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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1939
Page
4
A short and troublesome life is amended by doing good and bearing suffering. The note cites Psalms 126 5 and Penn as sources, reflecting on virtue, patience, and reward over time.
A long editorial discusses European strongmen who own newspapers including Mussolini Balbo Hitler and Goering and questions Mussolini’s hold on Italy and Libya It compares wartime ideologies and the fate of liberty while noting American political maneuvers and farm policy questions amid a favorable news season and fair weather trends.
The piece notes Senator Martin from Davie county and Will W. Neal of McDowell enter the lieutenant governor race alongside potential rivals like Senator Pat Taylor. It highlights Governor Hoey’s restraint on aspiring leaders and discusses Reynolds shifting to a Washington venereal disease post while praising his NC health work and the Smith Reynolds Foundation funding.
The governor called North Carolinians to diversify farming to boost profit and plenty, citing visible examples in fair displays. He urged adopting a lifestyle of abundant living at home, aligning the State Fair opening with a broader agricultural message.
Raleigh Times salutes former Governor Cam Morrison on his 70th birthday praising his role in launching North Carolina road improvements. The piece notes his Blount Street Mansion era and credits his push for better highways as the state’s motorist culture grew.
Walter Winchell surveys wartime foreign news work and Broadway sharp talk. He notes pay, danger, and censorship for war correspondents in Spain, plus Hollywood layoffs, fashion as social satire, and quips about public figures including Stowe, Allen, Bigbee, and Gimbel.
A caller urged for updates during NBCs Sunday night broadcast. The staffer replied that little of consequence was reported and noted the next newscast at 9 oclock would have more.
A column notes similar narratives in Good Girls Go to Paris Fifth Avenue Girl and She Married Her Boss, while CBS anchors Murrow and Grandin admit no news. It covers Mundelein’s death and Bishop Sheil’s critique of race hatred, plus Berle Tugwell and Frank bungling a network discussion and a Met Opera profile by Douglas Gilbert.
Local page notes an exhibition of the Crescent Limited train set for October 13 and 14. The item mentions a full train on display and highlights a crowd attendance at Barnum and Bailey shows yesterday.
Washington reports from the week before the San Francisco C I O convention signal a possible break between John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman. A final split could push Hillman’s Amalgamated Clothing Workers from the C I O and widen C I O tensions with the Roosevelt administration, while unity or reconciliation would boost labor peace and White House C I O ties.
An argument over Communism has halted the Charlotte trial of alleged killers of Gastonia Chief Aderholt. The nation has accepted an invitation to participate in a five power naval limitations conference. Twenty four of 28 planes in an air tour from Richmond reached Winston-Salem today.
Twenty years ago the A D C convention concluded at noon. In the eight game world series the Reds defeated the Chicago White Sox, drawing mixed cheers from local fans who followed the scores with interest.
M. L. Crooks returned from a Charlotte business trip. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Williams came back from Winston Salem. Hon. Cameron Morrison left for Charlotte and spoke at the U. D. C. convention. Mrs. E. C. Shields stays a few days in Greensboro. Grady L. Welch, fresh from the navy, is visiting friends here.
Photographers secured the likeness of the former German emperor William Hohenzollern now in Amerongen Holland. He sports a full beard as he travels. A statue of General Stonewall Jackson will be unveiled in Richmond Virginia today.
A Greensboro editor cites Mark Twain to denounce war inciters and warn of rising support for conflict. The letter, dated October 9, 1939, argues war rhetoric inflames public opinion, silences dissent, and excuses government lies as fascist-style assaults on civil liberties grow.
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