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Newspaper
Nazareth Item
Location
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1938
Page
3
A Senate committee reports a major corporation pressed newspapers to adopt favorable editorial stances. It argues editors decide, with press freedom guarding against outside manipulation. It cites a New York Senator who killed himself amid charges of taking money for influence and notes widespread public apathy between elections.
The article notes the U.S. government filed a suit under anti monopoly laws against major film companies to break up practices limiting what local exhibitors can show. It argues government should prevent private consolidations from restricting audience access to pictures, beyond concerns about profits.
President Roosevelt labels the South a major economic problem while new industries emerge from local raw materials. Pine wood paper, using Herty methods, runs in Southern mills with a Texas newsprint mill under construction. Cotton as a subsurface road layer shows potential for market expansion and industrial uses, alongside ongoing cotton research labs.
A discussion on how misplaced ambitions lead youths to unsuitable careers. Tests show girls more realistic about aptitudes, while many boys chase law or medicine without talent, and college completion rates drop. Personal anecdotes illustrate matching tools like hands on skill with hats and furniture repair.
The passage stresses personal traits like courtesy, neatness, memory, and curiosity as keys to success for youth. It also highlights music as a major modern cultural contribution by the Negro race, noting that many contemporary tunes were composed by Black musicians.
The contest for the World Fair theme song featured all American musicians with records judged anonymously by a panel of composers and critics. William Grant Still, a Black composer, won with a six minute tone poem to be played over 50,000 times at the fair.
No Sunday School services at Emmanue's Church due to Rev H C Clauss vacation. Sunday evening at 7 PM the Young People plan a program for the public. Roy Hoch and family left for Ohio to visit relatives after church services. Various locals visited relatives and attended a Bushkill Center choir picnic.
Mr and Mrs William Rea and Mr and Mrs J Edwin Ho spent the weekend at their cabin. Benjamin Ki is building a new pigpen. Clarence Fimminour of tehem has the contract. George Kostenbader threshed for some of our farmers last week.
The Enoch Brown Memorial Association marks the 174th anniversary recalling the 1764 massacre near Greencastle Franklin county. Schoolmaster Enoch Brown and 11 pupils were slain by Indians during the Pontiac War, honored by a monument near State Route 16 and U S 9. Parkman described the killings.
The diary recounts a 1764 schoolhouse raid by marauding Indians during a lesson by Brown. Archie McCullough, the youngest pupil, survived though the attack killed other children. rescuers found him still breathing.
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