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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1939
Page
4
The High Point Enterprise shows staff roles for R B Terry president D A Rawley secretary treasurer Hammett Cecil general manager and editor with monthly and weekly pay figures for twelve months six months three months one month and one week.
A meditation on Psalm 8 verses about the heavens as the work of God and humanity as touched by divine consideration. It ponders man’s smallness and the idea that each person is an act of God with mind and life as a breath of the divine, attributed to Bailey.
The column urges maintaining UNC funding without raising foreign tuition and warns against a provincial policy that would close doors to non North Carolina students. It notes alternating views on reciprocity tuition and highlights President Graham pleading for legislative support to avoid hindering progress. The piece also covers Mrs. Roosevelt's resignation from a group over policy, speculating on a broader race discrimination dispute surrounding a Negro singer and D A R.
The Crusaders, a new Charlotte organization led by Henry Houston of the Charlotte Post, aims to unite Negro residents in fighting crime and guiding youth toward sane, worthy ends. The group seeks to channel community energy into constructive programs for local young people.
The article credits a federally funded youth program with lowering crime among Black youths in High Point by keeping them in wholesome activities and productive work. It notes similar concerns for white youths ages twelve to sixteen and urges continued youth conservation and civic responsibility.
The Raleigh Times comments that James J. Hines' conviction signals a pre selected candidate for the Republican National Convention. It suggests District Attorney Dewey could secure nomination with added prestige and warns against a president guided by showmanship in a modern, de facto Washington.
James Madison Wood, president of Stephens College, pursued a bold program to transform the girls college by adding a top drama department led by Maude Adams. After years of obstacles including Adams’s reluctance, a pivotal contact finally secured a meeting at the Colony Club in New York and a contract was signed.
Senator Robert A. Taft asserts that opportunity remains the central aim for all America, not security. He emphasizes that both young and older generations should pursue broad chances to advance.
Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton argues before the Phi Beta Kappa society that democracy ends when minorities are persecuted. He voices concern at a campus meeting.
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan questioned at a Senate hearing whether United States obligations to the Filipinos have a definite end or if they continue indefinitely, signaling debate over post‑war policy.
Walter Winchell On Broadway recounts Sammy Renick the jockey visiting Hollywood. Mark Hellinger recommended Renick, who rode in a Santa Anita race named after Hellinger’s friend. Renick rode for the rival horse Forsooth owned by Harry Warner, with a dramatic lead then defeat at the wire. The narrative shifts to a Latin delivery by a professor while Kieran silences the room.
millionaire F L Hutton asserts Barbara Hutton is his daughter during a columnist interview. A separate Italian observer boasts of conquests in Ethiopia and France, while a French official quashes the brag. On a train a pro Nazi and another man discuss blame for world woes as Yale honors John Kieran with a class address.
At Madison Square Garden the Nazi Bund staged its first full dress meeting under 1500 New York police protection. The confrontation was brief with the defending American speaker prevailing as the event opened with a controversial ideological clash.
A compact reflection on how events race forward in real time as one minute passes. The prose frames daily life as a swift, fate shaped sequence where action and consequence align across the globe.
A Esquire Features column notes vast daily costs and outputs from the nation. It cites Smithsonian preservation costs a dollar a minute, gas leak fires at five dollars per minute, dental drills at three dollars per minute, and cotton produced twenty four bales per minute. It lists the National Archives handling ninety documents a minute and water use in New York at seven hundred thousand gallons per minute. It references dramatic time markers from history and fiction and notes a World’s Fair time capsule dig in 1939, with customs inspecting a minute of entrants.
Dr Dudley D Carroll dean of the school of commerce spoke at a supper in Central Friends church on mans conception of God and its implications. City council members oppose a proposed charter change and election law bill that would plunge the city back into politics.
Bruce Catton reports on changes in IRS tax dispute handling as regional divisions open by May 1 with 600 advisers to assist taxpayers locally. The piece outlines how returns under and over 5000 dollars are processed, the role of field auditors, and access to the Board of Tax Appeals for appeals. It notes the 1938 Board of Tax Appeals cases totaled 134.5 million in tax and 36.6 million collected.
S. H. Strickland Earl Brooks and P. J. Disher spent yesterday in Charlotte. Miss Ida Terry of Hamlet visited her brother R. B. Terry. Mrs. Frank Andrews of Greensboro was yesterday's guest of Mrs. L. R. Terry. Dr. Lloyd T. Wilson and Mrs. Wilson have returned home from Florida.
Carolina streams swell after heavy rains. Congress races to finish work. Cuban secret service names plotters against Machado. Hoover completes his cabinet. Lindbergh suffers shoulder injury after plane accident near Mexico City during a three hour outing with Anne Morrow.
In a special city council session Robert L. Pickett was selected to succeed Thomas J. Murphy whose city manager term ends today. Pickett will take over duties tomorrow as a derailed freight incident and other briefs are noted.
A fragmented column outlines wartime trade shuffles with the United States selling planes to France and iron to Germany while Russia sells oil, hinting at broader business cycles. It muses on March's quiet tonality and recalls Sonny growing up and joining the town band, with the father figure once mighty.
Former New York district attorney Wil Dodge responds when asked about his relation to James J. Hines. He says the connection felt as close as that between a mother and son, indicating a personal and familial bond.
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