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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1917
Page
4
The High Point Enterprise promotes advertising as a master key to business growth. It argues that advertising expands reach, accelerates advancement, and ensures merchant success, asserting that both large and small advertisers receive equal diligence and opportunity to reach top buyers.
Editorial warns that the United States is near entering World War I and may call for volunteers soon. It argues diplomacy has failed, mobilization is likely, and Americans must prepare to support a conflict while noting wartime hardships such as rationing and resource strains. The piece jokes about paragraphists and typewriter ribbons in a wartime mood.
A school girl argues that nature surpasses art, shaping human thought and evolution. Nature’s scenes from blades of grass to mountains foster hope and mental growth, while art imitates but cannot equal the sunrise, autumn hills, or snowy peaks crafted by nature.
Voice of the People notes a statewide push for a new hospital with towns offering sites and funds. High Point plans a careful, public campaign before acting, urging unity, fundraising, and duty from every citizen as the city considers a hospital move.
The piece argues the United States erred by declaring a course after the Sussex sinking, urging restraint and noninvolvement to avoid entanglement. It criticizes British actions, mail seizures, and wartime insults, insisting the nation should stay true to rights while supporting only its citizens’ interests.
The Dry Goods Economist notes imported gloves and domestic leather goods now command exorbitant prices. Buyers fear silk gloves will be scarce as orders cannot be accepted for lower grades. Linen production abroad is restricted and shipping cuts worsen scarcity.
Leading wool and worsted dress goods makers set higher fall broadcloth prices this week with advances from forty to sixty percent over previous quotes, signaling a heated market for broadcloths in the coming season.
The Dry Goods Economist reports mills are cutting orders as they scale back to August. Yokohama raw silk holds around six dollars, Shanghai tussahs rise to 3.35 a pound amid strong demand. The market expects fall silk prices on March 1 with no drop in sight, while crepes de chine and novelty sports silks stay buoyant.
Plans for a High Point branch of the El Rees So Cigar company were shelved due to a shortage of a small mechanical part used on cigar molds. John T. Rees stated Greensboro factory is 60 days behind in orders and is expanding, with the El Rees So cigar noted as a popular nickel seller in the region.
A Dry Goods Economist notes rising factory costs raise knit goods and packaging prices. Prices shown in The Economist increase from 20 percent for labor to 210 percent for box board and 500 percent for needles, affecting consumer underwear lines and overall quality in some cases.
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