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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1938
Page
4
A concise, historic quotation noting that humans bear the image of God in the love of truth and justice. Attributed to Demosthenes and framed by a biblical reflection from II Corinthians 13 8.
In Forsyth County two brothers face off in 1938 congressional politics. Frank Hancock resigns to run against Senator Reynolds, while Marshall Kurfees seeks the seat in the Democratic primaries. Marshall’s brother John W. Kurfees Jr leads the GOP ticket amid talk of a brotherly clash.
The United Days plan a Greensboro meeting to press their advantage against ABC stores as North Carolina debates ending liquor sales. The column notes the risk of bootleggers if ABC stores are ousted and warns against local option across counties. It also comments on European tensions and Chamberlain policy amid the Austria crisis.
The piece notes Britain may align with France over Czechoslovakia, with Prime Minister Chamberlain avoiding explicit pledge to join a European war if Germany attacks Czechs. It highlights wary Britain preparing for possible conflict and the cautions echoed in London papers.
The Reidsville Review marks its fiftieth anniversary edition dated March 14 1938. It highlights Rockingham county history and includes rotogravure features plus facsimile recognitions from President Roosevelt and the Half Century Club.
The article suggests unemployment in the city is exaggerated and describes a suitcase of lottery tickets seized by authorities as evidence of planning to work. It notes gambling profits go to those who take risks, while losers bear the cost, ending with a gambler’s quip about loving to win and losing.
A collection of quoted figures includes Harvard professor George Lyman Kellogg on democracy, former New York mayor James Walker on opposing fascism and communism, Mrs. Margaret Thomson on hardship and murder, Dr. William Marston on the blood pressure test for honesty, and Thomas Mann praising America as a bulwark of liberty.
The piece recounts Dale Carnegie and Billy Rose praising time efficiency and self discipline. It notes Carnegies claim that much success came in spare time and uses Rose as example of multifaceted fame. A travel anecdote from Armour & Company prompts a lesson on abandoning useless baggage. Kelloggs orphaning tale shows gratification from helping others.
In 1920 a twenty-year-old Billy Rose arrived in San Antonio with little money. He attended a fractured Texas Republican state convention, copied the speeches of black orators, and sold the transcripts to the speakers and friends. He left with over eight hundred dollars, built on a lifetime of rigorous shorthand training and discipline.
The G. R. Kinney Company of New York will open a branch shoe store at 150 South Main Street tomorrow with W. A. Clements of Richmond, Virginia as manager. Dr. R. L. Russell, pastor of Druid Hill Methodist Church in Atlanta, preached the last sermon of his series here at Wesley Memorial Church last night on The Refuge of Humanity. An all night party in a Negro section of High Point ended in a shooting affray with one man killed and another arrested on murder charges.
Charles B. Driscoll chronicles Walter Anderson’s Osterley stand The White Castle funded by E. W. Ingram and his castle empire in Columbus Ohio With James Barton Rudy Vallee Larkin Shackleford Eddie Rickenbacker Rita Weiman and Mayor LaGuardia other figures appear The piece notes slum conditions in Harlem Lower East Side and Hell's Kitchen and critiques slum clearance and funding by government and private investors in New York City Public welfare figures and civic issues are referenced with stark social contrast.
Mrs J A Morris and Mrs Roland Halton attend the Phi Beta club gathering at Miss Lois Johnsons home in Thomasville this afternoon. Gilbert Clark Jr underwent an appendectomy at High Point Hospital this morning. Fred Younts and Hugh F Leonard have returned from Paradise Point.
The John Wanamaker estate, estimated at 50 to 75 million dollars, was made public today. State income tax returns total over 2 million dollars. A Florida express train wreck today killed five people.
Twenty years ago a group of Negroes selected from the first military draft will embark here on March 30. The city will begin a religious census on Sunday, April 14.
About People A Tate spends today in Greensboro on business. Helen Muse visits sister Nellie Muse at Greensboro College. Carter Dalton spends yesterday in Greensboro on professional business. L L Brockaway spends yesterday in Greensboro attending the criminal term of the Superior Court.
Briefs note ongoing curtailment in wheat consumption in the South. Russian social revolutionists refuse ratification of the German peace pact. The nation opposes Japanese intervention in Siberia and Swedish trawlers are captured by German submarines. A new U S Czech treaty alarms shoe manufacturers. Amarillo hosts a Mother-in-Law festival. Chamberlain urges the British press to be kind to Germany as treaty talks proceed. The era shifts from pen and sword to typewriter and gun.
A columnist reflects on the Empire State Building and its symbolic reach, notes Helen Menken at a social gathering, and comments on stage life and stability. He observes subway smoking dangers, political views on recession versus depression, and humorous takes on married life and in law.
Republican officials contend earlier presidents misrepresented a policy shift as Varley altered the stamp designs. The dispute centers on how information was conveyed to the public and the implications for stamp history and party messaging.
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