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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1939
Page
4
Local editors remind carriers in nearby towns they may not collect more than one week in advance. Letters from officials emphasize timing limits to ensure fair distribution and reduce late deliveries across Hi Point and surrounding areas.
The piece weighs whether the Hohenzollern family still seeks restoration under Hitler, noting Kaiser messages and the head of the family fleeing during upheaval. It weighs risks of estates under Nazi rule, plus a Norfolk area forgery case and broader calls for press and radio free speech in wartime America.
Dale Carnegie writes about William S. Weiss who, after crippling paralysis, starts a Legal Clinic offering legal advice for one dollar. The service, run from 161 West 86th Street in New York City, accepts small tips and helps people who cannot afford traditional fees. Weiss uses a wheel chair and telephone switchboard to handle calls, assisting cases from hospital bills to installment purchases.
A column lists common myths and jokes of the era as Winchell mocks popular fallacies. It covers claims about height measurement, Shakespeare, bath laws, fortifications, cold baths, allure, blondes versus brunettes, crisis timing, snakes, the Moscow subway, Georgia peaches, song origins, Viking pronunciation, Wall Street, height constancy, animal names, generals’ wisdom, coffee and heart health, Teutonic race myths, Cleanliness from Bible, California drivers, ankle trim signals, seeing versus brain, Columbus as navigator, and Newton’s gravity tale.
The article notes actor Paul Muni performed the violin for a film scene in We Are Not Alone after years of violin study. It discusses orchestral involvement and contrasts on screen acting with real musicianship in cinema.
The city election case has been sent back to High Point by the state Supreme Court. Referee H. M. Robbins will resume the hearing soon. A search underground is being made here for a diamond ring valued at 2500 dollars lost by Mrs. Max Bones. Miss Zula May Spence is recovering from a tonsillectomy. Miss Violet Johnson returned from a visit to Charlotte. Miss Carter Millikan married George Van Buren James with Dr J W Moore and Miss Clara I Cox officiating. Twenty McCrory's employees were injured in a Washington explosion. Clemenceau suffered a severe heart attack. The first winter blizzard struck Montana. Five women died in a Dallas auto-train collision.
Washington reports a revived processing tax concept from the Wallace administration to finance parity payments for wheat, rice, and cotton. A credit certificate would let growers cash parity via processors who would pay per pound tax, keeping this off treasury books.
Twenty years ago at the Commercial Club a meeting was held to decide on a proposed High Point hotel. The city Baptist group aims to back the Southern drive for 75 million dollars. Edith Moore, who spent a year with the Red Cross in France, has arrived in New York en route home to High Point after visiting her sister.
December 1 will see President Wilson present the peace treaty to Congress. The California, a new electrically driven super-dreadnought, was launched yesterday on the west coast. The nation faces a coal shortage threatening its food supply.
A collection of opinions spans wartime restraint after calls for reason from Premier Dirk Jan de Geer and Senator Mc Adoo, while Kirby Page blames both sides. An earthquake rattles the eastern U S and theories surface about Japanese force. Leonard Cottrell Jr. and Ernest Burgess report that marital happiness rises when the wife is older by at least one year.
A woman received a 30 day sentence in Cedar City Indiana before completion of new women’s jail quarters. She agreed to wait for a reservation. A separate note says the Duke and Duchess diet story involves a man reportedly engaged to Greta Garbo. War time costs rise for German citizens and vending machines for gum and candy are removed. King George and Queen Elizabeth relax with an animated cartoon in London as Mickey Mouse helps the Empire.
The author cautions against turning life into passive case work and warns against inflamed reactions. The line reflects Frosts practical stance on measured responses and self control in facing events.
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