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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1939
Page
30
The instinct of self-preservation drives PWA Administrator Ickes and Assistant Administrator Gray to resist the president's plan for self-liquidating public works. They question its methods and fear interference with existing programs, warning such schemes may expand agency power and hinder budget economies.
Testimony before the temporary national economic committee suggests Washington aims to reduce home building costs by at least 20 percent. Government economists estimate a 20 percent cut could create up to 1.5 million new housing units, but officials must prove costs are that high and avoid overpromising to avoid stalling a fragile building revival.
Promoters for the University of Iowa Fine Arts Festival quote Lawrence Tibbett critiquing American opera. He says audiences may be turned off by language and stage spectacle and suggests operas in English and better staging could boost interest. He notes possible widespread American apathy toward opera.
The piece argues many Americans feel uneasy with operatic communication sung by adults. Tibbett suggests opera as a form does not touch inner sympathies, favoring drama and music separately and noting that exposure is limited. Audience preference may lean toward foreign language or radio to enjoy opera as music.
In Windsor Ontario a postmaster receives a letter containing ten cents from Honest Scott who admits twenty years of stealing ink from the post office. The note frames the payoff as a conscience settlement and argues honesty is best.
A collection of remarks from William Green Philip A Benson Howland Spencer Carl B Shelley William Green Florence Alien and others touching on labor unions politics finance religion and governance. The quotes critique autocracy credit control democracy and Christian influence across nations and societies.
Eastern Iowa congressmen face pressure as a proposed 500 million public works program would fund 213 projects in the state. Grants total about 3.77 million for five districts, with Clinton, Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, and Davenport listed among major beneficiaries, while some counties show varied allocations.
Complied from the Garretts Files details society updates as Mrs. J. W. Dalbey is named YWCA president with officers and chairmen listed. Also reports on Thomas F. Doherty earning a North Western railroad station contract, a Phoenician order initiation, a Cuisine club picnic for Miss Blake and Miss Baldwin, a graduation in Massachusetts, a wrist injury, race plans for Kennedy Brothers, a Hook and Crook tallyho party, and local market prices for wheat corn oats hens eggs hogs and steers.
New Yorkers flee by land and sea as Fourth of July travel peaks. Westchester parkways, Holland and Lincoln tunnels fill, while ferries and bridges move cars toward shore resorts. Neighborhood pets suffer as explosions calm by Wednesday.
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