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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1932
Page
6
Census figures show eighty six large cities recorded a 6 percent drop in automobile fatalities to 6930 for the year ending July 9 1932 from 7367 the previous year. Experts attribute the decline to fewer cars on the streets rather than safer driving.
The First Lady of New York says she is a dry and would back repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, stating she will support temperance measures and that Hoover-era Prohibition has failed. The piece notes her potential influence on her husband and on national policy.
The piece notes revisions to Republican and Democratic platforms on waterway development ahead of the Hoover Roosevelt campaign. It cites missing or added planks on the St Lawrence Seaway and suggests party leaders altered platforms to align with candidates positions.
An Iowa farmer taunts Vice President Garner inviting him to Spencer to speak from the same platform as Curtis. The writer urges Garner to avoid barnstorming there, arguing Iowa voters are not dumb and suggesting a cautious path for the Texan in the 1930s campaign.
York’s literati react as The American Spectator, a forthcoming monthly, reveals editors George Jean Nathan Ernest Fore Eugene ONeill Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser with a guest roster including Hemingway Mann Joyce Faulkner and Brooks. Payment is one cent per word with no salaries until finances permit.
A story recounts a specific case of a very young child who swallowed a 25 cent piece. Despite hours and days of X rays, the coin remained in the fundus, prompting a medical debate and a home remedy involving a bowl of raw vegetables. The coin finally passed after the ninth day following Dr. Boot’s suggested cabbage and celery method.
In a 1932 piece by Dr. William Brady the head and commence artificial respiration by the prone-pressure method of Schafer. Do not interrupt it until medical aid arrives to take charge. Warns against reliance on flashy ads for removal of foreign bodies and urges public knowledge of available skilled physicians.
Frederic J. Haskin notes continued low mood in the economy prompts another reform of the federal bankruptcy statute. The piece traces past acts from 1800 to 1898, explains three aims of bankruptcy law, and cites recent crises as impetus for tightening provisions to protect creditors while offering debtors a fresh start.
The piece argues that voters rarely respect political platforms adopted at conventions and questions why leaders should either. It notes a detachment between campaign rhetoric and policy commitments and suggests skepticism about the electorate’s regard for formal programmatic plans.
In a contemplative scene Jay G. Sigmund notes rivers moving lazily under summer rule as herons seek quiet pools and nature unmasks its cycles. The poem traces drought, crops, and labor from threshing to mowing, ending on the endurance of life and birth amid seasonal calm.
A domestic prayer asks for strength to bear life’s tasks, courage for toil, and faith in stormy weather. It seeks a united family circle, safety from greed and hate, and serenity against fate’s whims, hoping the day ends with contentment and joy.
Mobile dispatch reports the boll weevil regaining footholds in Tombigbee river cotton lands in Choc taw and Washington counties. Farmers hope a dry spell of ten days to two weeks will allow use of winged sweeps and soil covering to smother and deter the pest before it devastates the crop and supports price spikes.
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