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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1937
Page
4
Classified line indicates postal handling in High Point North Carolina with a 15 cent entry fee and prices 67.80 3.90 1.95 as part of filing or mailing notation. The note shows second class matter designation under act of March 8 1872.
A collection of religious aphorisms and a quip from Austin O'Malley. The lines reference the Lord God guiding the king's heart and the concept of turning the skull into a tabernacle as a critique of annual pilgrimages.
The NC university newsletter outlines that North Carolina ranks 12th in manufactured goods value and 10th in wage earners but has only 34 percent value added by processing. It urges attracting higher value manufacturing to boost state prosperity and reduce reliance on low wage industries.
The paper reproduces an advertisement drafted by Mr. H. C. Clark, praising a memorial and sending a note to the bookkeeping department. The fragment emphasizes the value of the memorial and the editorial praise.
City officials consider not bidding for the old post office property if adequate provision is made elsewhere for a library space that preserves usefulness. The current library is suitable yet a makeshift that cannot long sustain needs or growth.
Ruth Miller Steese, state legislative chair of the American Legion Auxiliary, argues for universal service as a path to peace. The plan would equalize wartime burdens, deprioritize profit from war, mobilize industry and manpower, and require shared sacrifice to deter future conflicts.
A 1937 NEA piece notes 625000 non voters in Washington and Congress, led by Dr Copeland warnings on heat. Tax fights, rents, and local disdain for delay accompany a wish that Congress stays near Capitol Hill.
A New York Day by Day report notes varying crowd reactions to public figures. Hughes, Hitler, Mussolini, Al Smith, Jim Farley, La Follette, John L. Lewis and FDR receive mixed ovations and jeers across Madison Avenue venues and local neighborhoods.
The piece argues that France and England delaying action in Spain amounts to fiddling while Rome burns, framing their stance as ineffective and dangerously complacent amid mounting crisis.
The Algonquin houses the town's oldest bartender, past 70, with over five decades of drink mixing. He recalls serving at the Metropole on Prince and Broadway during 1888 blizzard and later tending toddies for Niblo's Garden sports crowds, while noting younger bartenders today lack old fashioned craft.
The piece notes a few practitioners still using the Mickey Finn an emetic drink given to guests after failed quiet requests. It describes how drinkees become ill forced to the washroom and often too weak to continue, needing help to reach a taxi.
The Circus Saints and Sinners Club in New York is described as a caustic, goofey organization led by Dexter Fellowes. They host dinners to initiate new members where sharp jests are common and unwanted talk is met with a playful custard back in the kisser.
A neighborhood tribute remembered Ted Hannan who has faithfully tended Gramercy Park for 35 years. Residents highlighted his kindness and steady stewardship as they praised his longtime service to the community.
High Point ends a health department drive that improves the city milk by sanitary barns and careful handling from dairy to delivery. Buyers from across the country flock to the furniture exposition building where sales rise and a generous purse tops $1,000. Dr John H Finley of the New York Times praised local leadership while a highway request spans from Climax to No 77 between Asheboro and High Point.
Louis Sobol is the village columnist in Greenwich Village. William Gaxton is a tie salesman favorite, Fred Astaire reputed to own the largest collection. Billy Seeman is among the city's top rhumba performers. The C. G. K. Billings estate on Riverside Drive hosts exclusive real estate valued at $250000. Ralph Barton drawings fetch good prices from collectors.
The army rented battlefield land near San Francisco for maneuvers as it anticipated warfare shifting to air power in future conflicts.
Mrs. F. C. Sharpe and her children Susan and Evelyn traveled to Piedmont Springs for a short stay. Misses Bernice and Ruth Stallings depart tonight for a visit to Portsmouth and Norfolk. Miss Mary Muse has returned from a house party at Piedmont Springs.
A report from western China cites a May 23 quake in Kansu that reportedly killed 100000 people. A Lake Michigan squall near Chicago yesterday capsized a small steamer with 26 drowned. The Eastland disaster remains noted for 812 lives.
A retro 1917 reflection argues that a divided world fuels war and calls for unity among nations. It questions piety amid conflict and condemns greed for money as war’s driving force, urging collective repentance under divine judgment.
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