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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1936
Page
7
Quotation attributes human self sufficiency and warns against overreaching with others. Attributed to William Humboldt, the line emphasizes restraint in collaborative aims and personal capability.
The supreme court denied state power to fix minimum wages in the New York wage law case, reinforcing that individuals may freely contract terms. President Green of the AFL warned against surrendering rights to government, while the court held no need for a broad no man’s land between law and liberty.
Fortune magazine reports a survey of 1,200 students across twenty five universities showing a cautious, security minded generation. It characterizes today’s youth as unadventurous and focused on safe, permanent jobs, with possible long term societal costs if misread.
A 1936 essay argues duty shapes civilization and personal integrity. It contrasts obligations with selfishness, criticizing modern cynicism toward sacrifice while noting the social framework relies on doing right for right’s sake.
The author criticizes the urge for security at all costs among college students and graduates. He laments how many young people seek comfort before trying their own wings and pursuing ambitious endeavors, calling such attitudes a form of premature senility and condemning Fortune's survey for implying otherwise.
The column urges better illumination at Cedar Rapids spots on A Avenue NE near Shrine temple corner and Third Avenue SE at Bever Avenue and Fourteenth Street. It notes these intersections as high risk with heavy traffic and parked cars, recounting two fatalities of local women to emphasize the need for improvements.
A tour through New York theater circles profiles Dwight Deere Wiman as a prolific producer and stage enthusiast whose "On Your Toes" reflects his taste. It notes Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt, Winthrop Ames, and veteran hecklers who shape performances in and around the city while touching on mayoral heckling and freelance journalist Charles Phelps Cushing’s wandering career.
A collage of social notes mentions Alfred Vanderbilt hunting mice, Tommy Manville reluctance to keep scrapbooks, a Fannie Hurst fan club in Hawaii, Raquel Meller’s Berlin comeback, Julia Sanderson's radio exit, Ben Ames Williams poetry, and a 5-year-old neighbor’s arrest demand after his mother refused to cut his curls.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that BR under has been on this 27th day of May duly appointed and confirmed as executor of the estate of Norah Bell Lang late of Linn County deceased. All persons indebted to said estate are urged to make immediate payment. Those having claims will file them with the clerk in the Linn County District Court.
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