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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1938
Page
4
Fragmentary excerpt reflects religious emphasis on obedience as a foundational command. The snippet cites Leviticus and notes obedience as the first law God gave, suggesting a sermon or devotional framing from a religious publication.
A policy commentary notes that the Kellogg Briand pact has failed to curb war as nations sign and breach the agreement. It argues a fever armament race now dominates and that honor among nations erodes as contracts are discarded for convenience.
The article reports Cedillo's forces surrounding insurgent targets and capturing a key figure. It notes Cedillo's plane landed due to fuel issues and mentions pursuit across the desert country. The piece hints at questions about who supports Cedillo and pressures for humane treatment.
The article links Cedillo's attack to alleged foreign influence and anti oil land expropriation resentment. It notes the president's suspicion and the complicating effect on oil company settlements with Mexico. It acknowledges the owners may be innocent yet fears belief of involvement fuels unrest.
Across the nation the memory of fallen soldiers is honored as graves are adorned and bugles sound in cemeteries. The piece notes the sacrifice of those who died in defense, while asserting pacifism and gratitude for their service without glorifying the war itself.
In a sharp critique the author argues kidnapping is a horrid, profitless crime. Officials and media should stress that ransom yields little money and kidnappers face constant pursuit, as in the Levine case, to deter future abductors.
The Mississippi convention of Southern newspaper publishers discusses rising production costs and shrinking returns. Delegates note this recession differs by stronger price and supply barriers, with uncertainty whether the trend stabilizes the economic system or worsens it as material and service costs creep upward.
The text notes a recession with falling prices while wages stay up and artificial factors affect supply and demand for intermediates. It suggests publishers, as business people, will gain useful insights by solving their convention puzzles.
An 11 year old Seattle boy James E Casey envisions a high stepping team of horses for delivering parcels. By 16 he runs deliveries with bicycle messengers, launches doors under a store, adds trucks, and forms United Parcel Service serving Oakland Los Angeles New York with thousands of workers and half a million packages in one day.
Washington May 30. The closing days of the 75th Congress are filled with wrangling over familiar issues and a lack of new legislation likely to disturb business. The administration faces confidence woes as many fear further leftist reforms. The only major actions outside the Roosevelt program are a business relief tax bill and an expanded lending program.
The President referred to abolishing holding companies but offered no concrete Congress proposals. After aggressive New Deal attacks on monopolies, Roosevelt backed only an investigation. A law forcing competitors or limiting business share died stillborn as anti monopoly ideas waned.
A compilation of quotes from figures like H Pat Culver, Rev Phillips P Elliott, Capt J E Shields, Morris Ernst, Herbert Hoover, Senator Key Pittman, Sterling Quinlan, Ekremova, Rabbi B Benedict Glaster, and Harry Rose. The remarks span aviation, war, law, democracy, culture, and global power, reflecting era concerns and attitudes.
Local readers show much interest in the upcoming primary as party leaders anticipate a record vote. The city is invited to participate in the Feast of Pirates pageant to be staged in Wilmington from August 22 to 24. The Community Chest drive resumes with a grand total of 36 339 24 dollars.
Miss Anne Carter Marsh was among the graduates in the finals at the Scudder school on 66 Fifth Avenue New York this week. Captain Bruce Carraway will deliver a memorial address over station WNBC Greensboro tonight. Dr. W. R. McKaughan welcomed a tri city dental societies joint meeting at the Sheraton hotel ballroom last night. President Coolidge spoke at Gettysburg this day as the second president since Lincoln to address the battleground. General John J. Pershing spoke at graves in France urging peaceful settlement and lasting peace.
Dr J Clyde Turner spoke to local high school graduates from I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision as this morning's central message. Churches nationwide near the center of the city were filled for special prayers with a 10 45 to 12 30 business suspension. The piece cites three slackers service labor and financial and warns of an inexorable fate for slackers. People notes include J E Amos Jr returning to the city from South Carolina and Carter Dalton returning from Ocracoke. Mr and Mrs Joseph Weaver plan to spend the summer near Archdale after moving there.
Premier Clemenceau narrowly escaped capture on the Paris front as 40 Uhlan patrolmen breached a point while allied lines resisted. Military authorities report the emergency field ration remains bully beef biscuit tea and sugar for advancing troops.
A scientist asserts the region west of the Rocky Mountains was once a sea while Californians insist no trace of the heavy dew remains.
Charles B. Driscoll recalls a daughter’s geometry struggles and calls for practical schooling while mingling with journalists and friends in New York. The diary also notes post season piano autographs by opera stars and collectors, with reminiscences of Jenny Lind pianos and famed singers.
Russell N. Haas of Winter Haven Florida corrects me in a letter about the pastor’s title. He notes the proper form is Evangelical and Reformed, not Re formed Evangelical, and stresses using the correct title in future references.
Cartoonist Bob Brinkerhoof and wife Pat dine at a Florida coast hotel recalling buckwheat cakes from ancestral mills and farm molasses while Hotelman Frank Case notes a playful Adam Eve jingle and a Shakespearean misattribution.
The article notes the dispute over Mayor La Guardia's spelling with The Times accepting a space. It reports a financial plan at the New York Yacht Club to absorb defalcations by cutting about 25 low salary positions and dissolving the Marine Library, returning it to donors Cornelius Vanderbilt and J. P. Morgan, who funded the library. The club will bear taxes tied to the gift and the librarian’s fate remains unclear.
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