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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1938
Page
4
A fragment from Acts 18:15 and a Rochefoucauld aphorism echo concerns about memory and judgment. The lines juxtapose formal vocation with insistence on careful speech and truth. The excerpt presents a classical quotation cluster rather than a cohesive news item.
Dare officials urge toll free ferries linking Dare and Roanoke counties across Alligator River and Croatan Sound to connect Roanoke Island. Funds from ferries once supported private and county projects. now the highway commission may provide free access, with the risk of overcrowding or public cost.
The Raleigh city board of education approved an FHA 72 apartment house project near the high school to ease housing and tax burdens. Construction may start within thirty days, with completion targeted by fall if site issues are resolved, aiding work opportunities and capital investment in the building trades. Greensboro offers better housing prospects and unemployment commission relocation factors are noted.
The article discusses Raleigh internal revenue office location politics and a labor payroll threat, contrasting it with Guilford county interests. It cites a propagandistic boast and parallels Kaiser Wilhelm II’s 1914 expansion arguments, warning that such action could trigger larger consequences.
Guilford adds a contender as Major Edney Ridge of Greensboro announces his bid for congress. A former Greensboro Daily Record operator and radio station manager, Ridge has long been active in politics and journalism. His entry spreads Guilford candidates across eight petitioners, likely preventing a majority in the first primary.
The article notes history repeating as Hitler tightens control with a cabal of war lords led by Paul Joseph Goebbels. It describes Goebbels as the chief Nazi propagandist and a strongman within the Hitler faction during the Reichstag elections and the Austrian plebiscite.
A long prose piece celebrates William S. Murphy founder of the Murphy In-A-Door bed and outlines his humane leadership style. It contrasts Marconi’s resilience after eye injury with practical advice on preserving self respect, handling ill luck, and elevating others. The essay also touches on tax policy debates and corporate dividend practices, ending with a brief note on Hitler’s constrained speaking due to state problems.
In Washington on March 23 the Senate Finance Committee chair Pat Harrison aims to repeal the corporation undistributed profits tax from the New Deal era. The House pass 2016 provision imposes 20 percent tax on net corporate income over 25000 with a four percent dividend credit.
The Enterprise letters page questions national defense strategy and foreign policy. It argues that appeasement risks war, condemns assisting oil interests in war zones, and warns that war destroys democracy and civilization. Helen Trexel Erickson signed the piece.
The item notes anti Nazi hatred growing to new highs and suggests Hitler find comfort in reading Be Glad You're Alive as a counterpoint to hostile public sentiment. The brief implies a cultural reaction rather than a direct action or event.
Local colleges High Point Catawba and Mars Hill will compete in the annual Carolina dramatic association tournament at the American theatre. A sermon at First Reformed in High Point urged forgiveness and brotherliness as essential to Christian living. Construction work in the 5th highway district begins, officials say.
In New York on March 23 the Grand Central Palace spring flower show sells out as New Yorkers seek old fashioned gardens and herbs. The herb exhibit by Brooklyn Botanical Gardens draws smiles while "tray farming" tomatoes show rapid growth via water and sawdust. A decayed Pathe Studio building near 135th Street saps curiosity, with locals reporting eerie night sounds but no entry. Also featured are rising opera figure Kathleen Kersting and young editor-in-waiting Hubbard Cobb, son of Cobb of the World, plus notes on puppets potentially becoming early TV actors and a playful aside about the word whenas.
Miss Gladys Kelley of Mechanicsville won yesterday's speaking contest at township commencement in Springfield. W A Copeland of High Point was appointed receiver of the bankrupt Southern Car Company by Judge James E Boyd of the federal court. The 10th grade performed County Fair at the high school auditorium with a lively crowd. In notable notes E D Steele visited Greensboro on business and Miss Mary Sherrod of Goucé College Baltimore plans spring visit. Rev Thomas L Trott attended a Charlotte funeral. Miss Ruth Council, Meredith student, is home for the weekend. The Germans shelled west of St Quentin killing ten in Paris and England expresses confidence in western front victory. A senator notes a federal bureau with red-headed workers possibly indicating Reds in government.
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