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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1922
Page
4
A miscellany of witty quips and social musings from 1922 notes. Highlights include jokes about aging, luck, work, love, etiquette, and world events, with ironic lines about coal versus cold, two tongued babies, and a missing millionaire’s son.
The Southern executives and employees report no grievances between them after reaching terms. Strikers insist their national duty outweighs work needs, while nonstriking shops stay open and new workers are hired. Troops have been asked for as picketing continues amid a broader labor action.
Local organizations report poor turnout despite large memberships. Leaders must set clear objectives and deliver constructive work to spark interest. The piece urges engagement through meaningful tasks and community projects, highlighting the YMCA and library as essential for High Point.
The article argues that Keith theaters will stop jokes about prohibition as public sentiment shifts. It contends more than half of patrons objected to Volstead jokes and that open scorn for law harms respect for all laws.
The speaker asks readers to inspect their preparations for winter including coal, home repairs, and savings for hard times. The verse contemplates readiness for cold, hardship, and potential future challenges.
The Greensboro Record editors critique judge and police bias against women in immorality cases while urging fair arrests for men. They condemn sanitation neglect on Main Street and related health hazards, urging Elks Civitan and health boards to fix garbage disposal, privies, ventilation, and mosquito breeding sites five blocks from city centers. A later note reports a conference comment on a strike settlement and a veteran’s smile after 30 years.
In North Carolina the state prides itself on law and order, biblical values, and a unified Anglo-Saxon heritage. It emphasizes loyalty to Constitution and traditions, rejects class conflict, and urges unity between labor and capital as brothers working for universal well being.
A reader urges the Enterprise platform to tackle garbage littering across High Point, remove privies, relocate pigs and cattle two miles from the center, and drainage around rented houses to curb standing water and pests. The writer praises the city and its efforts.
President Harding was told by Senator Watson that railroad brotherhood chiefs and executives’ representatives voiced hope for a settlement at today’s meeting. Plan discussed would assign seniority rankings to nonstriking workers and new hires, with work-restored positions prioritized. T. DeWitt Cuyler, head of the railway executives group, expressed optimism in the telephone briefing. White House said the president would address Congress.
Warren S Stone head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers left a two hour conference with railway executives and shopcraft leaders without a definite agreement on settling the strike. He said little progress had been made and the mediation session might extend beyond today. The others on the mediation committee followed him to an uptown hotel where the shopcraft leaders are meeting.
In Toledo on Aug 18 Prof. A W Trettien warned club women that men will mob those who imitate masculinity and urged women not to ape male traits. He described both sissy men and mannish women as monstrosities and quipped about wasting time swatting flies instead of worrying.
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