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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1935
Page
4
A brief quotation from Isaiah 66 15 notes that as a mother comforts so will God comfort Jerusalem. L EB Landon adds that while Time can be a comforter its power is limited by the exhausted agency through which it operates.
President Roosevelt urged harmony with nature arguing the continent’s bounties require cooperation not conquest. He cited soil erosion service reforestation and flood control as vital to civilization and warned overuse could turn nature from friend to fiend.
A cold analysis titled The Economic Consequences of the New Deal argues the policy worsened wealth distribution. Stolberg and Vinton say real weekly wages fell two percent in 1934 while corporate dividends rose 17 percent and industrial profits jumped 76 percent in the first nine months of 1934 versus 1933.
The Literary Digest reports responses from about 30,000 of 325,000 surveyed across 100 colleges showing large majorities favor staying out of another war while willing to bear arms if invaded. Students largely back government control of munitions and universal conscription but doubt the value of an American navy and air force as sole insurance against war.
A political tract argues wealth concentration threatens the New Deal and calls for financing reform through higher taxes on large incomes or a corporate levy rather than borrowing. The critique aims to provoke readers to rethink policy while lawmakers in Raleigh consider sales tax reenactment.
A 75 year old writer recalls High Point’s evolution over fifty years as he rereads the fifty year edition of The High Point Enterprise and a recent issue. He mentions travels from Kernersville to High Point in 1878 to meet Dr J W Griffith and notes High Point’s early reputation as the highest point.
A letter from Route 7, Co. W. Hunt of Charlotte dated January 23, 1935 recalls Guilford and Randolph counties as winter quail shooting grounds and a hub for American field trials. He praises a fifty year anniversary edition of a great newspaper, honors J. J. Farris, and reflects on longtime colleagues and local history preserved for future historians.
Colfax High School junior class letter from Avahlee Grey endorses preserving the High Point Enterprise fiftieth anniversary edition for local readers near High Point, NC. The note asks for more copies for Colfax families and libraries.
A 1935 note from Cornelia Shaw, librarian at Davidson College, thanks High Point Enterprise for the newspaper's fifty year anniversary issue. She remarks on NC journalism's ups and downs and wishes the paper continued growth while serving citizens. The letter also touches on political and weather observations from the era.
In New York observers call the President’s social security plan generally desirable and financially sounder than expected. They view it as a timely offset to the Townsend plan’s $200 monthly idea, though some dissenters voice concerns.
Palm Beach and Miami observers weigh Florida’s wary rebound from destruction. Investors eye abandoned hotels, new real estate chatter rises, a ghost hotel project named Singers Folly stands as a warning, while social life and, amid plans for fresh surveys, the state braces for no repeat of past upheavals.
Two men with crisp white mustaches sit at large flat-topped desks, their presence described as tingling the air with a hint of intrigue.
A sunlit scene shows two men debating a local youth as the country’s most influential citizen while tourists ride rubber tired tricycles and rented bikes along the Lake Trail. Tricycle boys wear white plus fours and belted coats as moonlight spins memory books at a $2 hourly rate.
The passage lists multiple Royal Palm establishments including Royal Palm Way Royal Palm Tea Room and Royal Palm garage indicating a local branding flourish. It notes a Royal Palm shine parlor and a Royal Palm hamburger hutch as likely but unseen additions.
The text notes gentle surf sounds from a bedroom window aiding sleep. It mentions early dinners around 6:30 to ensure everyone rests by night, compares Coronado Beach for snoozing, and describes breakfast faces as having a sleepy blur. It references a person nicknamed Wilton Lackeye and a morning routine with an ocean dip and golf before Palm Beach wakes for lunch.
A couple drifts from a dance floor to a bench by a window and the man kisses the woman. She suggests he comb his hair and he snatches another kiss. The narrator calls him a liar and jokes that after marriage such commands will nag. Copyright 1935 McNaught Syndicate.
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