Be Faithful In Your Part Bible Thought
Today’s Bible Thought from March 9 1940 urges faithfulness in one’s work and faith in the harvest of eternal life. It emphasizes that both sowers and reapers share in the rewards.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1940
Page
4
Hutchins Warns World Edges Toward Threatening Chasm
University of Chicago President Robert M. Hutchins told a New Haven Phi Beta Kappa dinner that the world is closer to disintegration than since Rome fell. He urged mobilizing clarifying forces or western civilization may vanish, saying United States cannot stand alone. He said the crisis is moral intellectual and spiritual, not material, and will be solved only by wisdom and goodness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Dr. Hutchins
Phi Beta Kappa
Republican program report signals farm policy shift
The Republican Program Committee, after two years of work, releases findings indicating a continued liberal stance toward agriculture. It recalls the Farm Board's contested creation and its costly, debated failure, suggesting policy lessons from past programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle Grove Eagle
Republican Program Committee
Republican Party
Farm Board
Agricultural parity and continued farm support urged
The speaker argues against regimentation and scarcity, advocating government role to hold grain and ensure parity for farm products. While admitting the present program lacks a cure, they insist insulin-like treatment for agriculture—continued support and a restricted production program with a modest subsidy—will sustain the industry.
America's Young People
A reflection praising American youth as sane, respectable and patriotic. It argues youths seek jobs and advancement, acknowledge economic hardship, but deny being revolutionaries.
Scandinavia's Perie: Risk of Involvement in War Grows
The article argues lone Scandinavian nations face rising danger of involvement as wartime might overrides international law. It notes their past neutrality during the last war and warns that current threats are more immediate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque
Perplenity of the Neutrals in Washington Post
The piece argues that neutrals face precarious positions and avoid forming a united front. Each shuns bold action, fearing catastrophe from collective action and prefers local harms over risking unknown outcomes from taking a stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
We Must Stay Out of Europe’s War Wave
An Atlantic News-Telegraph opinion urges calm and restraint for the nation. It argues to ignore insults and injuries to avoid entanglement, warning belligerents will provoke fighting anger if provoked and urging patience and prudence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic News-Telegraph
Parking Woes Highlight Washington District
A brisk note recalls that a city with no parking problem would hardly be a town, underscoring the everyday friction in finding space in the Washington business district. The remark frames parking as a defining urban issue rather than a mere nuisance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Business District
Safety slogans urge careful driving and faster starts
A collection of slogans urges caution on the roads with lines like shorten your haste to save a life and traffic laws protect you. A Washington man jokes about his wife clinging for money but not clinging to the money when obtained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thought For Today about friendship and virtue quotes
A compact reflection urges fairness to others and courtesy in dealings. It notes war guilt rests on a few, while many remain friends. Advice covers moderation, service to others, money not ruling life, kindness to all creatures, and spreading sunshine to every person encountered.
The Lyndale Tale of a Strange Engagement
A comic tale follows an unemployed college boy who tries to solve Lyndale residents' money and romance woes. His schemes backfire then lead him to become engaged to Lyndale's prettiest girl, who is also the financier's granddaughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyndale
Flower
War in Europe Looms as Food Blockade Fails
Army dispatches from the western front say French and British forces anticipate real fighting soon as the plan to starve Germany into submission appears to fail. Officials declare time ripe for decisive action and press for intensified operations along the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Germany
Village Barn Dance Opens at the Fox Theatre Sunday
The Fox Theatre presents Village Barn Dance from Sunday to Tuesday for light-hearted entertainment. The show features radio personalities Lulubelle and Scotty, Don Wilson, Barbara Jo Allen as Vera Vague, the Kidooglers, Texas Wanderers, plus stars Richard Cromwell and Doris Day in romantic leads. Esther Dale adds comic menace with her electric limousine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fox Theatre
Lulubelle
Scotty
WLS
Stieles
Don Wilson
Jack Benny
Barbara Jo Allen
Vera Vague
Richard Gromwe
Doris Day
Robert Baldwin
Esther Dale
Want-ads Chronicle Names And Dates From 1920s To 1980s
A list of business names with March dates spanning 1920 through 1987 is presented. Entries include Cox Motor Company Wilcon Coal Sartor and Sartor Sanitary Bakery Mangold’s Tire and Radiator Bud’s Garage Reisler Bros Carson Plumbing Johnson’s Grocery Diamond Inn Eveready Plumbing and Heating Ralph Kleese Tank Wagon Service Rukegaber Hardware W E K Sloat Radio Globe Beauty Rookwood’s and Fred Burger Produce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. EK
Dixie Land and the Confederate Anthem
Jerry Bryant hired Dan Emmett to craft a new song after a cold snap inspired by a fellow trouper. The piece titled Dixie Land premiered in Montgomery on September 20, 1859 and became the Confederacy's official song in 1861. A granite marker over Emmett’s grave honors his creation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Bryant
The
Bryant Minstrels
Dan Emmett
Emmett
Dixie
New York
Dixie Land
South
Montgomery
Ala
Waster
Jefferson Davis
Daughters of the Confederacy
Daniel Decatur Emmett
Voting duty and elections urged by Riverside Leader
H P Allen of the Riverside Leader urges careful thought and voting in primaries and four elections this year. Citizens should study candidates for school board, town, and general elections, plus June primaries and November general election, ensuring informed choices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. P. Allen
The
Riverside Leader
Cotter Blue Devils fall to Ainsworth in sectional
The Cotter Blue Devils lose the final season game by two points to Ainsworth in the sectional tournament at Winfield. The season ends with a 12-8 regular record, 10-4 in Tri-County, and reserves posting a 10-3 mark. Letters awarded include Peters James Williams and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotter
Mar
Cotter Blue Devils
Ainsworth
Winfield
Kenneth Peters
Bob James
Jack Williams
Harry Quick
Homer Thomas
Dick Edwards
Donald Clark
Clyde McBride
Junior Edwards
Peters
James
Williams
Wyman
Washington city shows power to move big projects
The Journal, an alert daily, published a 46 page edition last week covering all life in Washington from commercial and educational to religious spheres with extended reach into rural areas. Half of the edition consisted of advertising from many firms, illustrating that no single business or paper can drive a town, but collaboration fuels progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land Clarion
Washington
The
Journal
Underwood Family Relocates to Prymek Farm at Riverside
The J. Underwood family left farming near Muscatine to occupy the former Frank Prymek farm south of Riverside, as the Wells family vacated to a Crawfordsville area. Others travel include William Dautremont sr visiting Davenport with relatives, Gilbert Schneider and Ruby from Des Moines and Bertha Varnum of Allieoa summoned by the illness of their father, Cormetius Schneider. Riverside Sorosis club postpones its March meeting from Friday to Friday March 15, to be hosted by Mrs. H. P. Alien.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside
J. Underwood
Muscatine
Frank Prymek
Robert Wells
Crawfordsville
William Dautremont
Davenport
Harold
Beatrice
Wiliam Dautremont
Gilbert Schneider
Ruby
Des Moines
Bertha Varnum
Dorothy
Allieoa
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