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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1941
Page
1
Voters in the Independent School District of Rolfe plan to vote on April 7 on a 25 000 bond issue to add to the school building with a WPA grant potentially totaling 50 000 for a modern facility. The project would fund vocational agriculture and physical education, a lunchroom, and a gymnasium, with the federal government covering part of construction and labor costs.
A reflection on German attitudes toward government, democracy, and authority after World War I. It contrasts German expectations with U S democratic processes, notes debate in the United States on policy, and discusses labor strikes and responsibility in wartime production.
Editors warn Germany’s invasion risks sparking worldwide rebellion while ten million Europeans seek democratic aid if armed. Toledo Chronicle contrasts Missouri’s fiscal crisis with Iowa’s political stagnation, noting delayed checks and looming social costs as state leadership battles finance and policy. Wendell Willkie foresees a postwar capital race between Washington and Berlin.
A hidden Boy Scout joins a struggling orphan in a city church basement program. The ill youngster clings to a yellow note declaring "A Scout is brave" as doctors and nurses marvel at his courage and devotion to Scouting principles.
The piece argues strong support for Willkie’s warning that Berlin would dominate if Hitler succeeds. It asserts Nazi world domination as Hitler’s aim and calls for decisive defeat to halt his advance, urging America and free governments to do all possible for victory.
Read together the clippings show local editors debating Hitler, democracy, and war. The Hampton Times questions rally cries while Eldora Herald-Ledger argues democracy limits presidential power and warns against dictatorship, urging caution in wartime talk.
Experiments at the University of Iowa aim to raise a more vigorous belladonna plant to replace drug supplies cut off from Europe. The plant, also called Wright shade and related to the potato family, has not been widely grown domestically due to cultivation challenges in collecting, curing, and drying.
The Gypsy tribes face a contentious love rebellion as a woman flees to her sweetheart amid tangled tribal customs. Judges and deputy sheriffs wrestle with the legal and communal confusion, a saga noted in The American Weekly and syndicated with the Chicago Herald American.
The forty-ninth Iowa General Assembly drives rapid lawmaking with an expected 400+ bills passed by session end. Leaders Hickenlooper Blue and budget chief George Scott push major appropriations, budgeting reforms, and state efficiency measures including inventories, auditing, and a central purchasing agent. The Iowa Unemployment Security Law refines social safety nets as a revolving $25,000 loan fund funds a state car dispatcher office and expands vehicle use across departments.
The state plans to finance the car dispatcher via a revolving fund funded by departmental assessments. The money is to be returned to the state treasury. The Iowa Senate, typically the slower chamber, is described as the more speedy House of the legislature. Continued on Page Seven.
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