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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1933
Page
4
A Chicago era preacher. Chas H Parkhurst quotes Timothy 4 7 to praise steadfast faith in intellect and resolve. The text frames intellectual virtue as a noble calling and moral duty.
Judge John J. Parker of the Circuit Court of Appeals argues before the state bar association that removing the uniformity clause would enable modern taxation and large bond funded programs. He says the current constitution hides debt service costs and warns residents that the old system offers false security while the proposed reform tightens limits and protects homes.
The article notes federal relief allotments in the state shrinking since last October as more jobs appear. It cites Kinston renouncing further relief with new factories and rising payrolls, while High Point and others still rely on aid. It stresses hopes for job creation to end welfare dependence and restore independence.
The piece argues benefits of unemployment insurance and old age pensions must be accepted without pride but condemns the dole as a substitute for real work. It urges replacing the welfare fallback with a fair opportunity to gainful employment as soon as possible.
The piece discusses the rise in stock prices amid speculative bets and a shaky bull market. It notes that many advances are earnings supported while others rely on speculation, and urges caution as banks and insurers benefit from higher values, potentially turning bad loans into better assets and easing bank liquidity.
Merchants associations plan codes under the industrial recovery act shaping hours and wages. In cities under 250 000 population clerks would work 48 hours weekly with a 10 dollar minimum, while other rules cover pricing advertising and product origin.
Bruce Catton argues that disarmament efforts stall as major powers plan Navy build ups and maintain vast armed forces. He cites MacArthur figures showing 6.2 million in uniform and $4 billion annual defense spending, contrasting postwar promises with continued militarization and warns of a worse war unless leaders keep disarmament pledges.
The article suggests imminent formal recognition between the United States and Soviet Russia. It notes Roosevelt's world message, U S delegates at London meeting engaging with Russian delegates, and the R F C financing loans enabling American exports to Russia, including 60 000 to 80 000 bales of cotton.
The article compares Roosevelt’s Campobello trip to a sailboat with canned provisions to a modern wartime cruiser for the return voyage. It contrasts the slow, traditional Amberjack II style with the Indianapolis warship and suggests the Macon airship would have shown an even starker difference.
A July 4 celebration at a Michigan Ohio resort featured 60 girls in a bathing beauty contest amid festive cheering. organizers laid on a gala program and the crowd cheered with lively calls such as Hips, hips, hoo-ray.
An English inventor creates a practice golf ball tethered to a parachute that supposedly never travels more than ten yards. The article notes that an ordinary golf ball serves the same training purpose.
Al Capone's successor in Chicago faces an income tax evasion indictment. The accused allegedly avoided taxes with advice not to view the law as violated, citing a lawyer named Mitchell as counsel.
Roosevelt moved to curb railroad wage demands. Federal Coordinator Eastman pressed the line and railroads agreed to no wage changes before next February, after a 22 percent cut proposal which would have raised the tempo rary 10 percent reduction.
Don ald Richberg of Chicago emerges as a key architect behind the National Recovery Act and labor wage amendments. Roosevelt values his presence in the recovery administration, while Richberg balances union duties and legal advisory roles amid railroad wage conflicts. The feature also surveys affluent penthouse gardens and cultural figures in New York society.
Laughs ripple through the Agriculture building as Theodore Bilbo ex-governor of Mississippi is named to the Agricultural Readjustment Administration to gather current information from newspapers magazines and other public sources. Amid layoffs the move prompts jokes about Senator Brookhart with Chas Brand saying Brookhart’s work on farm exports to Russia is useful.
New York sky scrapers rival the gardens of Babylon with rooftop plots. Otis Weise, McCalls editor, tends a three-sided yard with ivy and 16 blooming flowers. Helena Nanny favors California cactus and angel trees on her terrace by Central Park. Zita Johann maintains an imported hedge and a white Russian wolf-hound. Acmed Abdullah runs a duplex penthouse garden with lemon verbena and geraniums.
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