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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1938
Page
2
The Daily News Frederick Md publishes local and AP news dispatches with rights to editorial content. The paper notes publication rules and authorial consent for opinions and reprints, with postal filing details for second class matter.
Samuel Goldwyn returns from Europe with blunt views on the film industry. He blasts overpaid writers actors and directors while praising cheaper British and French productions. He warns that Hollywood overestimates costs and favors colossal names and casts at the expense of quality and value.
Sixteen leading business men presented to President Roosevelt a statement pledging aid to revive business. They oppose untried theories and urge avoiding drastic new legislation. The president appeared to approve, noting the U.S. as an experimental lab for economic ideas. Some plans may be permanent while others fail. Many argue thrift and hard work must guide policy, not demands for easy gains.
A devotional urging believers not to despair as society faces turmoil. It asserts Christian faith cannot save the world yet guides individuals to trust God above troubles and evil. The sermon uses imagery of rising above clouds into sunshine, proclaiming God’s love endures.
In a letter to the editor Frederick May 5 notes traffic lights and stop signals on East Street are often ignored. He cites recent top light installation after efforts by Mr Maxwell and the Mayes and Board and argues a twenty four hour enforcement with a minimum fine would repay the cost and show the light serves a purpose.
Engineer Earl P Hanson left 1931 for an 18 month trek across the Orinoco and Amazon basins under the Carnegie Institution. He found jungle mood, primitive natives liking Beethoven, and civilization farther into the continent then than now. His book Journey to Manaos recounts dangers overblown, depopulation effects, and imperialist tides, with wit and intelligence. Brewery property sold: Hagerstown Brewing Company on West Franklin street brought $17,000 at auction.
Local items from The News May 5 1888 note: city Thompson Huston electric light plant purchase approved and likely signed next week. Amos Remsberg 3 year old burned by boiling water treated by Dr Johns. William Hardt to replace teacher Louis Markell in Reformed Sunday School class. Josiah Gross buys 112 acre farm of John W Castle in Jefferson district for 8000 dollars.
In the May 5 1918 issue twenty years after the war began, Frederick City Hospital graduate nurses collected six hundred dollars in Liberty Bond subscriptions. The Red Cross Surgical Dressings dept sent sixteen boxes to Washington containing 5425 cotton pads and 4630 muslin shot bags. Alban M Wood named Frederick magistrate by Governor Harrington to succeed H Hanson Maulsby. Minority Frederick County School Board members named: William P Morsell and A W Nicodemus Jr.
Roger W Babson notes the 1938 farm outlook remains uncertain as prices fall and costs drop little. He highlights a looming record winter wheat crop plus large cotton carryovers, calls for better farming methods, diversification, and world trade revival, and warns against big one crop farms.
Under the Men's Class of Centennial Memorial United Brethren church 213 men attended the annual fellowship gathering of Frederick and Washington counties. Chester G. Baker presided. Glenn H. McGregor spoke on the church’s role in modern life. Delegates from Waynesboro and southern Pennsylvania joined, with remarks from Hubert H. Schindel and Rev. C. M. Sparrow. Refreshments followed.
The Cooperative Concert Association reports 100 new memberships after two campaign days at the YMCA headquarters. With over 350 renewals and several brought in by workers, about 75 seats remain for new enrollments. New members listed include Elizabeth Bower, John Baer, Claude Corl, Mrs. Frank A Castle, Ruth Dutrow, Daisy Carper, Catherine Eicheberger, and many others.
Daily lesson presents misused words and pronunciations. It defines pernicious as highly injurious or destructive in character with an example from Addison. The note urges expanding vocabulary by mastering one word daily.
The reader notes May has returned with sunshine and plenty of heat. Weeds grow vigorously while bushes need trimming and flowers bloom. Green growth brightens the scene as the author praises May’s beauty and splendor in a concise, period voice.
Authorities note rising education among young women and emphasize health needs to match the speed of modern life. They warn of fatigue, emotional intensity, and poor posture, urging health education integrated with schooling and access to faculty guidance and personality counseling.
Today's feature lists multiple historical anniversaries, births, and events. It notes figures such as Frederick Barnard, George Mowbray, Rodman Price, Hubert Bancroft, Thomas Shaw, Joseph Ward, Elizabeth Seaman, and John T Scopes among others, with dates and brief identifiers including their roles and places. It also marks notable events like the American Seamen's Friend Society founding in 1828 and the Scopes trial in 1925, followed by a 1932 presidential critique and a 1935 chain-letter craze. The birthday lineups include Freeman Gosden, John M Johnson, Joseph Tumulty, Christopher Morley, Samuel McCrory, Kenneth Burke, and Otto Klemperer with ages. The horoscope predicts a just and cautious nature in relationships and strong expression ability.
A compact reflection invokes Matthew 28:18 on divine authority. It contrasts the real pains of power with the pleasures imagined by Colton, framing a moral inquiry into strength and virtue.
A corny etiquette Q and A column asks where to remove plates and serve, noting left side left hand for plate removal, use a four inch glass nappy for semi solid dessert, place dessert plates front left of the hostess, and begin removing plates from the hostess’s left, then proceed around to her right as the hostess pours coffee. It ends with Best What Would You Do solutions from Corby.
Calvary Methodist Sunday School class held its monthly meeting May 3 at the home of Mrs Raymond Ford. President Mrs Frank Rothenhoegier presided with Mrs Usher Hall conducting devotions. Eighteen members and one guest attended. The annual banquet is set for May 24 at Hotel Frederick at 630 PM with refreshments served by the hostess.
New York scene described in a feature about a banker’s office daydream. A young broker seeks meaning, encounters a junior executive and a crossword, then watches urban life unfold from Lexington Avenue to a barbershop. The vignette ends with Vincent Lopez returning from touring.
A puzzle item listing five sentences with one incorrect word in each. Readers must identify the erroneous word in each sentence to solve the trivia.
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