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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1938
Page
4
The 1938 High Point Enterprise masthead notes publisher Brawley and staff, with subscription rates listed to attract readers in High Point and nearby towns. The page includes Associated Press notices, advertising agency credits, and postal/rights statements.
A devotional line from Psalms 79 13 frames praise as a key aid to prayer. The note credits Melville with echoing the idea that gratitude strengthens worship and sustains faith.
A historical editorial reflects on democracy, criticizing alleged election abuses and cliques, while defending the press system as more representative than past practices. It warns against perpetual wrongdoing and emphasizes checks and balances in democracy.
Premier Daladier signs a decree to extinguish Devil's Island after the 3000 convicts finish their sentences. The measure ends the practice of sending released prisoners to non penal colonies in French Guiana and restores their chance for rehabilitation in France. Public opinion backed the reform.
Dr Edward Morris Bernstein argues meliorism as active optimism for the future at a Chapel Hill bankers meeting. He contrasts pessimism and passive optimism, citing Noah Webster and noting that while large scale prosperity may be distant, a better outlook is possible through deliberate effort.
A long excerpt discusses Franco's failure to conquer Madrid Valencia and Barcelona with fascist aid. It weighs the costs of democratic sacrifice and the hope for further six months of movement, referencing Roosevelt and Leigh Hunt with critical tone.
The piece contrasts Al Capone as a blood stained millionaire in Alcatraz with Babe Ruth who rises from a Baltimore orphanage to wealth and fame through clean living. Ruth inspires millions and donates time and money to bring joy to children while Capone’s fortune ends in punishment. It closes with Carnegie urging daily self admonition and focus on thoughts shaping the day.
The Enterprise prints John R. Peacock's enclosed letter to Geo B Craven dated July 11 1938. He explains he planned to discuss fire insurance rates with Landon Hill manager of the North Carolina Inspection and Rating Bureau regarding Archdale Trinity water and sewer improvements.
Rodney Dutcher reports a July 1938 WPA surge with about three million on relief rolls and a big boost from a $60 million congressional allocation. The piece notes state gains in Illinois Ohio Michigan and Missouri and explains wage and job dynamics amid farm mechanization and crop programs.
The city council will meet tonight to award the sidewalk construction contract. Randolph County Republicans predict a strong Hoover majority, with local ties to the candidate's family. Dr P E Lindley of High Point College announces a Lindley reunion in Alamance county on August 12.
A Miss L E Dodamead receives a letter dated June 20 from her nephew Thomas E Dodamead serving with an anti aircraft battery in France. He describes French scenery and rough sea voyage and remarks on army rations. He writes about stone houses tile roofs crude trains and peasants with wooden shoes. Lt George H Davis arrives overseas. Parker Anderson visits Winston-Salem. Germany seeks Russia damages and peace talks possible if sincere. Pertain says Germans get little rest in France and Longpoint village captured by the French.
Peter Shanley, one of the Seven Shanleys who shaped New York cafe life, now serves as host and floor manager at the Commodore hotel bar and cafe on 42nd Street. Once central to Times Square nightlife, the family legacy began on Broadway and evolved through the Putnam and Paramount eras.
Albert Lodwick, an aviation enthusiast who did much artwork for Howard Hughes' Paris flight, traveled as a fellow passenger from Los Angeles to New York. He headed Stinson at the time and spent two years on flight preparations, testing a collapsible rubber boat off Atlantic City. They discovered the gas for inflation froze hands, leading to a substitute gas, and chained oars after oars were swept overboard.
Howard Taylor and Myra Kingsley host palm readings and haunted house visits while Fritzi Scheff recovers her stage streak. Jack Cluett writes a humorous novel, Marion Davies earns praise, and public transit hides its routes with no bus backs. Frustrations mount over subway mail boxes and missing station boxes.
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