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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1933
Page
4
A reader asks why hard times exist and the editor replies that hard times come when people quit feeding the cow and wonder why she doesn’t produce more milk. The essay notes two views: blame the cow or blame us for not funding feed and veterinary care.
The Farm Board failed to stabilize prices for cotton and wheat. It expended about 366 million dollars buying surplus and pegging prices, admitting the approach tended to perpetuate deficits and hinder market adjustments. The board was created under congressional demand and performed useful work in other areas.
The Minnesota lower house votes for an income tax as a replacement to ease property taxes. Proponents say it broadens the base, shares public costs by those who earn but do not own property, and reduces tax inequities across states.
A historical sketch recalls Kansas figures like Jerry Simpson and Mary Ellen Lease who led populist revolt history. Carrie Nation’s temperance crusade drew national fame while temperance efforts clashed with saloon culture. The article reflects on Kansas’ colorful past and public discourse surrounding reform.
Clarence Logan cites a clipping arguing Kansas now shows less joke value in its dry law than once thought. The piece notes that many counties lack inmates in mental facilities, feeble minded residents, paupers, jail populations, and even state penitentiary representatives as a result of the bone dry policy.
Kent Ohio service clubs lodges and the Women's Club and city administration enter a second year of a gardening project. Ten acres were gardened last year with 34 plots to families and a community garden. The effort yielded 400 bushels potatoes 4000 heads of cabbage 250 bushels tomatoes and other vegetables. Total cost 460.14 funded 289 by interested organizations and the rest by the city. Benefits include helping the unemployed providing work and fostering goodwill.
A colorful column notes a fresh typewriter ribbon brightening Mil lie’s yellow paper and jokes about morale in writing. Hensdorf drops by with a quip about a Democratic campaign song while a new type pounding mallet promises crisper printing in the composing room.
In Mt. Pleasant after a basketball game, Curt Wells of Washington faced a diminutive marblist from Sleepy City who challenged any in the squad. Wells accepted and won, returning the marbles to the opponent with sportsmanlike dignity.
The Rotarian magazine argues that the United States still holds all natural resources and fixed capital it had four years earlier, with capable workers ready to contribute, asserting no decline in prosperity tied to human nature or assets.
A man enters a garage and asks the price of an old auto. The dealer offers, the buyer stammers, and the dealer agrees to forty dollars while the buyer attempts to offer fifty. The exchange ends with a quick sale.
The notice invites poems for a Spring Poems contest offering a prize of a box of station ery for first place and a fifty cent piece for second. Submissions close April 1.
A reflective column notes better business activity and banking readiness after hardship. It salutes everyday heroes such as the unemployed worker supporting family, a steadfast merchant, a careful dairyman and responsible banker, and urges faith in a dawning recovery atmosphere.
A playful verse notes wintry days fading into rain and wet streets. It observes laughing poets and restless hens, prancing horses, weary students, and fancies that flicker with spring. The speaker declares, methinks, surely spring, whimsically ending with Gedunk.
A reader frets about mixing wet and dry ballots on one sheet, warning it could spark conflict. A playful exchange about a three letter ewe joke triggers a light domestic war, as the editor rejects the joke while noting the tension in the room.
Des Moines March 28 1932 Iowa state health data show 25 388 deaths in 1932 with a general rate of 10.2 per 1 000. Violent deaths reached 1 540 from accidents 400 auto crashes 74 rail or car collisions 47, and 63 firearm incidents. Exposure to cold and heat caused several fatalities and many accidental drownings occurred in unsupervised areas.
Hubert Morgan and Letha Schmitter visited Oska loosa on Saturday. Several local families, including the Booths of Washington, called on Mrs. C. E. Morgan who has been ill. Eugene Morgan hosted guests at the Morgan home as Donald Hanan visited Des Moines Ames and Fairfield. Margaret Morgan returned from Richland for the weekend and Doyle Sehmitter went back to Ames after spring break.
Two boys trapped an entomologist with a prank by glueing parts of a butterfly beetle centipede and grasshopper into a strange creature. The scientist asked if it hummed when caught and joked that it looked like a humbug.
The Ro tary club held Ladies Night with a full attendance and a program including group singing led by Carl Hedges. Ralph Shannon spoke about the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago from June to November 1933. A Fort nightly drama group staged a one act comedy directed by Elsie Glassburner, with a notable cast including Mary Welch and Alice Van Vliet.
Eight stars lead the Fox film State Fair at the State theater. Janet Gaynor Lew Ayres Sally Eilers Norman Foster Louise Dresser Frank Craven and Victor Jory play defining roles in a romance between a farm girl and a newspaper reporter and in an intense second affair. Rogers delivers a major comedy as a midwestern farmer chasing a grand prize. The story unfolds on Rovers farm and at a large state fair.
Prairie Flower notes guests at the Rathmel home including George Hooker from Kremlin Oklahoma and Carl ton Rathmel. The two men, friends of a nephew, have a long history from boyhood and school years. George Hooker is a skilled musician who taught music in an Oklahoma college and is now studying.
An array of social visits is reported including a guest from Carengo school of music and a piano performance for friends. Mr and Mrs Glen Fuhr and family spent Sunday with relatives in Washington while tracing health updates. The Tracey family visited Roy Finke's home. Roy and wife conducted Washington business on Saturday. An election of S B officers was postponed due to bad road conditions.
Walter Longer and family visited Ed Lukovsky last Monday. Mary Longer returned home after visiting there. W Longer received Wet Washington callers Friday. Ernest Gideon called at W Longer’s on Wednesday. Emil Fink was a Washington caller Thursday. Griffith brothers shipped a carload of cattle and a hog. Elmer Kolosicks were Sunday callers at Bill Chemlars.
A brief thank you note from the Stevenson children expresses sincere appreciation for kindness and sympathy shown during their mother Mrs W T Stevenson’s illness and death.
We thank friends neighbors for kindness sympathy and beautiful flowers sent at the death of our mother and grandmother. Mr and Mrs W H L Spera and family Mr and Mrs W Ly Bible Mr and Mrs J A Weaver and Mr and Mrs J Spera and family
A London humorist notes troubles rarely come alone and mocks the notion of a single misfortune. The correspondent muses on compounded woes and satirizes the idea of facing only one problem at a time.
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