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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1940
Page
4
A biblical verse cites dialogue with a king urging kindness to the people to gain loyalty. A philosopher adds that gentle speech prevents perverseness caused by rough treatment, noting how words shape thoughts and obedience.
Dale Carnegie and experts Lyons and Martin advise sending a thank you note after an interview. The letter strengthens impressions, keeps the candidate in view, and may lead to a future interview, with sample wording and rationale for why courtesy matters.
Four cities in the North and South sold low-cost housing bonds in the open market at about two-fifths of one percent under the USHA rate. Private capital begins to flow into housing for the poor at just over two and a half percent, surprising slum clearance advocates. Investors seek high returns, funding substandard housing while poorer residents remain in dilapidated hovels.
The nation grows self conscious about consigning impressionable children to slums and doubts whether the issue will be forgotten soon. In a maturing society capital should seek safe low interest use and stop expecting six percent in such employment.
The report notes tobacco shipments are moving to England from Hampton Roads. It reiterates that there was no denial of the partial shipment stoppage and that strong advocacy for American tobacco crop control has been made.
The Winston-Salem Journal argues unemployment fuels radicalism and discontent in the political economy. It notes big business cites anti growth legislation and federal cuts to public works as barriers to job creation, while cooperation is seen as a potential but contested solution.
Readers are urged to cut out and paste success columns into scrap books to study them as a text book on success. The note promotes starting a personal success scrapbook now for ongoing inspiration.
A London shop assistant mistook James Truslow Adams Epic of America for a travel book. The customer explained, and the clerk told her to look under Colonies. She found it there, illustrating a humorous misfiled shelf quip.
A sharp jab at Europe’s complacency as officials resort to the reverse sides of old treaties for scratch pads, hinting at fragile diplomacy and the need for renewed commitments. Strong language underscores distrust in current agreements and calls for fresh treaties to replace worn terms.
Hugh G Mitchell of Statesville criticized Communism as a threat during a district P O S A meeting. Homer Wheeler won re election as president of the country club at its annual gathering. Mrs W H Goodrich of West Palm Beach arrived to visit relatives. Mr and Mrs Charles Hamilton returned from Florida. Nellie Tayloe Ross urged women voters in Washington to fulfill public duties. Yates, Gandhi's top aide in India, predicted an unprecedented war.
A collage of quirky claims from pop culture quirks to odd trivia. Highlights include a soda shop code for late customers, a Maryland town named February Issue, cops with monogrammed bullets, Handel’s alleged lifting, RPX explosive claims, and misbeliefs about language, fruits, and world events.
A collage of quips and trivia spans Belem rains at 4 pm, Italian grave visiting cards, army cadence drops to 120, U.S. war entry timing, wind direction by cows, a puffed wheat road in Pittsfield, polonium origins, cinema seating, butterfly nuisance penalties in Pacific Grove, love confers cold immunity per a French doctor, brown eyes night vision, and the skunk’s scientific name Mephitis Mephiticam.
A collage of wartime beliefs and curiosities notes that in war one million soldiers yield 100000 disabled, pigeons cannot hear human voices, Newfoundland is tax free, Nimmersatt is German for never satisfied, superstition links slapped meat to indigestion, carrots aid eyes, and Ballyhoo traces to a County Cork village known for squabbles.
A quirky note suggests dentists yank more teeth on Mondays than other days. Observations include odd offhand claims about sleep stages and and health quirks. The fragmentary text also mentions Ohio water laws and fashion opinions from Samoa.
A collage of odd notes on speed talking and news practice. Witty quips claim women gab faster than men while radio clocks pace at 270 words per minute. A Navy base uses swing music to steady cargo handlers and munitions loading. Gossipy asides touch on film censorship and peculiar outdoor competitions in St Ives with Bible prizes.
A reader suggests replacing missing or ground street name plates with new ones placed properly to help visitors locate streets. The note accompanies political observations about international affairs and quotes Francis B. Sayre on independence and diplomacy.
A collection of quirky claims and jokes about unusual climates and customs. Palm trees in the Arctic, a Hollywood in Scotland, rising American flag sales, taboos on young marriages in Oc Tomacas, knitting in Glasgow schools, and a Columbus Ohio divorce suit with a bizarre dinner accusation.
Bruce Catton In Washington reports that Senator Wagner's mediation bill shocks officials and raises questions about the Labor Department Conciliation Service. Dr. John F. Steelman says the plan could broaden or limit the service, with a proposed three member board and emphasis on interstate commerce.
The Wagner bill would have the service promote and help craft agreements on pay and hours, a shift from its current role of drafting thousands of agreements. It would place the service officially in charge of extending collective bargaining, a major change. Passage this year seems unlikely, with many congressmen doubting its practical impact.
A playful note imagines the census interviewer arriving for tea and crumpets and possibly staying in the guest room until the survey is complete, illustrating lighthearted neighborly anticipation.
The remark suggests Welles acted as a conduit for Roosevelt while hoping to obscure notes to Mussolini, implying the president did not want Britain to learn of such communications.
In a dispute over the market basket plan for selling munitions to belligerents Secretary Wallace and Senator La Follette clash. La Follette suggests accepting tobacco and other farm goods to England while Wallace favors a compensation to farmers to stop planting.
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