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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1938
Page
4
The note quotes scripture and moral counsel urging abstinence as defense against disease and lust. It cites I Peter 2 11 and a line attributed to Herrick praising abstinence as the strongest fence against illness.
County commissioners and state lawmakers face the push for a full $1,000 homestead exemption, a move that could upend budget balances across public services. Voters in rural areas favor the pledge, while opponents warn of tax base erosion and the need for rate adjustments. The legislature is expected to consider the bill after organization, with strong opposition hotly argued.
North Carolina tackle plates will bear a maroon back with silvery letters and no slogan. Commissioner A J Maxwell proposed The Balanced State but public outcry over statistics about the state’s balance led to abandoning the idea.
The piece portrays Haile Selassie en route to Geneva to protest Ethiopia’s absorption into Italy’s empire. It casts the Ethiopian monarch as a symbol of failed idealism and criticizes the League of Nations for not preventing Mussolini’s aggression and for undermining small nations’ autonomy.
Observers note a shift toward plain license plates and frank driving behavior. The movement suggests that reduced pretense may accompany continued reckless tendencies, with drivers embracing straightforward practices on the road.
A quiet memorial service at the cemetery on May 10 in High Point placed flowers on Confederate graves. Banks closed, and Raleigh noted the observance, but High Point’s event remained primarily conventional with no Civil War veterans present. The piece reflects fading political significance of the day and warns of Memorial Day merging with Decoration Day among descendants of the Confederacy.
The piece surveys figures Bruce Barton Lowell Thomas Homer Croy and General Grant in the art of friendship. Homer Croy shares five rules for making friends emphasizing patience listening doing favors keeping in touch and thoughtful gestures.
A public note on the Jefferson nickel earning only a fraction of the buffalo nickel’s early value prompts talk of a five cent nickel. The article also mentions an experimental artificial blood vessel made from rubber tubing, highlighting its lymphatic use.
A brisk, paragraphic vignette sketches Broadway life from foggy cabbies and Brevoort sidewalks to chorus houses, doormen, and summer editorial hunts. It wanders through bars, music, fashion ephemera, and street life with a Bowery-tinged, period voice.
Vivid fragments describe bustling 34th Street bazaars with striped awnings and open storefronts. References to figures like George M. Cohan, Brock Pemberton, and a mix of theater and summer cultural sights hint at a lively urban scene with shops, car marts, and open-air gathering amid early 20th century city life.
A vivid slice of city life as swing fills 52nd Street and Washington Square Park. Max Gordon heads from his 42nd Street suite to a noon session with entertainers as Polo Grounds echoes reach Coogan's Bluff. Lee Shubert plans a Yurrop operetta tour while Liberty and other borscht circuit routes bustle. Fresh grass scent graces Charley Schwab’s Riverside Drive home.
Wandering Midwest scholars scout a theater in Grey's Drugstore basement while Brooklyn trams hum. Night Court sees a sheepish oat dunk as vaudeville acts cluster around Casa Manana stage door amid Gotham evening air. Lucius Beebe unveils a technicolor spring triumph.
The piece captures bustling city vignettes from the Queensboro Bridge crash scene to Sardi's crowds and Radio City. residents on Second Avenue fire escapes, Ritz lobby summer cheer, and Irish youth at field-day parties. Greenwich Village artists head to Provincetown for a season of bohemian pursuits and literary rites.
A vivid snapshot of urban life including Isaak Waltons en route to Sheepshead Bay, subway mornings, exotic tourists in tight jackets, Leicas and Baedekers, Dinty Moore’s West 46th dining room, and Broadway style music heard across Manhattan during an August period.
Chief Justice W P Stacy of the state supreme court addressed the Men’s Club at Wesley Memorial church urging advancement of the Old North State philosophy of character work intelligence and law Miss Harriett Elliott of the NCCW faculty Greensboro will speak at the Mother Daughter banquet at Central Friends church tonight.
Charles B. Driscoll reports Katherin Brush, a novelist and former Middletown resident, keeps notebooks recording daily events and reflections. Her private life, marriages, and social circles in New York are sketched along with brief spot observations on fashion, mind readers, and the bustling Old Clothes Mart activity on Bowery and Elizabeth Street, with 417 men seen engaged in the trade.
Mrs J S Groome hosted the Beta Pi club yesterday afternoon. Dr Mrs J W Austin has moved from Park to their summer home on Wiltshire Boulevard. Mrs William Pharr of Belmont is visiting Mrs Joe Pell for the day.
An army airship landed today on the liner American Trader near New York, marking the first such achievement in history. General Nobile is en route in his Italian dirigible toward the North Pole. Presidential candidate Herbert Hoover discloses expenditures totaling 42032.16 to date.
Local brief notes that O. C. Wilson is reelected president of the state division of the Travelers' Protective association and an official notice announces the primary on Saturday June 1.
Mrs Estelle Stewart of Monroe visited Mrs H T Coffield. Mr and Mrs F J Delaney of Greensboro toured the city. W C Lea Jr traveled to Salisbury on business. Senior class members of High Point High School were hosted at the Armfield home on West Broad Street with Odelle Peacock Madeline Hoover Lewis Teague and Arthur Kirkman Jr among the guests.
Twenty seven German planes were brought down by the British on a recent day. American troops marched through the principal streets of London today and were reviewed by King George V. A E F soldiers are today heavily bombing the Germans from the French front.
Prof. M M Braidech of Case School of Applied Science reports 28 odor classifications from the public on drinking water. Descriptions include fishy grassy musty earthy overripe cucumber metallic and candied violet among others presented to the American Water Works Association.
A quoted remark from John Barbirolli, famed conductor of the New York Philharmonic, suggests the public underestimates the effort behind apparent ease in music leadership.
Observers note many buyers and sellers wear old clothing while pawnbrokers advertise as exporters and full lines of pawnbrokers clothing. The sign for A Cohen proclaims export of clothing to Southern and export trade confirming a bustling, segmented trade. Local cotton field workers and international buyers from China and India are cited as consumers.
Vendors carry stock on their arms and pay rent as wheel traffic shuns the block. A shirt and underclothes specialist displays clean yet not laundered wares in a two arm hold. An overcoat dealer showcases a chinchilla dark blue coat amid a warm day. The text notes hobbyists collecting old barrow knives and pocket tools.
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