Senate bill frames postwar jobs by budgeting national employment
A Senate Military Affairs subcommittee led by Senator Murray of Montana introduces a plan to guarantee jobs for all by annual national production and employment budgets. The measure aims to balance jobs with private investment, but critics warn it could add to national debt and create “made work” unless private creation keeps pace.
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Senate
Seinster Murray
Montana
Congress
Roosevelt
Cps
Postwar plan calls for universal military training
In the postwar world the United States should consider a year of military training for all young men eighteen and older. Advocates say it would slow future war efforts and instill responsibility, while opponents doubt feasibility. The piece notes possible parallels to ROTC and urges forward planning for the military education system. The author cites views from leaders, the President, and Norman Thomas as a critic.
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United
American Legion
Norman Thomas
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
United States
Daily Athenaeum
West Virginia University
Post Office Learns Lesson on Private Competition and Taxed Banks
The article argues that privately owned taxed corporations show they can compete with government services during wartime, often underselling and outperforming them. It highlights Post Office rate cuts for money orders and parcel post, driven by private rivals stealing business, and questions government efficiency without private intrusion.
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Post Office Department
Post Office
C.C.D. Fern
Pri
New Year's Resolutions by Aunt Matilda and Me
Susan Thayer writes about New Year resolutions during wartime. A Aunt Matilda notes cleaning cupboards and preparing for company as a ritual, while considering postwar goals such as supporting bonds, donating blood, or taking a full time job. The narrator contemplates a war job of their own.
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Susan Thayer
Matilda
Tax Exemption A Menace Commentary on Government Revenue
A critique argues that taxation of private property and production machinery is essential for representative government. It asserts that government cannot function without real revenue and quotes Martin Luther about wisdom, courage, and hope guiding policy in facing misfortune.
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Martin Luther
Roosevelt Launches 1945 Fund-Raising Appeal for Infantile Paralysis
Basil O’Connor announces the 1945 Fund-Raising Appeal to support the National Foundation and its chapters in fighting infantile paralysis. The effort stresses mobilizing county and city directors, detailing 1944 proceeds, and urging Americans to unite in the front-line battle against polio as the epidemic weighs heavily on families and volunteers.
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Roosevelt
Basil O'Connor
National Foundation
United States
Inchand
National Foundation News
Plumber Trouble and Parrot Wake Up Joke
A quirky dialogue includes a mother asking a plumber visit, a late July note, and a parrot that wakes with its cage clock. A physician confesses concern, and a very ill patient requests to see another doctor. The snippets resemble a comic panel or humorous column with scattered lines about clocks, alibis, and patient care.
Deserted sailor reads world news after ship’s return
A shipwrecked sailor spends three years isolated at sea and is overjoyed when the ship anchors in a bay. A small man comes ashore and offers to fund the sailor a batch of newspapers to read. The captain suggests the reader report back what he finds in the world and whether he still wishes to be freed.
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Gmielal Vity
Revival confession from a boastful old darxey
A revival meeting tale records a drunken, violent confession from an elderly man who admits stealing, lying, beating his wife, robbery, and blasphemy. He proclaims one redeeming line that he has never lost his religion, ending with religiously framed bravado.
Nighttime Sentry Encounter Sparks Bristling Threats
A colored sprayer is stopped by a sentry. the exchange escalates as the guard demands pass papers. The other man refuses, citing no pass, prompting the first to brandish a razor and threaten violence, with grim lines about family and a gun in Blankville.
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Heaven
Hell
Blankville
New Back Pain Remedy At City Drug Store
An advertisement advises a new lumbago treatment available at CITY DRUG STORE for $1.00. It claims CITROL relieves back pain by soothing irritated bladder and kidneys and promises gradual relief as fluids return to normal. The copy uses a folksy voice to urge readers to get the product tonight.
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City Drug Store
Methodist women's group backs Dumbarton Oaks plan for world peace
The Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist church approved Dumbarton Oaks proposals as a path to universal peace. They urged U S senators to back a charter recognizing racial equality and to create a council on international mandates to prepare peoples for self government. The group called Methodist women to unite for permanent peace and study proposals across international financial and economic fields. Dr Katherine L McElroy, returning from Athens, found buildings used as a hospital by Germans unfit, with many facilities removed. UNRRA aid is to house 500 to 600 homeless children on campus while repairs proceed and to shelter adults in temporary quarters. An early spring planting is anticipated in Greece.
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Woman's Society of Christian Service
The
Methodist Church
Dumbarton Oaks
Mall Nations
World Assembly
U.S
Charter For Collaboration
United Nations
Katherine L. McElroy
Baltimore
Pierce College For Girls
Athens
Greece
American Board of Foreign Missions
Congregational
Cone
Greek F
Dr. McElroy
UNRRA
First Woman Named Chaplains Assistant in Canadian Church
For the first time in history the Church of England in Canada announces Deaconess Made- Ine Hawkins as Lieut Hawkins of the Canadian Women's Army Corps. She will assist Hon Captain J. S. Neff, chaplain at the corps training station in Kingston Ontario.
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Church of England In
Canada
Ine Hawkins
Hawkins
Canadian Women's Army Corps
J. S. Neff
Kitchener
Ontario
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