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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1951
Page
2
A reader cites an objective test of 11 000 Los Angeles youths 16 to 18 revealing 18 percent did not know there are 12 months in a year and 3 percent could not tell time. The writer questions teachers, standards, and city leadership about education quality and future schooling.
A column argues Ike Eisenhower should declare for the Republican nomination soon. Senator Lodge backs him but warns he must state availability, as Taft looms. The piece notes Ike’s continued uniform duty may cost momentum and cautions timing could ruin chances.
In a nostalgic column F C weighs rail and air travel dangers for Mr Traveler USA. He notes trains offer survivable rear car injuries in head on crashes, while planes pose total ruin on impact with fire risks. Mechanical failure is harsher in the air, and Social Security concerns loom.
The report notes a broad reshuffle as 30 internal revenue officials resign or are ousted while President Truman replaces Theron Caudle with Ellis Slack in the Justice Department. Cecil R. King leads a probe, urging decisive action to restore public trust, with Dunlap and McGrath pledging cooperation to the inquiry.
Washington reels as Truman order to withhold sensitive information sparks chaos in federal agencies. Officials confront conflicting dictates on transparency while ethical missteps and bureaucratic bungling fuel public and political critique amid ongoing probes.
In the discussion of Senator Taft's book A Foreign Policy for Americans, the article outlines Taft's argument that the United States must restore its free hand in international affairs only if an effective rule of law based international organization exists. It reviews historic principles like sovereignty, noncolonization, and freedom of the seas, contrasts them with Wilsonian entanglement, and cites Taft's critique of the United Nations as lacking a legal basis and veto flaws.
A set of quotations from Jean Cocteau Michael Curtiz and John Quigley. Cocteau compares Germans laughing at Hitler to a woman's laugh upon reuniting with a former lover. Curtiz links hunger in the eye to love in romance and cooking. Quigley condemns cigar smoking as abused by industry and politics.
A column blends showbiz goss, theatre notes, and headlines from New York coverage. Walters jokes headline jokes and trench entertainment chatter, with references to Dolores Gray, Truman, and figures like Bert Lahr, Jack Gleason, and Nat King Cole.
A retrospective column discusses Advent as the season of Jesus birth, calendar shifts from Julius Caesar to Gregory, and estimates Jesus born near 4 BE or 6 BC. It marks Pearl Harbor Day 1941, reflection on U.S. entry into WWII, and urges caution against rash action while noting no readiness for global war. It then debates toy guns for children, Roosevelt’s gun training, and a reader story about a toy gun robbery, ending with Chinese New Year debt customs anecdote.
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