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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1935
Page
4
A terse moral note quotes St Luke 12 28 on use being more than meat and the body more than raiment It adds that no man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh in a reflective epigram style
H C Hopson testifies before a House committee on the Wheeler Rayburn bill and holding company structures noting the average investor knows little of utilities. He argues investors fund large executive salaries while consumers pay more indirectly, warning that small stockholders lack influence and must rely on managers. Hopson’s remarks appear to make him state’s evidence.
The article notes a North Carolina legislature tradition of two year terms and discusses a recent law barring members from taking any board or commission appointment that would preclude legislative service for the elected term. It urges strengthening rules to keep legislators eligible for future service.
The new City Lake Park pool, funded from CWA allotments, cost about half a million but serves as a strong social boon. In its first month and a week it grossed 7500, yet it will not be a financial gold mine. Profits should be reinvested to expand park and pool usefulness, with maintenance a major ongoing expense.
Citizens argue that those elected as lawmakers serve a two year term and should not seek another office while the legislature is in session. The debate centers on moral eligibility and the duties of elected representatives.
Officials push for a modern armory and auditorium to serve two National Guard companies and the broader community. The editorial urges securing land, meeting conditions for federal grants, and funding additions to maximize use for conventions expositions and public gatherings.
Ralph Willard Los Angeles scientist claims to have revived a Rhesus monkey after three days in freezing revival experiments. Dr Morris Fishbein editor of the American Medical Journal denounces the claim as poppycock and labels Willard a faker with a prior California arrest in 1933 for practicing medicine without a license.
Medical colleges have been dis proved. Stephen Simkhovitch planned marriage after emerging from the ice where Willard would prove his theory by the human icicle. Dr Fishbein doubts the success and calls it a potential sleight of hand. If Willard fails to return Simkhovitch alive, murder charges could follow.
Bruce Catton argues the House measure allowing liquor shipments in casks to hotels and clubs risks cheap unbranded liquor and a return to old barrel-house practices. He cites British taxation and regulation as reducing hard liquor use and warns against any breach that could empower the WCTU to claim a revival of the bad old days.
Washington dispatch notes a cooling in support for a constitutional amendment to end tax exemptions for securities. House hearings are canceled as insiders cite limited revenue gains, while Treasury faces financing pressures and a looming 1937 budget.
The piece lauds Thomas E. Dewey for pursuing racketeering investigations and calls on a special grand jury to indict alleged racketeers and corrupt politicians. It stresses courage needed by witnesses and the protective role of police, noting the nationwide interest in New York’s fight against a social disease.
Analysis notes that the proposed anti war profits bill would force the government to refuse any demand from another power to produce or supply war related goods, shaping policy toward restraint and fiscal accountability.
The poem laments forgetfulness as a mental force that hinders timely action. It contrasts alert intention with sluggish thought and the failure to act, noting how forgetting leads to errors and consequences greater than other missteps. The author, Victor P. Hammber, frames memory lapses as a pervasive issue.
The New York day by day note describes a newly opened dog shop costing 20000 with uniformed door men and polished sanitation. Pets are exercised, combed, and brushed daily atop rubber carpeted platforms while dealers face a market of saddened owners and former stars selling prized animals.
New York observers report public confidence returning to banking houses with deposits rising 100 to 300 percent from panic-era lows. Bank clearances climb, signaling an improving national financial structure. Military and diplomatic chiefs announce large emergency funding and plans, with the War Department seeking 800 new planes as tensions rise.
In Paris a small band of young writers produced a short lived weekly tabloid after a foreign edition of an American paper suspended. The venture failed after a few editions leaving over 200 stranded journalists gathered in a clubroom on the third floor of Du Dome. They pledge 20 percent of assignments to aid unemployed colleagues.
An early 1940s office building earns whispers as Hocus Pocus Tower after being known as a center of careful tenants and quiet business. The structure stands as a historic tenanted landmark amid urban redevelopment.
A narrator recalls falling for a flashy broker's sales pitch, investing $160 in a 15 share hoodus that aimed to revolutionize baking, then abandoning wild schemes for safer bets. After a disillusioning lesson, they turn to established houses and solid assets like Peru bonds, cement, a Chicago hotel, and Cuban sugar.
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