Thrift campaign urged in national economy shift
Estauuauch Licews appears in Hagerstown post office record as second class matter. J. Garvin Bager editor. Subscription rates listed. The Associate Press notes exclusive news use. The piece argues thrift is sound and vital to shift national thinking from spending to saving, highlighting its role in restoring a stable domestic economy.
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Estauuauch Licews
Hagerstown
J. Garvin Bager
Associated Press
Associate Press
Herain
Old Swimming Hole and the Country Summer
A nostalgic essay celebrates the local swimming hole as a timeless link across generations. It recalls June days by the Tiger Dank, feeding a boyish rite of passage with diving boards, carefree swims, and the return to chores after a day of haying and milking.
Sound And Deserving The Treasury Bond Campaign
The Treasury launches a thrust to spotlight saving bonds as thrift and inflation control. The piece notes a broader aim to keep purchasing power with individuals while reducing bank holdings, tying into consumer spending trends and postwar price pressures.
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Juin D. Smail
Ethrife
Home Town Opportunity for Southern Industry
Congress faced a pivotal choice as Main Street neared industrial expansion. Government estimates warn up to 7 million workers may need new jobs off farms in the coming decade due to mechanization. Two bills seek federal aid to industrialize underdeveloped areas via technical guidance, training, financing help, and coordination with utilities and transportation.
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Silk Pajamas and Past Extravagances Revisited
The writer compares silk apparel prices across wars, noting no silk shirt era in World War II but highlighting continued extravagance in the last five years. They recall 1920s silk shirts costing 8 to 12 dollars, contrast wage-capable workers, and challenge inflation doubts by suggesting pajama prices as a test.
Tokyo Furosha Drift Drift Again After War
COLUMN Tokyo s destitute drift aimlessly yet not resentful. Police report Furosha numbers about 609 in Tokyo s 3.7 million, with many sleeping in parks and depots. Workers and children mix with demobilized soldiers and orphans, amid rising petty theft. A Yank helps a needy woman, others share food and coins. Comic-book scare ends with boy regretting ever reading.
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Tom Lambert
Hal Boyle
Tokyo
Motoshige Sakurai
Weno Park
New York
Central Park
San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
Teno
Sakurai
Sekurai
Furosha
Japan
Barkley Struggles for a Taxi Echoes Capitol Life
Washington columns describe Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky waiting for a taxi near Connecticut Avenue, highlighting his public leadership amid private troubles. The piece notes his lack of personal wealth, reliance on lectures to cover medical bills, and compares his evolving role with White House leadership and the Senate. It mentions friends and rivals, past court aspirations, and reflections on national figures and memoir projects.
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Connecticut Avenue
Alben Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
Barkley
McKellar
Tennessee
Leslie Biffle
Washington
Capitol Hill
Supreme Court
Jimmy Byrnes
Auctioneer sells two railway bonds at private sale
Four years ago today Joseph Murdock auctioned private sale bonds valued at 500 dollars each for 507 dollars. H C Hunter of Pittsburgh rented Shaw store room for a picture exhibit and plans to move into a growing town. Enterprise elected William Petre and C E Linebaugh to membership. A committee including C E Middlekauff George Kauffman and Harry Boren will meet Paul Bichter about purchasing fifes and drums for a drum corps. Junior horses did not go to Westminster for the Firemen’s Convention due to a rare disease.
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H. C. Hunter
Pittsburgh
Shaw
Hose Hall
Enterprise
William Petre
C. E. Linebaugh
C. E. Middlekauff
George Kauffman
Harry Boren
Paul Bichter
Westminster
Milk push discussed in Hagere town meeting
Two years ago Washington county milk producers decided to boost milk consumption in Hagere town through a better grade milk program. The old Almshouse in Hagerstown sold for 74000 to R S Williams.
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Washington County
Hagerstown
R. S. Williams
Bitter cross currents in Britain over Russia threat
Mackenzies Column notes England's Socialists and Conservatives unite in fear of a new world war from Soviet influence in Eastern Europe. Bevin and Churchill frame peace and anti Communism as vital, while France and Italy shift rightward. Moscow's reach into Yugoslavia Albania and Trieste looms as Britain weighs its Western democracy stance. Attlee urges realistic Western democracy understanding and warns against despair.
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Churchill
Europe
Ernest Bevin
Russia
Bevin
Murh
France
Italy
Britain
Moscow
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Far East
Yugoslavia
Albania
Trieste
Adriatic
Attlee
Just Folks By Edgar A Guest
Poem about domestic life and gentle requests from a spouse. The speaker recalls how simple errands like buying tea sugar and bread once sparked a warm welcome and now echo a longing for that caring exchange. The piece reflects affection and yearning for small daily acts that bind a couple.
Tolstoy's dramatic spiritual transformation and faith
The life arc of Leo Tolstoy shows a worldly early career followed by a 50 year turning point after studying the Gospels. His biography notes a revelation of Jesus's purity and love, a steadfast Christian pacifist ethic, and a late embrace of Christ’s teachings as life guiding truth.
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Jesus
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Tolstoy
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