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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1941
Page
4
The Evening Huronite presents Americanization essays by two Huron High School seniors, Harlan Blake and Donald Pillen, who earned high ratings in a recent Americanization contest. The notes cover postal rates and Associated Press rights, with local editorial columns turned over to the students today.
A reflective piece extols the United States creed of liberty and justice for all. It contrasts simple democratic ideals with government discrimination, urging equal rights, fair trials, and freedom of thought, speech, and worship as the foundation of progress.
A short quotation arguing that liberty for all enables pursuit of beauty and happiness in simplicity, asserting that Americans say and mean liberty and justice for all. The author is Harlan Blake.
In a broad call to service Donald Pillen argues that a year of military training would cultivate citizenship, character, and nationalism while preserving democratic freedoms. He emphasizes free education, personal choice, and equal opportunity as foundations to defend liberty and the nation.
Ruth Millett notes husbands show masculine flaws not personal faults. She warns June brides to expect imperfect traits and to realize wives often bear responsibility for household losses. The piece uses humorous observations on marriage and male behavior.
Editorial reply defending Army training camps Camp Livingston Camp Claiborne and Camp Polk against Dr Winslow claims of malarial swamps and venereal disease. Highlights exclusive War Department praise for sanitation and health measures and compares actual disease rates to New York maneuvers. Emphasizes protection of Northern soldiers and families.
Washington dispatch quotes Raymond Clapper asserting a long defense effort ahead for the United States and Britain. He warns against false hopes of a quick victory, cites production limits for bombers and tanks, and notes looming shortages and rationing across industry.
A June centered quiz asks: if June 1 falls on Sunday which weekday is the last day, which June holiday is observed on the 14th in some states, whose birthday is celebrated as Memorial Day in the South and its date, which Sunday in June marks Father’s Day, and who wrote the line What is so rare as a day in June. Answers on Classified Page.
Central Standard time listings show a dense broadcast slate for tonight and Thursday May 28. Notable items include Taft on America and the War, LaGuardia from Philadelphia on American Destiny, Ludlow on The Peace Side, Ploeser on St Lawrence Seaway, Eddie Cantor and Kay Kyser Quiz, plus Bing Crosby and Vallee and Barrymore among NBC CBS and MBS airings.
The column surveys feuds between Kathleen Norris and Alexander Woollcott, Jolson’s return with Adele Jergens, and various social notes. It mentions Remarque and Dietrich in Hollywood, Bette Davis’s husband career moves, and Duke Daly’s band, plus shifts in charity offices and Greenwich Village demolitions.
Major George Fielding Eliot explains German and Allied options in the Crete invasion. He analyzes air superiority, sea transport, paratroop drops, amphibious landings, and the roles of Rommel and Freyberg, noting the decisive reinforcements must come by sea and the need for navy protection against sea-borne reinforcements.
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