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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1975
Page
4
A 1975 editorial reflects on Jesus commands from John 14 15 urging love through actions. It cites Cardinal Newman definition of a gentleman and contrasts Lord Chesterfield while noting the expense of education versus ignorance.
Biology professor Carroll M Williams proposes spraying mosquitoes with their juvenile hormone to halt growth and reproduction. The method traps the insects in youth and kills them before they can produce progeny, with no chance of resistance developing. Critics call it a dirty trick.
The memoir describes Real-Silk salesmen largely being young men and college students who roam towns in summer to sell silk stockings. Many failed to make money, enduring heat and constant doorbell pitches, with the author recounting his own stinging defeat after weeks of unproductive hard labor and dwindling ambition.
A reflective reminiscence reveals silk stockings era before nylons with ads and memory of a tiny cheap Peoria restaurant. The narrator recalls selling to a landlady who bought stockings from him and Norman, highlighting postwar nostalgia and personal anecdotes.
The piece lampoons a proposed National Neurotics Day inviting public confessions of everyday obsessions and rituals. It riffs on compulsions like rechecking stoves irons and checks for checks, noting how such behaviors reveal anxieties and fuel gossip. Joyce Carol Oates is quoted on the duty to be sane.
A reader asks the difference between psychiatrists and psychologists, Abby explains medical credentials and prescribing rights. Several readers share scenarios about a daughter-in-law, a wedding, and a contested family name. Abby advises that the father-in-law’s plan to name a new adopted boy Michael Joseph is an ego trip and offers a path to a personal reply.
The column notes a ten day break during which the author attended the American Soybean Association National Convention in Memphis as a voting delegate. It describes multiple farm crops affected by heat and drought, with oats yield near 100 bushels per acre on one field, soybeans and cotton prospects improving after rains, and plans to process rye grain seed for wholesale or retail.
A compact miscellany notes why Englanders call the telephone the blower while Americans say the horn. It includes a Michigan study on college dating, a crowbar hole in Oklahoma, liver temperatures, Britannia’s quiet decks, Lincoln’s eye view, a wiggle ear baldness quip, gate de foie gras fattening geese in Eastern Europe, and a mailing address for L M Boyd.
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