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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1938
Page
4
An aging Henry Ford projects a new era of prosperity centered on farming and his low priced tractor. He foresees a revival through land use and industrial farming integration while stressing adaptability and the need to combine farming with production.
The piece notes lawmakers’ focus on preventing diversion of highway funds to the general fund during the early years of the Hoey administration. It credits 1937 House members for blocking diversion and saving about 4.2 million dollars, and warns that a new General Assembly faces pressure amid possible federal aid declines.
The High Point Kiwanis club plans an art exhibition sponsored by the group. The show will be hosted at the Junior High and invites community participation.
The event, backed by sponsorship and strong backing from Kiwanians, attracts wide interest with 30 Hinsdale pieces, 25 Grumbacher, 200 from North Carolina College for Women, and 12 from University at Chapel Hill. Local artists and institutes contribute, with Andrew M. Eadie submitting 120 paintings for High Point Art Institute. The three day program aims to educate and elevate art appreciation.
In the morning after a primary, the piece argues that rugged individualism in American politics is waning as campaigns push for conformity. It notes rivals are resolved by victories and defeats and questions the trend of running for office on mere conformity rather than personal proposition.
The text argues democracy rests on self-government and warns against surrendering authority to a centralized power. It cites Washington declining a third term as proof of republican resilience and warns that doubting individual responsibility weakens democracy. It stresses leaders may follow trusted guidance but must not abandon office to others.
A State Department rebuke condemns bombings of civilians in China and Spain as barbaric and contrary to long established military norms. The piece notes war’s inhumanity and the aim of terror, urging humane nations to reiterate the condemnation despite limited immediate impact.
The Enterprise warns that self styled liberals overstate spending while critics are attacked as reactionary. It contrasts modern budgets with Roosevelt era limits, likening today’s big spenders to Nero and Louis XIV and predicting enduring class burdens as rulers indulge. (Continued on Page 15).
Walter Winchell surveys Broadway and film season outcomes. The piece notes 61 flops to 11 hits, highlights Patricia Morison and Marcy Wescott, discusses critics reactions, film and radio entries like Three Com rades and Vivacious Lady, and mocks press and industry figures while previewing Blockade and other upcoming works.
A narrator recalls buying genuine Scotch tweed in Paris for 100 francs then hunting moth balls. After failed English asks in chemists shops he discovers napthalene by the French term naphtalene, buying a kilo for three francs. Years later he notes the spelling match with English.
A reflective piece notes how moon and crescent symbolism mirrors Mohammedan history from Mecca to Alhambra and spread across Africa and Spain. It contrasts religious leadership with secular power, cites Emerson, and warns against rising totalitarian claims while urging belief in freedom and truth.
A reader recalls Longfellow's Evangeline and notes the Evangeline Oak near Acadia Louisiana remains a visitor site. He describes Cajun friendliness and Acadian descendants in bayous near Atchafalaya and Plaquemine, linking literature to local history.
John Crowe Ransom's The World's Body spotlights his cold logic and puritanical view of poetry, praising Milton yet challenging Millay. Vardis Fisher's Forgive Us Our Virtues is a stark five-section novel of warped marriages and provincial mindsets, lauded for sharp word portraits and dark humor.
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