Reflections on Life's Quiet Moments
A contemplative line echoes Job's plea for solitude and solace amid hardship. The speaker seeks private comfort away from external demands, underscoring the longing for personal respite during suffering.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1963
Page
2
A contemplative line echoes Job's plea for solitude and solace amid hardship. The speaker seeks private comfort away from external demands, underscoring the longing for personal respite during suffering.
The American Association of School Administrators closed its 95th meeting urging direct 200 dollar per pupil federal grants for all public school students from grades 1 through 14. Critics warn such aid is unlikely and could distort local action, while some propose expanding impact aid under current laws already assisting about a third of districts.
Readers address the status of African American rights, economic disparity, and political loyalties in North Carolina. The letter critiques white freedom, calls for equality and free expression, and questions Horace Kornegay’s voting record and representation amid sit-ins and education funding debates.
The piece advocates returning to a single price for American cotton to remove the subsidy gap. It notes US mills pay $182.50 while foreign mills pay $42.50 less, cites President Kennedy directing USDA to fix the differential, and warns delays risk warehouse pileups and lost markets.
The article recalls the 16th Amendment milestone fifty years hence, tracing early taxes from colonial fees to the 1862 Civil War levy and 1895 Supreme Court challenges. It notes states ratified by February 3, a 1999 congressional push, mixed political support, and compares past and current tax burdens with Kennedy and Treasury proposals.
The High Point Enterprise lists staff with D A Rawley as President and Mrs R B Terry as Secretary Treasurer Holt McPherson as Editor Joe Brown managing editor and C W Patterson Jr advertising director. It outlines mailing and carrier subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions and notes AP involvement and tax details. It also states that carriers and distributors are independent contractors and that the paper is entered as second class matter.
The essay argues that humans are uniquely a wishing creature and often stumble in choosing what to wish for. It cites fairy tales, Ortega y Gasset, and the newly rich who seek middlemen to guide their desires, producing flashy but inauthentic wishes driven by culture.
Notes On The News quotes Ortega arguing that wishes reflect the self a man wants to become. Without a clear vision of self to realize, people replace genuine wishes with pseudo desires, risking happiness as limitless choice leads to drift and intoxicated fulfillment.
North Carolina manufacturers led the out fitting of the new State Legislative Building with Frank H. Wood and Monarch Furniture Company supplying carpet and furniture for corridors and press rooms. Monarch rushed press quarters furniture after a Thursday call, ahead of the grand opening. The article also notes outside undercutting by nonlocal bidders and praises High Point firms for the job.
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