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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1935
Page
4
A short devotional quotation by Grenville Kleiser. remarks on living in an eternity and choosing happiness today. The text cites Revelation 21:4 about wiping away tears and the end of death and sorrow.
Officials weighing a major public works idea to create a civic center across the block south of the new Federal building. The plan envisions offices, a central fire station, and auditorium facilities, but would require adjoining private property and careful state and federal scrutiny before funding.
The state’s per capita consumption of new motor cars last year surpassed all others, prompting an automobile and employment census by the Bureau of Automotive Statistics. Factors include better pay, rising farm prices, improved business conditions, and the growing role of automobiles in daily life.
The report shows 72 percent of new car buyers earn $3,000 or less annually, many under $1,400. Despite poverty, Raleigh Times notes the frugal buyers mortgaging cars as a real investment to raise earnings, driven by hope and hard work.
The State Board of Health cites 1913 law making failure to report births a misdemeanor for doctors midwives or attendants. A nationwide campaign with federal and state agencies aims to correct omissions and record births in the past year, urging families and citizens to cooperate fully.
From the city hall pole a new United States flag now floats, replacing the weathered shreds that barely qualified as a flag. The updated banner improves the municipal center’s curb appeal and neighborhood scenery.
Mrs. Anna Steele Richardson urged sanity in advertising at a San Francisco talk yesterday. She warned against copy that evokes laughter and said women see through ads when “advertising men laugh at you.” She distinguished between laughter and compelling ads that make readers smile.
The piece warns that one in three children faces death or serious injury from motor vehicles. It notes public indifference in a power age and calls out the automotive toll as an awful modern joke, while blaming neither car makers nor designers. The tone remains cautionary and editorial.
Fragment provides a meditation on inherent malevolence expressed in mundane scenes. It notes the danger of impulsive drivers and the unsettling sight of a crazed face behind glass at a traffic light.
Bernard Fay argues in Harper`s Magazine that the United States has a coherent, well-documented history rooted in the present. He contends America’s three centuries offer a symbolic portrait of global history, contrasting it with Europe as slow motion and praising the rise of Indo European influence.
The Kinston Free Press reports two cows at Caledonia prison farm are tailless after convicts allegedly severed their tails to herd them for milking. The prisoners are in solitary confinement. editors call the act extreme cruelty and urge harsher sentences if proven.
A Chicago loan shark known as Ten Per Cent dies. A newspaperman who was once his victim recalls his iron rule that the more he took the less he gave, and jokes that in heaven he would own the harps and charge rent.
Representative Clegg argues in a North Carolina legislative debate that capital punishment fails as a deterrent if the judicial system lets defendants with good lawyers escape while those with poor counsel cannot. He warns justice should not become a game of legal skill for profit.
The Wilmington Star-News critiques Huey Long and his political approach while blaming society for shaping a demagogue. The piece condemns Long for endorsing violence against a photographer and reflects on how taunts in youth may foster revenge in a democratic era.
A reflective poem by Victor P Hammer about sunbeams, flowers, and sharing joy. It describes smiles, fragrance, memories from a happy day, and spreading light to lift gloom for others with graceful generosity.
Secretary Hull ends debt funding negotiations with Soviet Russia amid a split strategy. Moscow offered a long term settlement for 150 million with most favorable terms guarded by a 100 million credit via George Peek’s Export-Import Bank. Russia owes about 200 million to Europe and the US combined, with gold reserves cited as leverage.
The piece notes a pivotal two months for labor, criticizing the Presidents renewal of the auto code in its original form and the endorsement of Leo Wolman’s Auto Labor Board. It argues unions face a setback as demands for revision were rejected and forecasts labor’s weakened stance unless countermeasures emerge.
New York reflects on public adulation and backlash with tales of Lindbergh, Tunney, Dempsey and Valentino amid shifts in fame. It notes Mary Pickford’s comeback, William Goodby Loew as best dressed man, and Wilson’s literary circle, then comments on taxi drivers’ coffee culture fueling long nights and city life.
The piece argues unions overplayed their hand in the motor industry code renewal and faces a difficult prospect if they strike. It notes government outreach favored unaffiliated workers, while the federation risks losing prestige and leverage amid weak strike prospects. The Treasuries stabilization fund passes a hard test aiding foreign exchange stability with New York Bank support.
A playful note traces the term blurb from 1907 when Gelett B geas used it in a speech about books. It connects the revived usage in a 1914 birth of the word, with later mentions in a rent novel and a Broadway revue.
A fragment recalls Burgess introducing humorist Will Rogers and a remark about an entomologist proposing to tear wings from flies for 10 000 orations to test heredity and mutation. The garbled wording suggests a cited anecdote without clear context.
A speaker contemplates inviting a famous entertainer to 10,000 dinners to test whether he will attend without謝 apology or debt. The plan is introduced with a quip about the entertainer and a mock acknowledgment of Mr Will Rogers.
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