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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1936
Page
4
A reflective biblical and literary musing compares music in heaven and earth. The passage cites I Kings 115 and Isaak Walton to ponder divine harmony and the rendering of sacred art amid earthly bad men.
The piece argues insurance and taxes are essential in economic life and that industrial insurance helps low income workers. It urges serious budgeting for both, noting daily savings could fund premiums or tax payments and warning against delaying insurance or tax obligations.
The piece argues that calls for independence misrepresent the island’s economic limits and political capability, suggesting independence is being used as a vote enticement by students and political factions. It cautions Puerto Rico cannot thrive on self rule alone given historical literacy and economic constraints.
The piece contrasts Puerto Ricans and Filipinos in U S citizenship status and argues against harsh policies. It urges pride in citizenship, improved self-government, and self-support while criticizing congressional hardline approaches as unhelpful. It notes 38 years of U S guidance and cautions against abrupt independence or abandonment.
Four states Florida Ohio Wisconsin and Nebraska are described as debt free due to constitutional limits on public borrowing. Nebraska holds a 21 million dollar surplus with no income or sales tax and relief funded largely by municipalities. The piece argues pay-as-you-go government reduces future debt burdens and could help other states when current obligations are paid off.
Editorial notes a statement from the American Nationalists Inc claiming rapid growth. The program pledges constitutional rewrite, tax cuts, a $25 weekly minimum, wage protections, abolition of unions, foreclosure bans, debt relief for small debtors, and farm tax reductions to gain labor and farmer support.
The text critiques the American Nationalists who pledge government price regulation, tax cuts, noninterference in trade, labor peace, higher pay for armed forces and police, a larger National Guard, youth opportunity, resources development, and preferential hiring for ex servicemen, while noting gullibility and the scheme’s excess.
A letter from a Shack Owner, a former High Pointer now living in North Carolina, argues against higher taxes to fund schools. He contends homeowners and landowners unfairly bear the burden while many nonowners have children in schools. He urges voters to oppose the tax increase.
Drury B. Thompson, president of the High Point High School senior class, argues for a longer school term and improved janitorial service to raise sanitation and educational equity. He notes eight months is insufficient compared with eleven to thirty-two months elsewhere and calls for action by citizens.
The article argues expansion is not over but evolving toward new social and economic trails. It cites science driven gains in autos efficiency gasoline use and early stages of radio and television, urging improved home efficiency and national progress through innovation.
Washington discusses a new surplus tax plan linked to Roosevelt era programs. The piece criticizes administration aims, cites CWA NRA AAA FHA and WPA as supporting evidence, and argues a broader shift in tax policy will emerge despite opposition from Byrd and others.
The column spins through lively vignettes on Gelett Burgess new volume Too Good Looking and the Gobi Desert etymology. It notes letters to editors, theater jokes with McIntyre and Heath, memories of Washington Irving and Roscoe Pea cock, and quips about plain statements versus erudite pedantry in a bustling New York milieu.
National planners expect vindication in November to clear barriers. A protective propaganda cover surrounds the Roosevelt reform effort, while insiders who know the pact face containment after the inheritance tax fiasco. House leaders who rushed the bill will look foolish as the public misses the frightening view of presidential incompetency. A New York editorial echoes the view that Congress was thrust into a profound corporate tax change with little warning and pressed to enact quickly and irresponsibly.
Ten years ago on May 30 the commencement exercises were set to begin with Rev. Jordan of Greensboro delivering the baccalaureate sermon at the American Theater. The school would not close until June 4, and the program would climax Friday evening with graduating exercises at the American Theater. A. T. Albom, superintendent of public instruction, was to be the chief speaker, and diplomas would be awarded along with gold buttons from Palmer Method Writing Co of New York for distinguished Palmer writing.
Coore Miss Ammi Albright of the high school faculty addressed the Gir Re serves and other w meembers of the grammar grades last. Wednesday morning, Mrs Eddie Strickland has as her guests her mother and sister, Mrs W A Eichelberger and Miss Pearl Eichelberger, of Portsmouth, Co, who have been spending the winter in Richmond, Va.
A Banmum Blale School class, Gablant's second grade, earns praise for strong performance with a hundred percent success rate, reflecting lively humor and school spirit.
In Chapel Hill a bolt of lightning partially demolished the home of Professor 8. H. Hobbs Jr of the University of North Carolina. Professor Hobbs, his wife, and their children were inside but escaped injury as the house sustained structural damage.
From Greensboro the landscape contract for the memorial stadium project has been let to C. G. McIntosh, landscape contractor and engineer of High Point, for the sum of 41000 dollars.
Roanoke Island in Dare county near Manteo will host a big August 18 home coming and birthday celebration honoring Virginia Dare the first white child born in North Carolina as part of a regional Sesqui Centennial effort citing Raleigh’s influence and competitive spirit with Philadelphia and the nation.
City editor sent reporters to comb hotel registers for notable names for interviews in The Loop. All but one produced bold pieces though none found subjects. The lone cub returned empty handed yet thrived later, with Frank A. Vanderlip singled out as surpassing them all.
In cartoon humor the high board fence serves as an out for hard to draw details. Readers imagine what lies behind the fence as hind limbs, horse heads, and dog tails are obscured. Hands and shoes are noted as stumbling elements in Briggs era drawings.
Fragmentary reminiscence recalls a college town scene with footballs croquet and a piano playing The Maple Leaf Rag. The speaker mentions Booth Tarkington and a lingering feeling from college days sparked by reading his wordy view of old campus life.
A reader cites a playful couplet about life and knowledge, then recalls Punchinello and Miko authoring Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. The note mocks Punchinello’s humor as it references classic literary titles and a death, under McNaught Syndicate copyright 1936.
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