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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1936
Page
4
A quoted biblical proverb warns against buying friendship with gifts and notes that affection fades when gifts stop. Fuller adds the caution to avoid purchasing friends. The passage emphasizes enduring virtue over transactional affection.
Al Smith urged preservation of American principles through electing Landon, but his Carnegie Hall appeal to back the Republicans drew a sparse reception. The 1928 Democratic candidate appeared aged and defensive, while Landon acknowledged the nod without much enthusiasm.
Comments spark suspicion of unusual public interest in a local politician charged with issuing bad checks. As with five others named in warrants on similar charges, the case has not been publicly reported until police court disposition. forthcoming coverage will follow standard police report practice.
A Wake County case on July 4 primary irregularities was referred to the state elections board, then brought to a grand jury. Henry P. Marp, an election judge at Auburn precinct, confessed to overzealous conduct after an investigation led to an indictment.
The Wake County Superior Court imposed four months and a $200 fine, condemning ballot stuffing as a breach of law. The Wake grand jury defended honest election conduct, calling the ruling a genuine service to the state.
The National Doughnut Association, at its annual convention, notes per capita consumption rising to 30 doughnuts, up from 25 in 1929, and proclaims October as Doughnut Month to boost demand with a playful emphasis on the ending vowel.
The city adopts the 4 5 7 7 fire alarm code, replacing long used station calls to conform with a 1930 National Board of Fire Underwriters recommendation. A central switchboard will speed fire dispatch, though readers hope they won’t need to use the number.
Winston Salem AP reports Eva Mae Hampton Stewart, married at 13 to Rev Arthur Stewart, is 25 and expecting her fifteenth child. Only two of her children survive. the others are dead. The remark about Emerson hints at the tragedy of a life spent in hardship.
The piece contrasts American attitudes toward birth and childrearing with Soviet Italian and German systems. It argues Americans rely on families and schools while governments in the other nations actively shape citizens from infancy toward military service.
Three thousand families await homesteads in Alaska amid heat waves described as lasting. The piece notes a new robot umpire calling strikes while earlier umpires produced a gong by the impact of a bottle, illustrating changing officiating styles.
A poetic tale depicts Evangeline and Gabriel's enduring romance through hardship and fate. It recalls their twilight meeting, decades of gloom, and hopeful renewal as destiny and kindness reshape their lives.
Thoughts on Clark Gable and Robert Taylor give way to autumn musings on fall's mood and memory. The writer recalls leaf color, walnut stain, Paris evenings, and the warmth of wood fires, noting cultural touches from Alexander Woollcott to Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth, with a 1936 copyright.
A shanty resident dies amid grim verses with a roustabout rhyme about melancholy days and the year’s cold beer season. The fragment hints at a somber mood and a strange lyrical display surrounding the death.
A bleak loveliness settles over Gallipolis in fall as bare birch trees glow silver in moonlight. Fronts of the Smoke Shop close chairs indoors while Henry House records daily river bluff thermometer readings and livestock await winter.
Twenty years ago in October 1916 the North Carolina Soldiers' Home board chose Colonel D. H. Milton of High Point to succeed W. S. Lineberry as superintendent. Milton is described as a sociable, kind-hearted leader with broad business experience.
Miss Maud Phillips, guest of friends in Laurinburg, returned Thursday night. Miss Mary White left Saturday on the noon train for Guilford where she will teach this year. Quite a number of people were visitors to High Point Thursday night.
Bruce Catton notes that near the 1929 boom era newspapers reported President Hoover was an avid detective story reader. The remark spots a curious link between leadership culture and popular crime fiction in that period.
The article notes the detective genre has become respectable yet shifts as readers demand realism. It contrasts traditional plots with hard boiled and English settings, arguing American readers prefer authentic justice and harsher portrayals over ornate, idealized mysteries.
The article discusses Colonel Knox's past comments on insurance companies and New Deal policies. It notes the incidental debate on how reduced interest rates affect insurers and banks, harming wage earners with savings and life insurance, while government credit strengthens deficits.
About 41 000 of the former and 63 000,000 of the latter face reduced profits as government steps push banks and insurance firms toward government bonds and restrict industrial securities. Interest rates fall, forcing institutions to seek safe investments while profits shrink.
The text describes banks cutting deposit rates and insurance firms raising premiums as a necessary response to reduced earning opportunities. It argues these steps are essential to avoid grave risk and to preserve solvency in a challenging financial environment.
The piece argues that falling interest rates from 3.2% to 1.6% reduce returns on savings for 33 financial centers. Applied to $24 billion in deposits, this yields $300 to $400 million yearly, mainly impacting American workers' earnings. It claims the New Deal's rate cuts soak the poor and shift losses from the rich.
During the campaign a Democratic Ohio state senator received invitations to a Republican picnic and a meeting of Republican speakers by mistake. The errors reflect blurred party lines as liberal Republicans drift to Roosevelt and conservative Democrats lean toward Landon, causing numerous misdirected mailings.
Brief notes suggest trailers could aid farmers coping with dust storms by providing shelter storage and mobility. The idea focuses on improving resilience for agricultural work amid arid conditions.
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