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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1923
Page
4
The speaker criticizes Brookhart for shifting from socialism to anti Republican stance after arriving from abroad. He argues Brookhart would dissolve party cohesion and warns that such Republicanism could wreck the national party and its organization.
Old Charlie Sample who served as traveling solicitor for the Coun cil Bluffs Daily Nonpareil and won the Oakland post office job after Woodrow Wilson’s election will leave on August 5 after eight years. He blames party politics and notes Republicans also face defeat for the same reason.
A column discusses William Jennings Bryan as a powerful political figure whose influence remains strong in the Democratic ranks though he has not secured the presidency. It notes shifts in support, public attention, and the enduring role of Bryan in party dynamics. The piece also touches on politics, prohibition, and public figures.
A destitute mother and five children in Cheyenne receive telegrams from the Ku Klux Klan of Boone Iowa offering funds to bring them to the hospitalized husband. The incident prompts public anger at the hooded group and raises questions on their charity.
A compilation of sharp quotations and remarks from the Hampton Chronicle criticizing politicians, labor, and war era policy. It mocks a junior senator from Iowa, Russia, Brookhart, Cummins, and “Wall Street,” urging farm cooperation and warning against high wages for radicals.
National commander Alvin W. Owsley of the American Legion urged opposition to recognizing the Soviet government of Russia in an address at Cheyenne Wyoming. He warned that supporters of Sovietism Bolshevism or communism should be driven from the country and implied some lawmakers have ties to Lenine and Trotsky. The Legion oversaw Fourth of July events in Grinnell and Storm Lake, both with rain insurance. Grinnell saw two tenths of an inch of rain and insured $2300 to pay off a mortgage, while Storm Lake fell short of insurance by three tenths of an inch.
The Friday evening meeting will name delegates to the state convention. Anita Post sends three delegates instead of one as earlier reported. Members are urged to attend and vote for three delegates to instruct them on convention voting.
Opinion excerpts criticize partisan rhetoric and self serving politicians while urging Iowa voters to elect men of common sense. The note cites railroads, foreign policy, and the call for responsible leadership amid deflation, with references to Brookhart and rising inquiry into Klan passwords and farm land assessments.
The Ma Western Iowa editors and the Nebraska quill-scratchers are invited to Omaha by the Chamber of Commerce on August 9 10 and 11 for meals and entertainment.
The Armistice Day plan would allow about 50,000 foreign-born individuals to seek citizenship if they choose. The Federal Bureau of Naturalization ruled that natives who claimed exemption based on nativity must wait five years after Armistice to pursue naturalization. Will these new arrivals ever become truly American, asks the Elk Horn Record.
About 65,000 ex-service men and women have received payments from Iowa's $22,000,000 veterans bonus bond issue. The last installment arrived at the state treasurer's Des Moines office Friday. Bonus warrants continue to be drawn at 800 daily, with roughly 103,000 on file awaiting verification.
The Iowa Republican letters criticize tariff effects on sugar and accuse lawmakers of inflated pricing. They argue the tariff raised only 16 cents per hundred pounds while sugar traders increased prices by 3 dollars per hundred, urging scrutiny of profiteering and political figures like Brookhart and Yonson.
A collage of notes on Iowa satire and a courtly view of state politics. It mentions ten thousand girls in Hollywood seeking film work, a Cumberland Enterprise editor's quip about preachers, a Collier's straw poll with Nic Ford leading, Harding second, McAdoo third, and a remark on populist farmers and laborers clashing over prices and policy.
The Waverly Independent Republican ridicules critics of the United States while the world seeks entry, warning of youthful arrogance that could harm national machinery.
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