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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1917
Page
4
Brigadier-General John L. Chamberlain, 59, inspector general of the U S Army, a West Point graduate and former ordnance authority, now heads inspection in Washington. The piece also discusses President Wilson on the League of Honor and calls for democracies free from despots, plus wartime food saving and economic mobilization.
A local column notes pickle prices are increasing and calls for immediate mobilization to plant gardens. It jokes about Kaiser timing and comments on wartime patriotism in High Point with a claim that more men enlisted locally than in the North State.
The Enterprise calls for public action against indiscriminate paper dumping in the city streets. A reader complains about lack of garbage cans in residential areas and notes schoolchildren contribute scraps, urging citizen aid alongside the street cleaning department as High Point plans new streets.
A government bulletin on thrift on the table urges Americans to economy in food use. It encourages trying new foods, avoiding narrow eating habits, and learning to cook diverse staple foods to prevent shortages and high prices during wartime.
The Food Controller orders that no bread may be sold if less than twelve hours old. The typical delivery bread is eighteen to thirty hours old, and by Monday delivery at the weekend it can reach forty to fifty hours old unless Sunday baking is used.
New York celebrates the 75th birthday of Edward T Jeffery a leading railroad executive born in England who arrived in the United States in youth. He began with Illinois Central at 13 and by 35 was general manager later guiding more than twenty railways in the west and southwest. In recent years age has eased his active participation and he recently resigned as chairman of the Denver and Rio Grande board.
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