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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1926
Page
6
The letter discusses public instruction office gender, editorial page value, and the role of silence. It criticizes government printing costs and tariffs, arguing protections harm the many while favoring a few. It warns Iowa and midwestern states against partisan tariff politics and urges relief legislation responsive to agricultural interests.
A reflective column argues cigarette smoking rose during wartime due to service exposure and wartime agencies, but notes many youths began after the war. It critiques price-raising plans as economically unsound, linking tariffs and export schemes as protecting propertied classes, while accusing President Coolidge of sectional bias in applying these ideas.
The Chronicle urges passage of export corporation legislation to strike at tariff graft hurting farmers. It laments past railroad policies and higher fares, argues travel shifts to rails when roads clog, and says competition will force improved service or prove railways obsolete as passenger carriers.
The article argues most men must sacrifice to keep a child in school to gain education. Education enables choosing congenial work, making labor less drudgery, and transforming task effort into an interesting study rather than mere toil.
The Chariton Leader suggests counties establish a history department to publish quarterly histories and bind them yearly. It notes much pioneer history is gone and that time must pass to evaluate values, but urges careful, documented records from observers. two Pella pioneers recalled stories impossible to publish during their lifetimes.
A plea to preserve pioneer life stories while information exists. The writer argues that available sources are essential to future history, noting that without access to records there will be no written history and these accounts will lose value over time.
A Jasper County Record item recalls an alleged clairvoyant in Muscatine who promised a Mississippi River treasure for 5000. A local resident paid 4200 to match 800 claimed by the con artist. the scammer vanished and was later arrested in Arkansas.
A column extols community figures led by Kuyper family, noting A C Kuyper as city clerk and engaged in church and civic work. It revisits Kuyper lineage, public service, and education. Also reports on an Austrian count’s Iowa home for indigent farmers, a balloon-pants dance scandal, and a proverb about liars.
A speaker argues that true strength lies in honesty and capability, not deceit. He contends that lies harm by creating enemies and that a wise, strong man avoids theft and falsehood, proving himself by worthy action rather than deception.
George A. Coe argues character defines individuals and society, praising Christianity as the best guide. He critiques modern education for producing defective Christian personality, warns that mechanization and secular theories fail youth, and urges active self education and better training to foster youth.
A critical evaluation asks what valuable human excellences arise from our new control of natural resources and behavior. It warns these gains are dangerous unless paired with new virtues. It considers how power over nature and mind can be misused without ethical development.
Twenty years ago Andrew Carnegie told the mayor he would give 10000 dollars for a public library building in Pella. Superintendent W C Farmer resigns from Pella schools to accept the presidency of a missionary college for Indians at Muskogee Indian Territory. Mrs H P Scholte returns from Denver noting Paul improving in health. Frank De Wit begins as clerk at Langerak drug store. Mrs James Ver Ploeg breaks her arm in a bobsled accident. Matthew Leydens and Tunie Goe maat wed by Rev H J Pietenpol. Marie Sears to represent Central College at the Des Moines state oratorical contest. Mrs A J Nossaman reports Pagosa Springs Colorado temperature 52 degrees below zero.
Hoogeveen of Central posted 51 points to lead individual scoring as Upper Iowa’s Arena with 60 and Horton with 49 close in. Hoogeveen also leads in field goals with 22 while Byers and Horton push in free throws at 11 each.
A 1924 Western Newspaper Union piece argues the best spring tonic is outdoor activity. It explains old beliefs about four humors and blood, notes sassafras tea was harmless but not a cure, and urges outdoor play and simple pastimes to refresh body and spirit.
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