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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1917
Page
4
The column riffs on war front sentiment, Berlin trains, and homefront paving plans. It notes Dr H Q Alexander’s attacks on the administration, mentions Bud Stephenson’s移 migration to New York, and urges saving Tom Mooney through press appeal. It also promotes James Cassels’s Black Watch tale and a continuing serial A Man and a Woman.
Henry Owen portrays Mayor Thompson as a symbol of anti American sentiment in Chicago tied to the People's Council of Democracy and War Terms. The piece recalls a 21 year old trekbound draft era memory urging Americans to confront traitorous elements at home while the young men go to war.
A moral indictment arguing that Germans are irrevocably transformed into Huns through war. The author claims the German people, once admired for arts and science, have become bloodthirsty conquerors under Kaiser rule, and must be crushed to end the threat.
Mayor Ragan assures residents Centennial avenue will be completed shortly. Officials stress finishing the street and passing inspection to avoid delays before winter, with construction expected to endure the wear of upcoming seasons.
A solemn dedicatory verse by Alexander Louis Fraser urging workers to keep faith in liberty. The speaker praises labor’s hands that forge strength for freedom and warns that without workers’ aid, the light of their fathers’ liberty would fade.
In a wartime essay collection, Ralph Barton Perry contrasts youth’s opportunity with older sacrifice, urging young Americans to view the era as a joint venture. Florence Nightingale’s wartime devotion is cited, while a Lorraine refugee tale shows a German colonel’s kind acts amid invasion.
Italians worldwide mark a national holiday for the Italian union and liberty under a native royal house. The Sept 20 anniversary recalls the 47th year since Italian troops entered Rome led by General Cadorna.
A terse exchange shows an American Civilian and an American Soldier reacting to a special performance. The civilian struggles to understand the foreign-language phrases while the soldier notes no words were understood.
In a small shop scene, Jim Dan carries family shoes while Dean praises cobblers for saving leather during wartime. Making uppers stretch keeps prices down and supports fathers with many young toes. The message urges readers to befriend their local cobbler as a patriot act.
Frances Wright Kauffman reports from France that a five year old daughter of a prefect calms a crying classmate during shelling by explaining her mother is in the cellar. The incident follows bombardments from about twenty miles away.
Don Marquis in the Evening Sun column argues the Kaiser should name George Sylvester Viereck head of the American Branch of the Order of the Sons of Roches.
Milwaukee Wisconsin September 20. The annual convention of the American association of public employment officers opened today and will continue tomorrow. The farmers labor problem is to be a chief subject of discussion at the session.
In Soixante Trois region of France a Red Cross unit issues a handmade weekly named Soixante Trois. It includes editorials humorous pieces poetry and diary entries. Advertising comes from Own-Lee Laundry with a call to fall in line. News is light but the paper boosts morale among crew.
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