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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1949
Page
4
The Associated Press story of Governor Kerr Scott talking with a farmer near New Bern prompts editorial notes on his temperament and politics. The piece contrasts the governor’s public battles with a hope he returns to the affable, soil‑focused image of earlier years.
The article praises Herbert A. Philbrick and Angela Colombus for testifying in the New York trial of Communist leaders. It notes their long covert service, risks, and personal costs while urging national gratitude and vigilance against Communist infiltration.
Readers warned of missing sermon paragraph and a half of the intro in the issue. The note explains linotype error dropped the final paragraph and half of the intro. It also mentions Business Week noting the term show how as a Washington trend and cites Kipling lines about East of Suez to illustrate evolving language.
Gerald W. Johnson argues in the New York Times Book Review that American novelists give a distorted view of the nation. He criticizes depictions of poverty or wealth with moral failings and says the ordinary American, the office worker and thinker, is largely overlooked in fiction.
Patricia McCarthy, former secretary to U S Minister Selden Chapin, reports in May American magazine that life behind the Iron Curtain is marked by fear and oppression. She cites a university student fleeing for asking questions a young office worker pressured to join a party and a man hanged with his family left in the dark about the crime.
Observations note a protest by the General Federation of Women's Clubs calling to keep pension age at 60 arguing against sex based favors. In Indianapolis a dentist reportedly seized a woman's false teeth for debt after she opened her mouth. A commenter jokes that habeas corpus now means paying up or staying in hospitals for life.
A small boy spends a birthday dollar by changing it at several tradesmen. He alternates between silver and a bill while the father learns the boy expects others to err, not himself, in the exchange.
The excerpt compiles diverse items including a Sirius companion star’s mass comparison to a water globe, a stick insect’s parental absence, Illinois 1819 fencing law origins, foot binding bans by Empress Dowager Cixi, and Marines in the Revolutionary era using hand grenades. This snapshot highlights historical trivia and early legal acts.
The piece critiques post 1933 U S foreign policy arguing that secrecy and faits accomplis undermine Congress and the constitution. It laments abandoning nonrecognition and the Monroe doctrine and cites shifts in China and Manila Shanghai as signs of lowered self respect and honor.
Washington column discusses free British socialized medicine for visitors and proposes U.S. junkets for Americans to Britain. It mocks national health insurance and notes comments by George Sokolsky and humor about political figures and a recalled honorary state patrol badge.
Robert S. Peele president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation bungled introductions at a luncheon by presenting Rep. Stephen M. Bender instead of Rep. Stephen M. Young of Ohio. The mix up drew laughs as Young, a Democratic congressman, was the intended speaker.
A spectator at Spring Garden parties hosted by ex Ambassador Joseph E Davies comments on manicured grounds. Clare Boothe Luce’s advice to Chester Bowles for Connecticut politics is recalled. The President asks Congress to cut 157 million dollars from Marshall Plan aid due to lower U.S. prices, while Europe faces a grain deficit and potential larger trade gaps.
Congressman W R Poage objects in principle to Brannan farm plan arguing it offers an open subsidy that would insult and corrupt American farmers. He suggests production payments should be disguised. The piece notes potential adjournment timing and Capitol redesigns for the 1930s style session.
The article argues a 16 billion dollar U S defense budget for the coming fiscal year will rise further in 1951 and 1952. Reductions will come only after Europe becomes self supporting and builds up its own defense forces as productivity grows. The parallel of a frontier farmer explains the shift to greater security needs as wealth increases.
The Economic Cooperation Administer Paul Hoffman compares counterpart funds to free medicine, noting that people pay in their own currencies for tractors and recovery items to limit demand and keep funds under U. S. control. He cites weather risks and European needs while contrasting with other political quotes.
The report notes tentative agreement with Russia on lifting the Berlin blockade is not to reduce U S European aid. The department plans to maintain funding to support European programs and emphasizes full support when policy succeeds and cuts when objectives are not met.
The North Atlantic Pact boosts French cooperation with U S and British programs to form a new western European state. France had resisted, fearing its security, but the pact promises defense of western Europe rather than mere liberation after occupation. French sentiment now fears liberation could be too costly.
The program for military assistance under the North Atlantic Pact aims to empower Western Europe with U S and Canadian resources. It doubles Western manpower versus Russia and vastly boosts coal and steel, power, and manufacturing. The West’s atomic bomb adds decisive leverage to secure Europe before Russia deploys its own bomb.
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