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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1940
Page
4
Hundreds of state seniors travel to High Point College for High School Day to learn about college life and the value of higher education. The event aims to persuade attendees to pursue college and highlights opportunities found in a degree that pays off in later years.
Lyons and Martin critique two job ads for failing to convey usable details. A university graduate seeks any steady job, references cited. an unusual man seeks an unusual job. The column warns employers won’t be drawn by vague claims or emotional pleas and stresses clear, specific messaging in ads.
A brief religious meditation quotes scripture urging trust in divine protection and urges believers to imitate God through justice holiness and wisdom as a path to escape evil.
The piece analyzes Britain and France's roles in prewar diplomacy, Germany's rapid territorial growth under Hitler, and the question whether Germany should consolidate gains and seek oil, rail and supply links with the Soviet Union while delaying a broader offensive against the Allies.
Local report notes BMIGH hosts School Day with guests from High Point visiting for demonstrations and student activities. Officials praise community engagement and educational outreach as students meet presenters and tour facilities.
High Point and Asheville race to list residents as census enumerators complete local work. Asheville shows a tentative 1940 figure just over 49 000, down from 50 000 in 1930, while High Point is aimed near 45 000 after 1930’s 36 745. Civic drives seek missed individuals to boost totals.
Raleigh news notes W L Owens of Raleigh convicted of drunken driving in City Court for the second time in seven months. He was sentenced to four months on the roads not for drunken driving but to serve for inability to pay a $100 fine and costs. If wealth determined freedom, justice falters.
Readers are urged to cut out and paste columns into scrap books to study as a personal text book on success. The prompt encourages beginning a success scrapbook immediately.
Dr Paul Van Zee lands in Belgium reflects on a postwar period where heroism may bear fruit or be lost and urges reflection on the road ahead for nations and peoples. He draws on wartime memory to frame present challenges and future reconciliation.
The text claims the German Sea is the Aryan water outlet for Aryan sources, asserting Nazi language redefines the North Sea and establishes exclusive Aryan water flow into this sea.
Raleigh May 4 The Independent straw poll from Fuquay Springs suggests Lee Gravely Paul Grady and Tom Cooper may secure second primary spots. It notes administrationists versus anti administrationists, compares to 1938 Hoey and McDonald results, and highlights Gravely�s calm campaign style three weeks before primary day. It also reports Charles W. Miller accusing State Auditor George Ross Poll of aiding multiple gubernatorial candidates. The piece also describes prairie dogs in plain talk from a Christian Science Monitor note.
A collection of brief quotes on war direction in Norway, folklore creation, liberal and conservative reputations, Justice Stone described as a dark horse, views on masculinity and affection, census attitudes toward age, and Democratic activities in North Carolina with Sen. Folger monitoring developments.
The Advocate quotes a Native speaker on lake improvements funded by appropriation under rivers and harbors and mosquito control acts, with plans for wind-breaks to curb dust. It also quotes William S. Knudsen of General Motors, urging better labor management amid the labor picture today.
In Europe after the month’s petrol ration ends motorists switch to bicycles. In Chicago a waitress is arrested for speeding. Dorothy Detzer urges economic intelligence for an intelligent foreign policy, while Louis Bromfield and Elsa Subac comment on shifted American perceptions.
The text explains that air fills the thorax on a deep breath, the glottis closes, when intrapulmonic pressure rises the glottis opens and air is forcefully expelled. It then asks whatever happened to seers who predicted the world’s end and whether they will miss spring to see their forecast fulfilled.
Raymond Moley, a magazine writer, tells the New York Bond Club that it is time to return to private life those who claim the country is economically senile, matured, and washed up.
Mr Newlywed questions a feather for his wife hat as she reveals a shopping spree with a dress costume jewelry shoes gloves drapes and lamp shades. He worries about the feather while she plans to shop again tomorrow.
A Glasgow Southern Press item describes six year old Mary’s first sea experience. She tells her mother she did not like it, saying she sat on a wave and went through, illustrating a chilly, humorous reaction to the sea and a child’s blunt honesty.
Bruce Catton reports from Washington as U S Chamber of Commerce members argue that only a Republican administration can revive prosperity. Lothair Teetor of Indiana warns of uncertainty under the current regime and cites halted investments due to unknown future policy. The group says the Wagner Act stays but should be fair to both sides, while Californians and Latin American prospects illustrate capital expropriation fears.
Scientists report new findings that mosquitoes are more attracted to pig flesh than human scent, prompting a humorous takeaway that picnickers should carry extra pork sandwiches to deter bites. The study highlights insect host selection without detailing methodology.
As red-faced as the comic who had been rehashing the usual gags all spring about Brooklyn's prowess in the baseball business, the scene captured a city in comic frustration.
The President launches a countrywide tour to promote conservation efforts. It is unclear whether the focus is on protecting the nation’s foliage or broader environmental interests.
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