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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1945
Page
4
A wartime prayer pleads for mercy for soldiers and families as casualty lists grow and nations confront political expediency. The speaker asks God to guard leaders with moral foresight and uphold the Ten Commandments as a path to lasting peace.
A reflective meditation on Philippians 2:5 and the life of Jesus Christ. The writer cites Dr. Charles M. Sheldon and Carl Moffatt to urge inner humility, selfless service, and living the gospel in business and daily life, ending with a call for Christlike thinking to end wars.
Residents and officials discuss the city’s need for more fire equipment, ongoing firefighting at the Davis Milling Company, a shop break-in and repair, alimony clerk hours, manpower bill proposals, the Farmers Family Center, Travelers Aid, and returning veterans adjusting to American life.
The piece discusses anxieties about what to do with the U S wartime merchant fleet after the conflict. It notes the potential transfer via lend lease, estimates wartime and postwar ship ownership, and weighs risks of competition from lower wages and cheaper foreign ships, suggesting a partial transfer to allies like Britain and Holland.
Analysts debate whether the United States should cede part of its vast merchant fleet to aid global economies and hasten postwar recovery. Critics warn this could curb U S shipping power while others push to keep dominance and insure a stronger economy than after World War I.
Fred Van deventer proposes a plan urging children to track family grocery prices and report to authorities. He likens it to Mayor La Guardia's campaign against gambling and urges monitoring ceiling prices, warning children they are not policemen. The rhetoric recalls revolutionary era spying and parental betrayal.
By George Sokolsky urges defending family morals against snooping methods used to enforce compliance. He condemns child surveillance as immoral and warns it erodes character, urging parents, clergy, and schools to resist such tactics and protect ten commandments standards.
The column shares rapid rumor and anecdote from Broadway and media during wartime. It mentions Sonja Henie funding Yankees, Bogart visiting Louis Bromfield, Nazi prisoner treatment mail, Paris broadcasts, cigars and Swedish captains, a first Carnegie Hall concert by Arthur Stern, Reader’s Scope and Collier’s sales, and bits about Jeanne Rice, Jimmy Durante lyrics, and Faye Emerson moments.
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