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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1931
Page
2
A city report highlights a poverty stricken area housing 90 thousand people, 10 percent of the population, occupying 6 percent of the city. It emits 35 percent of murders, 49 percent of prostitution, 24 percent of charity cases, and 16 percent of infant deaths, shaping higher taxes, crime, graft, and broader urban illness.
President Joseph Gee of the National Recreation Association notes a coming era of universal leisure as the White House hosts the board. He argues leisure for all could reshape society, despite 6 million unemployed, predicting a future with more theaters, parks, beaches and sustained growth in consumption.
In a study for America's urbanization Professor W Tssell Tylor argues city growth hinges on surplus rural population. With farm births falling or emigration rising, cities may cease expanding, reshaping land use wages housing politics and the urban era awaiting a new historical chapter.
An essay argues that breaking into funeral processions remains common in Ruston and Manston, prompting calls to heed the unwritten rule as courtesy. It notes processions gain right of way and lights are suspended, warning that ignorance may lead to formal penalties unless citizens observe this courtesy as a de facto law.
The piece reflects on a Louisiana press association meeting in financial terms, noting a controversial idea to sell Louisiana to its own people and the newspapers duty to serve the public. It argues for a progressive pressrole, community unity, and the responsibility to promote prosperity through advertising and responsible reporting.
Federal Public Health Service announces plans to breed specific mosquitoes to carry malaria parasites for treating paresis. The method, inspired by von Jauregg and praised by Dr. Logan Clendzing, aims to inoculate patients with tertian malaria and then cure with quinine, improving 50 to 60 percent of cases while acknowledging brain cell loss. The government will select, breed, and distribute infected mosquitoes to doctors, turning insects into medical test tubes in a war against a scourge.
The Ozark News-Leader argues daylight saving time shows city folks are less disciplined than rural farmers. It claims farmers wake with sunrise and rural life revolves around natural cues, while city dwellers struggle adjusting to the hour shift and now rise at what is effectively five o'clock standard time.
The Kansas City Star argues that with a looming treasury deficit, the administration must trim expenditures to align with income. It notes government costs tend to rise despite efforts to economize, urges public sympathy for spending cuts, and emphasizes sound private-sector budgeting as a model for national policy.
A jumble of wry observations and jokes about Shaw Hollywood birth tests barbers prohibition politics and fashion. It riffs on public figures professors students actresses and common habits with playful wordplay and clipped punchlines, offering a snapshot of humorous social commentary.
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