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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1924
Page
4
The Anita Record is listed as a second class mail matter dated January 2, 1913 at Anita Iowa with SHERM F. MYERS as editor and publisher for a Thursday June 12 1924 issue.
A collection of opinions criticizing primary processes and political figures. The piece questions costs of primaries, praises or mocks candidates, cites Iowa Republican plans, and disparages McAdoo’s World War I era policies while urging reforms and accountability across counties.
Three candidates R O Garber Adair J N Lanegfitt Greenfield and John R Hoyt Fontanelle failed to secure the necessary votes in the recent primary. The nomination will be decided at a later delegate convention. The Toledo Blade comments on Iowa Republicans facing a Senatorial choice amid national tensions.
Criticizes the national administration for vetoing two veteran benefit measures the old soldiers pension and the World War soldiers' bonus. Argues Congress should have overridden the veto and passed both bills. applauds the decision to pass the bonus over the veto.
A World Court is a twin to the League of Nations and the American people rejected it by a seven million vote four years ago. The public sentiment has not changed, and any presidential candidate embracing a world court or league platform should be soundly defeated.
The piece accuses La Follette and his followers of undermining the Republican campaign by backing a third party. It asserts Wisconsin's influence over his policies and candidates and cites Victor Berger's wartime vote as disloyal evidence. It urges Iowa and Cass County voters to scrutinize the La Follette supporters.
Charles M. Schwab head of Bethlehem Steel declared he would sink the Bethlehem plant’s shops and machinery to the ocean if that would secure world peace. He quipped it is ironic Bethlehem, a City of Peace, stands as a wartime stronghold. He recalled his Germany trip and said Bethlehem should be devoted to peace rather than war.
Another consignment of army goods was disposed of at auction in Anita this week. Items including blankets harness and saddles indicate the government still holds a large stock of surplus supplies. The sale suggests unwarranted waste and extravagance by the late Wilson administration whose war equipment was enough for at least ten years.
The Non Partisan League leader, Townley, denounces the North Dakota state socialism effort. He claims the league sugar coats Socialism to farmers who will swallow it and demand more, labeling the tactic an eloquent but costly propaganda push.
Marion county faces a large expense for a primary with no improvement in officials over the old convention method. The Pella Chronicle argues that if the legislature had spent energy to abolish the primary, more money would be saved for Iowa than the budget law saves in five years.
An op-ed laments how unemployed and disillusioned individuals push their gloom onto society. It argues that the restless, cranky misfits spread distrust in social, religious, and business life, dragging others into shared misery.
Orville F. Grahame describes a network of Iowa stage lines in the fifties with main east west routes and north south branches. Conestoga like Concord coaches, Frink and Walker wagons, drivers of authority, and routes from Dubuque to Cedar Falls Iowa City to Dubuque to Council Bluffs are noted along with other lines through Des Moines Mount Pleasant and Keokuk.
A man tried to light a gasoline tank with a match to see if it was empty and died. Another patted a bull dog to find affection and was bitten. A driver raced a train crossing and was killed. A man touched a live trolley wire and was shocked. A man removed an advertisement to cut costs but failed to save money.
The Republican Party of Iowa calls a delegate convention in Des Moines on July 22 to adopt a state platform and nominate candidates for governor and auditor where needed. The convention will elect a State Central Committee. Cass County gets eighteen delegates chosen June 28 in Atlantic. Willis L. Stern of Logan, the current ninth district central committee member, is praised for his service.
The Victoria Hotel may reopen, reestablishing hotel facilities and attracting transients. The piece notes a demand for lodging, with Anita needing a hotel and some residents uneasy about their adopted country, inviting informed guidance from knowledgeable readers.
Leland Jewett of this city, son of Mr and Mrs S G Jewett, went to California to join a construction firm and has enlisted in the Marines. He is stationed in Los Angeles and expects assignment to shipboard duty within weeks, facing land sea and air service.
Wm. K. Carey of Guthrie Center was a business visitor in the city Thursday. The approaches to the new 50,000 dollar bridge across the Rock Island track at Adair were washed out by recent high water. Clifford Holmes and family of Hartford Iowa are guests this week of E. W. Holmes and wife, and H. P. Ziegler and wife.
B D Forshay and wife Minnie Forshay and Crissie Hollen returned from a two week visit at Lake Okoboji with reports of a pleasant trip and pleasant weather.
The Wednesday night storm knocked out the electric light system and left consumers without juice until 4 30 Thursday afternoon.
The report claims alfalfa can be grown on Iowa’s poorest land alongside better soils, suggesting waste and poor parcels could be put to profitable use if true, expanding agricultural opportunities for underutilized areas.
A baby girl born Friday June 6 1924 at Mary Wilson hospital West Main street to Mr and Mrs J T Monnig is christened Mary Modesta Monnig. Mother and baby are both doing fine.
A Republican State Judicial Convention for Iowa is scheduled in Des Moines on Tuesday July 29 1924 at 11 00 A M to nominate three candidates for the Iowa Supreme Court and conduct other business Cass county will have eighteen delegates to be chosen at the Republican county convention The notice includes a quote about politics and two local items mention Miss Lesetta Hereth traveling to Des Moines College for a three month commercial course and families of Howard A Marsh and Ralph Forshay planning a Lake Okoboji retreat at the Forshay cottage
Miss Ida Mary Biggs and Mr. Hardy Travers wed at 5 p m Tuesday June 10 1924 in the Christian Church parsonage Des Moines Iowa. Elder Mutchler officiated with Mrs W E Bac er and Mrs Biggs as attendants.
Baby Franklin Herbert Anderson died one day after birth on June 2, 1924, at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Earl Anderson. Brief services were held at the home conducted by Rev B W McEldowney of the M E Church with interment in Evergreen Cemetery. Bearers were Alene Weatherby Neva Turner Earl Stephenson and Thomas Anderson.
Card of thanks expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for flowers and deeds during the illness and death of their son and brother Earl Anderson and Mrs Earl Anderson.
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