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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1937
Page
4
The Winchester Evening Star lists subscription rates advertising details and memorial charges with notes on display and classified advertising deadlines. The issue is dated Saturday January 23 1937 and notes Associated Press ownership and regional offices.
A brief religious reflection on first John four seven urging mutual love among readers. The passage highlights love as proof of being born of God and knowing God. No individuals or places are referenced.
A reader discusses a reported idea that Germany might lease Portuguese Angola for ninety nine years, seeing it as a potential humane alternative to war. The piece notes Angola's size resources and population, and contemplates its political implications if Hitler pursues such a lease.
Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch reports on the clash between President and Senator Byrd over government reorganization. Byrd and the Brookings Institution push for broad savings and elimination of duplications, while the President emphasizes efficiency with lower expected annual savings.
The text argues there is no insuperable reason to block a merger of the President’s program with the Byrd plan to achieve government economy. It criticizes plans to set aside the President’s recommendations from the Byrd committee, suggesting such a stashing would be a pity.
A Southern woman writing as Southern Woman to the Washington Post denounces Gone With the Wind as defaming Southern women and urges condemning the book. She calls it vulgar, praises Southern virtue, and suggests burning editions though notes few own copies.
Andrew Carnegie was asked which factor drives industry most, labor capital or brains. He answered by comparing them to the legs of a three legged stool and said all are essential.
Mrs. Thos. S. Cooper of Mt. Williams Virginia writes to The Star urging Frederick County School Board and patrons to address improper piano practices at Mountain View Consolidated School. She claims a cold piano room, an unqualified patron teaching piano, and teachers taking lessons during duty, violating contracts and harming pupils and funds.
A compilation of Q and A from The Evening Star with reader queries on pronunciation of Sonja Henie, first world figure skating title in 1927, number of stars who started as extras, LZ 130 and Hindenburg costs, cedar panel room in Louisville, governor Landon moves, tunnels used by US railroads, Dr Dafoe’s age, Australia’s strange flora, the song The Sweetest Story Ever Told, Theodore Roosevelt’s big stick phrase, Annie Rubber living status, friendship among Jefferson Madison and Monroe, and insect proof book binding materials Keratos.
Jack Reid escapes a locked room and flees through storm driven grounds of Sir Henry Severinge's abbey pursued by bloodhounds. He reaches Sylvia Lawrence's signal but is mauled by a hound and saved by gunfire as the scene ends with Reid collapsing amid the dying beasts.
A Will Rogers humorous travel tale describes an Englishman noting Scottish influence in government. The joke frames how Scots are prominent in London born to access country leadership and save railroad fare. It ends with a positive view of Scottish suitability for governance.
R Gray Williams announces J Sloan Kuykendall will join his law office as associate. The Apple Blossom Festival offices will open soon in the George Washington Hotel building. The Junior Auxiliary sells a crocheted bedspread for hospital benefit. | Five years ago weather forecast announced end of week snow or rain and Middletown minister’s meeting. county basketball saw Waynesboro win 41 26 as Flickinger led scorers. T Y Conway longtime Middletown farmer dies at 63.
Ten years ago a congregation of 2000 attended revival meetings led by Dr Bridges at the Amherst Street Tabernacle. The District Nurses Association held a dinner for Christmas Seals sellers. Harry M. Brent of Winchester drowned after his car overturned in an Oklahoma flood. Russell Smith fractured his spine after a fall in the Winchester Cold Storage elevator shaft. Flood warnings were issued along flooded streams and rivers by the federal weather bureau.
Five sentences discuss a plan to double liquor license fees and note a pathologist from Blacksburg, J. S. Cooley, saying cedar rust has not been stamped out, with A. J. Marple of Cross Roads also mentioned.
Charles P. Stewart reports two clear camps among Washington opinion on Roosevelts address New Dealers hail it as grand while anti New Dealers fault its lack of detail yet agree it marks a start toward a new type of president requiring initiative and adaptability to a changed era.
Wry column by William Ritt uses humor to critique modern habits and department store bills while riffing on time names Janus and past ideas. It questions war scares and notes weather shifts from rain to snow with light sarcasm about daily life and gadgets.
Among Our Citizens notes FLETCHER ASBILL LaFITTE district supervisor of the Federal State Inspection Service was born January 11 1900 in Ridge Springs South Carolina. He attended Ridge Springs High School and Carlisle Fitting School then served in the Coast Artillery 1918 19. He ran a Ridge Springs mercantile business until 1926 and since has worked in the Inspection Service in multiple states. Married to Sarah Boatwright he enjoys bridge and his hand was mangled in a gasoline engine and rotary wood saw.
Detroit Free Press notes that an international peace conference is generally useful chiefly because it diverts governments' attention from war plans, offering a temporary respite and potential talk of diplomacy.
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