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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1937
Page
3
In Madisonville Tennessee Chancellor A T Stewart ruled Homer Peel age 32 may keep his 12 year old wife. He refused to annul the marriage despite opposition from the girl's mother, arguing prevention of harm is wiser than later cure.
An American observer notes Paris Exposition builders earn $10 to $14 daily and may refuse to finish without government assurances of future work. He contrasts unfinished French structures with Russian and Italian pavilions completed on schedule, arguing dictator nations delivered results while fifty million French may be mistaken.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull told Belgiums Premier Paul Van Zeeland that blocking goods across frontiers sustains war. He argued war has an economic base and peace requires removing profit from conflict to deter aggressors, urging liberal trade policies.
Sums up an active peace policy urged by Senator Elbert D. Thomas. The piece argues for positive steps toward global harmony, critiques past treaties with China and Russia, and urges consistent application of peaceful programs in the Far East and beyond. It notes need for China law administration and a more flexible response to changing international alignments.
Paul Mazur of Lehman Brothers analyzes methods to obtain new capital for business amid depreciation, profit, and public financing. He warns of insurmountable difficulties and a stifling effect on business and the future, urging government data from business to justify financially sound legislation. He stresses the need for dispassionate analysis over emotion in shaping policy that supports financing and progress for the common man.
Washington observers note growing concern that CIO pressure could damage Roosevelt's prestige as negotiations move toward ending the steel strike. Fortune survey shows AFL public support rising while CIO backing ebbs, with 29.8 percent favoring AFL and 10.8 percent backing Lewis, 74.4 percent want sit-downs halted, labor largely agrees. Roosevelt reads public sentiment and adjusts course, though unlikely to amplify current trend.
The article reflects on Sir James Barrie 77 and his impact on literature and theatre. It recalls his Scottish roots in Kirriemuir and Thrumms like Burns, noting his tender depictions of youth, humor, and pathos. It mentions Barrie’s stage works and a New York memory of The Admirable Crichton with Walter Hampden.
A tale recalls a cherry tree straddling property lines where neighborhood children feasted. After years of feuding and a fifty fifty harvest, disease and rot doomed the tree, leaving only a sterile snag. Later surveys corrected the trunk’s true position off the claimed land.
The essay reflects on Sweet Auburn as a beloved village and warns how Dame Rumor in small towns grows to ruin families and friendships. It notes a maligned family selling their home, daughters marrying and dying, and broader truths about gossip’s harm in American villages and cities. The piece cites Ohio education funding as a contrast to tobacco spending.
Dr John Dollard’s Caste and Class in a Southern Town examines a dry Democratic Protestant community using informants and lived experience. It argues caste replaces slavery in maintaining status while limiting sympathetic contact and notes debates over the reality of social class in American democracy.
A June column reflects on the years since the peace treaty with the Allies, notes Jeremiah’s call for peace in troubled times, and observes rising self destruction as a method of escape. It recalls a Richmond anecdote about General Julian Carr replying to a distress letter with a curt “Jump.”
The reminiscence blends memories of rural life from a columnist note. Vivid scenes include milk in rock spring house, bacon in oven, a bird’s nest in an old coat, a parlor hen, a palm leaf fan, and Grandpa’s porch chair. The piece imagines revising Odd’s reminiscences with similar small-town details.
Quote from Walter Runciman in the Engfish cabinet expresses belief in a US trade pact as the greatest contribution to world trade and aims to persuade the United States.
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