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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1941
Page
1
The federal power commission weighs daylight saving time as a national defense and power saving measure. It would move clocks one hour ahead in spring and summer, unify time zones, and may affect farmers though Iowans Californians and Vermonters likely to cooperate if advisable.
As criticism grows over non defense spending the government earns limited praise for trimming Iowa WPA rolls by 4 500 to 14 000 by July 6. The move reflects a belief that relief needs will ease with a booming economy though critics warn cuts should be broader and more carefully targeted.
The CIO United Automobile Workers union takes responsibility after Ford Motor Company accepts a recent NLRB election result. About 130 000 workers are affected as Ford plants become closed shops and defense production is kept unobstructed. The long conflict appears buried and both sides seek effective large scale bargaining.
Iowa Public Safety Commissioner Karl Fischer vetoed Fire Marshal Strohm’s bid to create a state fire escape inspector post. Yet the need to inspect and maintain fire escapes remains urgent for schools and large buildings, as decay in small towns can render escapes hazardous in emergencies.
Dr Joseph Fort Newton Everyday Living discusses decision making. She urges clear thinking then decisive action and dropping the plan. Indecision causes jitters while swift resolution plus persistence leads to success. Drop it when needed to avoid paralysis and muddle.
Robert Quillen observes middle-age as a life stage shaped by earlier times. He warns against viewing it in isolation and urges practical living, thrift, and self-respect. The piece quips on youth arrogance, public speaking, leadership, and echoes Maud Muller and Tennyson while critiquing empty bravado.
The piece surveys Japanese mediation hopes voiced by Yosuke Matsuoka as Germany pressures Russia. It notes Tokyo's cautious reception of Hitler's aims, Germany's push into Moscow and St Petersburg, and Turkey’s involvement via Turkish responses to German moves and Inonu’s letters. It weighs Stalin's resistance versus compromise and hints at a broader Nazi world order strategy.
Boake Carter critiques Justice Felix Frankfurter's claim that war settles issues, arguing war is now total and destabilizing. He cites the Civil War, World War I, and Churchill to show past wars failed to resolve core problems, urging material reform over repeating the settlement myth.
Paul Mallon contends Hitler's actions harden U S resolve against Nazism as Britain pressures Roosevelt and the Allies mobilize against the Axis. He argues Stalin's pact and Mussolini's folly shape the global balance while warning that Nazi efficiency could exploit Russian wealth under a future German order.
Baer says treaties signed in Europe since 1951 prove fragile. He argues peace as a policy is unreliable and compares past pacts to rotten thread, noting 1914 and 1939 mistakes. He dismissed hopeful forecasts of universal harmony as wishful and ineffective.
W H Pratt left for Europe on his sixty seventh trip. Jack Woerderhoff earned a limited commercial air pilot license. Mary Louise Hickok to host senior girls at Camp Oolhwan near Montclare. Lloyd Wise and George Kubasa saved Mrs Papatsakis from drowning in Indian Creek. American Legion gave Camp Wap s ier an American flag. Bert Rugh presented it. Melvina Toesler and Ethel Williamson enrolled for summer school at Northwestern. Mr and Mrs Perrin plan Pacific Coast home.
A report from the era notes a third of buses in the national program have been scrapped and repurposed into armor as part of postwar planning associated with the world of tomorrow theme seen at the New York World’s Fair.
Health guidance advises travelers and workers to immunize against smallpox, typhoid, paratyphoid A and B, and diphtheria before leaving. Vaccination should start months in advance and be administered by a family physician. The Schick test determines diphtheria susceptibility, and serum or vaccination is the only effective preventive measure noted.
The article discusses taking six grains of quinine sulfate nightly during malaria season to prevent clinical symptoms, with adjusted doses for children and larger adults. It also questions the link between hard exercise and infantile paralysis, citing Sabin's view and advising rest when feverish or ill.
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