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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1933
Page
4
The piece reflects on 1933 ending with social and economic upheaval yet hopeful that New Deal policies will drive recovery. It urges action, warns against apathy, and stresses using human energy to strengthen the economic structure as the nation enters uncertain times.
By Tom Alderman Sykes a reflective column urged readers to seek peace, stability, and brotherhood in 1934. It warned against nationalism and prejudice, urged capitalism to serve workers and manufacturers, and called for a sane, healthy life and civic duty. The piece ends with a cheerful New Year wish and a light joke about health.
A Virginia Atlantic editor argues against giving rides to strangers or friends. The editorial warns drivers risk lawsuits and higher insurance costs if a passenger contributes nothing, faces hospital bills, or sues after accidents. It claims many people sue friends for damages, boosting auto casualty insurance rates.
A New Year note reflects on counting days to 1934 and prudent finances. The writer recalls Christmas shopping at Five-and-Ten-Cent Stores and contrasts frugal fun with pockets nearly empty. A countryside dog walk ends a quiet Christmas day amid social scenes and observations on whisky and drunken crowds.
A 1900 New Year service in a small hometown church marks a passage into the twentieth century. Bells ring as poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s lines and Tennyson’s May we ring in a new era of peace. Names of Lincoln Webster Butterfield Emerson Longfellow and others anchor a reflection on progress and faith across two centuries.
Capus M Waynick, director of the Federal Reemployment Service, argues the recession's real waste is idle labor not money. He cites Roosevelt programs lifting employment, warns of slow merchandise and urges rapid use of remaining Public Works funds to spur production and confidence.
C J Bulliet's ART MASTERPIECES OF THE 1933 WORLD'S FAIR EXHIBITED AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO is praised as a lasting handbook with illustrated discussions of works by Picasso Rembrandt Turner and others. The volume pairs full page reproductions with Bulliet's readable notes and lists titles authors nationalities and current collections. It also notes a mystery novel DEATH SAILS THE NILE and a Yale press edition on De arte illuminandi, plus a brief mention of a separate story about a woman whose beauty sparks trouble.
A survey of fiction and poetry features a young actress Gerry Grant in a sensational rise and fall in New York theater. It reviews Nancy Armstrong’s Yellowstone romance, Thou Shalt Not’s marital triangle, Christ in Silence by Andrews, and Isabel Tracy Gaily’s Strings, noting themes of romance, virtue, and personal growth.
A reflective note suggests Irving Fisher did not cite himself among authorities on money, while implying that claiming expertise on money is easier than establishing true authority.
A Charlestown West Virginia race horse was dyed to deceive buyers but the dye ran off as the horse showed little effort, exposing the hoax despite the animal rarely performing well.
English Street M P Church holds Sunday School at 9 46 AM with Moore of High Point teaching the Adult class Reverend C will lead the 11 AM and 7 PM preaching services. A New Year program by the Christian Endeavor society follows the evening service with a list of songs and short talks.
Friends announce the sudden death of Mrs Haris Leland’s father Fulp in Statesville. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon in Statesville.
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