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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1945
Page
4
A column argues that Allied bombing and naval firepower are necessary to force Japan's surrender. It defends total war as a grim but justified means to end the conflict and prevent greater American casualties, urging Japan to surrender to spare lives.
In a response to police comments on a postwar moral slump, the writer argues Greensboro remains a pretty decent town. They acknowledge wartime upheaval and juvenile issues but dismiss a 50 year recovery claim as excessive.
A column praising Outer Banks residents with 27 Congressional Medals of Honor discusses local heroism. The piece notes postwar screens, gasoline safety, French generals, Fahrenheit, Martha Washington on currency, Rochester bakers ending a strike, and a grandfather’s joke about meatless days and a road crossing chicken.
Betty Moore notes many local girls employed with the war department will relocate with the branch to St Louis. She argues the work matches neither their old factory jobs nor the salary and prestige. Playground director Ellington hopes to stage a city playground circus this summer, postponed last year due to polio.
Local scouts, parents, and officials praised tonight’s junior high auditorium court of honor as the largest in the district. Hot weather and rain failed to dampen enthusiasm for the merit badge awards and rank promotions. A swimming meet drew spectators despite weekend rain while views on leisure time and wartime rationing were shared.
The piece criticizes a departmental clash over troop movements and argues railroads should have led deployment planning. It lauds rail executives for keeping services high and funding upkeep themselves while moving troops and civilians amid a shifting postwar travel surge.
By George Sokolsky criticizes army planning errors affecting rail service. He cites sleeping car removals for civilians, 48 hour coach limits, and empty troop trains, arguing swivel chair generals block civilian expertise. He warns future appropriations may reveal the costs of these failures.
Expert observers say Britain’s wartime results pushed the public to reject uncontrolled private enterprise and the Tories. The shift centers on jobs housing education health and nationalization plans while Attlee and Labour leaders temper calls for radical change amid wartime– era inequalities and a deep class divide.
Albert Leman notes that Luftwaffe destruction left London with millions of damaged or uninhabitable buildings and hundreds of thousands homeless. Government efforts rebuilt hundreds of thousands of homes but flagging energy and red tape hindered relief, while postwar pledges and party loyalties shape the public mood.
A survey of stage and screen trends notes Vera Caspery’s next book Murder at the Stork Club and its serial run in Good Housekeeping with Harper’s plans. The column also cites critics, operettas like Marinka, and films from Texas Guinan’s era to The Late George Apley and On the Town, Oklahoma, and other current entertainments.
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