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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1941
Page
7
Kathleen Norris argues envy ruins Sally Davis after Martha Stevenson survives a crash and fame. Sally’s yearlong fixation on Martha poisons her life, while Norris urges valuing one’s own assets and building a fulfilling home. Envy corrodes joy, loyalty, and self worth.
A rambling Back Page column surveys postwar politics socialites and press, naming John Edgar Hoover, Heinrich Himmler, and figures like Goebbels, Sidney Weinberg, Tom Mooney, and Earl Browder. It mentions a Norwegian incident with Goebbels, Betty Davis era culture, and upcoming books and theater, including Willkie and The Dictator, plus Navy poster art and a Pearl Harbor era mix of personalities.
The document notes Retailers For Defense Week encouraging shoppers to buy defense stamps and build an automobile fund for wartime needs. It highlights women in business support, civilian volunteers, and youth programs, stressing practical volunteering and future planning for national defense.
Washington sources reveal a Hitler Mussolini discussion on Italians holding trenches in winter to free German forces for Africa, risking Italian losses in Russian cold. The plan, opposed by Mussolini, involves shifting up to 250 000 Hungarians and Romanians with 500 000 Italians, leaving a skeletal 100 000 German contingent.
A brisk column argues that all citizens are stakeholders in the business system, noting stock ownership, wages funded by business, and the government’s operation tied to business. It contrasts public privilege with taxpayer duties and recalls wartime figures and old soldiers like Maj. George Fitzgerald Lee, praising the old army and warning of waste. It closes by urging appreciation for the hometown paper’s service.
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