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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1938
Page
4
A brief adage contrasts wisdom and folly with light and darkness. It notes wisdom prepares for the worst while folly postpones it. The quote attributes the second line to Cecil and cites Ecclesiastes 2 13 for context.
The article questions the duration of federal relief amid rising unemployment. It notes possible compulsory measures to sustain relief funds before March 1 and debates the New Deal's aim to raise living standards through public works while balancing government income.
A government report shows tobacco exports surpassing cotton, with over 82 million pounds shipped abroad. October prices for tobacco reach multi year highs while cotton prices stay under nine cents per pound and overall exports decline from the prior year.
The passage argues that a farmer's welfare hinges on crop diversification rather than reliance on tobacco or cotton. It contends that growing a variety of crops enables domestic comfort and reduces dependence on volatile foreign markets.
The Jefferson Standard Life Insurance company honored its president Julian Price at a banquet in Greensboros Jefferson Country Club marking his seventy first birthday. Hal Marsh spoke on Anything Can Happen, and observers praised Prices leadership and foresight amid industry lows.
The piece contrasts social drinking as emollient with the harms of the whiskey habit. It notes wrecks and suicides linked to drink and acknowledges prohibitionists while arguing restraint. It frames drinking as a moral and social issue with competing viewpoints.
A sharp quarrel between Secretary Ickes and a congressman is dismissed as clowning. The exchange inflames readers while a London joke in The Humourist adds a wry note about pedestrians. France and Germany announce the Kellogg Briand pact renounces war.
An interview reveals Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne sleep until after performances then drive through the night to next city. They use black draperies to turn day into night and once slept fourteen hours straight in a fully dark room.
Dr. Ernest C. Wilson asserts Japanese aviators are poor and distress militarists, prolonging the unrevealed war in China, urging American industry to invest in socially satisfying jobs to deter mass movements. Dr. Harold W. Dodds, president of Princeton University, weighs in on the broader debate.
The piece recalls Alexander Woollcott and a Scribner reprint of Carl Ewald’s My Little Boy. A Danish Jew narrator and his son face anti Semitic taunts in a courtyard. The father explains Jewish resilience through biblical and historical figures and trains his son to defend the weak.
Local Christian Endeavor union plans a sunrise Thanksgiving service Thursday at the Central Friends annex. High Point Sunday school workers prepare a city wide survey to boost religious education. John Peacock L C Matton and A B Frost return from a hunting trip near Waynesboro GA. Thomas Grant and son James Grant visit Bridgeport couple in Roland Park. Senator Borah says Hoover should court southern bolting Democrats. Snow and blizzards hit mountain areas overnight. Republicans spent 25000 more than Democrats in state election. Al Smith golf with Bobby Jones in Atlanta.
Charles B. Driscoll reports on Broadway Temple, a Methodist church in New York planned as a vast skyscraper complex. Construction stalled by funds, the under street level quarters include kitchens and social services while awaiting a dawn of future towers. Dr. Chris F. Reisner leads a durable congregation amid unfinished foundations and shifting real estate fortunes.
The local exemption board reports busy drafting work since establishment in July 1917. The High Point Red Cross chapter prepares for the Christmas roll call with a city quota of 11 550 dollars. George Tucker, a local youth, is severely wounded in Western Front fighting and is in a French hospital. James T. Ryan attends the Southern Furniture Manufacturers association semi annual meeting in Asheville. Miss Mary Ring has influenza. Allie and Elizabeth Strickland are ill at home. Mrs. Charles Matton travels to Ruffin for Thanksgiving and her brother’s wedding. A German lieutenant declares the navy ruined. 6 000 American soldiers will depart today as the first wave home, with daily departures ahead. The Allied fleet reaches Constantinople.
A narrator recalls a family scene where a mother sings a Father loved song as a Jewish writer and a composer are implied. Their child sleeps feverish and restless, then the mother reveals she has vaccinated him against a dreaded vulgar disease, speaking with quiet assurance.
Mauveleen Holbrook writes of Patsy, a playful toddler who dumps toys, bathes the cat in the kitchen sink, and charms her Mammy with a wink, balancing chaos with affection as the speaker reflects on the trouble she causes and worth.
A concise observation notes that credit can mitigate various country difficulties during global upheaval. It argues no nation appears immune to hardship, and financial credit remains a primary tool for relief and recovery efforts.
Mayor La Guardia faces questions about Nazi exhibitors at the Wi Fair in New York while reports mention Lindbergh seeking an apartment in Berlin. Corrigan appears amid the controversy as spectators weigh the implication for the event and city.
The Department of Agriculture announced that thirty seven billion units were laid last year in an exclusive course of theatrical productions. Mussolini will not attend the conference though he favors Pan America.
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