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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1950
Page
3
The column cites Elizabeth Wherry noting education favors business arts professions and sciences but not politics or diplomacy. It questions statesmanlike addresses and partisan bias before an election, concluding political acumen is learned only by chance and that politics controls all legislation.
A Houston restaurant patron bored by constant jukebox noise suggested a blank record be placed in the cabinet. Patrons drop a nickel to hear silence for three minutes, becoming the crowd favorite as “Goodnight Irene” faded into quiet.
In thirty years radio grew from a tiny squeal in 1920 to a mighty industry by 1950. About 2,189 standard radio stations plus 675 FM stations serve listeners with 90 million sets valued around 3.5 billion dollars. TV operates with 107 stations and 500,000 sets worth about 4.5 billion, totaling 8 to 10 billion invested.
A report by Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa to a Washington service depicts American occupation troops aiding Japan with broad goodwill and Christian conduct. He notes Gen. MacArthur and soldiers earning love from common Japanese through peaceful influence and moral leadership.
Labor leaders pushed hard with money and vituperation to defeat Bob Part in the Ohio election, but voters ignored the pressure. The piece notes Taft supporters and non union citizens both cast ballots, suggesting money and leverage fail to sway public choice amid recent coal strike era tensions.
A lengthy opinion asserts Taft’s methods backfire as voters express democracy by removing labor excesses. It cites Paul Robeson praising political shifts, mentions Cominform bans, and notes a debate on word simplicity in modern journalism. The piece reflects on writing clarity, education, and media influence.
The piece argues that a football loss does not ruin education and praises common people as key to a great nation. It cites a Boston University journalism professor criticizing obfuscation and urges expanding vocabularies to avoid degenerating into primitive grunts.
Vivid 1910 Pella Chronicle notes a Saint Nicholas poem on a green red black cover and two Iowa history pieces by Jacob Van der Zee and Charles Heideman. Local ads show an 8 horsepower Callahan engine and a Kruidenier family sale. Community events include Baptist Sunday School travels, a buggy accident, high school basketball results, church and college notes, and remodeling at the Farmer National Bank building.
Fannie Vander Zyl visits her brother George in Prairie City while Hattie Downing of Ft. Dodge Iowa travels to Washington DC to spend winter with her son Al Downing. A life sketch of ALN Kuype notes a long illness and typhoid fever ending in death. Resolutions of respect come from Pella Stacker Company officers and City Council minors. An Overland car giveaway by Pella merchants is advertised for Saturday morning December Bist with a two seater pictured.
Silk shirts featured as Christmas gift ideas with clothiers promoting them. Phonographs and pianos highlighted as top gifts in the issue. Yuletide ads were restrained with most goods offered as discounted bargains.
Julian Renaud notes a gopher in the garden as residents read a Chronicle offer to run free job ads. A record 540 attended the annual Arm Bureau banquet at K of P Hall Knoxville, with performances by LeGrand orchestra and 4 H quartet. Mead relief pours forward as Mrs Renaud urges gifts for “no hungry families at Christmas Time.” Lawrence Wilson takes Benteco Store management. radio station WHO plans 60,000 watt transmitter at Gilman. Glenn Miller to speak to Farmers Union. Central’s boys trounce Des Moines 83 to 18. Pella High beats Pleasantville 14 to 11 as Dykstra and Goedhart star.
Ten years ago the Federated Club sponsored a high school ceremony honoring forty eight new citizens who completed a night school course for citizenship. Charles Albert Keubles of Denver died in Miami after retirement. Landowners in English Creek watershed planned to expand the soils district in Marion County. The town glowed with holiday decorations and Rotary offered prizes for home decor. John Weyers suffered a severe heart attack downtown. Central College’s Harley Croft earned mythical all conference honors with others on the team. Two thirds of Marion County’s first draft registrants had been.
Senator Lodge branded Vishinsky and Moscow leaders as afraid but argued the real danger lies in Communist fear of unhappy masses. He urged Americans to see Western peace aims and stop being afraid, stressing democracy grows stronger and can prevail with UN backed peace.
U S Army engineers surveyed the bottom near Red Rock while the Knoxville Journal speculated on a dam there. Geese nested again in the Souris River district, signaling bird protection paying off. Pella High lost to Oska loosa 24 to 20, snapping a seventeen game win streak. Vander
Waal, center for Pella, started making 3 baskets. Santa Claus was to be brought to Pella by the merchants on Saturday, December 21. Freedom of the press first meant freedom to express one's opinions. Today freedom to get and publish the news is more important.
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