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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1936
Page
6
Edward N. Hurley states that most business problems need common sense, sound judgment, and honesty rather than court reference. He argues integrity and practical reasoning trump legal recourse in many issues.
Robert V. Fleming at the American Bankers Association convention says politics should remain in discussion not silenced. Orval W. Adams warns that avoiding partisanship may harm depositors and stresses bankers must share honest views on tax, NRA, AAA, FDIC, and government spending.
The piece notes President Roosevelt's timely appointment of a special committee on all risk crop insurance and Governor Landon's Des Moines speech supporting similar action. Both parties now commit to serious crop insurance study, with shifts in civil service merit expansion and oil company prosecutions cited as strategic moves. The broader political impact remains uncertain.
A stark critique traces environmental collapse across rivers forests and plains from dammed rivers and drained marshes to vanished buffalo herds and exhausted oil and gas fields. It laments greed, urges conservation, and warns of political indifference ahead of the 1936 election.
The piece argues that crop insurance should avoid political fights and be guided by sound judgment. It envisions a program designed to insulate farmers and ensure true crop coverage, with careful consideration of public or private administration to achieve the main objective.
Harry Richman and Dick Merrill returned to New York after completing their Atlantic and back crossing. The voyage is described as a partial success with no lasting heroic aura as both plan to resume ordinary careers. Pan American Airways teases Pacific passenger service within a month, highlighting ongoing focus on steady work by pilots and technicians over publicity stunts.
Gene Fowler retreats to a primitive Fire Island shack with his wife and child, spending weeks in solitude away from phones and writing. The piece recalls Fowler’s varied career from Denver beginnings with Ford Frick and Damon Runyon to Hollywood, and notes other literary and stage figures in a reflective, anecdotal column style.
Proposals invited for general excavation and fireproof hospital building at the State Sanatorium Oakdale Iowa. Bids due September 30 1936 at 9 30 a m Des Moines. Plans on file five dollar plan deposit. Wages set by Public Works Administration. Bond and cashier’s check required. Henry J Liebbe is architect. E H Felton chairman.
A college president jokes that statistics are facts collected to prove what is not true. The text argues statistics are essential to understand economics social forces death birth rates national income and dynamic factors like markets and prices for forecasting and analysis.
A booklet titled How to Improve Memory offers tested rules for remembering names dates lessons and books. It invites readers to apply with 10 cents and a self addressed stamped envelope, to Dr Kert E Wiggam care this newspaper, asking for MEMORY.
A Metropolitan Life Insurance bulletin suggests two factors for longer life among married people. Healthy individuals seek partners, and marriage promotes healthier habits, better care, sleep, and regular routines, though the presence of severely defective individuals who do not marry also affects figures.
The passage notes English has about 450 000 words but roughly 50 of them form half of written and spoken language. The most important words are the common function words like the, a, but, and, you, I, me, is, are, while fewer content words such as constitution or army carry most meaning.
City of Cedar Rapids Iowa proposes a resolution of necessity and a hearing on plans for a boulevard lighting system on First Avenue East from Fifteenth Street to Sixteenth Street. Estimate cost 3965 dollars, with construction details and assessments to neighboring properties. Hearing set for October 8, 1936 at 10 a.m. in the city council room.
A reflective poem wonders if creatures of field and sky find joy in heaven. It contrasts earthly songs with eternal life and questions whether angels share in the springtime chorus, noting the red robin as a heavenly sign of renewal.
Mrs. L. F. Wiese hosted a Saturday afternoon piano recital at her Keystone home with ten pupils performing. The program included Dorothy Junge Kathleen Potter Lillian Meyer Marjorie Peters Anita Helberg Audrey Wilds Maxine Witt Joyce Popp Betty Feuerbach and Esther Pingel with mothers as guests.
Ten to twenty to thirty years ago in the Gazette John M Welch was elected grand knight of the local Knights of Columbus council. Ben K Pospishil returned to Ames to resume studies in Iowa State College engineering. Dr A L Murray spoke to the Mount Vernon Lions club. Mr and Mrs John Yuza hosted the Acorn club for Mr and Mrs Edward Randall as they leave for Portland Oregon.
Mrs. Jennie L. Wilson of Cedar Rapids was named chairman of the fifth district at the Iowa Equal Suffrage association closing session in Waterloo. Howard M. Funk departed for Silverton Colorado to oversee Western Electric Power’s Silverton district. Prof. George W. Bryant left for Grinnell to represent Coe College at an Iowa conference meeting. About one hundred local Shriners returned from a two day ceremonial trip in northern Iowa. In Mason City a temporary stand collapsed causing minor injuries to several people.
The Misses Ethel and Ruth Pinney are leaving for Wellesley. J. L. Drury has returned from a trip to Duluth and other northern points. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Boyson are leaving for Boston to attend the stockholders' meeting of the United Drug company and the National Cigar Stand company, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Brinkerhoff are leaving for Denver where they will live.
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