Sunday Newspaper Research Articles

The Creation of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: A Personal Narrative

December 1 1, 1938, the readers of the Sunday newspapers learned that on the previous day President Franklin D. Roosevelt had announced to a party of 18 persons assembled at luncheon in the White House a long-cherished plan to present to the United States his already vast accumulation of correspondence and other papers, documents, books, pamphlets, pictures, and objects of personal or historic interest. He proposed to place these collections in a building which should be erected at private cost, on a plot of land donated to the United States from the estate then owned by his mother, on the Albany Post Road about 5 miles north of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. At the same time he announced his expectation that the rest of the hundred acres or more between the Post Road and the Hudson River, on which the family residence was situated, would, as he expressed it, "eventually go to the Federal Government to be maintained for the benefit of the public." Both the intention and the expectation have been realized. The luncheon guests included, in addition to Judge Samuel I. Rosenman and Mr. Frank C. Walker, university presidents Ed-

Points of View

IN a letter to a Sunday paper a correspondent states that he recently travelled from London to Paris by air and that the journey from door to door (from his flat in London to his ultimate destination in Paris) took him exactly 15 minutes longer than it did by the same means of travel in 1924.

The Library World Volume 52 Issue 10

REPORTS that reach us do not bear out the assertion we have heard rather frequently of late that the issues from libraries are declining. There is no evidence that this is so with non‐municipal libraries and the circulation from county public libraries grows, it would seem, almost phenomenally; it is even doubtful if they are as yet anywhere near their full possibilities. The centenary announcements brought correspondence in at least one London Sunday newspaper deploring the lack of library facilities in at least three districts, all of them we understand in a county's area. Where, as here appears to be the case, there are such deficiencies, it might be considered if the Library Association could make direct representations of the need to the authorities concerned and not wait until a new Libraries Act has produced the inspection and direction that seem to be wanted. Our charter gives us definite duties—or such are implied—to promote better service. We do not think they have been followed in the way of “direct approach.” In spite of our propaganda, there are still many places where what is good library service is not known or not understood, where those with power might do something if they did know and understand. A candid picture of their shortcomings in comparison with towns or counties, definitely indicated to them, might induce them to overcome them; for the one thing a council member does not like is to learn that his own services are poor compared with those of similar places.

Personal Expenditures and Changes in Them with Rising Prices

Please assume that for a year from date you have enough to provide you with lodging, simple food (but no fruit, tea, coffee, or candy), clothes to the extent of $50 worth and what you now own, and $520 more to spend for other things. Examine the attached list of things and put checks after the amounts in Column I to show how you would spend the $520 if prices were as stated in Column I. If you would spend part of it for things not listed, write what these are and the amounts in the places left blank after Numbers 171 to 185. For example, suppose you would spend it for an automobile, 300 gallons of gasoline, two suits, daily paper, Sunday paper, 10 opera tickets, a two-weeks trip on a steamship, and forty dollars worth of jewelry among the things listed, and in addition, would spend $100 for additional travel, $15 for charity, and $1 for toothbrushes. You would then check in Column I after items 1, 2, 3, 4, 57, 58, 104, 105, 121, 122, 146, 158 and 159, and would write in the additional items in Column I on lines 171, 172, and 173. Add the numbers you have checked or entered on lines 171 and following to be sure that their sum is $520. Then look at the prices in Column II and decide how you would spend the $520 if these were the prices, and put checks after the amounts in Column II to show what you would buy. If you would spend part of the $520 for things not listed, write what these are and the amounts in Column II on lines 171 to 185. Then look at the prices in Column III and put checks after the amounts in Column III to show what you would buy. If you would spend part of the $520 for things not listed, write what these things are and the amounts in Column III on lines 171 to 185. Then do the same, supposing that the prices are as in Column IV.

What is Accomplished in Tuberculosis Among My Own Race Here in Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia THE CURTAIN rises upon scene one of first act. is a drama of Negro life. picture shows one room of a little four-room threadbare cottage on outskirts of Atlanta. In bed lay a young woman about twenty-five years of age. Her features are sharp and drawn. A pungent aroma of strong deodorant penetrates heavy atmosphere. extreme tranquility is broken every two or three minutes by a paroxysm of coughing, eminating from that frail bit of humanity lying there on bed. After each cough, which shakes her body comvulsively, she expells a mouthful of greenish, thick sputum and then she goes into, a sort of tantrum of throat clearing get out a part which has cleaved her larnyx. viscid secretions rattled in her chest sounding like what many have called rattles. Her mother, a woman well over sixty, sat in a chair beside bed. On a small nearby table was an assortment of medicine in bottles of all sizes and descriptions. She was reading from a phamplet given her by tuberculosis clinic. Mother, said her daughter Why must stay here in bed ? feel well enough get feel that will lose my strength by staying in bed all of It reads here, Mary, said mother, to rest as much as you can. Maybe you've been needing a rest for a long time. Now is time take it. Stay in bed twentyfour hours every day. Rest, strict rest, is your main hope. Stay in bed until your doctor says you can be up. Mother, she said, I do not feel that will ever be well again. believe waited too long before going doctor. You remember when had that side pleuresy in college before graduation year? can just recall that my roommate kept up a bad cough, and she is now down with tuberculosis. should have gone doctor then and had an examination. little mother merely raised her head in acknowledgment of this latest deduction by her daughter. What did she know about scientific diagnosis and modern treatment for T. Bs? She spoke softly must be Lord's will. Mary was right. clinic doctor had said her lungs looked on x-ray picture, as if bits of cotton had been stuffed into them. There were large circles in tops of both lungs, which looked like huge signet rings. They had recommended that she go sanatorium but it takes months be accepted there. Besides why leave all that is near and dear one, when near end? These wrinkled knuckles were washed bare send three children college. One sister dead, another across hall sick. glanced about room at a table laden with school books and up walls, where a dozen diplomas or teacher's certificates hung. thought of lines the moving finger writes and having writ moves on. must have been a reminiscence of my college days—a selection from Rubaiyat taken from Omar Khyyam. Tragically enough, having witnessed above spectacle between a loving mother and daughter, felt dejected. Faith takes on renewed courage at humbleness and servility of this Negro mother, in caring for a sick one of her brood. next Sunday's paper carried her obituary on last page. The friends and relatives of Miss X are invited attend her funeral at Tanner's Chapel. Pastor Brown spoke beautiful words over inert form, draped beneath a bed of flowers. He said, is will of God. In this bed grave episode, have carried story further than usual for a point. We who read death statistics are prone pass over fact, that so many

The Universities and the International Outlook

How many speeches and articles and books have been composed at one time and another on the subject of university graduates' being the leaders in the community? The number must be past telling. The idea is certainly older than the deliberate study of methods of government and economics in universities, which is a comparatively recent development. Society has greatly changed, in outward appearance at least, and perhaps more essentially; but the universities have greatly changed also. Is it possible that the phrase which connects the two has insensibly become outworn and meaningless? And again what do we mean by leadership? At one time in this country, leaving politicians to one side for the moment, we had leadership from preachers, editors, from strong personalities in various learned professions—not excepting school-teaching—whose words were heard in no Babel of voices. Personalities may be as clear and striking now as formerly, but they shine like stars above the glaring lights of a city. The preacher competes, so to speak, with the radio, and a flood of illustrated Sunday papers. Is it the editorial, or the back-page advertisement, that is now read? In fact, in the offices of large Canadian newspapers it is now sometimes hard to discover who the editor is. Again, do we remember that one of the implications of leadership is a resolute cr tical faculty—a compound of sure knowledge and bold imagination? It seems to have been one of the qualities of Lenin that he saw most proposals in the light of past history, that he could weigh the subtler results of their application, and so in a moment choose, reject, or modify. A slight change of scene, or the discovery of an oversight of his own, merely caused him to calculate afresh. He could criticize himself as well as his friends and his foes.

Public Opinion: The Sunday Newspapers

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The Progress of Physical Science

Popular interest in the progress of physical science has increased very rapidly in the last few years. Perhaps the spectacular ‘mysteries’ of wireless and the intriguing paradoxes of the theory of relativity are the chief causes. For every home now has its Magic Box—a piece of pure physics; there is not a familiar thing in it, not even that sine qua non of all things that ‘work’—a wheel, only mysterious parts called condensers, grid-leaks, inductances, and thermionic valves. And surely, when a Sunday newspaper produces a facsimile page of Einstein’s recent paper in German containing abstruse tensor equations, reverence for the mathematical physicist is nearing its zenith.

Faraday as a Chemist

MICHAEL FARADAY was born in 1791, as the son of a working blacksmith in London. During the distress of 1801, when corn rose to more than 9/. a quarter, his family received public relief, and one loaf of bread was allotted weekly to the nine-year-old child. His systematic education was rudimentary in character, for in his thirteenth year he became errand-boy to a bookseller in the neighbourhood of Manchester Square, and was entrusted with the duty of distributing the Sunday newspapers.

A DEVICE FOR THE RELIEF OF WRITERS' CRAMP

For years, various mechanical devices have been tried for the prevention of writers' cramp in those who have to write constantly. In one of the New York Sunday papers there recently appeared a picture of Paul Vosburg, a German inventor, using what was described as blocks of wood for this purpose. I have seen molds of dental wax used, but their weight is a serious objection. Miss Keenly, the clerk in my clinic at the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, was very much troubled with pain in her right arm and hand whenever she had much writing to do, and after experimenting with various methods to relieve her hand from cramp, had the apparatus made that is shown herewith. It has afforded relief to her. Miss Keenly made the original model by holding a wet plaster-of-Paris bandage in her hand, thus getting an accurate mold of her palm and

The British Association at Cardiff

HE eighty-eighth annual meeting of the British Association opened at Cardiff on Tuesday morning, in the very unfortunate circumstances of a general strike of tramwaymen and some other sections of the city workmen. It is to be feared that as, unfortunately, paragraphs about this found their way into the Sunday newspapers, this local trouble has had the effect of diminishing the attendance at the meeting. Members and intending members might have rested assurd that the city of Cardiff would rise to the occasion. The local secretaries immediately arranged a British Association motor service for the use of members, but it appears that no inconvenience was felt by those who are attending the meeting, and most of the services have now been withdrawn.

Sunday Laws. Necessity. Sunday Newspaper Advertising

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The Use of Asphyxiants in Warfare

THE use of asphyxiating gases by the Germans in forcing back the French lines to the north of Ypres has given rise to much conjecture as to the nature of the gases employed, and in a long article in a Sunday paper it is surmised that the gas used was carbon monoxide. The only foundation that can exist for such an opinion is that carbon monoxide is one of the most virulent gaseous poisons known, and that less than 1 per cent, in air rapidly proves fatal, but inasmuch as all the explosives in general, use produce it in large quantities, the smokeless powders in use by England France, and Germany, giving approximately 50 per cent of the permanent gases formed as carbon monoxide, it is hard to believe that the enormous volume produced by firing the charge in the gun should have no deleterious effect on. those using it, whilst the much smaller quantity given on the bursting of the shell should asphyxiate the enemy. The fact is, that carbon monoxide is slightly lighter than air, and when driven out by the explosion in a heated condition diffuses upwards so rapidly that scarcely a trace can be found at the breathing level, but when evolved underground in a confined space many accidents have been caused by its poisonous properties.

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Journal Article Sunday newspapers Get access K. P. D. E. K. P. D. E. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s3-I, Issue 3, 18 January 1862, Pages 49-a–49, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s3-I.3.49a Published: 18 January 1862