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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1942
Page
4
A recalling editorial praises local doctors facing draft age limits and urges appreciation for physicians who keep the community healthy. It notes fear of staff shortages if health threats rise and stresses patient responsibility, cheerful spirit, and faith in the Great Physician as keys to overcoming minor ailments. It also calls for fair pay for doctors entering army camps.
The piece argues that Singapore is effectively lost except for a heroic hold by defenders and praises Luzon, while warning that only a large scale land offensive on the Asian mainland could deter Japan. It notes Burma road risks, Chinese need to defend, and hints General Wavell marshals forces for future action against the Japanese advances.
A report that all High Point physicians including general practitioners surgeons and specialists may be drafted into the Army or Navy prompted local comment. Citizens note the era’s stress as families worry for sons service while recalling the 1918 influenza epidemic and the strain on remaining doctors.
A column on Abraham Lincoln noting partial observance of Lincoln Day in the South and the lingering obscurity of Lincoln himself. It contrasts Lincoln biographies, highlights Carl Sandburg, and argues for faith that right makes might to sustain a united nation facing crisis.
A regional study by war production representatives in Durham highlights growing industrial dislocation from the wartime shift. It notes no move toward full labor regimentation and contrasts U S practices with totalitarian systems while urging defense needs without further sacrifice.
The text discusses acute labo needs in some industries and a distressing shortage of work in others. It notes actual skilled worker shortages across production, and questions how to train men quickly and move them to appropriate jobs while preventing costly migration. It emphasizes the strain on the democratic process and potential pressure to abandon or alter it.
Beverly Osborne rose from near bankruptcy in Oklahoma City to world reach by reinventing fried chicken service. He replaced forks with fingers, franchising 234 restaurants in five years and even travels by his own plane to manage holders. The lesson: own blame, seek new ideas, and add value to old work.
In Essex Connecticut a British sailor on leave needed narrow white tape for his uniform collar. Mrs A at a Madison dry goods store custom cut and edged tape to fit, lent extra rolls, and sent two reels of cotton and pins. She paid the writer five dollars in advance, urging the sailor to buy more for his shipmates. The act sparked thoughts on art, openness, and cross cultural kindness.
A rapid fire sketch of New York society figures and show business chatter. Bonnie Baker, Ruby Foos, Merle Oberon, Grace Moore, Walter Disney, Frank Fay, Raymond Massey, Thornton Wilder, Ruth Garden, Alice Leone Moats, Margie Hart, Maxie Rosenbloom, Dick Hawkins, Melvyn Douglas, Cagney, Carole, and others mingle at clubs, depots, and theaters. Notes on gossip, fashion, and upcoming projects mix with sharp witticisms and street reports from Midtown to Esquire and the Copa Dodgers.
A Broadway column sketches Peggy Biber, a sales girl turned contender with test offers from three studios after being spotted as a Lana Turner double. It catalogs nightlife quips at Leon & Ed dies, Dempsey's, LaMartinique, Havana Madrid, Club 18, Club Frisco, Penguin, Hickory House, and Versailles, plus a Marine’s Wake Island quip and a Cynic Railway line.
Local news items note Dr. John D. Biggs as receiver of the closed Commercial National Bank. Allied Citizens groups to back the 18th Amendment form in High Point and nationwide. A curb market endorsement by area farmers and visits from guests including Mrs. Belideau of Brooklyn. Public notes on Lincoln Day dinners supporting Hoover, anti hoarding drives, and Pope Pius marking ten years since coronation urging peace. A Senate bid by Frank D. Grist attacks the current incumbent amid broader calls for bipartisan reform and a cross-border cooperative pest campaign against the pink bollworm. New faces expected next year and quotes urging truth and global perspective from Willkie.
Peter Edson in Washington analyzes how wartime demand reshapes migrant farm labor. With rubber shortages and transportation limits, employers may have to provide transport for seasonal workers, turning migrants from tolerated to essential. Increased Army and war-industry jobs pull 335,000 workers away, shifting labor patterns and elevating migrant labor's economic importance.
A jumble of brief items notes Civil Aeronautics Administration pilots logging six million miles lowering a $3000 policy to 4.90, study programs for Democratic women on peace, huge cigar production with job figures, a course on entertaining children in shelters, traffic proposals to curb downtown driving, farm share in food transport, a hotel private bus line to government buildings, and a wartime comment about defense blondes.
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