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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1938
Page
4
The piece weighs the push to use voting machines from woman suffrage to modern ballots. It notes New York City use and Proposes that North Carolina citizens must ensure honest election officials first, then let machines assist as needed.
High Point editor Claiborne H. Rhodes releases the July Hell Box, a Rhodes Press house organ, with travel tales from his June Rotary International convention trip in San Francisco and a Rockies train barber tale that mixes wit and philosophy.
A narrator recalls a traveling barber aboard a rocking train who skillfully shaves while being tossed about. The barber keeps his razor in position striking whiskers with each jolt and even jokes about seeking a piece of the chin. The scene ends with a quip about newsreels and mood for retakes.
The Enterprise welcomes the annual DeMolay conclave meeting in High Point on Monday and Tuesday. The city pledges a friendly reception, urging the youth to enjoy a pleasant and profitable stay. The latchkey is out to you.
Harry L. Hopkins says in Memphis that stable one to several months of work per year should supplement farm income and reduce relief stigma. He favors changing work certification toward an employment system. The piece notes farmers in North Carolina using timber, shingles, threshing, and selling to boost earnings, urging initiative.
Two years ago voters authorized insertion of a word not found in standard dictionaries. The word may prove troublesome as critics warn amendments were drafted carelessly in a state already wary of constitutional changes.
The Raleigh administration debates when a biennium begins for constitutional debt limits. The constitution caps annual debt increase at two thirds of the prior biennium's reduction, but whether the two years count are calendar years, fiscal years, or tax/appropriation years remains unresolved and could be decided by courts.
The Salisbury Evening Post touts WSTP as a station name derived from the slogan We serve the Piedmont. It argues serving the Piedmont means serving North Carolina and notes the east and west meet in the Piedmont at this time of year by the sounding waves.
The German consul protests the naming of a government owned horse Hitler mocking the idea of riding. The column calls the name a misnomer and jokes about Hitler.
London society women take up tattooing while a first diamond zipper debuts. A Los Angeles beauty parlor for dogs opens as readers ask how their sense of humor is today.
Walter Wineheld on Broadway surveys eight New York attractions with mixed reviews. Vera Zorina shines in I Married An Angel and Sinclair Lewis appears in the stage version. Walter Wanger's Algiers impresses, while others stumble in crowded summer bills.
The article traces how official surnames reflect medieval duties from steward and marshal to judge, nurse, cook, Chandler, launders, and carver. It links names like Stewart, Sargent, Mayor, Usher, Gate, and Norris to their historical functions, noting shifts to modern meanings and the social hierarchy behind one man one job.
A reflective piece links dawn mist to frontiers of the mind and reports on reported hauntings and miraculous events. It recounts a mother guided by a vision of her dead daughter and details of Therese a stigmatic German girl who endures Friday wounds and weekly Communion fasting.
The narrator notes veterans wear wound stripes with pride, valuing their scars over medals. He recalls Saint Paul bearing marks of suffering for Christ and mentions a June Ken magazine feature with a remarkable war story.
Thomas C. Long of York acknowledges his arrest for embezzlement and forgery after years under an alias. Frederick B Snite Jr. has lived in an iron lung for over a year and voices a defiant attitude. Nancy Miller, 15, from Philadelphia, emerges from a wrecked stolen car after a police chase and laments not being a boy.
Quote attributed to Dr. Herbert Koepp-Baker, professor of speech at Pennsylvania State College.
Leslie Craven, attorney, told the American Bar Association that conventional mindedness is the root of most evil in railroad management and called for changes in policy and oversight.
Eric Linklater recasts Lysistrata as a 1940s antiwar tale where women siege Edinburgh Castle to force peace as the world reels from 1914 and aerial bombardment. We True: Morgen and Royal St. Gabriel in a charged romance with a quiet denouement. Cecile Hulse Matschat’s Suwannee River stories blend nature lore and legend with swamp life and Native communities.
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