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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1938
Page
4
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A reflective meditation on love within faith, contrasting worldly affection with divine love. The heart that loves God finds paradise on earth when God dwells within, per biblical and devotional phrasing.
Washington conference of little business advisers urged an end to government interference with private firms while calling for clear rules. They criticized regulation, balking at defining the market and stopping short of opposing monopolies in production yet challenging government control across business.
Guilford county farmer seeks police help after paying 2000 dollars to a fortune teller who promised to recover stolen tobacco but vanished with both money and goods. The tale mocks a man who trusted the oracle despite low confidence in her powers.
A North Carolina ex convict who fled a Washington road camp became a national news gimmick as reporters hailed him as a sociologist touring the country. Court records show a 30 day sentence, 24 days served, with venereal disease treatment and no work, leading to release a healthier man.
Dale Carnegie cites Chauncey Depew’s blunt critique of a young Schwab speech and urges speakers to forget self and focus on the subject. He notes Henry Frick and Daniel Guggenheim praise tenacity as essential, defining tenacity as clinging to a good idea like a bulldog and refusing to quit.
Support from a German army high command comes for Pastor Martin Niemoeller charged with treason for criticizing the Nazi attack on religion. Arrested July 1 last year, his trial is set for February, with officers urging a quicker proceeding to morale in the army.
The article argues that convicting a German to treason would prove the lack of individual liberty under the Nazi regime. It links Hitler's rise to Versailles and peace treaties, noting Germany’s defeat and chains imposed, while criticizing allied treaties as fragile and ignored by nations. It cites U.S. efforts for peace and arming limits, and the contempt shown to treaties as scraps of paper.
A Japanese spokesman accuses Britain and the United States of building up arms despite no visible foe. He criticizes the two democracies and argues the move undermines any chance for peace.
A jumble of quotes from Aldous Huxley and Herbert Hoover along with remarks attributed to Cusolina Giannini Halle Selassie and Rev Israel Harding Noe. The text reflects opinions on prohibition American business, Ethiopian aid, and austere living conditions, interweaving famous names with fragmented personal anecdotes.
A playful enumeration of public figures and celebrities as the New York Day by Day column riffs on names and personas. The piece riffs on Ellen Glasgow George Creel Peter Arno Warren Pershing Louis Calhern and more with light satire and theatrical flourishes.
Artists diversify into real estate with multimillion dollar homes. Bob Ripley’s moated Connecticut castle, Rube Goldberg’s Schwab mansion, John T McCutcheon’s Pacific island estate, Segarie’s $100000 Los Angeles hacienda, Cliff McBride’s Altadena house, and more illustrate a boom in lavish personal property.
Eyvind Earle son of Fer dinand Pinney Earle travels from Los Angeles to New York on bicycle carrying a painting and camp gear. He paints en route and presents his Mojave Valley desert scenes at a New York exhibit.
Hotels in midtown offer cocktail suites of two or three rooms used for parties and lunches to avoid servant issues after late theater or dinner affairs. Some suites rent as high as 210,000 dollars a year. After a careful inspection of the news pictures and photo.
Dr. John W. Moore of Wesley Memorial Church defined the true citizen as a person of character and purity, integrated in home and community, and a worker in the church during a talk at the Central Friends church annex. High Point Monarch club held its annual ladies night at the Sheraton with a dinner and dance and sketches by Glenn Covington and Jack Burris.
A thirteen year old boy edits a railroad trade journal and argues that railway issues are merely child’s play, casting light on early youth involvement in industry journalism and problem framing.
Twenty years ago Chief of Police McGhee started a six day duty as registration officer for government efforts to record alien enemies. In city churches yesterday speakers discussed demon rum and examined their concerns. A real million dollar train passed through at 10 am carrying cattle, mules, horses, and chickens, drawing unusual attention.
Bruce Craven of Trinity passed through the city last evening en route to Washington. Fred Kirk and his son William are visiting relatives and friends here. W A Copeland departed for Washington on business. Eddie Brietz spent yesterday in Winston with friends. A E Tate will leave tomorrow for Morganton for a trustees meeting of the State hospital.
Secretary Baker aims for half a million U.S. soldiers in France early this year. Reports say German strikers are being told to Work or die as tensions rise in wartime.
Congress pens its own farm bill breaking 1933 pattern and resisting White House influence. Marvin Jones and John Bankhead steer the conferees as independent lawmakers pursue a bill not drafted by AAA or Agriculture Department, signaling a new legislative stance.
At the Beltsville Maryland Department of Agriculture experiment station scientists crossed Rhode Island Reds with White Leghorns. After back crossing and mixing chromosomes, all male chicks hatched red and all female chicks white. The same cross between chicken and turkey is not being attempted. The experiment has had marked success except that the chicks always die.
Congressional maneuvering over the sugar act shows Bankhead and Jones clashing on crop control while AAA critics warn the policy is unworkable. The bill, rushed through both chambers, includes a $39 million appropriation and large beneficiaries, with potently protected domestic producers amid consumer price concerns.
A Pennsylvania man chose 66 consecutive jail terms over vaccinating his year-old son, asserting his conviction and protecting his beliefs. The case highlights a clash between parental rights and public health policy in a rural community.
A film actress faces a contract offer of $1000 weekly in exchange for consenting to have her hair bobbed. The passage notes her hair will turn to silver as part of the transformation.
A Maine town claims the distinction of being the most un American city in the United States for lacking any Jones or Smith entries in its telephone directory.
Reports claim about 6000 Italians have died in Ethiopia over the past two months. The note suggests the African theater risks deepening losses for Mussolini’s forces and widening the crisis for the Duce.
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