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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1933
Page
16
The Recovery Administration aims to put everyone back to work regardless of age, as stated by A J Barnaud. The remark emphasizes inclusive employment goals amid economic recovery efforts.
Des Moines reports legislators favor the governor's state monopoly plan to regulate liquor. Attorneys see constitutionality, urging direct state control to eliminate private profit, set prices, curb bootlegging, and tailor dispensary operation to demand.
The fragment quotes a remark praising prudence in debts attributed to Al Smith, noting a belief that borrowed funds should be repaid. The line reflects a banking mindset on financial responsibility.
A Cedar Rapids reader questions the city’s traffic safety efforts after seventeen deaths and 937 injuries in eleven months of 1933. He asks why traffic laws aren’t enforced, why training and supervision are lacking, and why policemen aren’t better deployed to protect pedestrians and schoolchildren. He urges the public safety superintendent to address the rising toll.
A cryptic warning suggests Cedar Rapids residents watch for a hypothetical Number Eighteen in an auto death roll. The caller urges public vigilance though details are sparse and no specific incident is cited.
A reader laments the clash of Thanksgiving with a rare calendar quirk as two Mondays occur in one week. The note hints at planning tensions and work schedules amid holiday disruptions.
A provocative column argues that attitudes of reckless indifference could worsen future casualties in war. It cites Michigan deer hunting data showing higher hunter mortality but lower deer deaths, suggests broader moral drift, and ends with tangential notes on Texas politics and a quip about Turkey Week.
A reader asks if a girl should sneak to smoke to spare her parents. The columnist warns sneaking harms self respect and suggests open discussion and restraint. The piece weaves in observations on honesty, finances, and social norms from a 1930s voice.
An obituary note recalls Rainbow a Sealyham who shared life with a Boston family and their dog, the two pals Joe the ash man and a Boston dog, and their daily window vigil. Rainbow’s gentle heart faced a final illness with loving farewell. The piece recalls how he brought happiness to all and died peacefully after a last game with his red play-ball.
Advice column excerpt describes Kate as overexcited and flattered yet misunderstood. Readers urged to maintain manners, manage work temptations, and protect family, with guidance to confront the office girl issue or end it to avoid harm.
I regret missing your call yesterday as I was out with my father. Please join us for a gathering soon and know you are in my thoughts. I hope everything will turn out right this time.
Police report nine lost children were turned over for identification during the Santa Claus parade. All were returned to their homes promptly, with five children awaiting handover at one point, marking the busiest period ever for the department’s lost and found unit, Chief W. C. Benesh said.
City civil works progress moves toward an application to the county committee within two weeks. Public improvement commissioner Louis J. Zika says Rock Island railroad officials will raise about 1500 feet of west side track to permit a levee south of the Sixteenth Avenue bridge. Details and cost estimates will be prepared with City Engineer Frank Young, a week to ten days more.
Katharine Hepburn leads Little Women with Joan Bennett and Paul Lukas at AT THE THEATERS. Margaret Sullavan and John Boles star in Only Yesterday. The Thundering Herd features Randolph Scott and Judith Allen at STATE. Harry Carey appears in The Night Rider at RIALTO with Raymond Hatton in Alias Mary Smith. Garden of Ghost City stars Buck Jones at PALACE along with If I Had a Mission. Majestic features Al Jolson in Hallelujah and Under Cover Man with George Raft. Olympic presents Heritage of the Desert with Randolph Scott and Sally Blane while Soldiers of the Storm stars Regis Toomey and Anita Page. L. W. Stacey, a Florida pilot, has nearly 6,000 flying hours.
Washington weighs abolition of the Platt amendment as a coalition forms in Cuba. Roosevelt and Welles push for ending U S supervision while dealing with domestic lobbying, NRA debates, and tax scrutiny. Mentions of Brandeis, Morgenthau, Benedum, and TVA frame a turbulent policy period.
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