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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1938
Page
4
A short note from R. B. Terry President D. A. Rawley Secretary Treasurer and Hammett Cecil General Major Editor presents a thoughtful proverb from Samuel and Collier urging humility. The quote warns against arrogance diminishing life’s blessings and enjoyment.
The president’s speech to Congress labeled conciliatory by many leans on generalities with few concrete legislative recommendations beyond wages and hours reform. He defends regional wage variation, attacks low-wage areas, and signals two possible paths for his leadership while cautioning about corporate and anti-trust abuses.
Federal Bureau agents captured Bill Payne and Wash Turner at Sanford after months of manhunts by state and local officers. The arrest, likely sprung from a trusted insider, ends their status as the region’s most dangerous criminals and marks a high mark for Edgar Hoover era policing.
Free mail is responsible for a deficit in the post office department. Mr Farley reports a deficit despite high income, and Congress must appropriate about 46 million dollars to balance accounts. The article discusses franking abolition and a High Point hydroelectric project awaiting a state court ruling on city debt and an engineering survey.
Dale Carnegie extols growing flowers as affordable daily pleasure across America. He recounts Lincoln’s neglect of flowers, champions home gardens, and urges planting petunia and phlox seeds to create joy at low cost. Descartes is cited praising cultivation of the earth.
Supreme Court justices review a case on the right in dispute with no divided ruling indicated. The decision focuses on constitutional interpretation and potential implications for related legal standards and public policy.
A collage of quotes highlights child prodigy violinist Miseha Leviteki, actress Marg re Rawlings, labor secretary Frances Perkins on civic life, radio manager John V L Hogan, and sculptor Malvina Hoffman. The remarks span talent, gender roles, diplomacy, and culture.
A reflective column compares nation branding and radio war tactics to quarrelling children. It covers Britain Italy Germany and Russia using broadcasts to sway audiences, warns of cross border interference, and notes real world risks of escalating conflict. It also discusses Manchuria tung oil and Japan's fuel plans and comments on specialization in modern life.
Gene Fowler and Charles Mac Arthur are noted as the ex-newspapermen who have enjoyed the biggest thrills and earned the most money in Hollywood. Fowler, famed for restless pranks and flamboyant stunts, once crashed a studio conference in trousers in hand demanding them cleaned. He alternates between sea escape on Fire Island and writing best sellers, yet always returns to Hollywood.
Earl Benham notes that visiting friends bought two brilliantly feathered birds in Japan. on returning home the plumage faded and they discovered they had purchased two ordinary English sparrows painted to look exotic. The anecdote credits clever Japanese pranksters.
The sprucest clerks work in tony haber dasheries in Radio City branches of English shops. The Clarke woman knows the latest styles and how to wear them. In true British fashion shops serve tea around five, with customers for the fifteen minutes labeled as a bore.
The Century in town struggled as a rival to Music Hall. Once the Roxy, it fought over the name, shifted to spectaculars like The Last Waltz and Virginia which closed with a 175000 dollar loss. Structural issues threaten demolition for new office space.
The piece notes rising use of unclear pricing in restaurants with meals advertised without clear costs. Horcher's in Berlin is cited for not printing prices, prompting guests to choose courses by value rather than price.
The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual meeting with High Point Chamber officers as guests. The city council votes to improve South Main street in its first year meeting. Also reports on Alice Elizabeth Freeze, Davidson College returnees, Kathrine Via guesting in Greensboro, and Katharine McManus back at N C C W. News briefs note Coolidge seeks a submarine inquiry commission and a debt reduction, plus Gavin McNab will gift part of his estate to clients harmed by his advice.
The passage discusses crooked cashiers and split lead pencil additions used to mischarge customers in old-time night clubs. It notes waiters and captains’ contempt for those who do not scan checks, citing industry figures like Charles Schwab Owen D Young Alfred P Sloan as examples of orderly minds.
A crowded Brentano's area afternoon erupted when two husky truck drivers fought with hammer and tongs. They abruptly stopped, one threatened the bystander with a taunt, who calmly declined and walked away, feigning indifference.
North Carolina Public Service president C B Hole warns gas supplies to High Point mills may be cut off without government aid. Over 150 area cotton mills suspend operations as the Southern Power Company cuts secondary power. David Stanton returns to Roanoke College studies in Salem. Bridge club at the Teacups hosts Mrs H A Millis. Mrs C M Brown visits Greensboro. President Wilson urges railroad operation plan. Crowder cites 50 thousand stackers. Congress considers a munition department.
The state's fishing sector ranks first in commercial product value with mullet identified as the most important fish marketed commercially.
Disjointed text references a House committee session amid Roosevelt era policy battles. Mentions wage hour legislation, committee chairs from multiple states, and party dynamics while hinting at political maneuvers and a presidential context.
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