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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1942
Page
6
John Q writes his congressman urging decisive wartime action and an end to evasive replies. He condemns delays on the 40 hour week and insists on swift measures to defeat Hitler and the Japanese in the war effort. He stresses that constituents will remember who backed action and who did not.
The article quotes Australia’s resolve under Prime Minister Curtin as he warns that losing Australia would endanger the Americas. It cites U S production chief Nelson and President Roosevelt era thinking, notes tax reminders, and jokes about tiny license plates and Tokyo radio rumors of Churchill’s resignation.
A Carroll County reader urges neighbors to write soldiers letters to lift morale and aid national defense. The writer, a WWI veteran, emphasizes personal notes over impersonal mass mail and explains how to obtain service addresses via the Red Cross and soldier families.
At the Indiana state fairgrounds the Sportsmen's Show features a conservation exhibit highlighting prudent use of timber soil water minerals and outdoors to aid the war effort. The display includes bears from Wells County, pens with quail pheasants fox raccoon and squirrels and aquariums with native fish, drawing praise as an educational lesson in natural resource conservation.
Austrian refugee author Leo Lania and Wendell Willkie exchange views at Freedom House in New York. Lania tells a tale of a Polish tailor to illustrate propaganda and audience questions reveal surprise about unoccupied France during spring lectures by visiting scholars.
A collection of historic lines celebrating liberty. Quotes from Channing Wilson Milton Eddy Wegster and Cowper emphasize freedom of conscience thought and speech as a defining national ideal.
Old Squibs visit Camp Chillicothe in Ohio to see Captain Joe Ryan. Mrs Belle McReynolds of Washington D C entertains at teas in Delphi with noted local hostesses listed. Coble and Page form auctioneering partnership. Cartwright attends Battle Ground camp. Anna Trobaugh wins silk quilt at G A R sale for $52.35. Local job changes in Wingerd grocery Wilkerson garage Turner's grocery New York store. Love Crampton Caulkins named organizing officer of Grant County Motor Corps. Purdue welcomes Hiram Kerlin Charles Wilson Aerial Huntsinger Hubert Heffner Perry Frazier Albert Nichter Mark Malia Ray Calvert Millard Quinn Paul Hoshaw Paul Quick Edward Wingerd Vion Morris.
Pearson and Allen summarize a Washington report by touring Democrats who forecast a Republican gain in the next House election. They fault Roosevelt administration choices, labor policy, and cabinet dynamics while questioning the scouts’ reliability and predicting uncertain voter reactions next November. The column ends with unrelated notes on crops, the Gulf Stream, and a California farm raising lions for movies.
A collection of wartime remarks from General Douglas MacArthur Henry Ford Donald Nelson John Curtin and Sir Archibald Sinclair. The quotes cover resource dependence production patriotism and determination to prevail in conflict.
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