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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1940
Page
4
A Raleigh column reflects on aging parents and life, then shifts to state finances with January tax gains and highway funding debates. It notes rising general sales and prosperity, worries about diversions from highway funds, and cites Governor candidates and Maxwell as revenue voices.
Walter Murphy of Rowan attends a Rotary luncheon and discusses a long political career. He has served in the General Assembly since 1899, including two terms as Speaker. He is a candidate for Secretary of State and remains active and hopeful.
A historical overview discusses job scarcity after World War II, noting wartime employment shifts and women entering new fields. It argues private enterprise failed to evenly distribute work and benefits, while public relief grew federal debt. It calls for a permanent employment mechanism beyond public relief to address persistent joblessness.
Obituary-style tribute to Miss Cox a member of the Society of Friends and pastor of Springfield Friends Church. She balanced suffrage era work with broad service, aiding the poor, promoting peace, and sharing Scriptural truth with cheerful sympathy and unassuming strength. The reflection praises her humanitarian life and calls for action on social and economic issues.
In 1909 Kansas City, George Pepperdine, then a garage bookkeeper earning $15 weekly, used grit and a $5 bill to start an auto parts business. He secured suppliers on credit, mailed banker backed circulars to identify car owners, and finally found a printer to print on credit. The tale promises more details tomorrow.
A Massachusetts musician claims his bagpipes were stolen and asks neighbors for help. The item prompts a broader reflection on restoring peace and unity at home as political commentary references Thomas E. Dewey and movie censorship debates.
Word spreads that Dewey aged 37 is deemed too young to hold the presidency and too old for any other sort of job. The chatter reflects a view of his age as a political obstacle.
A miscellany notes Walter Winchell on Broadway and a sharp quip about a troubled “kid on her conscience.” It cites Mizner and references weather jokes from Homer Bigart and the N Y Herald Tribune. Damon Runyon remarks on a mother with a child and Ira Wolfert comments on a scandalous actress.
In a sketchy column, figures like Woollcott and DeKruif tease Hollywood and theater. The piece notes Duce caricatures in French papers, Maurois praising Chartier, and a Union Square clash over accents. Hedy Lamarr electrifies a Normandie premiere as jockeys blame a new gate for poor form at Hialeah.
Local missionaries to the Belgian Congo, Mr and Mrs W C Worth, will address worshippers at the First Presbyterian Church Sunday morning. The Southern Furniture Exposition closed today. A two day Deep River Friends Meeting conference opened at Central Friends Church with President W A Harper of Elon College delivering the closing address tomorrow night.
The writer rails at anti semite claims behind wartime policy and urges reading past papers. He argues Hore-Belisha was dismissed by General Ironside for personal reasons, not anti semitism, noting Ironside and Gamelin as rivals. The piece hints at unity amid Germany and recalls postwar tensions within the English memory.
On the Palm Beach Country Club course Barbara Hutton followed fiancé Sweeney as he played a match with Sam Snead. Her poodle rode in her arms as the dog laughter echoed at the signs reading no dogs allowed.
Mrs. Edgar Jones of Charlotte will arrive Thursday to spend several days with Mrs. Hoke Bullard at her home in Emerywood. Miss Eleanor Marsh of Garden City will be the guest of Miss Ruth Bowne at her Hillcrest Drive home.
Story recalls Al Capone in Miami staging a gag where a rugged “father” fires a pretend warning from a window as a man carries gifts to a date. In one vignette a friend, challenged by the pretend menace, replies he is unafraid because he is “with you.”
Congressman Fort Lehrbach backs branding all whiskey drinkers as criminals. The United States cruiser Augusta launched at Newport News Virginia today.
The piece blends sharp jabs at Soviet and Nazi links with quirky scenes from New York. It notes Ernest Thaelmann in a German camp and U.S. atonka radar of alliances while recalling Lum’s Garden patrons by the Japanese Consulate. It also touches on F D R slips and a celebrity’s club misstep in a rapid, satirical collage.
Twenty years ago the piece notes that any healthy man of good looks could be president as the job offers good pay and varying hours. It cites Hiram Johnson, Bryan, General Wood, Pershing, McAdoo, and a Mexico war angle, urging readers to start practicing if they want the presidency.
Bruce Catton reports the U S Army exceeded its enlistment target for 1939, raising strength from 165000 to 227000 with about 40000 more needed to cover term expirations. Maj H N Gilbert and the adjutant general’s office credit the record drive and note the end date arrived months early.
A woman who charged her husband with non support was jailed until she paid the court costs. The item notes that gentlemen should not misread this as a sign of the approaching millennium.
The piece notes impatience among boys toward the President’s silence on the third term question and senses of being watched by unseen eyes.
The dialogue centers on balancing the budget with appropriations first, while the House committee pushes ahead. Senator Harrison urges joint work with the finances panel, but the committee says it is far along on appropriations and may delay. The piece ends with a proverb about shrinking the tire to fit the wheel and urging adherence to rules and civic duty.
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