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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1934
Page
4
Publisher credits note A Cecil as business manager with F Edwards and national and local advertising led by Walter F Hestber and M Waynick. The fragment names Baltor in relation to advertising but lacks clear context or date.
A biblical reflection noting that rulers sought Solomon to hear his wisdom as a divine gift. It contrasts worldly wealth with the higher value of wisdom, quoting scripture and a contemporary sentiment about pursuing true understanding.
North Carolina teachers face limited relief as federal aid remains unavailable and salary levels likely rise only 10 to 15 percent. Many resignations continue as educators seek better pay, hurting High Point and other schools and risking long term harm to education and future generations.
The Charlotte revivalist Evangelist Ham said infant deaths in the state are caused by mothers drinking whisky and smoking, while the Charlotte News condemns the remark as misinformed. Officials attribute deaths to poverty, unsafe milk, impure water, and lack of essentials, not maternal habits.
A call urges North Carolina leadership to improve infant mortality conditions and halt the spreading of slander under the guise of evangelism. The message stresses intellect and decency as tools to address these social harms.
President Roosevelt named Dr. R. D. W. Connor historian and UNC faculty member to the newly created post of United States archivist. Connor will run the office, may select staff without civil service constraints, and is expected to elevate the archive as a powerful agency for American scholarship.
The Dunn Bulletin notes a split in portrayals of the South by literature and film. One view clings to a traditional image of gentility and cotton country, while another exposes poverty, mills, and intolerance. The piece argues for a true, nuanced South and cautions against damaging generalizations.
Bruce Catton analyzes a tangled social order and the difficulty of judging rights and wrongs within it. He weighs systemic forces affecting individuals and groups, exploring constraints that shape choices and justice.
A discussion argues that blaming individuals like vestrymen ignores the competitive system that drives wages. It credits the Civilian Conservation Corps with major relief and infrastructure gains while noting a slow economic recovery. A Liberal review of Hoover’s The Challenge to Liberty is sharply critical.
A inventor in California creates a piano whose tone resembles chimes, prompting debate over whether it should be taught as a child’s instrument due to its churchlike, elderly associations.
New York writer and broadcaster Alexander Woollcott stands as a leading modern literateur whose wit, versatility, and public reach astonish. The piece notes his varied talents, globe trotting, Harlem block life, and friendships with Neysa McMien Noel Coward and Harpo Marx, describing his Wit's End home and his near fifty frame.
Guido Bruno, longtime corner bookshopower in Washington Square south, remains missing after closing his shop and walking away in an unclear, baffling disappearance. Tales around the case include reports of a magazine issue halted to remove a Zola story adapted to an American setting, suggesting unusual editorial interference.
A collection of quirky notes mentions Mrs. Irvin Cobb as a top amateur bridge player, Jim Oviatt urged to open a shop in Radio City, and the first red-fronted 5 and 10 in Wilkes Barre. Ed Wynn’s fondness for roasted peanuts, Robert Quillen’s fine South Carolina home, Ray Rohn as the first New Yorker to wear horn-rimmed glasses, Grace Godwin possibly returning to Greenwich Village, and Barney Gallant set to reopen a hoop town.
A Broadway chronicler notes a fashionable scene with 15 beautiful ladies passing a New York factor in a block, each flashing a wink smirk or smile as a local boy makes good in 1934 standing.
The Raleigh state penitentiary holds 24 condemned men but no executions are scheduled for the rest of October.
Police in Winston-Salem seized 75 pints of legal whiskey stamped for Virginia in a raid conducted last night. The operation targeted illicit spirits in a city area, with investigators reporting the raid recovered the seized liquor and no immediate arrests were listed.
Modern etiquette Q A from Roberta Lee covers how long a debutante should stay in the receiving line with her parents at least an hour after the invitation time. It also states the bride's name should always come first in a wedding announcement and suggests fall table flowers such as asters gladioli and chrysanthemums.
Daily Lessons In English by W. L. Gordon presents guidance on usage and pronunciation. It defines lambent as softly bright or radiant and offers a Longfellow quote illustrating steady luminous light without sparkle.
Questions and scrambled answers quiz readers on authors and geography. It asks who wrote a cigar quote, which U G part lies closest to the Pole, shallot definition, ecce homo translation, and gallon fluid ounces, with misprinted response items.
J N Shields, New Bern school official, named to the state school committee on high school textbooks by Governor Ehringhaus in Raleigh. The appointment expands local influence in statewide education policy.
The Delano theater presents See the Return of a Poor Married Man Friday night. Local notes highlight a revival of the period play with cast and showtimes listed for the county audience.
An pamphlet promoting a cost free rupture treatment plan promises relief for men and penises who have suffered years. It instructs readers to mail names to Capt. W. A. Collings Inc Box 574 A Watertown N Y to receive the method at no expense. The ad urges immediate response and claims many have benefited.
A reader asks how to make burnt cork for minstrels and how to neutralize rhubarb acid. The reply lists mixing lampblack cacao butter and neroli perfume, stirring during cooling, and adding soda near the end to neutralize acid and reduce sugar needs.
J Wallace Winborne state Democratic chairman spoke at a First Congressional District rally in Edenton urging a large Democratic vote in November. He emphasized party turnout to support Democratic candidates and goals.
Asheboro hosts the Randolph Book Club and the Friday Afternoon club for their first fall meetings held Friday at Mrs. Fred Page's home. Mrs. Hal Worth and Mrs. Page shared hosting duties while guest reader Mrs. Oscar Coffin, formerly of Asheboro now in Chapel Hill, read a Southern play. Books were exchanged and plans set for winter rotation.
Great Britain conducted a survey of historic monuments across the Isles finding a total of 3606 sites. England holds 2205 sites, Wales 600, and Scotland 808 in the inventory.
Mrs Willette shares her weight loss story claiming a three month drop of 30 pounds with a regimen of half a level teaspoon of Kruschen in hot water each morning. She says headaches dizziness heartburn and fatigue disappeared and notes friends saw benefits too. The ad mentions Mann Drug Co. and drugstores worldwide offering the product.
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