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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1917
Page
4
The High Point Enterprise promotes advertising as the master key to business, arguing that steady advertising expands reach, attracts top buyers, and prevents failure. It asserts both large and small advertisers receive equal courtesy and effort, highlighting the paper as a vital sales medium.
The piece defends neutral sympathy while arguing for a strong wartime stance. It recalls Heine and warns Germany faces a final effort as hunger and blockade shape policy. The author urges fair judgment, notes the value of an international court, and supports President Wilson’s approach amid rupture with Washington.
The piece argues that moving clocks forward to save daylight does not create extra daylight. People simply wake earlier by habit, and the alarm will seem wrong until the routine adjusts. Health and productivity could improve with a six o'clock start, but tradition keeps many at seven or eight.
Washington reports indicate James Redmond Collie of Louisburg is poised to be named superintendent of the state penitentiary, succeeding J R Mann. Collie enjoys broad support from North Carolina Democrats and several congressmen, with the appointment viewed as popular.
A Winston-Salem youth came to Danville to find his sister who was living at a questionable resort near the city. A detective accompanied him as they learned the sister had moved there. The pair returned home and officials consider action against the woman involved.
Manager Stone presents a wide variety night at the Broadway with Oberita art reproductions explained by a lecturer. The feature film is The Trail of the Lonesome Pill starring Phil Dunham and the L-Horough-Housers. Also shown are A Thousand Miles a Minute with Lee Moran and Eddie Lyons, plus Universal views and Paramount day tomorrow.
Uncle Sam conducts a nationwide canvass of U S industrial strength to gauge readiness for sudden needs. Blubird Photoplays presents The Eagle's Wings at the Rose theater this Thursday, blending patriotic images of mills and factories producing munitions for Europe with scenes of American daily work.
Madrid reports Count Romanones says Spain will hand its reply to the German note tomorrow. The note asserts Spain’s right to free seas and commercial intercourse under international law and the London declaration. The Spanish ambassador in Berlin and Vienna will be informed alongside the German envoy, after a talk in Madrid with Ambassador Joseph Willard.
Hickory reports Mrs Marshall H Yount wife of a young attorney and mother of a newborn child is dying from pneumonia complications. Her husband underwent a blood transfusion Sunday afternoon as doctors, including Dr J W Long of Greensboro, seek any possible help.
Andy Orr a large framed man with a long record as a defier of city county state and federal governments was brought to Graham by Sheriff J A Ammons of Graham from Cherokee County Oklahoma where he was captured Orr is wanted in Graham for the murder of Pleasant Birchfield near Robbinsville last fall and was brought through Asheville last night grinding through the line of officers.
Miss Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army, plans a March address in Danville on the life of her father, the organization’s founder. The exact date has not been settled.
Marguerite Clark headlines the Snow White production on Broadway with a Friday show slated for next week. The performance features Clark in the titular role and promises a classic fairy tale stage experience for theatergoers.
A diver from the Charleston navy yard continued examining the German steamer Liebenfels which sank in the harbor last Thursday. Separately, a combined inquiry by navy, customs service and government legal representatives was halted without explanation. The Liebenfels and her officers remain in custody of Customs Collector Peters.
Marguerite Clark references a city tax payment reminder set to occur next Friday amid unclear weather notes and local notification.
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