Thought Of The Week Promotes Education And War Time Morale
The Chronicle urges parents and pupils to value education for future happiness and wartime duties. It discusses high school decisions amid farm labor shortages and fuel limits, stressing sacrifice and perseverance for youth education and independence. Dr. Loudon criticizes German aggression and urges continued Allied leadership, while English farmer Watson Jones shares wartime farming insights and the value of coordinated farm organizations.
Value of high school education urged for national strength
Monroe County editorial argues eight million young men learned the value of schooling through military service. It warns neglect of education limits future opportunity and urges all youth to finish high school, viewing it as essential for success and independence in postwar life. It also critiques economics as a science, calling it a guess-based field lacking tangible laws.
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Womerr
Franklin
Monroe County
Ution
Educer
Cation
Hitch School
Bish Schoul
America
Rock Island Magazine
Fulton Lewis
Not Rest But Struggle in War Speech Across Fronts
Rev William C G Kernan in New York City urges Americans to resist complacency as Allied campaigns push in Europe and the Pacific. He emphasizes ongoing burdens of victory, democracy, and sustained sacrifice for a just peace beyond Axis defeat.
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North
Africa
Sicily
Mussolini
Pacific
Feom
Air Force Lite
Europe
West
St. Ambressador
America
William Cg, Kernan
Chr
Ins
American Democra
New York City
Chiang Kai Shek's Utopia and Social Welfare
Chiang Kai Shek advocates a Confucian utopia where social welfare guides all economic activity. He envisions a great common wealth ensuring old age security, youth employment, and care for widows and orphans while preserving individual initiative directed to the common good. He argues private profit cannot be eliminated but should serve the public interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Chiang
Great
Commonwealth
42 Years Ago Seen in Pella News and Notes
A September 1 1900s era letter to the editor from Matt Kempkes discusses service in the US Navy hospital in Brookyn New York and hints at plans for the Philippine Islands. The piece notes the Pella Southwestern railroad funding delays and another spring election, with a waiting railroad company eyeing access to rails. Reports include two bubonic plague cases in Liverpool with a surgeon dispatched, rural mail route efforts, local market prices for poultry butter beef and eggs, a private water system plan by John D Gaass, a Dykstra farewell to Rochester, and a Harvey building boom led by Herman Rictveld. Local schooling moves include Jennie Kuyper teaching Latin, Miss Jennie Vander Sluis’s return after surgery, and residents returning from New York. A rail line to Minneapolis offered a round trip fare of $3.50 while Osceola to Minneapolis service ran.
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Matt. Kempkes
Stout
Matt
Navy Hospital
Brookyn
New York
Philippine Islands
Pella Southwestern
Liverpool
England
Keables
Pella
Dozattle
John D. Gaass
North Main
Dykstra
Fami
J. J. Bousquet
Dykstrax
Rochester
N. J. van Vliet
West Franklin Street
Harvey
Herman Rictveld
Jennie Kuyper
Wisconsin
Suy
Jennie Vander Sluis
Des Moines
James
Miles Sheehy
Lessie
Miles
G.B. Appel
W. W. Kimmell
Town Central Railway
Oskaloosa
Minneapolis
Voderes Tent Show Brings Gunner Delle Visit and Local News
The Voderes tent show visits Delle with Amerie players listed and a lively program including new plays and music. Pella residents—Phillips, Vaneler, Zyl—are mentioned in coal talks and trips to Swill. Three Pella youths were injured in a Lake Geneva boating accident, with names De Deis, Gertrude Geel, and Mella Kings noted among attendees. The event links to local groups, church parades, and a Ward Willis Bay drive, while Hillsdale College Tankers play nearby. Cora Beckwith, noted district leader, attends missions collections in Chicago and other cities as summer work continues at Woods Hole.
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Delle
Porte
Amerie
Pella
Presa
Hollingshead
Phillips
Swill
Ramsey Coal Company
Teitenian
Lake Geneva
Wisconsin
Py Srirls
Corelia de Deis
Gertrude Geel
Mella
Areal Pettit
Cecile Cherry
Adors
Ia. Baitsell
Marine Biological Laboratores
Woods Hole
Mass
Yale University
20 Years Ago Air with a Shorthorner by John Hamimond of County
The Marion County community reflected on a busy period with clubs selling prizes totaling emphasis on soil erosion demos at the GL Bureau southwest of Pe. The Central levee faculty prepared for the largest student turnout in school history as auxiliary women completed the dormitory third floor. Local moves included teachers relocating to Ames Madrid and Cleveland. A road detour near Thunder Creek caused delays while Montezuma defeated the Meteors 6 to 1 and Pella sought an expected easy win.
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John Hamimond
County
Arion
Marion Rm Brean
Bureau
Vander Linden
Levee
Molin Onsteen
Dhain Dusseldorpste
Oskalos Doty
Soy the Rits & Aured
Marion County
Userner
Ames
Lee Lautenbach
Maurice
Iowa
Florence van Zee
Madrid
Robert Williams
Jesup
Tf. P. Lunkelma
Cleveland
Ohio
Western Reserve University
Deg Moines
Colling Electric
Thunder Creek Hill
Montezuma
Meteors
Pella
Heck Gale
Old Grimes Canning plants adds jobs and harm in 1930
A 1930 report notes Old Grimes Canning Company employing 80 workers with plans to rise to 130, packing 1200 to 1500 tomato cases daily. A What Cheer murder fire killed four as a building burned. Rolseveen wins city softball title over Amsterdam, Shell, Jockeys, and Knotholders in close games. Geraldine Aschenbrenner buys a Plymouth and heads to Covina California for breakfast. An editorial urges farmers to eat more of their own produce to ease burdens of surplus.
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ALM
Amsterdam
Shell
Rolsereen
Laboray
Geraldine Aschenbrenner
Pella
Musings of the Town Crier Quiz No 87 and local notices
A garbled town column quotes quiz answers and poems, names local figures and church notes. Mentions LeRoy Van Arkel, Mark Thoms, Wend, Mieonda Van Wely, and Pella festivities. references sub warfare, piano study in public schools, and Sunday church meet at nine thirty.
Market Depression and Recovery Act Confusions
The article notes widespread price hikes by merchants to cover new regulatory costs under the Recovery Act and mentions public displays of relief supplies. It references Van der Meulen in Pelnd Daa ler Building, Calvin Col le's scholarship, and leadership by Jacob Plender of the Red Cross with Mrs. Paul Scholte of the Welfare League.
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van der Meulen
Pelnd Daaler
Vegas
Calvin Colle
Grundy
Welfar League
Red Cross
Jacob Plender
Paul Scholte
Welfare Lea
Vane Berg
The Individual Against The Nation Debates Freedom and Welfare
A speech argues freedom must be chosen freely and tied to national welfare. It warns that ignoring individual liberty leads to license, misery for neighbors, and potential dictatorship. A June 11 meeting criticized tolerance and minority rights as undermining the Declaration and Constitution.
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West
Ued States
Democracy and danger to liberty in American democracy
Rev. Wm. Kernan of the Christian Institute for American Democracy warns that the nation faces a grave threat when individuals misuse liberty to attack others, including Jews and Christians alike. He argues to defend every citizen’s rights and prevent the destruction of American democracy by extremist forces.
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America
Rev
Wm. Kernan
Pheney
Lettuce Prep Guidelines For Sandwiches
Lettuce should be used crisp and clean from the victory garden. Wash thoroughly and wrap in waxed paper or waste paper, then refrigerate. For packed sandwiches wrap lettuce separately to keep freshness and flavor.
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Victory Garden
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