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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1942
Page
6
A notice announces the June 28 lesson topics and scripture readings chosen by the International Council of Religious Education. It notes the material is copyrighted and used by permission.
A sermon argues liquor advertising distorts truth using biblical references from Proverbs Isaiah Hosea Joel and Ephesians. It decries drinking as harming society, leaders, families, and religion, urging church leaders to confront drinkers and stem social iniquity. It profiles Gov Ernest Gruening’s Alaska role and career as context.
Howard C. Mingos, noted aviation writer and editor of the annual Aircraft Year Book for the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, is highlighted as a cautious reporter with a century of aviation articles and books. He has served with the U S Army Air Service and contributed to the New York Times and Sun. He is 51 years old.
Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney, 57, a West Point 1908 graduate and noted military aviation expert, is slated to command all American army air forces in the British Isles as U S planes fight and bomb Germany.
Paul Babson predicts a shift to state capitalism as finance and government interlock with labor. The piece argues for tighter credit controls and reform to curb speculation. It notes wartime costs, bank bond holdings, and a call for fiscal restraint to ease the war burden. It cites Joe Friday’s bean-baking memory and a drastic drop in tire costs from 17.50 to 0.64 per thousand miles.
Western Newspaper Union notes Sgt. William Jasper’s daring 1776 defense of Fort Sullivan at Sullivan’s Island. The piece recalls Capt. Arthur Huff, Corp. Louis Roark, and Privates Roy Bailey and Harley Leaird who earned silver stars for rescuing the flag atop a 100 foot pole amid heavy fire at Corregidor, with Jasper’s later career highlighted.
Busy shopper notice promotes a novelty item featuring Tom with a victory V pose on a kitchen towel rack and as a trio of panholders. It offers a pattern 79476 priced at 15 cents, with orders to be sent for bridal or other gifts.
A reader prompts ten trivia items including: the line after The night has a thousand eyes, the wife of an earl, garlic’s botanical family, current world population, the Belgian Shakespeare, former name for Australia, year of the American Legion’s first national convention, weight of a gallon of water, year Alaska was purchased, and year of the first practical friction matches.
In November 1919 a Countess Lily and the Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck are noted in New Holland. Figures include nineteen hundred million, 8.355 pounds, with a reference to 1867 and a 1927 event by John Walter, an English druggist.
A compact collection of quotes from Ruskin Herbert Webster and MacDonald urging growth, liberty and aspiration. The entries emphasize reading thinking loving hoping praying and guarding freedom as paths to happiness and higher aims.
A reflective line pairing Confucius with a meditation on knowledge and perception. It contrasts ignorance as darkness with an absence of guiding light, inviting contemplation on the limits of human understanding.
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