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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1929
Page
4
A short lyric note attributes a fleeting beauty to a moment, echoing Moore's concise meditation on time and bloom. The line presents a contemplative image of transience and grace.
A 1919 Roosevelt Memorial Association fund of 1 750 000 was used to establish a Washington monument site with 1 000 000 allotted. John Russell Pope designed the monument awaiting congress approval while Oyster Bay’s Roosevelt memorial park cost 850 000 and a 999 year lease secures Roosevelt House. The Roosevelt library and distinguished service medals completed the memorial program.
The federal treasury is projected to end the year with a one hundred million dollar surplus, yet no tax reduction is planned. Administration officials expect no tax relief despite the windfall. Much government revenue came from Wall Street in the past year as speculators profited. Conditions may dull this source next year as Congress tightens spending.
The text discusses accelerating federal construction efforts to modernize the navy, control mid-continental river flooding, and dam the Colorado. It notes an extra hundred million dollars will be required, regardless of prosperity, as Uncle Sam pursues this program at a brisk pace.
A 47 year old North Carolina farmer with eight children attempted death by his own action. No reason was given for the act though reports note mounting farm tenancy burdens and a growing tenant farmer population in the state.
The island faces a race education dispute as the sheriff taxes a sole Black resident with several school age children. With no separate colored school on Ocracoke and a compulsory attendance law, education facilities are lacking. The resident has had property sold and claims denial of legal benefits, prompting talk of home rule.
Commentator urges fed finance to aid markets moderately and warns against leaving Wall Street to self adjust. Cites Wake County $250,000 note due in New York with no bidders at six percent, showing money rate pressures threaten public welfare.
A citizen proposes trading city post office and federal building sites to house the library. The piece argues for a new, better kept library space away from the city jail, noting the current quarters are inadequate and the move should not be delayed.
Bruce Catton recalls Civil War echoes as Stonewall Jackson lies in state in Richmond in 1863. A Confederate officer vows to still wage war if he meets Caesar, while France honors Ferdinand Foch with final rites for a commander who led many soldiers.
Reflections on war's permanence from Foch's era, noting the constant lure of battle, the failure of wartime idealism, and the ongoing quest for a just peace. Also reports on agriculture's economic weight, Hoover era prohibition stance, Lindbergh's perilous career, and public sentiment on national policy.
A satirical collage notes surprises in diplomacy linking Siam Washington and peace. It jokes about a former president turning to writing and earning money while hinting at political dynamics. The piece also comments on vision statistics and traffic jams with wry, regional humor.
Enterprise Bureau notes federal tax collections show North Carolina tobacco and cigarette industry at its most profitable year. Nine months total reached $184,979,046.05, with March alone up over last year. Estimates assign Winston-Salem 62 percent, Durham 26 percent, Reidsville 11 percent of state tobacco taxes and aggregate cigarette production figures.
A funeral for F G Spearman, a former Greensboro resident who died Friday in Winter Haven Florida, was held yesterday afternoon at his son's Roland Park home. The service was led by Dr Lloyd T Wilson and Dr J Clyde Turner. Burial followed at Oakwood Memorial Park with pallbearers named. Flowers were arranged by Mrs Lawrence Ingram Mrs W Carson Burns and Mrs J G Groome.
Raleigh will host an early bulb show next week as a lead in to the May Raleigh Garden club spring flower show. Mrs. J. S. Mitchiner chairs the committee and invites gardeners to submit tulip iris flowering shrubs pansies and other early spring flowers for display.
A historical note claims that if all U.S. possessions outside Alaska were combined, their land area would still be smaller than the state of Mouapa. It emphasizes the vastness of Mouapa relative to distant territories.
Extracts from letters by boys who attended C. M. T. C. Camps praise the program. They cite increased patriotism discipline self reliance and intentions to recruit others for next summer.
Buenos Aires reports wireless telephone rates to Berlin at 60 dollars for three minutes. In the service's first month with Germany only about 30 calls were completed and the average call lasted four minutes.
Today marks the 64th anniversary of Richmond Virginia surrender to Union forces ending the Civil War era. General Lee evacuated at dawn with 30,000 Confederate troops while a blazing city burned and crucial railroad links failed, leading to surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 9.
Funeral services were held for Charles Phillips a Teaguetown boy fatally injured in a car crash on the Winston-Salem road last Sunday night. The Abbotts Creek Baptist church hosted the service with Rev. E F Mumford and others assisting. Pallbearers and floral attendants were named, and interment followed in the church cemetery.
The poem contemplates faith as a doubtful loom until spring showers reveal a cherry tree in bloom. Christ on the cross is reimagined as returning in blossoms, transforming doubt into beauty and spiritual reminder.
Transcribed listings show station idő blocks across New York Cleveland Baltimore and other markets with programs from 4:00 PM to 12:00 AM including orchestras, choirs, lectures and variety acts. Notable entries include WEAF WJZ WM programs and local station lineups such as WOR WABC WLW WBAL WTAM and WJZ with ensembles like the Serenaders, Troubadours, and Rosalie Wolfe soprano.
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