Durant urges aids for good parentage and office training
Will Durant spoke at the Town Hall Forum on The Crisis in American Civilization urging sterilization or segregation for feeble minded, higher birth rates for the able, and free or subsidized child care. He proposed a national academy for public administration and urged broader education for future public officials.
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Durant
Will Durant
Town Hall Forum
St. Paul’s Church
Mr. Durant
Local Veterans Use Bonus Cash for Debts and Education
Cedar Rapids World War II veterans with adjusted compensation certificates favor the bond option for the proposed bonus. They plan to pay debts, invest the bonds for interest, or save for their children's education, with several expressing intent to remodel homes or start small ventures. An unemployed veteran summed up the mood: wait until I get it.
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Cedar Rapids
Vincent Kofron
G Avenue NW
Kofron
John Womacka
Seventeenth Street NE
Gazette Linotype
Womacka
France
Duster
American Legion
Kopp
Henry Haegg
First Avenue E
Harlow Robinson
C Company
168Th Infantry
Robinson
Veterans of Foreign Wars Organization
Training to Curb Bureaucracy in Public Office
The text discusses how increasing literacy and education could raise qualified individuals for higher public office. It notes governors and presidents would not be required to take this training as a safeguard against a growing bureaucracy.
Musicians To Receive Training At Iowa U
More than 100 outstanding high school musicians will join all state band orchestra and chorus groups at the University of Iowa next summer. Chorus and orchestra training runs June 8 to July 16 with the band from July 20 to Aug 20. Eligible players are those showing talent at the state festival and earning selection for the all state groups.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Department of Music
Charles B. Righter
Righter
Coe Students Oppose Compulsory Vespers Plan
In a survey at Coe College conducted by Prof. Ethel Outland's class, 53 students favored and 106 opposed making Sunday vesper a third compulsory weekly chapel period. Currently Monday Wednesday and Friday chapel attendance is required with nine possible absences. vespers are voluntary and not part of the chapel program.
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Ethel R. Outland
Coe College
Trouble is a Runner and a Quilt Circle Start
Edgar A. Guest notes Trouble is elusive and unbeatable by running away. Don’t quit, face it with grit, fight back, and conquer. In West Branch the Friends Ladies Auxiliary holds an all day church meeting to launch 1936 quilting series with potluck, new officers named L W Reynolds president and T A Moore vice president, and a New Year resolutions moment.
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West Branch
Friends Ladies Auxiliary
Charles Trafford
Arnold Olsen
W. T. Gruwell
Homer MacAmis
T. A. Moore
Ralph Branson
Negro Institute to Open Tuesday in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids Y M C A sponsors a Negro Institute at McKinley High School starting next Tuesday at 7 p.m. Meetings will run weekly 7 to 9 with a focus on literature drama and history to boost cultural and educational interests. The program uses The New Negro by Alain Locke as a text and includes music and craft activities. Delegates may enroll through committee members or Mr Crabbe. Tourists may bring cars into Cuba duty free for 180 days.
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Mittee
Arthur Taylor
McKinley High School
Cedar Rapids
Alain Locke
Cuba
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Naomi Doebel
United States Academy
Tait Cummine
Hanford
Ed Kopp
Leo Duster
Thirty-second Street
Oakland Avenue
Iowa
Iowa U
Tama
W. I. Fife
Values
Coe
Edgar A. Guest
Newman
Mary Miles
TOSCO
C Newmans
Phoenix
Chiffons
Paradise
Cinerati
Fleurette
Sara de Faix
Patricia Moody
Coats
Batts
ODD
Nazareth
Negro Institute
Y.M
Cedar Rapids Negro Institute
Cedar Rapids Y. M. C. A
Leslie Crabbs
Y. Boys
Ed Trefz
M. F. Johnson
Naomi Harrison
E. T. Smith, Jr
Eula Lewis
Crabbe
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