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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1937
Page
4
A reflective verse pairing Deuteronomy guidance on choosing rulers with Quarles meditation on understanding. The quotes contrast wise leadership with humility and warn against pride. No event or place specified.
A presidential committee recommends studying the defunct NRA to craft constitutional wages and hours laws. It argues NRA overreached by attempting both hours and trade practices and that future legislation must avoid such pitfalls while ensuring core controls.
J Ed Millis president of Adams Mills Corporation voices concern over rising taxes and government spending. He says taxes must fund essential services but criticizes non essential government expenditures as driving higher costs for the over 1,200 stockholders nationwide.
The article argues that pace of taxation must match production costs and warns against spending beyond what taxes can cover. It calls on thoughtful Americans to use influence to stop unchecked government spending so that consumers retain purchasing power.
High Point plans to refund about one third of its debt under favorable terms to save taxpayers more than a million dollars in debt service charges. The move follows a past readjustment criticized at the time but now praised by municipal finance experts. Recovery of the city’s credit appears achieved with market prospects for favorable long term financing.
City Manager E. M. Knox states High Point’s population is fully 50 000 within city limits, with census figures likely to confirm the count in three years. The piece notes retail figures do not reflect the city’s size and urges locals to boost trade.
The piece notes the early view of cars as a harmless fad then describes the car as a pivotal modern tool. It laments rising traffic deaths and implies escalating costs and risks linked to automobiles in American life.
In 1936 a warning notes that highway safety requires personal responsibility despite broader law enforcement progress. It argues the traffic problem is individual stakes, urging readers to drive and walk sanely to avoid costly risk and reduce a senseless lottery.
A stark admonition to a driver who killed a child and fled, insisting the culprit cannot escape self guilt. The letter warns you may avoid capture but cannot escape conscience, as nights haunt with the memory and shame of abandoning responsibility. It urges confession over cowardice.
The North Carolina House tabled a bill requiring proof of gross or wanton negligence for auto damage claims. Ordinary negligence remains sufficient for action, covering many scenarios from a son driving his mother to a lawyer in his wife’s car. The debate highlighted insurance concerns and public liability coverage.
In his United States lecture Captain R L Reiss of the London Housing Authority notes postwar Britain built 65 000 units housing 300 000 people Nine of ten residents in new dwellings are good tenants Half of the remaining ten percent become good tenants with good management The rest are a problem yet homes must be provided for these individuals American glum rehabilitation advocates will likely echo his view
A New York clergyman condemns Hollywood as selfish and indulgent while noting many in the industry differ. The piece argues against collective judgment, pointing out that sensational stars dominate headlines while decent, law abiding actors stay out of the glare.
Washington march 3 three key dates loom in the fight over President Roosevelts court plan march 9 fireside address march 10 senate judiciary hearings and april 11 chief justice hughes 75th birthday the piece weighs potential political moves and the price for support in congress as the nation faces a constitutional clash.
A vivid wartime line describes a British man unable to finish his meal as his wife and children sit nearby in gas masks, the unsettling image illustrating wartime anxieties and home front vigilance.
A 400 pound actress demands annulment of her marriage to a 50 pound man described as a littl woman. The wording suggests a sensational tabloid focus on bizarre pairing and bitter breakup dynamics.
The conclusion of the sitdown strike frees night watchmen at the auto plant to perform their duties without tripping over nonworking personnel, restoring safer patrols and regular night coverage.
New York report notes Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy reviving ventriloquism, aided by Rudy Vallee’s radio exposure. Bergen, Chicago-born, blends classic dummy dialogue with witty cross fire patter, attracting renewed interest in the art once led by Montgomery.
Each afternoon in fair weather Centre Park sees a rubber tired run about driven by a dapper, natty gentleman in fashionable driving attire. He circles the park twice then leaves the horse and gig with a groom before gliding away in a waiting limousine. The sparrow cops call him Mr Gay Ninety, unaware of his true identity.
A colorful shop near Radio Center offers old fashioned sweets and novelty confections such as coconut flag strips hoar hound jaw breakers with caraway center and candy filled glass revolvers. The proprietress, resembling Lydia Pinkham in ads, also trades fancy work and homemade jellies and pies, a real life character from Way Down Fast.
The article notes the lavish costuming for professional ballroom dancers who wear ultra formal evening clothes multiple times per show, highlighting the demanding glamour and spotlight focus on their dazzling outfits.
About 100 volunteers work the Community Chest campaign seeking 23000 in pledges. R G Lassiter clears major business streets of snow with trucks hauling away frozen material. Boy Scouts depart Sunday night on Pullman 32 for Washington to act as ushers at the inauguration. Bishop Kilgo to begin services March 11 at Wesley Memorial with Dr. Rowe assisting. Mrs. Arthur Harrison and children visit relatives in Durham. Eugene H. Jarrett travels to East Bend for the weekend.
Mrs George Wood and Miss Marjorie Tate returned from a several day visit to Philadelphia. Mrs John Pickett has gone to Trenton New Jersey to attend her ill father R B Sams. J C Hill secretary treasurer of Hill Veneer Mfg in New York when their plant burned and he is expected home tomorrow.
Commercial carriers carried 1,020,931 passengers in 1936, up 87 percent from 1935. They flew 63,777,226 miles and moved 6,935,777 pounds of express goods, setting new records.
A 1937 McNaught Syndicate note highlights high fashion in retail, citing DeMarcos with a season outlay over 5000 dollars and similar investments by Velez and Yolande, underscoring couture as part of the customer experience.
Japan through her minister expresses friendship with a nation while Mexico declares no awareness of any plot to involve it in war with the United States. President Wilson says the United States will not be rushed into war. We kind of hope John Bull keeps ruling them there waves.
A new Russian commercial aircraft features retractable landing gear and a duralumin hull. It uses a 1000 hp liquid cooled V engine and achieves a 7500 mile range with a top speed of 162 miles per hour.
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