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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1935
Page
4
A small employer, noting a longtime worker had not paid poll tax, required the man to settle the obligation. The employee promptly paid the tax, and the owner argues this act reinforces citizenship and integrity, suggesting the worker may become a better citizen through government support.
A magazine notice argues recent financial drives by Salvation Army Y M C A Chamber Red Cross and Boy Scouts duplicate effort. It urges consolidating campaigns to avoid exhausting contributors and to improve coordination among civil minded citizens and organizations.
The piece argues for a single annual Community Chest campaign, noting unorganized sentiment for consolidation and recalling past failure of separate drives in High Point while neighboring cities show potential. It warns multiple simultaneous drives threaten organizational survival and calls for unity.
Mr. G W Denny urges North Carolina to require driver licensing and insurance as a remedy for highway dangers. He compares roads to railroads, argues for rigid driver examinations, and cites Florida's citrus embargo as a model for enforcing road safety over profit.
The Saar region has moved to align with Germany following turmoil and violent episodes tied to a push for a return to the Fatherland under Hitler.
In South Carolina the speaker argues ideas gain strength when backed by action and life. He recalls a listener who realized right ideas alone are useless without personal commitment to living them out. The piece urges daily decisions shaping character toward courage or cowardice and unselfishness or selfishness.
The speaker urges choosing the Christ ideal to guide all decisions and unleash true vision. He warns that without sight people perish and encourages prayer and practice of God's presence as the real, transforming force shaping life.
A 1935 exchange shows DAILY SMITH endorsing protest against Vatican recognition by the U S and urging Congress to submit the Stop Alien Representation Amendment to limit American policy to American citizens. The State Department acknowledges the White House correspondence and notes attention to its contents.
In a public letter Harry Polly Snyder argues that three and a half million veterans hold World War I adjusted service certificates and deserve immediate cash payment. He notes Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion support early payment, challenging President Roosevelt's view on veterans understanding of the issue.
The writer notes growing anti death penalty sentiment after mentions of Hauptmann and quotes Sing Sing warden Lawes opposing state executions. He argues life sentences may still allow criminals to continue harming society, while Christian mercy remains a factor in the debate.
A long column examines funding for public schools urging tax policy shifts to pay teachers better. It recalls an 1839 essay comparing hiring standards for farm workers and teachers and argues for state investment in education. The page also reviews novels and non fiction titles including Suzy, Don John of Austria, Death in B Minor, and an anthology of light verse.
C McIntire notes a Southern woman’s claim that the Mason and Dixon Line marks a divide in speech. Doctor Poteat of Wake Forest observed how language shifts from freshmen to seniors, from I seed it to I seen it and I taken it. Regardless of region, college or not, English is absorbed rather than learned.
Gossip from Raleigh notes Senator Dunn in the State Legislature chairs the manufacturing labor and commerce committee and sits on many panels including appropriations commercial fisheries constitutional amendments corporations engrossed bills federal relations internal improvements insurance journal judiciary two library military affairs and public roads. The piece praises his breadth as a scholar able to know something about everything and something about something.
A historical dispatch recalls a Lumberton woman who carried a needle buried in a lower limb for days until a doctor removed it. The narrator adds a personal memory of a splinter under the ear and the oddities of human bodies, noting a hardware store removal from digestion as another strange tale.
A dialect poem describes sun and rain, hardship and hope. The speaker recalls past hard times and waits for spring healing as life and land even out. The refrain notes weather and fate easing like sunshine after a squall.
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