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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1922
Page
4
A 1922 NEA Service piece laments unemployment relief and praises work resumption, then shifts to a critique of law respect in America. It argues Prohibition, bootlegging, and lax enforcement erode civic duty and calls High Point citizens to demand safer railroad crossing protection from Southern Railway personnel.
Newspaper clippings humorously compare amateur golfers to gardeners, note a Rockefeller descendant opening a millinery shop, report Decatur boys striking before washing faces, and joke about clocks, windows of opportunity, and desert perils.
The Enterprise urges immediate action at the Main street crossing of the Southern railroad due to negligence at night. A watchman exists but gates are not used or broken, leaving no protection after dusk for a city of over 20 000 residents and the furniture center area.
The piece critiques irregular city enforcement of headlight dimmers and lens rules. It notes seasonal "weeks" for various offenses and urges a dedicated week next year for enforcing the dimmer and headlight law amid rising night traffic on roads like High Point Greensboro.
The State Educational Commission, formed to oversee North Carolina education, begins to function and probes the education department. The piece argues for clear findings on the department’s status and the county-unit plan, stressing that outcomes matter more than methods and urging uniform respect for education efforts.
The Greensboro News reports runaway freight cars knocked the bottom from Col Frank Lambeth's chair factory in Thomasville on Monday. The structure stayed up due to stock on the ground floor acting as a foundation. The piece riffs on the irony of an ad amid disaster and its taşable resilience.
The Andrew Jackson post of the American Legion will bring delegates to the state Legion convention in Greensboro on September 8 and 9, with an evening visit to High Point. Visitors will tour the Furniture City and a Dutch supper will be served at a later location. Local Legion members aim to showcase the town and greet guests warmly.
Rome reports the fiscal year ending June 30 shows the tobacco monopoly netted Italy two and a half billion lire about 125 million dollars. In the same period post telegraph and telephone ran a deficit of twenty five million dollars due to high wage demands and aging equipment requiring costly upgrades. The note cites workers as being in a permanent state of agitation for higher pay and predicts heavy future expenditure on new telephone installations.
Paramount picture The Green Temptation stars Betty Compson and faced a demanding day with complex double exposures and dissolves. Director William D. Taylor and cameraman James C. Van Trees oversaw scenes showing Compson’s multiple disguises reflected in a cheval mirror as Genelle Apache Coralyn danseuse Columbine and a Red Cross nurse.
Paris August 1 Madame Fraya, a famous seeress, foretold in 1908 that Prince Youssoupoff would slay Rasputin. La Liberte reports she declared six years before the war began that "these beautiful white hands will within six years be stained by the blood of a holy despot."
A brief item contrasts living outdoors with failing to pay rent, highlighting the risk of eviction or displacement for those unable to meet housing costs. The piece underlines how homelessness or instability can arise when financial obligations lapse.
Police seized four trucks carrying 32 barrels and 273 cases of beer in a campaign against drivers hauling illegal beverages. Five men, all from Jeannette, Pennsylvania, were arrested.
A brief item notes that in 1942 parents long for the old-fashioned 1922 flapper. The nostalgia contrasts wartime life with prewar youth culture.
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