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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1938
Page
4
A short devotional note quotes Psalms 6 4 and a maxim about patient progress. It includes a proverb attributed to J G Holland about slow growth and enduring effort.
The article discusses British wartime diplomacy under Chamberlain, urging clear limits to patience and defining when peace must give way to honor. It notes Britain’s tradition of resisting coercion, the importance of freedom of the seas, and Chamberlain’s delicate balancing act amid pressure and jingoistic voices.
The editorial criticizes the Republican party for lethargy and warns that lack of opposition harms democracy. It cites James Farley urging healthy minority dissent. It argues conservatives fail to propose effective anti recession plans and notes excess idle money in banks and capitalists' fear to invest. The piece calls for loosening purse strings beyond heavy income taxes.
Washington notes an ongoing relief cycle and calls for nonpartisan resolve to restore fiscal balance. It warns that Roosevelt’s reforms must be followed by prudent taxation and deficit control as states weigh self-reliance and strong public leadership. The piece urges unwavering public backing for capable leaders with solid footing.
A New York bank clerk leaped from a seventeenth story hotel ledge after ten hours on the narrow line, amid a crowd urging him to live. He told onlookers life held nothing for him and admitted the audience may have spurred his act.
The piece questions whether non crooners face a disadvantage in swing political America and notes how musical charisma has influenced voters. It cites Happy Chandler and Alben Barkley in Kentucky and a Texas governor as examples and argues that a politician's voice and singing can shape success more than traditional economic teachings.
In a town story connected to Arkansas, Hattie Caraway rises from neighborly service to become the first woman senator of the United States after her husband’s death leaves a seat open. A simple motto guides her: she has lived by doing the day’s work rather than fixed maxims.
A collage of wry lines and social quips spans figures from Clifford Odets to a trans Atlantic flyer G Corrigan and a proposed Jefferson nickel master die. It mixes jokes about diplomacy, gender tempers, and a Maine cat turning 25 with a glance at a new drive in bank trend in Dallas.
Alice Hughes recalls a lively musical upbringing that shaped her path to the movies. A large family, early lessons, amateur nights, and a sister who sang and spoke publicly helped forge a career rooted in memory for tunes from Verdi to Puccini and comic operettas.
Local news notes the Southern Furniture mart exposition ending tomorrow at 1 PM. Plans under way to extend Coun try club with an 18 hole course on land donated by S C Clark. About 40 Hi Y teams will depart for Niagara Falls August 22. High Point leads Piedmont league with Greensboro close. City police move into city hall basement.
Promoters plan a million dollar air ways terminal on the Belmont Hotel site at 42nd Street and Park Avenue. Builders aim to finish for World’s Fair passengers in 1939. The Belmont’s decline ended with demolition while airlines prepare to centralize waiting rooms under the new roof.
Mrs W E Davis has returned from Chicago and Toledo. Mr and Mrs Edgar Hartley are resting comfortably today after a tonsillectomy at the Burrus clinic. Mr and Mrs T F Shoaf and family have returned from a stay at Wrightsville Bach.
Early today a blaze gutted two floors of the main building at Central State hospital for the insane in Nashville Tennessee. Reports say about 50 inmates roam the streets amid the evacuations as fire brigades battle the blaze. Bishops Cannon Moore Mouzon and Dubose urge SMU laity to defeat Al Smith. San Francisco area residents give Herbert Hoover a rousing welcome today.
Dr J J Hamlin offers free dental services to eligible draft registrants who can pay for care. The movement aids those who might fail a physical exam without treatment. Fifteen Negro registrants are slated to report to Camp Greene on August 1. Local residents Lester Teague has returned after resigning from Southern Railway Greensboro C C Crawford and Charles Crawford of Asheboro visited High Point yesterday. Mrs J A Apple and family with Miss Annie Beck and Ernest Beck are vacationing at Moores Springs.
American troops arrive in Italy as Allied forces push forward. The counter-offensive claims about 30,000 German troops captured since it began. Amid war news the note jokes about grasshoppers and hedgehoppers, and a showman in Pittsburgh jokes about surrendering a lion to the British prime minister.
Frank Case recalls a Grand Cat porter George, who reveals he is a new great grandfather after his oldest grandchild has a baby boy. The request for a summer break is met with plans to visit his aging father instead.
A varied New York scene features radio host John Gambling known for on-air timing, the William J. Woolman Foundation as a new benevolent group, Kansas-born financier William Woolman who profited on Wall Street, Dr. John H. Finley as trustee, the International Ash Can Company with a Third Avenue shop, and a Times Square open-faced pineapple juice stand drawing crowds.
A playful riff on Michigan place names showcases towns like Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Hodunk Gasser and Bad Axe. The author recalls collecting postmarks as geography practice and joking about pronunciation of quirky locals.
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