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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1940
Page
4
The fragment cites John 12 8 about the poor and notes a lingering sentiment that few truly feel for the needy. A second line attributes the thought to L E Landon highlighting social awareness.
The piece analyzes France’s surrender terms and their shock to American hopes. It questions Petain’s tone, potential effects on the navy and air fleet, and whether France’s alliance with Britain remains viable amid negotiations with Germany.
The piece contrasts Allied defense strategy with German offense in both wars. It notes home-ground fighting offers fewer mobility options amid refugee roadblocks, contrasting traditional battlefield logic with modern rapid movement and logistics challenges. It argues England must consider these home-front handicaps to endure.
Legislators pass laws on campaign spending and then reveal general failures in reporting as they run for re election. The piece notes the highest admitted expense for a Democratic Governor candidate at Nine thousand nine hundred eighty eight dollars and 71 cents with gifts totaling two thousand three hundred forty dollars. It suggests much more is spent by supporters and many more in donations, and asserts no verifiable legal violation is shown, yet campaign costs rarely appear in official records.
Urban growth in the state shows homes rising in unincorporated suburbs rather than within towns. Suburbanites work and shop in cities, shifting tax burdens and debt per capita, while impacting streets, sewers, and public services as planners gauge true city population.
A thirteen year old reciter escapes disaster after fainting on stage while presenting The Battle of Blenheim. Thirteen years later Katharine Hepburn rises as a leading American actress after a failed start and bold Hollywood demand.
The author argues for readying civilian mobilization to avert large civilian displacements. She sees merit in arming civilians while ensuring safeguards for women and children. Plans should avoid chaos seen in Belgian and French invasions and emphasize orderly, preventive measures.
Reports show a sharp rise in part-time farmers with 71 percent reporting off farm jobs as non agricultural urban work. City suburb issues strain police and fire services, fees debated, extensions and annexations discussed as solutions.
A Biblical passage states that God commanded the earth to produce vegetation and fruit trees yielding seeds, each after its kind, with the seed within itself. The text emphasizes creation and natural order as described in Genesis.
A humorous roundup of odd facts and witticisms noting Walter Winchell's Broadway trademark, editor William Allen White’s self chosen license plate, ambassador quirks, and other curiosities from 1940s pop culture. The items include Joad’s remark to an Indian sage, Dutch Guiana neckwear, Heifetz’s aluminum violin, Raleigh’s corset habit, opium reserves claim, and a definition of a friend by Cecil Hunt.
A collection of witty snippets notes Queen Isabella’s baths, Brenda Marshall’s on screen kisses, NBC page boys in training, stockings worn inside out by many women, Cholula Mexico with 365 churches, and Henry Ford’s fiftieth birthday quip about Mrs Ford quitting cooking.
A collage of curious items including Goering’s reserve pilots flying near the Panama Canal, a non-electric dry shaver coming soon, Churchill painting under the name Charles Marin, and Babson’s three stages of dictatorship. Also notes on gas mask repairs, lunar conditions, Timor Laut customs, British railways classifying typewriters as instruments, and peculiar laws about oysters and nagging wives. The roundup ends with a German’s In Memoriam notice leading to arrest.
A collage of dated curiosities and jokes touching Roosevelt dubbing the Capitol the White House, dust in lungs from whiskers, Persian street rules, Hitler and propaganda, invisible planes, executive tastes, marriage customs, and oddities from Lancaster shutters to Hollywood’s richest car.
The Republicans announced an economy program for Guilford County if they win in November. City department heads were reappointed except City Manager Knox and Police Officer K E Ellington. The manager’s reappointment was deferred and W L Dawkins was appointed policeman.
Briefs report Lovelace as new A. B. Club leader while other notes list Mrs. Lindsay returning from Morganton visit and Mildred Russell's Albemarle trip. Patterson of Greensboro visits Dillard Ragan. Dwight Morrow wins New Jersey Senate primary. Merchants oppose sales tax plan. New York City's Byrd tribute planned.
High Point will celebrate Independence Day with a Fourth of July event and the YWCA prepares a pageant titled Through the Centuries. Also noted are local returns from Miss Mary Sherrod, J A Smith, and Mrs Harold Horrox, plus assorted News Briefs and wry commentary on national politics and society.
Washington dispatch outlines high level labor politics over Wagner Act changes. It details A F of L maneuvering against C I O, Norton amendments, and shifting coalitions as legislation nears final form influencing board size and union protections.
A bold claim suggests 2,000,000 years would pass before all sea water could reach Niagara Falls, but the British Admiralty appears unmoved by the challenge. Officials offer clarifications on hydrology and legal limits of such a stunt.
The note claims a spider in the southwest barked a warning and will not bite, a curious detail likely from a local column. No further context or corroborating facts are provided.
Izzy Keen argues that propaganda disguises itself as news and shapes public opinion. He recalls World War I era manipulation and warns modern audiences that politicians and propagandists aim to steer the masses toward a chosen outcome, likening manipulated information to cattle herded to slaughter.
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