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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1945
Page
4
Statisticians report Chapel Hill has the highest per capita schooling in the nation with an average of 13.7 years per resident, ahead of Palo Alto. The study covers all citizens and highlights Chapel Hill as a growing cultural center and proud local achievement.
The army denies President Truman's Washington to Independence trip was unsafe despite reports of rough weather. Pilots call it routine with ice once, yet reporters note a very rough ride. Airline flights were canceled before takeoff and resumed after the president finished his trip.
The author contrasts the 30 to 50 coal mine deaths with far higher highway fatalities over Christmas, noting newspapers and the public give far less prominence to road disaster. He says editors and readers have grown callous to highway slaughter.
The piece lauds a world-spanning congressional tour studying alleged waste of military supplies. It highlights Michigan Congressman Albert Engel who recently reported destruction of army property worth millions in India and argues Congress must act on past and future losses.
The piece notes that state law on selecting a successor to a deceased congressman is vague. It mentions the governor must order a general election but party candidate naming is unsettled. The Democratic committee led by State Senator Joe Blythe likely fills the vacancy, with Blythe a strong contender.
Joe Boyd notes officers show uniform courtesy during holidays and year round. He credits the department with pride in service and questions past perceptions of High Point as a tough city. He urges transparent facts on conditions to dispel the myth amid population growth.
A World War II wartime letter reflects on Christmas Eve 1944 in New Guinea. Lt Madie Reitzel recalls jungle foxholes, no wounded that night, and a mother’s wish fulfilled as soldiers liberate camps and advance toward victory. She sends holiday blessings to brave service members.
Capitol Square notes better mail for rural and small town communities in the east, aided by airlines and highway mail cars. A Greensboro to Raleigh route exists, but the northeastern corner remains a bottleneck with delayed delivery to Plymouth, Williamston, and Elizabeth City.
Relief sources say two to three highway post office routes could feed mail into airports or rail lines. Backers urge local groups and eastern congressmen to push the plan, a move that officials hope will spur post office action. Turmoil follows Congressman Ervin's Christmas Eve death, rattling the tenth district as a contested solicitor primary looms with Folger Townsend undecided.
A reflective critique argues MacArthur cannot erase Shinto from Japanese life stating religion persists beyond political action. It contrasts Shinto with Western faiths and cites ancestor worship as a universal religious impulse influencing Judaism Christianity and Islam. The piece labels attempts to abolish Shinto as futile and notes potential martyrdom sentiment among Shinto followers.
In a discussion on ancestor worship across cultures, the essay argues that filial reverence sustains moral law and identity. It contrasts Jewish and Chinese rites with Japanese Shinto, noting respect for ancestors as a source of strength, duty, and communal memory despite war and change.
A German artist dies at 78 in a European mountain town, praised by a liberal weekly for anti-Nazism yet criticized for lacking artistic merit. The writer argues politics taints art, cites Uncle Tom's Cabin and Russian art as examples, and laments political influence on critics, distributors, and culture.
The writer lauds Eakins Winslow Homer and Grant Wood as great artists and laments political themes dominating much modern work. He praises contemporary painters Hopper Burchfield Bohrod Speicher Lucioni Mattson Chapi James and notes NC Wyeth’s death with a quietly praised work. He argues art should stand apart from politics and predicts Wyeth’s works may endure in museums.
A Truman administration split pits the Hannegan Vinson faction backing closer ties with CIO voters against a Wallace led group seeking broader labor support. James Byrnes and John Snyder push for full Rooseveltian welfare measures to win worker votes, while labor leaders fear a third party split. The piece notes internal friction, past advisers, and a controversial Navy witness choice in McVay court proceedings.
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