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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1942
Page
2
Readers weigh in on a proposed program to give military drill to high school students. Several comments praise discipline and preparedness while concerns arise about knee injuries and impact on athletics. The piece captures local sentiment amid wartime text and a festive holiday verse.
The High Point community should back the bar association’s effort to move Guilford Superior Court hearings to the city. Public interest and transportation limits argue for a bill from the next Legislature. Opponents claim High Point court reach is broad but this could waste time and money by duplicating trials.
A Washington press summary reports Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt urging equal rights for Black citizens as part of wartime democracy. She argues education, legal justice, and ballot access must be available to all, while social equality remains optional. The piece also notes Italy's collapse under Mussolini and the broader Axis threat, urging a different postwar reception for liberated peoples.
The article argues that Italians never supported World War II as a nation and have long been anti-German. It states Italians fear German Nazi victory more than aggression from democracies and suggests their eventual break from the Axis is likely, conditioned by ongoing Allied action across the Mediterranean.
Eugene Wilson of United Aircraft warns officials from the President downward that the power to compel reveals incompetence to lead. He argues forceful authority harms the little man and corrupts good workers, noting even in the army and in everyday policing the best leaders are those who guide, not coerce.
Edward Johnson notes wartime shift at the Metropolitan Opera from European stars to American talent. Marie Wilkins of Lawrence Kansas fills the lead role in Lakme on 24 hours notice, a debut achieved by a young American after studies in Paris and Milan. Lily Ponsill and Lakme were scheduled for December 2.
The article lauds American-born sopranos like Helen Traubel and James Melton in Met Opera roles, notes the surge of U.S. trained talent via the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air, and highlights a shift from an operatic import nation to an export nation with Americans performing abroad. It forecasts a rise of minor league opera houses at home to season artists and sustain culture during and after the war.
Local Democratic dinner at Tar Heel Inn was scuttled when host, aligned with Republicans, canceled after 100 stalwarts trudged through 15 inches of snow. Nearby, 50 citizens discussed the Build High Point plan to attract new industries, expand the furniture trade, and boost local banking, stores, and tourism.
Twenty years ago on December 23 1922 a Christmas fund of 8700 was entrusted to Fire Chief A B Horney, the largest fund yet. A fire caused 300 damage in the vulcanizing shop of H Culler Sons in the John A Lindsay building. Families and residents alongside local events and political notes frame the day.
North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham earned Association of American Universities accreditation, one of four in the nation, prompting praise for President Dr. James E. Shepherd and noting past lean appropriations and strong advocacy.
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