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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1942
Page
2
A collection of humorous anecdotes about public figures and notables. The items recount Roosevelts jury trick, H L Mencken name origins, Alfred Lunt misfortune, Beethoven Paderewski museum tale, Henry Clay quip, Voltaire and Voltaire joke, Marshal Foch in America, Oliver Wendell Holmes medicine sign, Calvin Coolidge brevity, Albert Einstein boredom reply, Marie Dressler life last months, Louis B. Mayer privacy habits.
The price administrator warned Congress that maintaining current earnings could fuel an inflationary spiral. He forecast 117 billion national income with 86 billion spendable, but only 69 billion consumer goods, a 17 billion excess needing control. He urged stringent controls, warned of rationing side effects, and noted rising purchasing power.
Rural women modernize farming and aid wartime needs by growing food, operating tractors, canning, and educating neighbors. Programs in Maryland Connecticut Iowa Mississippi Utah and Virginia emphasize gardens land armies and shared labor to boost outputs for soldiers and rationed households.
Across several states women organize school canning days and surplus food drives. They transform abandoned buildings into lunch facilities for 150 children, run demonstration gardens, and document costs and yields for family use. They push for more nutrition training and nurse-led clinics while expanding measles and mumps responses and a 20 to 30 hour Red Cross home nursing course in Brazos County Texas. Feed bag reuse yields emergency stretchers with 325 bags collected countywide.
The piece shows a World War I era address stressing battle and home fronts. It argues for shared sacrifice by farmers, factory workers, and soldiers to support war production and defeat the enemy. It condemns favoritism and promotes proportional sacrifice and wartime wage restraint.
After a nation wide survey of wartime needs Penn State offers nearly 100 courses for women. Electives include journalism commerce languages shorthand typing horticulture poultry husbandry and more to prepare co eds for roles such as abstractors clerks translators typists stenographers and technicians in research labs canneries and farms.
A fragmented dialogue shows an eerie exchange about a repeated song. The speaker laments a haunting melody while another accuses it of being murdered by repetition.
Mrs Bjones laments her maid Clarice who answers the phone poorly as the ringing tolls. Clarice mutters that she is busy and the mistress notes most calls are for her, highlighting household tension over a simple duty.
A court scene unfolds over a marriage doubt with a wife confronting a man who claims to be her husband not the man she believed. A relief voice over the phone adds confusion as the questioned identity comes into play.
The note compares Jean Jones and Some Jinx, arguing brunette looks may not affect dispositions. Both are described as having varied traits, with the speaker noting no clear difference between them.
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