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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-26
u. N. PLUM:
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To Europe

Decision on where the United Ma
tons will hold it's 1948 assembly
meeting will mean that some Euro
pean city will get healthy, So
million-dollar plum tossed in its lap.
Because the choice of site for
the coming meeting probably will
involve that much money there is a
considerable ferment of anxiety in
the cities of Paris, Brussels, Geneva
or the Hague. principal contenders
for the honor.
Trygve Lie, U. N. secretary-gen-
eral, just back from a tour of Euro
pean cities, has made factual re-
port without actually recommend
ing any one spot. He did, however,
narrow the field down to those four
cities.
The 81 member nations of the
general assembly decided at last
falls session to hold the 1913 parley
in Europe, possibly to get away
from the scene of their erstwhile
rather futile efforts.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-26
SOIL CONTROL:
State or Federal?

One of the springtime battles now
shaping up in congress will concern
the issue Of whether the national
farm erosion program should be
federally or state controlled.
Fireworks are scheduled to begin
In March when the house agriculture
committee opens hearings on bill
sponsored by Rep. Harry D. Cooley
Dem., N. CO. which would turn
over the soil conservation program,
operated by the agriculture depart
ment since 1885, to state land grant
colleges.
Along with the transfer of author
iety would go about 10000 depart
ment agents who administer the
program in about 1000 districts.
That will provide point of strong
controversy, as will the measures
provision for federal grants to help
states foot their soil-saving bills.
Pushing the switch from federal
to state control most strongly is the
national farm bureau, one of the
most powerful Hobbies in Washing
ton. on the grounds that the soil
conservation program would &C.
compIsh more under state author
ity.
The federal program has not been
as effective as it should be so far,
the farm bureau contends. But OPP
ponents of the transfer counter with
the argument that the states lack
experience to handle the project
satisfactorily.
Currently operating under an an
nual budget of SO million dollars,
federal soil conservation service
has 10000 persons working with
farmers, helping prepare conserve
ton plans which the farmers may
accept or reject.
SO far it has prepared conserva-
ton plans for 476, 128 farms cover
ing 131, 1855, sos OF the country's one
billion acres of farm land.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-26
Here 1t Is Again

If James r. Monroe of Bellfower.
Calf, can keep his invention from
blowing up he will be convinced
that he has solved the gasoline prob
lem for the U. S. motorist.
Mounted on the rear of his 1885
jalopy is contraption that Monroe
claims will run the car on gallon
of gas and a gallon Of water. Only
trouble is. he gets q fuel mixture
so volatile that it make a mobile
bomb out of the car.
''Soon," he said, "I'll be able to
get along without any gasoline. Just
fill the thing up with water :"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-26
WORLD FOOD:
Short Supply

''Any claim that the United States
can feed the world from its own
farms is absurd, according to R. H.
c. M. Case, University of Illinois
economics chief, who recently re-
turned from 6,000-mile tour Of
U. S. agricultural resources.
This country can, without stretch
ing a point, consume all the food
it produces, except during good
years when crop yields are highly
favorable, he said.
Case, who also travelled ex-
tensively in China and Europe dur
ing the past three years, said the
worldwide food shortage will con-
tinue whether or not international
trade conditions permit U. S. food
exports, adding:
'In China alone the average diet
could be increased by one-fifth, and
the average person would not be
adequately fed. With China's $50
million people, one-ffth increase in
the diet would be equivalent to food
for 80 million people. No nation has
SURPRISES to meet such needs" Case
concluded.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-26
AID BURDEN:
Taft's Plank

Sen. Robert Taft, Ohio's COP.
aspirant to the White House, started
off another campaign jog around
the West by offering thoroughly
Republican message calculated to
appeal to large portion of the
western voters.
The United States cannot allow
it's foreign aid program to leopard
ize freedom at home, he said in
Chicago, his first stopping place.
''We should not be actuated by
purely altruistic desire to improve
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-26
FOR A MATE:
Go Vest, Young Lady

Although the U. S. census bureau
doesn't exactly say SO, its latest
set of figures seems to indicate that
single women who would like to get
into marital harness should go West
to do so.
Bureaus statistics showed that the
West has the lowest proportion of
single women in the country. Only
II per cent Of the women there are
single, compared with Is per cent
in the Northeast.
Also, if girl wants to stay mar
ried, her chances are better if she
marries non-veteran, according to
the records. Veterans of World War
II have higher divorce rate than
non-veterans.
Discouraging part is that more
non-veterans under IS already are
married, the bureau reported-72.5
per cent compared with ..564 per
cent of veterans.
The bureau also discovered that
there are three widows for every
widower, and that people are getting
married at an earlier age now than
they used to.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-26
MORE VACATIONS:
What Doctor Ordered

Guess what the doctor has or
dered, boss. Vacations-lots and lots
of vacations.
DR.. Wingate M. Johnson of Wins
ton-Salem, N. c., says: Even more
important than the annual vacation
of two weeks or more are frequent
weekend vacations"
But, he added, even vacations
can be overdone after you get along
in years. Quiet recreation is needed
more than exercise then.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-26

the condition of a
lot of other people
who have failed for
centuries to do the
job themselves.
eve want peace
a n d p r o S p e r i t y
throughout the
world to eliminate
a threat to our own
freedom, but it is
certainly not worth
while to adopt a
foreign policy SO
burdensone on our
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-26

Arrested by FBI agents and
hustled off to Ellis Island for q
deportation hearing was John VIII
Hanson, labor secretary of the
American Communist party and de-
scribed by the FBI as 'the most
important figure in the Communist
party" against whom the depart
ment so far. has taken no action.
Justice department said William
son was born in Scotland but ''has
been posing as an American citizen
for many years."
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-26

own people that it will destroy at
home the very freedom we are try
ing to protect
There was expressed major
plank in Taft's campaign platform:
Careful control of the foreign aid
program in the pre-eminent light of
how it may effect this nations do
nestle economy.
Also, it was consistent with his
activities in congress where he has
been making that theory felt with
regard to approval of the Marshall
plan.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-26
!? Current Events :

These fOe questions aUiU test yoN
on b0sv VeU you read and remens-
Der details in the peaVs. If you ere
short on details yonU be long on
1UrONg ANSWERS.
1. John L.. Lewis has indicated
that he might challenge the pro-
vision of the Taft-Hartley law
which prohibits union welfare
funds. What is wrong with that
statement?
2. A famous Irishman recently
wrote: Leisure alone can make
us free; and only in Russia is
there any legal right to LEISURE"
Who would you say the author
is?
8. The house has passed two
bills liberalizing benefits paid to
veterans under the servicemen's
readjustment act of 1914. What
is the popular designation of that
law?
A. (a) A British crown colony
recently became a self-gOverning
dominion. (b) At the same time
Britain announced that "the Gil
braItar Of the East" another
crown colony eventually would
become self-governing. Identify
both.
S. Under the terms of a newly
signed agreement the u. S. will
continue for, three to five years to
use a military air base in the
Azores. Who governs the Azores?
ANSWERS
/. The law does not prohibit union
welfare funds. 1t only requires that
funds to which employers contribute
must be Jointly administered by
unions and management.
2. George Bernard Shaw.
8. The CT. bill of rights.
q. (a) Ceydon: (b) Singapore.
5. Portugal owns the Azores.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-26

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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-02-26
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Commodity Skid May Affect Tax Cut; Russ in Second
Propaganda Blast Fight Shapes Up Over Soil Control

EDITORS NOTE - When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of Western Newspaper Union
news analysts, and not necessarily of
this newspaper.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
National Home
Demonstration Week

The fifteen Homemakers' Clubs OF
Washington County are planning
window exhibits next week in OBJ
servance Of National Home Demon
stration Week, which will be observ-
ed throughout the Nation from May
2 to May 8. The exhibits will be in
store windows in Hagerstown, Will
Transport, Clear Spring, Sharpsburg,
Hancock, Keedysville, Cavetown,
Smithsburg and Rohrersville.
The clubs of Leitersburg and
townsville have chosen the same
subject for their displays-that OF
clothing construction, stressing the
pattern alteration work and the gar
ments made for both children and
adults in the clothing classes recent
ly held at the Home Demonstration
Office, and out in the various COM
munities.
Slip covers for different types of
chairs made at the schools for Home
makers, held this spring, will be the
subject of the exhibit of the Bridge
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
FUTURE MEETINGS

Tuesday, May 4, 2 p. m.-Bridge-
port Homemakers' Club will meet at
the home of Mrs. Edgar Remsburg.
Wednesday, May 5, 2 p. M
Downville Homemakers' Club will
meet with Mrs. r. E. Coffman and
Mrs. T. D. Mellott.
Thursday, May 6, 100 p. M
Chorus Rehearsal at home demon
stration office.
Thursday, May 6, 2 p m.-Huyetts'
Homemakers' Club will meet with
Mrs. Walter Cunningham, Mrs.
Frank Reid and Mrs Howard Sword.
Friday, May 7, 100 p. m.-Lec-
ture by Miss Mary Harter at Art
Museum, City Park.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29

port Club. Many other clubs are in
Guiding slip covers in their exhibits
centers, and of children's rooms.
Anyone interested in repairing
of refnished furniture, of reading
spring cushion units may learn how
it is done by stopping to look at the
exhibit which the Funkstown Home
makers Club will arrange. The Will
Transport Women's Club have as
their theme, ''The Home" and are
showing many projects for home i'm
provement carried in the club pro-
gram.
Huyetts Homemakers' Club will
have window showing the work of
the clubs in the past year in send
ing packages overseas to adopted
families, and Rohrersville Home
makers plan to show practical uses
of feed bags in sewing. Other clubs
will have windows showing the
processes involved in reseating
chairs, methods of refinishing and
using old picture frames, and other
creative arts that make for home
Identification and comfort and for
better family living.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
SERVICE AT FIRST CHURCH
OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST

Everlasting Punishment" will be
the subject of the Lesson-Sermon at
the First Church of Christ, Scientist,
235 N. Potomac Street, at 1900 "a m.
on Sunday
The Golden Text will be from
Psalms 34:21 22-"Evil shall Stay the
wicked; and they that hate the right
eous shall be desolate. The Lord re-
deemeth the soul of his servants; and
none of them that trust in him shall
be desolate."
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible-Romans GIG
Know we not, that whom we yield
yourselves servants to obey, his SER
wants we are to whom We obey:
whether of sin unto death, or of
obedience unto Righteousness"
The Lesson-Sermon also will in
clude passages from the Christian
Science textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures, .
by Mary Baker Eddy, among which
is the following, page GIVE can
not escape the penalty due for sin. y
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
News Of County
Homemakers' Clubs

Published below is the Greed of
the Washington County Homemak-
ers' Clubs, written by Mrs. Martha
L. A. Foster, who was the first presi-
dent of the Washington County
Council of Homemakers' Clubs:
We give our lives for what we be-
lieve.
We believe God has a message for
our lives.
We believe our homes are our first
schools where the spirit of love,
the only real thing in the world,
may be taught, instead of spite,
hatred and selfish desires.
We believe that in the common ex-
periences of life lie our great
est opportunities and respon-
sibilities.
We believe as with wisdom and cour-
age we face them, this goal of
perfection in homemaking sees
hope of fulfllment.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
Five County Cows
Make Milk Records
Registered Guernsey Cows
Owned By County Dairymen
Have Records Approved BY
Guernsey Cattle Club.

Peterborough, N. H.-Five regis
tered Guernsey cows from the dairy
herds of three Washington County
farmers, on twice daily milking for
a ten-month period, completed Of
fetal Advanced Register records
that were supervised by the Uni
versity Of Maryland and reported
to The American Guernsey Cattle
Club for approval and publication.
From the Delamere Farm of D.
Raymond Snively, Boonsboro, Fav-
orite's Dolly produced 10,302 pounds
of milk and 535 pounds of butter
fat, starting her record as senior
three-year old; and Coolbranch
Lady Star produced 9,262 pounds Of
milk and 466 pounds of butterfat as
a senior two-year old. Dolly is the
first daughter of the registered
Guernsey sire, Pets Majestic Son,
and Lady Star is the second daugh-
ter of the registered Guernsey sire,
Coolbranch Peony's Guardy.
From the Green Bottom Farms
of Ralph A. McCauley, Hagerstown,
Arlington Vagabond Lily produced
1858 pounds of milk and 457
pounds of butterfat as senior
four-year old, and was MIXED SAB
times during the test. She is the
first daughter of the registered
Guernsey sire, Madge's Vagabond.
From the Woodside Hall Farm of
Fred Downey, Williamsport, Wood
side Hall Knollton Irene produced
1888 pounds of milk and 402 pounds
of butterfat as a junior three-year
old; and Woodside Hall Lady Inez,
1929 pounds of milk and 381 pounds
of butterfat, as junior two-year
old. Irene is sired by the famous
Guernsey, Franchester Knollton,
that has thirty eight sons and daugh-
tiers in the Performance Register of
The American Guernsey Cattle Club,
and Inez is by the famous Guern-
sey sire, Blakeford Mikado, that has
one son and twenty-six daughters
in the Performance Register.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
ST. PAUL'S EVANGELICAL
UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH

Members of the Kiwanis Club and
their ladies will attend the evening
service at st. Paul's Evangelical
United Brethren Church, corner of
Franklin and Locust Streets, in a
body on Sunday evening at 1880
o'clock. Rev. DR.. F. Berry Plummer,
the pastor and past governor of the
Capital District of Kiwanis, will
preach a sermon on 'The Temples
We Build" The Senior and High
School Choirs will sing "All Hail
the Power of Jesus Name" by Colds
worthy.
Your Life-Fact or Fantasy?" will
be the sermon subject of Rev.
Charles A. Shelly, assistant pastor,
at the morning service at II o'clock.
Sunday School will meet at 9:45
a. m. Attendance last Sunday was
748. Junior Church will be held at
II a. m.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
Homemaker's Club
Of Halfway

The members of the Homemakers
Club of Halfway, whose names be-
gin with M to z, held their meeting
April % in the Potomac Edison Kit
chen, with thirty-eight members and
four guests present.
Miss Katherine Schmidt, in her
gracious and very pleasing manner,
demonstrated the latest in electrical
equipment, and the tasty food that
had been prepared was given to those
holding the lucky tickets.
The president of the club, Mrs.
Edward Cushen, held a short bust
ness session in the interest of the
club, and all enjoyed the afternoon
and profted by being there.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
Church NeUs
SERVICES AT ST. PAUL'S
METHODIST CHURCH

st. Paul's Methodist Church, North
Potomac Street will observe next
Sunday as Nature Sunday in the
church.
At the morning service, Rev. Nor
man L. Trott, the minister, will speak
on the theme Goods Hand and
Mans On the evening, Rev. Mr.
Trott's topic will be "The Heavens
Are Telling"
The morning service will deal
with the beauty of the earth, the
evening service with the beauty of
the skies.
Worship services are held at II a.
m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School
meets at 9:45 a. m. and the Evening
Youth Groups begin at $50 p. m.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
All Senior Council
Holds Meeting Here
Interesting Program Is Fea-
tured By Address Of Mrs.
Handst, Author Of Syndicated
Column Cup In Polly's Room. :"

Over fifty All Senior Council and
Committee Club members heard
Mrs. Polly Johnson Handst speak on
"Our Future Rural Home at a meet
ing in the local Extension Office on
Friday night, April %. Mrs. Handst
who as All club member of West
Virginia won many state and ma
tional honors, is now a homemaker
in Oakland, Maryland with fam
lily of three children. She is well
know for her syndicated column,
up in Polly's Room, which had
great appeal for the teen-age girl.
Mrs. HandSt is also in much demand
as a speaker for older youth groups.
During the business session the 4
H Council voted to contribute $15
toward the expenses of sending a
All club member from Maryland as
a representative on a tour abroad.
The Maryland representative will
travel with delegates from each of
the 48 states. These young people
will visit rural homes in foreign
countries for a 4-months period with
a view toward promoting better in
ternational understanding. A con-
tribution was also made to the
American Cancer Society.
David Mckee, Chairman of special
activities, presented plans for tour
to Hershey, Pa, in June, for the
members consideration.
The President, Robert Shank, an
nounced that Go-To-Church Sunday
would be observed by all All club
members of the county on Maya at
st. Johns Reformed Church in Clear
Spring. The service will be at 800
p. m. Daylight Savings Time, and
all All members were urged to at
tend. Rev. J. Wade Huffman is the
minister.
Mrs. Ernest Yeakle, of Hancock,
was chairman of the committee on
arrangements and was assisted by
Madeline O'Rourke. Miss Helen
Roth directed the singing and Mrs.
Adrian Strife had charge of the rec
reation for the evening.
The next monthly meeting of the
All Council will be held on May %,
in the form of Demonstration Night.
Demonstrations will be given for the
Council membership by Community
Club All members
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
Skeleton OF Prehistoric Bird
Discovered In New Zealand

Complete skeletons of the moas,
an enormous, strange bird of pre-
historic times, have been excavated
from swamp in New Zealand, ac-
cording to Dr. Robert Cushman Muir
ply, head of the bird department of
the American Museum of Natural
History. These huge birds presum-
ably measured as much as II feet in
height and weighed 500 pounds.
They laid eggs almost as large as a
football.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
ST. PAUL'S EV. LUTHERAN
CHURCH, FUNKSTOWN

The month of May will be devoted
to studies of the Christian Family at
St Pauls Lutheran Church, Funks-
town.
This Sunday, at $50 a. M, the first
sermon in this series will be given
by Rev. NJ Miller, Pastor. The title
of the series will be, Reverence
For Man"
At 10:40 a. m. the Sunday School
session will begin, with special en-
phasis on visual aids. Luther League
is held at $50 p. m.
There will be no more evening
services until the fall.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
CHILDREN'S STORY HOUR
AT PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIDAY

The second in the series of six
story hours for children between
the ages of and IL years, will be
held in the Children's Room at the
Washington County Free Library to-
morrow (Friday) at A p. m, when
Mrs. Paul M. Robinson will be the
story-teller.
There were ITO children present
last week, and a large attendance is
expected again tomorrow.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
On The Move

A Census Bureau survey shows
that about seventy million persons
in the United States, or one out of
every two, have moved into differ
ent homes since 1910. The Bureau
puts it in these words: Probably
never before in the history of the
United States has there been inter
nal population movement of such
magnitude"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29

The U. S. Navy's only "grog tub"
is at the Naval Academy, Annapolis,
Maryland. An exhibit at the Acad-
emys Museum, it is a present from
Inns Frobisher, British training
ship, in appreciation of the welcome
given the English sailors on a weeks
visit to Annapolis.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
Trustful Soul

A penny postcard with no return
address mailed from Waitsburg,
Wash, arrived safely in Portland,
Ore, mailbox-with a SIS bill gum
med to it. Clerks estimated that the
money went through at least eight
different hands before reaching its
destination.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-04-29
Weaker Sex?

The average woman lives 3.6
years longer than her male coun-
terpart, figures released by the Of
flee of Vital Statistics reveal. The
average age at death for men is 62.7;
for women, 66.3.