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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1937
Page
4
A quoted reflection by Sir Walter Raleigh likens the children of Israel to ants and describes them as God’s servants whom he freed from Egypt. It urges that your servants be those you command and paid workers with wages, emphasizing disciplined service.
The piece critiques pressure tactics in North Carolina politics surrounding Governor Hoey's candidacies. It argues the whip no longer frightens voters and laments the decline of conservative powers, urging a shift toward a liberal banner and an end to democratic abuses in governance.
The Interstate Commerce Commission marks fifty years regulating interstate trade while noting underrepresentation of the South. Officials say southern discrimination in railroad rates requires greater attention and a more representative commission to address regional concerns.
A new appeal seeks Southern Railway Company cooperation to fund and support North Carolina’s key High Point grade crossing elimination. The piece notes the railroad’s professed interest but limited cash and active assistance to date, urging a more cooperative stance.
The text argues that trips to Washington for railroad conferences increase project costs and fail to reduce the gap between estimates and contract prices. It claims the city has been lenient and mistreated by the Southern Railroad and urges a firmer stance to push for reasonable safety requirements at crossings.
The Greensboro High Point field at Friendship will be formally reopened May 28 29 with aviation events. It is hailed as one of the Souths finest airports and will place Guilford on the nations air maps, benefiting transport welfare of the community.
A column recalls the seven year old Duchess lioness dying after an operation and frames the event as press spectacle. It links the tale to Androcles and theLion in a mythic strand about loyalty between human and beast.
Albany Herald notes Selz International Pictures requests a pre miere of Gone With the Wind in Atlanta marking the film's historic festival. The text lists fictional credits including Sherman as director Smoke and Flame technicians Wreck and Ruin handling props, Blue and Cray on costumes, Arson on lighting, Aftermath on Hunger and Graves on Finis.
The State Democratic Executive Committee sought election reforms amid alleged fraud and coercion at the polls and absentee ballot abuses. Bills were introduced but defeated, with a legislator warning that reforms could reduce Democratic strength. The piece argues primaries and elections must be carried, honestly if possible, but underhand methods may be used to avoid defeat.
New York critics object to a WPA Writers Project booklet calling Greenwich Village a haven of free verse and free life. Prominent citizens sign a petition arguing the portrayal distorts the Village, though outsiders may cling to the idealized image built by pre and post O Henry authors.
Herr Goebbels launches a film grading system that ranks politically valuable works higher than artistic or cultural films with no political content. The move pressures producers toward more overtly political pictures, amid Nazi propaganda in media and concern over entertainment becoming propaganda.
A lyrical reminiscence tracing a great grand-dad who endured a harsh frontier with prayers, a shotgun, and frugal living. It contrasts his hard, land-rooted life with his great grandson now riding in a limousine, noting twenty five children and the family grit that built the nation. The piece closes with a humorous postal clerk remark and a quip about a Presbyterian joke.
Analysis from 1937 argues Pittman and McReynolds plans would align with England, easing a future war trade bias. It warns that limiting exports to belligerents while allowing raw materials could still empower Britain and provoke retaliatory moves on American ships.
A quirky April day collage notes front row desires and second row stars. It names Herbert Swope Jos Kennedy and a parade of public figures from Hemingway to Katharine Cornell while musing on fame fashion and radio voices with sly humor.
Dr. William Mather Lewis denounces shotgun education in America, saying universities scatter fire across many subjects and overlook essential disciplines. He contrasts current practice with earlier garden-variety warnings, noting fault in both college and pre college instruction.
The piece notes Savile Row as a world style center fading as demolition begins and fashion designers move away. Waterloo Bridge has sagged and must be replaced with a new structure. Old London gives way to a newer urban landscape.
The Fifth Avenue bus system shifts toward one man operation as conductors, famed for their Irish brogue, prepare for quieter duties at the fare box. Passengers note the lively blarney and the lingering charm of longtime Dublin style on daily rides.
Theatrical run of Murder in the Old Red Barn drew crowds for a year in an abandoned East Side church, followed by Naughty Naught. Audiences sit at pine tables, drink beer, cheer the heroine, and sing at intermission in this vivid era scene.
In High Point the chamber of commerce says it stays out of politics while focusing on city benefits and tax reduction. A fire at the old Pickett tobacco warehouse near North Main and Ray destroyed the building, causing about $25,000 in losses with unknown fire origin.
The narrator recalls a first visit to Gonfa rone's with William Johnston of the World. New to town the scene offered literary flavor with Berton Braley wearing horn-rimmed glasses, Hendrik Van Loon barely known, and Dreiser present though not discussing Sister Carrie.
Otto Wood, famed North Carolina cross country runner, is appointed head coach of the State college cross country team in the April Fool edition. Wood is presently in state prison following three escapes.
Mrs. John Welborn leaves April 3 for Tampa Florida to attend the Confederate Veterans reunion. She will then visit her brother Fletcher Barbee and Mrs Barbee in Moorehaven Florida. Elliott Wood a University of North Carolina student spends the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs George T Wood on Boulevard.
The article notes a key Hollywood decision as Public Rhett No. 1 is selected in the ongoing case related to the film Gone With the Wind. It highlights the struggle to determine the primary public figure involved.
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