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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1942
Page
3
Wide World Features presents Dr. Ernest G. Osborne of Columbia University advising war era parenting. He urges parents to model bravery, assign wartime tasks like scrap collection, and provide emotional security so children gain resilience and moral strength during bombing and disruption.
A satirical column from John Briggs riffs on wartime life and public figures. It touches Tommy Manville marriage, anti gambling moves, Columbus Day misrememberings, Margie Hart and mule shoe charity, draft jokes, medical tests, deferments, Groucho Marx, meatless Tuesdays, dining trends, Danny Kaye, and a Washington Street restaurant offering Oriental fare with Turkish coffee.
Washington Oct 24 AP Rubber Director William M Jeffers cautioned the nation against over optimism about tire supplies and urged motorists to avoid unnecessary driving stay within 35 mile speed limit and have tires checked. The remarks came at his first press conference in the role.
Jeffers said gasoline rationing would not be postponed from November 22, calling the situation too serious. He urged a uniform speed limit for trucks, buses, and private cars and warned against assuming tire shortages are resolved, labeling reports on rubber and tire availability as erroneous.
Liberia is a republic aided by American sympathy and finance. Freed U.S. slaves founded it in 1822 and declared independence in 1847 with a constitution modeled on ours. Population around 1.5 million, limited railways, forests, and exports include rubber and timber. President Edwin J. Barclay serves an eight year term ending 1944 with a 23 member government.
The article notes that the old-fashioned scrap bag is useful again and advises against starch with light pressing before storage for neatness. It quotes Raj de Seversky predicting that postwar air flivvers will be developed and used as commonly as today’s automobiles.
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