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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1921
Page
1
A quirky collage of phrases recalls early auto styles such as phaetons and the thrill of finding a five dollar bill. It notes Ohio red clover home brew, Japan’s rising imports, and a New Jersey baby born in a jitney given the middle name Ford.
A humorous quip contrasts unemployed movie girls with press agent vanity, then pivots to a sharp jab about the phrase enclosed find check. The brief comments reflect light editorial wit on language and publicity.
The city council完成 a hand stand at Main and Church streets in High Point to host summer concerts by the Elks band. Citizens are urged to attend and subscribe to a concert fund to support the performances.
The piece notes heirs of James Whitcomb Riley earning about 500 dollars per word for a love poem and contrasts earlier per word wages with later profits. It compares Stevenson and Milton earnings and cites Clyde Fitch earning 1.5 million in royalties, then suggests personal affection yields greater value than earnings, urging readers not to envy Riley.
J A Sweeney of Albuquerque New Mexico lay paralyzed on a hot day and thought to build a spring driven fan to avoid electricity. He developed the idea and is now mobile again both physically and financially. He has been offered 10000 dollars for his fan patents. The paralyzed inventor story offers motivation.
The piece argues the country faces a great building shortage despite millions unemployed and blames high material costs and wages. It notes steel prices up 43 percent since May 1913, brick up 165 percent, cement 206 percent, while labor deflation fears rise. It questions deflation in materials and trades and quotes Boston News Bureau on deflation in building costs.
A collage of notes on temper, a waiter named Fred Collins arrested for assaulting a policeman, and New York's turn to dehydration of foods to cut shipping and sugar costs. It also covers a Times Square peddler using roller skates to dodge police and a Brooklyn restaurant bandit raid with a detective present.
The Enterprise campaign chair thanks contributors and supporters. To date $11,677 has been received, enough to keep work going though some activities may be postponed. Special thanks go to solicitors, publicity helpers, supper organizers, and to Miss Hooper, Miss George, and Miss Bax, national secretaries, for tireless effort.
Havana May 19 government would fund a reporters union clubhouse in a prime Havana site if a bill by Representative Antonio Pardo-Strate passes at the next Congress session. The 1919 ground ceded by the government was designated for the association of Havana reporters. Mr and Mrs J Al Lindsay visited Lexington yesterday.
The schedule lists Wesley Memorial Methodist led by Pastor W. A. Lambeth with morning worship at 11 and evening service at 8, Sunday school at 9:30. Other churches include Saint Mary’s Episcopal with 11 a.m. service and 8 p.m. address, First Baptist with 9:39 a.m. Sunday school and services, West End Baptist with morning and evening sermons, Lutheran with 11 a.m. worship, and First Methodist Protestant, North Main, with 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. sermons plus vesper notices. Individuals named include organist R. T. Johnson, superintendent Myr. H. I. Cofield, and pastor C. V. Brooks, among many choir and hymn details.
Forty five members of the graduating class receive diplomas amid city pride. Archibald Johnson urged perseverance in learning over immediate earnings, stressing the value of education and the path to college despite financial obstacles.
Luz Jeanne Price reports in New York on June 4 that Tam many faces pressure as the Anti-Saloon league endorses how the Tammany administration enforces dry laws. The piece notes Republican attacks and dry forces’ perplexity, reflecting shifting political tempers. A later column recalls changing attitudes to women’s hair, from disapproval of short hair to a flapper era acceptance, with Columbia University faculty weighed in on bobbed hair trends.
In Lisbon disabled Portuguese veterans protest government neglect amid reports 25 wounded men discharged with about 35 cents a day. Newspapers ignite indignation as captains and veterans plead parliament action while the war ministry defends care and cites posts offered in the public service.
In Madrid May 16, news of a reform to recruit the army from the entire youth of the nation draws praise yet faces sharp criticism. A bill clause favors reserve officers chosen by parental wealth rather than merit, prompting El Sol to warn of a caste driven by money and the moral harm to the army’s intellectual core. Miss Mildred Bedford heads to Statesville for a weekend with relatives.
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