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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1942
Page
5
The piece argues October will bring sunny days but cool mornings and evenings as fuel rationing reshapes kitchens. It recalls older, warm kitchens with wood stoves, family activity, and daily news shared at the kitchen door, predicting a return to homier, cheer-filled kitchens with practical furniture and intimate dining.
Robert Quillen urges a brutal moral stance during wartime, arguing that trust must yield to ruthless action against Hitler Stalin and Japan. The piece portrays betrayal on multiple fronts, condemns enemy cruelties, and contends Americans must be merciless to win. It rails against pacifism and urges sacrifice and severe measures.
A Colton quote warns that power intoxicates the best hearts and no man is wise or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. It contrasts wine’s effect with unchecked authority, challenging reliance on authority figures.
Dr. Newton reflects on time as illusion yet real enough to shape life. He asserts East and West must unite wisdom with love, urging readers to measure time, fill days with truth and beauty, and live by memory love and faith to build a hopeful future.
A compilation of wartime remarks praising labor, dignity of work, and collective effort. Dr Osvaldo Aranha and Dean Froman emphasize best effort and dignity of hands on work while U S and labor leaders warn of illness and threats to unity. Navy officials compare political snipers to enemy threats.
Debates between army and navy public relations flare after Lieut Commander Thach disputes war department claims that major ships were sunk by army air forces. Navy reports acknowledge army bomber actions at Kiska and Attu while critics question ship identifications such as the Haruna sinking.
Secretary Morgenthau clashes with the Senate Finance Committee over the rate of old age benefit payments. The committee favors freezing rates at current levels until 1944 45, while administration critics warn the move could hamper anti inflation aims. Senator Vandenberg argues the trust fund suffices for near term needs and opposes rate increases.
The nation resumes heavy fall enrollment with men and women reentering college and trade schools. Naval and Army Reserve members study at Smith College Mount Holyoke and Fort Des Moines while Harvard Dartmouth and many universities host summer and fall sessions for service members. Civilians enroll in Victory courses reflecting wartime training needs. Educational institutions adapt quickly as teachers join the service.
Henry McLemore reports a roving observer attempting a covert journey to measure how cleanly a president can travel unseen. He mirrors the difficulty by noting repeated recognitions, witnesses in transit, and Mrs. Roosevelt’s wide social reach, concluding secrecy is nearly impossible.
Art Baer notes the Yanks and Cards matched well as a swan song world series. He hails umpires Summers and Magerkurth and jokes that McCarthy Crosetti and Durocher on one side would start a war, calling the series an operatic cackle Lily Pons could not top.
Educational column outlines pediatric care focusing on early detection of spinal curvature, proper growth, and nutrition. Warns against delaying treatment and overreliance on outgrowing deformities, stressing tone, calcium, vitamin D, iron, and B complex. Includes patient Q and A on terpin hydrate and home humidification for winter ailments.
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