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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1932
Page
4
An editorial argues that 80 percent turnout among 37 million of 47 million registered U S voters in the recent election is a solid expression of public will. It cites sickness, travel, unemployment, poll taxes, rural dispersion, and time limits as reasons votes were not cast, asserting no apathy but practical constraints.
A GE Research Lab executive argues science and industry pushed economies toward luxury. He notes 80 percent once labored for necessities, now four of five produce luxuries, with 20 percent idling when a halt comes. The piece satirically calls for a radical to command a return to necessity production.
An eclectic newspaper item mixes a humorous storyette about interviewing a cab driver with various light verse snippets, jokes, and brief notes. It includes an oblique obituary and a string of quips about life, culture, and human folly, with references to a Boston graveyard inscription and a rabbit’s philosophy.
Today in history and birthdays feature Swift Clemens Mommsen Field and others. Notable events include peace talks in 1782 and Oscar Wilde’s death in 1900, with birthdays for Samuel Seabury Cyrus Field Mark Twain and Winston Churchill among others.
A city board of health discussed ordinance to require grocers to display goods at least 20 inches above the sidewalk. Elyrians gathered to discuss a temperance movement under the Jones law to dry residence and factory districts by petition. The city renewed its garbage collection campaign. Mayor Tucker vetoed an ordinance raising his salary to 2000 dollars and suggested changing other salaries. Ten years earlier Oberlin College announced a 100000 gift from Andrew H Noah to support men’s dormitories.
The Home Missionary Society plans an all day gathering at Rev. and Mrs. Wallace Bryenton’s home with a noon tureen dinner. The Ladies' Society will host East Russia Ladies' Society at the Community church the next day for an all day meeting with a noon covered dish dinner. Birthdays mark the week as Sumner Whitcomb turns eighty at a Thanksgiving style dinner and Blanche Green celebrates her fifteenth at her parents’ home with a roast chicken supper for relatives and friends.
Thanksgiving time brings visits across Elyria with Harry and Bertha Hayes and others calling on relatives in North Olmsted and Elyria. Residents resume school after a four day break while churches plan sewing sessions from Red Cross material and a play at East Russia Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Law hosted Thanksgiving visitors including Bert Schroeder of Canton and Reuben Law's family from Rocky River. Other callers were Ros. Law and family, plus Mr. Kennedy and relatives from Canton. Mrs. Alma Siggins and grandson Eddie Beriswill departed Wednesday for Chicago to visit her son and wife.
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