Best Friend of Liberty and Economic Debate Prompts
The article discusses Maxwell Stamp of Britain praising private enterprise as the West's growth engine and argues socialism is on the defensive. It contrasts Western Europe’s prosperity with calls for free market policies, urging fledgling nations to embrace free enterprise as the best path to liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxwell Ltamp
Britain
International Monetary Fund
Stamp
Copenhagen
West Germany
West
Europe
Where Is God Question For Parents And Children
A meditation on the perennial question where is God. The text notes that heaven defies geography and time and that human minds struggle with realities beyond ordinary perception. It reflects on how children ask about God and how philosophers have grappled with the concept.
What We Know About God Sets Our Life’s Center
Earl L. Douglas argues that God is creator and sustainer and lives in our hearts. He admits humans do not grasp full truth but asserts God exists and reveals to fit human minds. Our duty is to place this knowledge at the center of life to fulfill God’s purpose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Quote of the Week Eisenhower on citizen autonomy
Former President Eisenhower argues that citizens should plan their own lives and spend their money without bureaucratic interference. He contends that any action weakening individual self respect is wrong and criticizes the growing concentration of power in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisenhower
Washington
Barrie Cook Visits as Heat Wave Hits Winchester
Dr. and Mrs. Barrie Cook and baby Barrie Jr. arrive in Winchester to spend the weekend with Mrs. Giles B. Cook on Stonewall avenue. The city endures a 95 degree third day as Willow Lawn pool opens for the season. Pope Pius X, beatified, marks the first step toward sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrie Cook
Barrie, Jr
Washington
Giles B. Cook
Stonewall Avenue
Winchester
Willow Lawn
Pope Pius X
Banks Closed in City for Jefferson Davis Birthday
Twenty five years ago in 1936 banks in the city closed in observance of Jefferson Davis birthday. The Queen Mary completed her maiden voyage but did not break the Normandy speed record. Actor Jack Holt and son Tim Holt were seen at Marham near Front Royal with Mrs. Fanny Holt.
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Jefferson Davis
Jack Holt
Tim Holt
Marham
Front Royal
Holt
Fanny Holt
Panama Canal picture story shown at Auditorium in 1911
Fifty years after the canal project, a 1911 picture story screened at the Auditorium with costs cited between four and five million dollars. Major Robert W. Hunter spoke to a large crowd at Fairfax Courthouse commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the first bloodshed in the Wars Between the States. Miss Douglas Fuller visited Martinsburg as a guest of grandparents James W MecSheffy and spouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert W. Hunter
Fairfax
Douglas Fuller
Martinsburg
James W. MecSheffy
Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign The March to Atlanta War
General Sherman led about 100 000 Union troops from Chattanooga into Georgia with the aim of taking Atlanta. He fought Johnston’s Army of Tennessee at Dalton Cassville Allatoona and Kennesaw Mountain, suffering heavy losses but gaining strategic ground and forcing a retreat to the Chattahoochee River.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
Joseph E. Johnston
Georgia
Lee
William Tecumseh Sherman
Johnston
Sherman
Chattanooga
Tenn
Deep South
Atlanta
South
Billy” Sherman
James B. McPherson
George Thomas
John Schofield
Ohio
Joe Johnston
Tennessee
States
Union
Rivers
Army of
Thomas
Cumberland
McPherson
Schofield
Northernia
Dalton
Resaca
Cassville
Allatoona Pass
Sherftnan
Western & Railroad
Dallas
John B. Hood
William Hardee
Leonidas Polk
New Hope Church
Hell Hole
Kennesaw Mountain
Army of Tennessee
Kennesaw
Chattahoochee River
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Winchester Evening Star
James Otho
Byrd, JR
Eugene Miller
EE Eettt
National Representatives
DeLisser, Inc
East 44Th Street
New York City
Associated Press
Christ
of Liberty
Ciety
U.S. Justice Department
House Appropriations
Met
Centers
DME
Staten Island
New Jersey
Federal Aviation Agency
Va & W Va
Heaven
Earl L. Douglas
Davis
the Whys of Atlanta Campaign
By Stephen W. Sears
Johnny
House
Cheatham
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