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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1943
Page
15
In Belfast, coal gas powered taxis ahead of gasoline shortages transform city transport. A gas bag atop cars, wind risk, and potential explosions shape travel as soldiers and locals adapt. Passengers laugh, fear, and pay per distance, with quirky anecdotes of donkeys driving carts and jaunting carts filling the streets at night.
The piece argues ordinary life insurance is the cheapest and best for a family, noting twenty payment ordinary life as a long term safeguard. It contrasts cheap protection with endowment and high cash value policies, explaining investing savings separately may be wiser.
The piece argues for rationing religion to its essentials, critiquing overstuffed dogma and ritual. It urges using simple language like Jesus did and focusing on compassionate action over talk, urging teaching and doing to make faith a radiant reality.
A collection of remarks from political figures and officials. Rep Thomas A Jenkins defends tax policy while Henry J Kaiser comments on health and employers. Clarence E Gauss notes Chinese resistance. Price administrator Prentiss M Brown urges holding the line against inflation.
Dr. Alexander Loudon described an international trusteeship for Germany postwar industry to prevent rearmament and aid reconstruction. The proposal would place Ruhr and Upper Silesia under on‑the‑spot authority, potentially creating a federal unit with Ruhr Rhineland Luxembourg Belgium and Holland as core components within the United Nations framework.
A note found in crates at a New England munitions plant is signed by six women workers. The message jokes about women taking over men's jobs during the war and asserts they intend to return to domestic roles after the conflict. The scene is described with wartime morale and a humorous warning.
A suburban commuter returns to his hometown in the small hours and sends word to the telegraph office that he will not be at the office today and that he has not yet reached home yesterday. The note humorously captures travel chaos in gasless times.
The new food administrator Chester C. Davis should surround himself with top advisers from government, farm and industry to build public confidence and accelerate action. Potential members include Herbert Hoover, George N. Peek, Edward A. O NeaL, Clarence Francis, James F. Bell and John Holmes, plus representatives from canners and farm machinery. The appointment requires timely, decisive leadership to prevent delays in price policy and emergency measures and to counter any political hesitancy.
The piece notes Russo Japanese wartime cooperation includes Russia renewing fishery access that feeds Japan and aids its war with America. It argues pacific ties influence global policy decisions beyond grand rhetoric and urges peace conference delegates to consider fish as a strategic factor.
John Kieran notes H G Wells at the British Association for the Advancement of Science in London deriding newspapers as dead while predicting pamphlets will carry ideas. He mocks Wells while asserting London papers face paper shortages and small editions.
Dr Brady discusses tone as a measure of health and links it to nutritional sufficiency. He warns that deficiencies in vitamin B complex and vitamin D can cause growth and spine issues and suggests practical guidance on nutrition, insulin use for underweight, and color blindness claims.
Arthur Beer laments meat limits of two pounds weekly and jokes about T bone portions while a dog waits for scraps. He notes the ration system suits him yet quips about political foes and a long quest to shed 30 pounds over a decade. The piece blends humor with wartime food controls.
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