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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1939
Page
12
The piece argues schools are improving despite less external support. It questions Roger Babson's claim that youths lack integrity and thrift, noting home influence shapes economic views and that schools still strive to raise capable youths with strong effort and rising success rates.
Al Capone, the former beer baron, reportedly shows no grudge against society after seven years in federal prison. A brother told reporters that society’s restraint and leniency, despite severe crimes, reflect a higher order at work, with some former associates feeling relief rather than resentment.
The article surveys moves toward a European federation akin to the United States. It cites Woodrow Wilson’s compromises on peace terms and contrasts federation with confederation. It notes Briand and Coudenhove Kalergi promoting Pan European Union and the 1929 urging for a federal bond.
The Briand memorandum proposed a permanent European conference a directing political committee and a secretariat. Geneva talks in September 1930 accepted aims but rejected methods, fearing sovereignty loss and inter continental rivalry. Critics note the United States ed in 1919 20 and Austria Czechoslovakia Albania Poland shaped the skeptics.
A reflective piece on a garden as a microcosm of life and faith. The author celebrates birds and plants, notes dangers from predators, and links the earth's beauty to divine design while critiquing political overreach and wartime skepticism. The text closes with a quotation about Christmas shopping timing.
Curio column notes a Manhattan car episode with a police officer and a boastful arrest parade, then recalls Nicky Arnstein, Sime Silverman and Tex Guinan anecdotes. Scattered quotes mix jokes on prisons laws and oddities from 1939, ending with a note on the cost of crime and arrest as reform.
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