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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1941
Page
4
Page appears to quote a biblical passage from Revelation 21 3 5 about God dwelling with people and wiping away tears. The text includes a portion about a daily publication in Lawrence Kansas and a post office notice. It ends with monetary figures $2 80 and 4 60.
The piece frames 1941 as arriving with unfinished business from 1940 and expects the year to unfold day by day. It notes both fear and hope regarding what lies ahead, suggesting courage and opportunity will mark the year as in any other, despite unique challenges.
The fireside chat urged cooperation between capital and labor to prevent production interruptions amid a defense push. The piece notes strikes under way or planned in plants making defense equipment and suggests labor leaders may undermine harmony to pressure concessions.
Disquieting stories reach the public about rush jobs in training camps. Quarters for troops are being completed quickly with waste of material and labor. The piece notes a lesson emerging from these reports.
The piece argues that the cost plus a percentage plan led to big profits and waste in wartime contracts. It warns the current Camp Funston project may repeat those errors as delayed start and rushed work strain materials payrolls and supervision, risking faulty construction and rework.
An old resident challenged the Emporia Gazette to contrast the town’s two generation past with its current state. The editor listed long standing improvements while old timers recalled Lawrence as it was in their boyhood, admitting affection for the historic era amid progress.
War reshapes European higher education as Belgian institutions reopen under German control. In the United States the war prompts new courses and revised programs in colleges to align with defense needs.
The completed census reports the United States and its possessions at over 150 million. The population growth since the last census is just under 1 percent per year, a pace slower than expansion by conquest.
Public chatter has centered on bottlenecks in recent weeks. New Year's Day offers a chance to set aside the topic and start fresh without the subject dominating discussions.
Richard Brown of Girden City visits Baldwin after attending his mother's funeral in Topeka. Evangeline chapter installs officers including Worthy Matron Mrs. Herman Brown and a 45 year lineage, while Masonic lodge also installs its officers. Rotarian talk on New Year’s resolutions precedes hospital updates and Christmas visits. Nine local guardsmen head to Camp Robinson for National Guard service as of January.
Washington officials and citizens attended the annual New Year handshake with President and Mrs Hoover. A few thousand stood in line to greet the first couple in a long standing civic greeting tradition.
Five boys led by Lee Weible and Bill Winey returned from a few days of hunting and trapping near Ocean Lake. The town notes Lawrence will open a new school building on Monday with 112 Quincy students moving to the south side structure. The annual Bunch dance at Ecke's hall featured fashionably dressed young women including Ruth Strong and Helen Wagstaff. Paul and Rosco Stubbs depart for Lawrenceville to continue studies leading to Princeton.
Mrs Frank W. Brown will entertain this evening with a dancing party in honor of her daughter Miss Marion Brown. Twelve couples will dance on the third floor decorated in Christmas colors. A grafanola will furnish the music and refreshments will be served.
Forty years ago Lawrence enjoyed unusual prosperity with new firms and stronger successors, brick paving on Massachusetts and Louisiana, improved storefronts, and growing industrial capacity. The brick plant runs at full force, a third story added to the collar factory, a new canning factory on the way, and the Pacific mill expanding. banks hold deposits totaling 1,260,000.
University of Kansas greenhouses undergo a yearly transformation. Landscape gardener George M. Fisher highlights experimental varieties, bloom displays for the Union and offices, and botanical uses from dandelions to orchids. New plants include pink varieties from Lincoln and heat resistant Boston ivy with grafting underway.
The Haskell Institute themed year included a large Christmas lighting display and Nativity play. Harvard led Hopi life panels painted by Indian artists and sent to the New York Museum of Art. An exhibit for the Progressive Education Association reviewed modern Native American education. Superintendent Spaulding marked his first year in office. Solon Ayers was named a new educational administrator. Campus Day crowned Cecile Dailey and Arthur Cornelius as Queen and Brave. Graduation May 21 saw 216 seniors. Gabe Parker and Dean Paul Lawson gave major addresses. Summer renovations included $16,000 in new furniture and cafe redecorations.
Vital statistics show four townships at city hall recorded 300 births and 210 deaths in 1940. births fell 14.5 percent from last year, deaths dropped 0.6 percent. Male births outnumbered females, with 147 white males and five colored males born. Deaths tallied 115 men and 93 women, including 100 white males and 14 colored males.
In a Christmas to New Year sequence, the Connelly household faces Sheila’s jail detainment after speeding and a highway accident with a university license car linked to Valerie Parks. Martha and Hugh seek calm as Kathleen and Mary hope for Jerry’s safe return for New Year breakfast.
Broadcast grid lists programs across stations KMBC WDAF WREN and WREN on Wednesday January 1 with music, newscasts, dramas and variety shows including Mr Meek Hollywood Playhouse Quiz Kids and Doctors at Work. Notable acts include Glenn Miller and Kay Kyser orchestras and Eddie Cantor.
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