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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1946
Page
4
If we do our best and avoid magnifying trifling troubles we can see life for what it truly is. We should look at the real world and rely on the manifold blessings around us. This outlook confirms life as a glorious inheritance.
A sober survey says most major strikes were avoidable and losses vast. Arbitration could quell industrial disturbances. government action failed as Congress stalls. Labor and business must unite to craft a system ending strikes and restoring orderly prosperity.
A citizen contends that voter apathy is tied to poor candidate choice and party slates. He argues that capable, community‑minded individuals owe public service and should offer themselves for office to improve elections and governance.
OS ANGELES on Friday Bernard Baruch outlined a plan for total bans on atomic bomb manufacture and world commission control of fissionable material. Carnegie’s scheme favors regulated production under Security Council oversight with heavy inspection. Both proposals aim to limit weapon spread though Baruch emphasizes prohibition and ownership by a world body while Carnegie skews toward standards and phased control.
A Frankfort correspondent recalls a World War II corporal's farewell tale in Germany. He describes combat through France to a ruined town where a trunk hidden in a Nazi kitchen held thousands in ten dollar bills. The crew agrees to turn the money in, rejecting temptation.
A group at the White House discussed a New York trip tied to the LewiseCoun fight and the politics of veterans housing. The column links race track scandals, CPA actions, and a clash over Tanforan near San Francisco while noting varying federal cooperation with veterans housing programs and a Czech view of WWII history.
A fragment dated June 22 1944 appears as an intercepted message to Andy. It references the longest day and asks about people who wet twenty dollars per week for frees on Kanawha Boulevard rate any over-live. The text is terse and cryptic, lacking clear context or full sentences.
In Monterey California on June 21 locals recall the first flag raising in 1846 and the subsequent US territorial acquisition of over six hundred thousand square miles. The piece notes competing claims by Russia, China, England, Argentina and Mexico, and mentions Commodore Sloat arriving aboard the Savannah ahead of the British Collingwood.
Kenneth L Dixon notes Monterey gears up for a big celebration with beautified streets palmited in gold and Del Monte forest cypress garlands. Beards have become a citywide craze among residents to charm tourists, with prizes of jewelry nylons radios and alfalfa prizes sparking competition and lively publicity.
The piece analyzes Baruch's atomic control program as a diplomatic move to unlock postwar deadlock. It stresses that atomic power, not just weapons, reshapes politics, and cites Molotovian principles in Moscow London UN resolutions as a basis. The key clash centers on the veto and Soviet alignment with global atomic policy versus armament.
A reader asks about chief causes of fires in the United States and litmus paper. Answers cover matches and smoking causing the majority of fires, rural population definitions, and litmus paper’s use in testing acidity or alkalinity.
The passage presents a miscellany of wartime Q A items from The Gazette. Topics include the fish that survive freezing, Heraclitus on change, military photography at Bikini Atoll, the world's largest camera with a 48 inch telephoto lens, Reserve Corps summer camp plans for 1946, war brides traveling post June 30, and naval gun nomenclature explaining broadside versus salvo.
The Readers Forum presents letters criticizing Kanawha County for veterans aid, recounting Clifford W. Chine’s wartime service and alleged postwar injustice, questioning local officials, roads, bridges, and liquor stores, and urging voter scrutiny and better representation. A San Francisco seaman signs off.
A satirical column by Arthur Bugs Baer decries postwar generosity and the rush to arm the world. He questions motives, warns of another Pearl Harbor like threats, and laments consumer society’s hunger for sensational doom. He urges measured restraint and shared responsibility.
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