Ben's repentance during his last days and a fevered decline.
A collection of brief quotes discusses rural and urban labor, mass purchasing power, and liberty versus state control. Figures include Murtray D. Lincoln of Ohio Farm leadership and Attorney General Frank Murphy.
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