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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1932
Page
4
A 1929 Dalton Illinois weekly column blends light humor with social commentary. It notes rising costs to travel, political talk at ball games, dietary warnings, mind cleansing, young love shifting to ice cream, and a joking take on real estate, pedigreed dogs, backbones in Congress, and borrowing trouble in hard times.
Edwin Markham, famed poet, disclosed his poem The Man With the Silac earned about 250000 dollars and was translated into forty languages. He says its universal sympathy, not technical skill alone, explains its success, urging aspiring poets to seek such a gift.
A California congressman addresses the Daughters of the American Revolution about protecting the nation from hostile immigration. He condemns immigrants who exploit hospitality and push to overturn the systems that shelter them, arguing only economic justice and welfare can curb discontent and reduce threats from external influences.
Robert O. Lord, a Detroit banker, told a Jackson audience that America’s true wealth lies in ambition, enterprise, and determination, not stock prices. He urged organizing this drive to mobilize tools and facilities to produce and distribute goods, criticizing reliance on political orators and urging practical leadership.
A bill to assist closed banks and establish a guaranty fund raised by banks wins backing from the lower house banking committee. The public seeks a rock bottom foundation for banks after ruinous failures, but concerns arise that protected funding could enable risky lending to insiders, requiring stricter deposit regulation.
A congressional committee probes stock markets to measure how bear speculation and short selling affect prices. It notes the counterargument that short sellers must buy to cover and may offset initial sales. The piece suggests their value varies with market mood and optimism.
A Washington special report says the Ways and Means Committee backed a cent per shell federal tax on all shotgun ammunition except trapshooting. The plan would fund waterfowl restoration with 55 percent to states and 45 percent to the federal government for habitat and breeding area preservation.
A collage of humorous lines and exchanges. The jokes touch on theft alibis youth love religiosity and war work with callers at a hotel desk and a boy driving oxen providing a snapshot of light entertainment and social mores.
Mgr. Nicholas Murray Butler notes in Chicago that downturns resemble growing pains not life threatening. Hoover cites a 20 million population rise in twenty years with 4 million new homes and expanded infrastructure. Industrial leaders like Charles Abbott and Charles F. Kettering echo forward looking optimism. Have faith in America.
The famed warship Old Ironsides was designed by Joshua Tumphreys of Philadelphia. The keel was laid at Hartt's ship yard in Boston in 1794.
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