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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1936
Page
4
A damaged OCR fragment discusses carriers and ore BP fees, subscriptions, and payments. It references the Associated Press and appears to be an unfinished note about disputes and publication practices.
A brief devotional note quotes scripture from Heekiel and a Goethe maxim about choosing a path and shaping the world with a firm will. The item reads as a weekly Thought for readers, offering guidance through concise aphorisms.
High Point hosts through Sunday the eighteenth annual Y M C A Older Boys Conference with 400 delegates. The piece emphasizes youth shaping their future amid global tension and the need to prevent war to safeguard freedom and the common good.
Report notes that while Spain suffers air raids and internal strife, the danger grows from foreign fighters and international meddling. It suggests the conflict may ignite Europe, with foreigners seen as key players beyond Franco’s forces. The piece reframes a death by own action as a deeper murder plot backdrop.
A 1937 safety campaign reinforces driving maxims to prevent accidents. Emphasizes observing signals and road rules, using standard hand signals for lane changes, maintaining brakes and lights, and walking on the left to face traffic. Encourages cooperation with patrols and protecting one's driver's license through careful driving.
The governor allocated an additional one million dollars to the state highway and public works commission, bringing the total for 1935 to seven million. Discretionary funding aims to repair state roads damaged by last year’s weather and support prison industries as a training and conservation investment, financed by highway fund revenues.
A midwestern landlord offered a $5 gold piece to the first child born to each tenant, doubling for every additional baby. A potential 16 children would cost $1.3 million, but so far the pledge has cost only $40. The arrangement, begun in 1927, stands as a curious relic of tenant relations.
Notes from New York reflect on theatrical figures such as Mark Hellinger Helen Menken Ben Ali Haggin and Jack Barrymore. Columns also reference Doris Kenyon Leo Marsh Pierre Cartier Paris fashion and social life during the era with playful vignettes on dining and publicity.
The renowned Mme Laloy of a bygone era is noted for her 85 cent table d hote and gracious service as she presided from the cashier's cage, embodying a distinctive dining era.
A reminiscence describes Montmartre nightlife with torchy cafés, red tablecloths, a mechanical piano playing Valencia, free wine, and patrons lingering in a hazy, sentimental mood. It notes friendships formed and occasional visits by Caruscal, who sang and drew caricatures.
In the Lodge of Sorrow remarks Cameron L Morrison of Charlotte cautioned against the spirit of commercialism and wealth accumulation. He warned that pursuit of riches could override the divine command that man cannot live by bread alone. Mrs Henry A White of High Point then reviewed fashions from 1790 to today with Morganton ladies acting as living models and pointed out notable errors.
The narration describes Lucette the house figure at Laioy's, seated prominently at the first table by the entrance. A stately brunette in black velvet with kohled eyes and a white feather, she is known to patrons as Lucette and reputed for consuming many thimblesful of kummel each night.
L. R. Johnston, high school principal, returned from Columbus Mississippi where he attended the Southern conference of high school and college officials. Mrs W C Hammond executive secretary of the board of public welfare was elected secretary of the Northwestern district of welfare workers at a Winston Salem meeting yesterday.
Congress will meet Monday with enough work to keep the brief session busy through March 4. In High Point the Deep River Friends hold all day quarterly meetings at Central Friends church. In Raleigh Dr. William B. Dodd of the University of Chicago, a native of Clayton, NC, spoke to the North Carolina Historical Association.
Archaeologists uncover a stone calendar in Colombia suggesting advanced timekeeping by ancient societies. The find raises questions about how marriages and anniversaries were tracked, with playful speculation that wives used dates as reminders.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kemp Boren of Greensboro were guests of relatives in the city yesterday. C. E. Wagner of Greensboro was a business visitor today. J. P. Rawley and Stephen C. Clark went to Greensboro to present the Commercial Club’s call for a division of the farm demonstration agent’s time to focus on rural communities near the city.
President Wilson is assured that recent railway legislation will be carried out. England and her allies vow reprisals for the attack on their troops in Athens. The Supreme Court rules it lacks explicit congressional authority to indefinitely stay criminal sentences from lower courts.
A short clipping notes that a young Italian learned to raise his blood pressure through mental effort while others must listen to an ilduce balcony speech. The fragment hints at experiments blending psychology and public oratory in a civic setting.
A radio host asks Ed Wynne about Rudy Vallee origins and nationality. The piece references US policy history from Monroe Doctrine to the Pan American conference and notes Fishbein on rhinitis and rhinos. It closes with remarks on cold prevention and evolving medical knowledge.
The piece argues President Roosevelt’s Latin American tour models a peaceful ideal of international friendship and cooperation. It notes the Buenos Aires conference may yield uncertain treaties but stresses a shared goal of happiness and well being across the world.
The passage argues that the typical landlord is not the harsh, miserly figure many imagine and suggests this view distorts public perception, inviting readers to reassess stereotypes about landlords.
A wag quips that you cannot teach an Old Guard new deals as political banter surfaces around party strategy and generational divides in campaign discourse.
The tale recalls a woman who charmed a Butter and Egg Man and winked at regulars as she passed. Her career closed with a Camille finale among the Laloy crowd who sent her to exile in Arizona and she vanished.
The narrator recalls Moquin's and Fornaro's as French and Spanish dining spots during a budget trip. He pours Chianti, brushes dust from the table, and endures snickers from companions while learning a subtle faux pas later.
Washington dispatch analyzes how the Supreme Court's split on New York unemployment insurance and other cases tests President Roosevelt's strategy to reshape public opinion. The piece focuses on Justices Hughes Roberts and Brandeis, the potential shift of four conservatives, and the impact on the Social Security Act and federal power.
A poem reflects on Winter's grip, desire to warm fingers and souls, and the cycle of seasons. It contrasts paupers and peers, noting shared test of comforts and cheer, ending with a call to care for one another as nature turns.
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