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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1932
Page
4
The Enterprise notes High Point’s plan to hold weekly business leader meetings to coordinate recovery and growth. The aim is to mobilize civic capacity, share responsibility, and ease the burden from the recent bank collapse while restoring values and tax stability for the new year. Cooperation is urged to transform hardship into constructive effort.
As Christmas nears 1932, peace remains fragile though widely desired. Global men of peace exist, yet nations stay armed, arguing arms are essential for national freedom. The United States spends about three quarters of a billion yearly on military forces.
The piece argues that the navy is below expected quality and the army is about half the recommended size under Wilson’s framework. It warns that debt disputes and treaty compliance could hinder disarmament progress and fuel renewed naval and military rivalry across the Atlantic. It notes scant faith in diplomacy without strong cross national restraint. It mentions a New Jersey judge denying Burns a small bond after two escapes.
North Carolina’s banking commissioner notes three banks closed during the epidemic have paid depositors one hundred cents on the dollar. He argues liquidations under receivership indicate these banks were not truly bankrupt and warns sweeping reforms are needed to restrain weak banking while protecting savers.
The Newark arrest brings Burns, famed Georgia chain gang member and author of a lurid memoir, face to face with the county chain gang chief who questions the truth of his tale. Burns denies ever being in chains, hinting his famed escapes and sensational book may exaggerate reality.
Random Thoughts From a Rambler's Note Book recalls Christmas cheer and a Raleigh state college student Earl Carter who, with support from Frank Dalton, rises from a High Point boy to a Baldwin Locomotive Works engineer. Dalton helps Carter attend college and secure a path from lathe work to design innovations used in fire boxes for locomotives. Deeds of generosity are praised as shining examples for investors to aid humanity.
A Paditor letter argues Christmas is about Christ not commerce, noting Jesus birth date uncertain yet celebrated on December 25 as a church feast adopted from pagan origins. It urges Christians to focus on giving to those in need with practical gifts like coal bread or warm clothing, and to renew devotion as the season nears.
A snow and sleet storm prompts an editorial appeal urging readers to fund the Enterprise Empty Stocking Fund and donate used toys, clothes, and money to welfare groups. The piece stresses shared sacrifice, calls for Christmas Seals, and invokes the spirit of Christmas to support fuel and food for the less fortunate.
Arle Looker reviews Colonel Roosevelt Private Citizen detailing Theodore Roosevelt's post presidency years, his plans for a volunteer division, and support for allies. The piece notes Looker’s intimate, non-critical portrait and praise from Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. It also covers Lazare Saminsky’s Music of Our Day, praising critical insight into modern music and its future.
A literary digest reviews Dr. Kettner on Spinoza ethics and intuition as path to freedom and self perfection. It notes Alice Le Vern Beardsley’s Wildwood Symphonies as uneven but with strong poems, especially Geneganst let. Delia Conde's The Sphinx's Splendor in Light is critiqued for overloading ism-ations and unclear lucidity.
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