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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1940
Page
9
The piece argues the public lacks informed concern about future policy choices. It urges individuals to reflect deeply on core beliefs and defenses, comparing such self-scrutiny to deciding on major purchases, to ensure a real voice in domestic and foreign policy. It stresses personal responsibility before any decisive action in the coming weeks or months.
A young man who wed to avoid conscription faces a needed education on duties and consequences, with community voices weighing in on commitment, responsibility, and the value of marriage beyond escape.
In a six day radio blackout the writer recalls major world events and figures from the era. Highlights include Britain’s loss of Somalia, the American stance on war, Britain leasing Atlantic bases to the United States, and political shifts in the Roosevelt administration. The piece reflects on how limited news shapes public perception during upheaval.
The piece laments dangerous edge curbings on Iowa slabs and urges improvements for safer, smoother shoulders. It notes a drift toward normalcy in national politics and mocks anti New Deal rhetoric while commenting on Roosevelt, Willkie, and Hitler in passing.
The piece argues against poll taxes and for universal direct taxation, contending disfranchisement by wealth undermines democracy. It labels propaganda as hypocritical, cites uneven voter turnout, and urges citizens to share civic burdens while condemning tax dodging and political hypocrisy.
A jumble of celebrity chatter and political scandal references from Walter Winchell style columns. Mentions Doris Duke James Cromwell Betsy Rouse Tye Frank Murphy and film figures like Sterling Hayden Madeleine Carroll and Bessie Love amid tax probes and political intrigue across New York Washington London and Bermuda with notes on Willkie Dewey and Hitler era tensions.
Sherman Fairchild, noted aircraft instruments magnate, has proposed to Peggy Steele, the model, ten times to date. Noel Carter, redhead chorus girl in the Buckner case, has received her second silver fox coat in eight months, costing 11 Cs. He is a 52nd Street bartender.
Edgar A Guest offers moral guidance in verse and prose about humility charity and perseverance. He urges bowed heads in prayer amid golf scenes and reflects on compassion crediting effort to resolve problems and endure hurt without excess.
Author notes science cannot decide moral rightness and that science favors society over individuals. The dialogue asks if fewer women are criminals and answers that women are less aggressive and ambitious, lacking the fighting instinct.
The piece argues that relaxing facial and body muscles can blunt emotions and even replace anger with laughter or song. It cites a Dickens quip on widows and cites a Groves Ogburn study showing far more widows than widowers in 1920, implying widowers often marry single women and that a single woman is more dangerous to a widower than a widow.
The National Youth Administration announced part time jobs for an average of 4508 secondary school students nationwide for the coming year. Iowa’s allocation totals 184 588 dollars.
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