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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1933
Page
4
A religious excerpt cautions against scribes who seek long robes and public honor. It contrasts ostentation with true piety, noting pride as a chief sin and calling the devil the father of Nes in a Chapin quotation.
Arthur Brayton of the Dry Goods Merchants Trade Journal urged an Interstate Merchants Council audience in Chicago to back the NRA program. He argued for long range business planning and daily sobering profit discipline, noting ethical strains and the need to rise with a growing market while remaining faithful to Recovery Act principles.
A graphic project by the Recovery administration uses charts on Agricultural Adjustment to show the spread between raw materials and retail finished goods as of June 15 and future dates. It aims to explain cost influences like processing taxes on cotton and wheat and codis wage effects under the National Recovery Act to help consumers judge prices and farmers gauge their share of final product prices.
Federal agencies under order from President Roosevelt plan to speed data gathering and analysis for the charts. Efforts will precede release to explain the chart program to the public and reduce misunderstanding. An educational approach aims to make the charts practical in supporting the administration’s program.
News dispatches report two new cases of cruelty to children. A fourteen month old was bound and suspended from a tree limb causing a broken leg and dislocated collarbone. Another North Carolina man allegedly beat a baby mercilessly for an hour and over a month.
Mrs Bayard Wooten of Chapel Hill displays camera studies at the Fine Arts Theater in Boston this month. Her work records folk life and scenery in the Carolinas and is praised as pioneering and of high artistic merit in the South.
Bruce Catton extols car travel and its social benefits. He notes friendly encounters with fueling station workers innkeepers and travelers, arguing auto tours reveal American kindness and neighborliness despite stereotypes. The essay suggests travel fosters warm, personal cross country contacts.
The author notes many rude or indifferent service workers encountered while road tripping yet argues the story is worth repeating as a warning and a morale booster. He highlights filling station attendants and waitresses as common annoyances and contrasts with friendly strangers met along the way.
A federal official funds 1100 turkeys to curb grasshoppers on the Navajo reservation at Shiprock New Mexico, fattening birds for Thanksgiving. Ohio State converts a tower into a dormitory housing 76 students at low cost. Gypsies in Romania form a regulated association with offices by laws and a newspaper, library and university.
A Greensboro Record column surveys how governments in Germany Austria Czechoslovakia and Spain regulate names and dog names. It notes bans on Hitler and unisex names and cites a Spanish official fined for naming dogs after political figures.
Louvre authorities insist the Mona Lisa is not a duplicate despite claims based on microscope and X-ray analysis. Critics question the significance of scientific tests in judging authenticity.
Report notes Jimmy Walker appears homesick in France and contrasts with his earlier time as New York mayor when he spent little time at home. The casual observation frames his current mood against his public tenure and travels.
Rodney Dutcher profiles Dr. Fred C. Howe as a watchdog for consumer prices under the New Deal. Howe will publish weekly national price comparisons and analysis via the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to reveal how much rises benefit workers and how much profit profiteers gain.
A tense domestic episode unfolds with Sue pressuring Ted and Sarah Lou about a perceived romance. After a shuffled plan and a wary talk, Sue contemplates the child's arrival and a mistaken card, then shifts to a political aside about salary cuts for constitutional officers and a 25 percent April to June reduction by Commissioner Fletcher.
Sue calls Ted to report Sarah Lou plans a visit to his house. She fears the girl will manipulate him and urges Ted to firmly turn her away. Ted questions why he matters, while Sue suspects Sarah Lou seeks to test his influence.
Raleigh Aug 12 Commissioner of Labor A L Fletcher is the only elected official to voluntarily cut his salary 25 percent in addition to the 15 percent cut from the 1938 general assembly. Gov Ehringhaus and State Treasurer Johnson already took 25 percent reductions in April to June. Fletcher’s salary had been 4500 dollars a year along with several other state officials.
Washington August 12 Private utilities under the presidents re employment agreement or fiat competition codes for their industries may seek relief from state regulatory boards if applying the codes adds materially to production costs.
Officials note that utility payrolls are a constant expense under charters and that rates may not keep pace with costs. State and municipal utility plants including electric light and power, gas, water and street railways were ruled by the National Recovery Administration to be exempt from the President’s reemployment agreement and related industry codes. A formal explanation of this phase of the national recovery program is being prepared for early release.
Denton Mill announced it leased the remaining building of the old Kindergarten Chair company to Raymond McDonald and E F Mendenhall who have organized a hosiery business with a knitting plant in Denton. The two story ironclad structure survived a recent fire and will serve as a finishing plant as machinery is moved in.
A divided puzzle page lists horizontal and vertical clues from 1 to 53 across and down. It references a pictured man and themes around Hindu division and leaders with several wordplay entries and a final reveal based on cross letters.
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