Pope Verse Meditating Mercy and Empathy
Poem excerpt urging readers to feel others pain and conceal faults to extend mercy to others and themselves. Emphasizes compassion, self restraint, and moral reflection attributed to Alexander Pope.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1963
Page
4
Poem excerpt urging readers to feel others pain and conceal faults to extend mercy to others and themselves. Emphasizes compassion, self restraint, and moral reflection attributed to Alexander Pope.
High Point earns All-America City designation with ceremony at Albion Millis Stadium on the High Point College campus. Luther Hodges to deliver the principal address as dignitaries attend a Look Magazine and National Municipal League award presentation to Mayor Carson Stout. The celebration also frames a civic duty to live up to the All-America standard.
Letters honor the Thresher sailors who perished and condemn McNamara's fortress America stance. The page also carries a Save the Children appeal for flood relief in the Southern Appalachians with calls for clothing and fund donations to aid victims in Tennessee Kentucky and Virginia.
High Point prepares for the All-America City award ceremony with a lighted crowd feature and a Terrace Room display of past presidents in the Southern Furniture Exposition Building. Cosmopolitan Insurance faces Illinois policy bans. Easter breakfast marks politics and ethics discourse. Flower garden park Sunrise Service draws thousands as hotel buyers seek funding for a Sheraton project.
President Kennedy mobilizes national business and financial leaders to push a prompt and effective tax cut. Henry Ford II chairs a five member steering committee tasked with urging tax reforms while curbing federal spending and shielding the administration from anti business taint.
The piece traces decades of New York New Haven & Hartford troubles from early 1910s wrecks to bankruptcy in 1935 and 1961 trustees. It notes ICC findings on obsolete equipment and mismanagement under Charles Mellen, stock delistings, heavy debt, and high executive pay amid passenger losses nearing 50 percent of traffic.
The column notes how people split views on government power and laws, praising restrictions on offensive books while demanding fewer controls elsewhere. It argues readers back government limits in some areas yet support vast military spending, which consumes a large share of federal funds.
The piece argues that military spending dominates policy with a blank government check while domestic budgets face restraints. It notes postwar taxes linger and warns against separating defense and domestic finance, claiming such splits are unsustainable and stifle clear thinking.
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