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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1928
Page
3
A teller recalls a tale of a tall factory smokestack and a trapped worker. A wife’s knitted sock yields enough yarn to lower a weight and rope, creating a life saving cable to reach the stranded man. The incident ends with the worker’s descent to safety and the phrase sockdolager.
Former Kansas governor Henry J. Allen told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that the public is provincially minded and misunderstood by not studying global affairs. He cited Nicaraguan intervention and Western views abroad, calling for newspapers to guide readers with clear vision in reporting.
Thursday activities include Miss Tintnin’s First Grade program directed by Miss Gaskins with Clifton Ferguson in charge. Fifth grade chapel featured Miss Chatfield, Mary Whitener, and a play The Magic Wand with named roles. Wild Flower Day set for April 24 and banking day progress noted with four rooms at 100 percent for nine teen consecutive weeks.
Emma Blair and Mary Colson guide second and third graders through a Thursday devotional, songs, and recitations including Jump Jim Crow and A Secret. Fourth and fifth graders under Mrs Grady Moore and Beatrice Warner showcase songs, dramatizations, and an orchestra. Health clinic plans discussed by grade mothers.
The Johnson Street Parent-Teachers Association held a Thursday evening meeting with a spring recital by Miss Cannady piano pupils and the Johnson Street orchestra in its first city appearance. Dr. S S Coe urged clinic attendance for new entrants next September shaping exams and corrections. An earlier chapel program featured Miss Ratcliff’s fifth grade with forest and wild flower project posters.
H A Willis escorted the children from Mrs Stuckey and Miss Deaton’s first grades to the Broadhurst Theatre on Friday afternoon to see Charlie Chaplin. The two grades presented a dramatization of The Sleeping Princess for parents and friends last Thursday evening.
A sanctuary for political refugees in Tianjin’s concessions draws attention as ex-presidents and ex-cabinet members flood into the area. The latest count lists at least 169 former leaders among the refugees, highlighting the city’s unique status among global centers.
The article lists surviving former Chinese Republic leaders living in foreign concessions in retirement. It names Li Yuan Hung Hsu Shih Chang Tsao Kun and Tuan Chijui as former presidents or leaders, with Sun Yat-sen Yuan Shih-kai and Feng Kuo chang noted dead. Tientsin hosts 90 former cabinet members and 71 other survivors.
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