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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1941
Page
2
A viewpoint argues that US free enterprise cannot remain insulated from Nazi Europe. It notes Nazi integration of foreign policy, politics, and economics distorts trade through pressure, bribes, and exclusive privileges. Calculations about fair competition are deemed useless. Nazis do not trade on free terms.
Today’s of Other Years recalls a railroad tragedy in Dackera Point where Jane te, Tra Douglass, and Paul Keesley died after their car was crushed by a train. The edition also notes a marriage in Akron and Indiana, a death in White township, a cross burned at Coal Run, and weekend market openings. Readers are told of political races in Minnesota, a Wharton School graduate, and local property transfers. Military, business, and civic items fill the page with names, places, and dates from decades past.
The text presents a garbled collection of quoted lines attributed to various figures, praising perseverance and the value of effort in the face of challenges. It references ideas about the fatallam of the multitude, the insignificance of paternal, and the belief that tougher tasks offer greater opportunities for meaningful achievement.
Dr. Louis L Dublin told the American Institute of Actuaries that death among children ages one to fourteen has fallen 60 percent over the past two decades while infant mortality declined 45 percent. With births declining, conserving lives becomes more crucial as death rates fall, even to 1.07 per 1000 at age ten. He notes continued improvement is possible but slowing in some groups. War’s end will not erase the value of life preservation.
The Army seeks voluntary reenlistment for a regular three-year hitch by selective service trainees after their year of training. It cites benefit of long German service and says large-scale operations may extend for years. Reenlistees would gain advancement and a solid core for the Army of the future.
Washington examines a sweeping plan to fuse civilian economy with the defense procurement program. A proposed Economic Ministry would regulate lines and grades of civilian goods, though initially voluntary, aiming to speed production for defense while avoiding mandatorystandardization.
In a discussion of economic unity, the Council of State Governments notes that barrier-free internal trade aided national cohesion. It reports 1941 state legislative defeats of bills favoring local labor or discriminatory taxation, highlighting progress against protectionism. Rubber industry defense efforts and a new 64 passenger high speed transport plane are also mentioned, with aviation fuel efficiency and cross ocean travel implied.
In Washington Scholz, former German diplomat now Nazi consul in Boston, told an American friend that the United States will not send an expeditionary force. He claimed Americans won’t stand for it, while his companion argued the navy can convoy troop ships, noting the last war’s decisive expeditionary effort.
Mrs Florence Walters returned to Punxsutawney after visiting her brothers Grant and Elsworth Condron. George Lettie and son George Jr and another family member visited Migg Velma Dodson. Alf Condron of Verona stayed with Els worth Condron. Mrs Welmy Dodson and family visited Everett. Byler of Plumville.
A fragment notes the New Jersey Assembly killed five bills to close schools on holidays tied to Washington and Lincoln's birthdays Memorial Day and Armistice Day. It laments that lawmakers know kids cannot vote while joking about bonds and matrimony dividends. It mentions John Tyler as the president with the largest American family, 14 children.
A brief devotional fragment cites John 3 16 and a reflective line from 1 Herbert urging living as one will die. It presents a religious meditation on faith and mortality with archaic phrasing. The text emphasizes belief, salvation, and personal conduct.
Minnie Stephene Mra and daughter visited in the home of Mrs Benint Bagley of Indiana on Wednesday with Mr and Mrs John Engle, Mr and Mrs Jay Engle and Tease Bash. Mrs Shermah Barnett and son John visited friends in Shele ria on Saturday. A Martin aes Clymer was in Saturday. John Ligas Catherine Blanch and Walter called in Alverda on Saturday. A large crowd attended the funeral of William B Waltermire on Tuesday. Oakley Davis and Mrs Howard Brown with Earl Nicewonger and children shopped in Indiana last week. Mary Gromley of Clymer spent the past week with her grandparents Mr and Mrs Peter Taylor.
A reading prompt asks about poets and poems from childhood to today. Questions cover Bryant Lincoln, Longfellow under a chestnut tree, Macaulay’s bridge defense, the arrow’s landing in Arrow and the Song, and Joaquin Miller’s "On Sail On" mariner.
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