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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1929
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star is a daily paper published by The Evening Star Publishing Co. with Consolidation from Morning News Item and other weeklies. Subscriptions are listed for various advance periods and carrier delivery options. Associated Press is credited for news dispatches.
Fragmentary scripture-like text cites a saying about happiness and rank between servant and lord. It includes a garbled verse reference and unclear trailing phrases.
The Frederick county supervisors approved the first step toward a joint almshouse by a 12 to 3 vote. The plan promises economy by consolidating buildings, fences, managers, and staff, reducing daily costs from 79 cents to about 17 dollars per month per inmate, and cutting city expenditures from 25 dollars monthly per inmate. Page and Warren withdrew but may reconsider, while other counties applaud the move and expect favorable future plans.
The Bureau of Census report shows city youth commit more prison terms than rural youths, with areas 25 000 to 100 000 having the highest commitment ratio while 10 000 to 25 000 towns fare best. Education appears not to drive criminal avoidance. rural youths show lower arrest rates.
The report argues that prohibition laws push more people to jail yet census figures do not condemn education. It notes education may reduce crime but finds younger prisoners often show higher intelligence than older offenders, challenging simple links between schooling and criminality.
The New York World argues against Hoover backing a permanent economic council uniting government and business. It supports temporary emergency cooperation with business to curb market lows but warns lasting ties threaten government neutrality and risk paternalism and favored treatment.
President Hutchins of Chicago University says resources must be spent on first rate men for first rate work and that the university must compete with the business world to attract the best talent.
The District Nurse Association notes that 75 percent of proceeds from a sale were allocated to unspecified uses. The item reflects a financial receipt and distribution detail from the organization’s activities in December 1928.
An educator executive argues industry lures high achieving college staff with large salaries. Professors earning 3000 to 5000 dollars yearly are offered 10000 to 20000 by corporations. Colleges need higher pay to retain talent and support teaching's social impact. Business support for scholarship grows as leaders value practical benefits.
Nurses now make about 25 visits daily as Christmas seals are used locally. The old First Baptist Church, standing 43 years, is razed to extend the John Kerr School plant. Troop No. 3 Boy Scouts awarded 32 Tenderfoot pins at a recent meeting.
Oliver Irwin Snapp reports airplanes used successfully in dusting orchards in Georgia. Ban Johnson may block Judge Landis from an American League confidence vote. Virginia L. Davis resigns as deputy clerk of Frederick County Circuit Court after over three years. Lewis N. Barton to Worshipful Master at Shenandoah Valley Academy Masons. Walter Shade named Senior Warden. Agriculture notes less than half the corn crop had matured before the first frost in the corn belt.
The statement to the President argued for taxes on farmers using income derived from their land as the basis. The claim emphasized land-based earnings as the fair measure for taxation.
December 10 1914 reports Britain rejoicing over the naval victory as Scharn horst Gneisenau and Leipzig sinks are noted with pursual of others. Kaiser is said to be seriously ill while aid is urged for Belziang victims as winter nears. W B Keeler laid to rest after a Los Angeles gasoline engine explosion. Valley Pike Co sued for 10000 by Crawford widow, trial in Rockingham Circuit Court Harrisonburg. County apples fetch high prices in Liverpool markets.
Boston Transcript notes that last winter’s first class travelers may find chances to work their passages on the upcoming winter cruises, inviting prior travelers to seek opportunities aboard the new voyages.
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