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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1943
Page
4
A humorous wartime column contrasts poetry with practical life as spring arrives. It argues gardening beats golf in value, laments rationing, urges fresh meals, and pokes fun at the farmer in High Point while praising honest work and resilience.
A High Point editorial laments waning public interest in government amid war and urges defense of democratic rights. It analyzes the failed wine control measure, noting wine interests pressed for a department and grape culture mandates, while compromise may have doomed the package. It contrasts liquor, wine, and beer politics in Raleigh and comments on broader state issues and quirky notes.
In a public forum style exchange readers discuss discipline methods at a junior high and support for teachers. Voices from students parents veterans and local figures weigh spanking authority and the role of law and army in school discipline.
Burton Heath argues against attaching riders to major bills to bypass presidential vetoes while endorsing a Congressional limit on executive pay as preferable to a veto bypass. He notes the Disney repealer would be vetoed and would validate an executive statue if enacted, then shifts to practical slips such as apartment leases and a critique of sliced bread economy during wartime.
A reflective note compares happiness to enduring life’s ills and the chastening of the Almighty. It cites Job and Juvenal to contrast divine correction with resilient endurance amid adversity.
Census Bureau reports 1939 U S retail sales at 42 023 818 000 surpassing 1935 by 28 percent. Per capita sales near 320. The nation added 294 539 stores in the past decade. Liquor stores selling packaged goods number 19 139 with 586 293 000 in annual business.
The column surveys Broadway openings led by This Rock starring Billie Burke and Alastair Kyle, with praise and sharp critique from critics. It also notes new films The Crystal Ball and The Amazing Mrs Holliday and reports on wartime media, Nance, and Public Affairs commentary across radio and newspapers with fashioning social satire and international observations.
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