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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1941
Page
4
A compact collection reflecting on mercy and human frailty. It juxtaposes Ephesians 4 32 urging kindness and forgiveness with Pope ethics asserting forgiveness as divine beyond human error. The tone echoes moral guidance and late 19th century prose.
A column argues for harsh action against suspected un American elements to fortify the home front. It cites secretaries’ power to dismiss, wartime loyalty, and compares potential domestic purges to foreign purges while cautioning against overreach and urging solidarity. It warns against saboteurs and urges public support for national defense.
Daniel Cartier Beard known as Uncle Dan and a founder of the Boy Scouts of America died at his woodland home The Brooklands in Suffern New York He was born June 21 1850 in Cincinnati Ohio and was an artist author and amateur naturalist whose work helped shape scouting.
Mussolini emerges to accuse the United States of prolonging the war and warns of totalitarian rule as punishment for US entry. He also claims Roosevelt is already a dictator. The piece notes France’s military and spiritual unpreparedness, Maginot line failures, and the option France ignored to coordinate with Britain by sending its navy to allied ports and resisting German terms.
Mrs. Julia A. Purnell, confined to a wheelchair after an accident at 85, revived her life through needlework and wool pictures earning prizes in Philadelphia and Salisbury. In 1943 Snow Hill awarded her the town’s citizenship prize, $50, as the most outstanding citizen for 1940.
Dan Beard founder of the first Boy Scout society and longtime national scout commissioner for the Boy Scouts of America dies in Covington. He trained youth in outdoor life and nature study, sharing a lifelong love of stars birds and the woods. His influence helped shape global scouting alongside Baden-Powell.
Brief items reflect social humor and public concerns. Notes on telephone density, summer slang, and radiator fuel caution mix with statistics on nutrition and productivity. Quips praise local wit while warning against centralization of power and political risk.
A vivid panorama of New York City life in the 1920s with storefronts on Madison and Nassau Streets, electric signs on Broadway, and bustling streets. The piece lampoons city sights from the Bull's Head Auction Company to a Chinese club, barber shops, summer stock hopefuls, and pedestrians in Madison Square Garden area.
A collage of New York scenes from Broadway shows and cinema greats to a blind beggar and a perfume endorsement tale. Observations include Melvyn Douglas and Merle Oberon figures, DiMaggio pool banter, billionaire Adolph Zukor golfing, and the Subway gum surprise amid Governors Island ferries and 42nd Street aromas.
Vivid vignettes from Riverside Drive to Westchester Express depict crowds shouting Extra Extra and a riverfront crowd bearing a placard promising military protection. Park Avenue doorman shelters guests under an umbrella while gas sun-bathers in East 50th Street contend with towering nearby buildings.
A restless panorama of city scenes from City Hall Park to Broadway. The text paints a trimmed garden, cycling chorus girls, early morning silence, weary firemen, Al Jolson with a former mother in law escort, and a disgruntled car buyer flaunting a lemon price tag. It notes propagandists and describes a grand 110 room Hartford house amid similar mausoleums.
Local chamber of commerce directors voted this afternoon to support the push for the State Industrial Commission office in town and appointed Carter Dalton J T Ryan and C M Warnick to the committee. Other items note Canada lifting the 40 percent dumping tariff on Virginia and North Carolina furniture. Nearby, Mr and Mrs William Simmons and family left for Paradise Point for six weeks at their summer cottage. Mrs Laurance Ingram and daughter Aida leave for Elizabeth City to visit relatives. Adelaide Mennally returns from Chapel Hill with A B degree class of 1931. World focuses on Hoover reparations crisis. Henry Ford plans a vast experimental farm. Al Capone to be arraigned in Chicago on income tax evasion charges.
Twenty years ago local news notes the 16th annual session of the Grand Chapter Order of Eastern Star to be held in High Point on Tuesday and Wednesday. Miss Charlotte E. F. Todd left for Holyoke College to attend its commencement.
A miscellany of lurid midtown vignettes includes boys photographing strip-teasers near Borelesk, a Variety store window sign claiming Best Maid Keeps Cold 48 Hours, posy vendors in spring, a rubber nude display at Bar Mart, a drunken taunt about the world being cockeyed, an early morning stickup near 41st, a subway chase, and a rooftop pursuit on 42nd Street where a bullet wounded a charwoman.
A large group of North Carolina alumnae plans to travel to South Hadley for the annual address to be delivered by Hon. William Howard Yatt. The gathering emphasizes continuing ties between the alumnae and the host institution.
Mrs HH Albion Millis hosted the Duplicate Bridge Club at her home yesterday at 1 pm. William Monroe, baritone, to sing at First Baptist Church Sunday morning. Miss Ethel Walker to wed O C Harris. ceremony at the former home tonight at 8 30 with ministers Lambeth and Cobl officiating. News brief: state newspapers warned not to exonerate draft deserters in World War I coverage. Chicago readies Pageant of Progress Exposition July 30 to August 14.
In Washington on June 11, Peter Edson writes to Joe Public warning of rapid defense measures eroding freedoms. He notes taxes, shortages, price controls, and possible seizures while defending the war effort and urging awareness of shrinking liberties. He lists bills and actions expanding federal power and drafts, stressing that rights may be lost before any return.
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