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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1945
Page
4
A local editorial denounces a perceived decline in young women’s morals during wartime in High Point. It cites Judge MacRae, police, and public venues, noting soldiers frequenting weekends and alleging a rise in illegitimate births. It calls residents to confront the disruption with calm, adult action.
The text expounds Jesus Golden Rule from the Sermon on the Mount, urging followers to act with love beyond spite and revenge. It contrasts negative or conditional interpretations, emphasizes divine generosity, and calls readers to consider Godward forgiveness and the limits of human resource when returning good for evil.
Private James B. Mitchell of High Point writes from the front detailing repeated wounds and times in hospital. He recalls muddy holes, cold water, scarce food, and pay concerns while contrasting life overseas with strikes and money back home.
Judge Don MacRae condemns street solicitation of soldiers' vicinity as deplorable while Sgt Marilyn Hazelaker notes WACs see the world yet toil on demanding duties. Ruby Bowden urges Valentine gifts for service members. Pte Douglas Johnson recalls Red Cross Christmas boxes from High Point and North Carolina’s push against infantile paralysis.
The Senate bill by Archie Gay to raise pay for general and special committee clerks passes both chambers amid Rep. Umstead’s opposition over higher clerk rates. The plan classifies clerks and boosts pay by a dollar a day for typists and stenographers, while Umstead questions equity with temporary workers. In another clash, Rep. McKinley Edwards seeks to amend the blood test bill in bastardy cases by shifting test costs to the requester, arguing court costs are already high.
Lawmakers debated costs to taxpayers for fair trials as provision would require defendants to pay for blood tests in paternity cases. A recall was supported 47 to 36 after an amendment by Edwards. Mention of the Charlie Chaplin Joan Berry case circulated informally as influencing the vote.
A commentary argues that Poland’s fate under Soviet influence endangers its national existence. It recalls Poland’s UN role and its shift from Nazi partner to a Soviet allied regime via the Lublin Committee, warning against eroding Polish sovereignty while supporting the anti-German war effort.
By George Sokolsky argues that Stalin and the Lublin government replace Polish leaders with Bolsheviks, creating a puppet state. The piece warns Americans against accepting Soviet domination, noting the pattern seen in Yugoslavia Bulgaria and Romania and urging resistance to prevent civil conflict.
Britain's wartime policy conscripts women into the armed forces and essential labor. About 7 million of 16 million women aged 14 to 59 work in services or paid jobs, with 467,000 in the services and 125,000 in post offices. ATS, WRENS, WAAF, and WVS numbers rise as women fill roles from engineers to dispatch riders and evacuee organizers.
A sweeping portrait of women's contributions in wartime Britain. It highlights the growth of the Women's Auxiliary Police Corps to over 5,000, the Air Transport Auxiliary pilots ferrying aircraft and blood, volunteer Mechanized Transport Corps drivers, and the Women's Legion operating mobile canteens and drives. It notes Lady Astor’s sharp quip on English women, the role of women in anti-aircraft defense under Churchill’s administration, and female crews in France. Constance Babington-Smith identified a robot bomb site, and shift in wardrobe shortages hint at wartime rationing. Lady Edwina Mountbatten supports her husband’s efforts, while Supt. in Chief of Red Cross and St John Ambulance modestly calls herself the wife of a Commando.
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