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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1931
Page
4
Past echoes of Aycock era spark NC school funding view
A North Carolina reflection argues that modern school spending surpasses Aycock’s era expectations. Leonard Tufts recalls Pinehurst and critic Col Fred Olds, noting progress from 36 years ago and the prophetic impact on the Sandhills region and state growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Leonard Tufts
Pinehurst
Fred A. Olds
Raleigh
News and Observer
Sandhills
United States
Lexington Rotary Denounces Reds in Address
An engineer speaking at the Lexington Rotary club warned of political radicalism. He claimed State College expelled a faculty member with communist ties, and noted welcoming a Communist at Chapel Hill naming Norman Thomas as communist. The Lexington Dispatch editor criticized the speaker for naming individuals without substantiation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Lexington
State College
Russia
Chapel Hill
Norman Thomas
The
Lexington Dispatch
Logical Expectancy for Unemployment Relief in High Point
Editorial urges proactive planning for unemployment as winter approaches. It weighs keeping the city employment agency versus forming a public welfare commission with church and civic group participation. The piece argues to retain the agency, leverage established contacts, and minimize costs while preventing suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Reckless Speech and Campus Radicalism Debate
The writer questions sweeping statements about severing ties with Dr Taylor and argues for accountability of reckless speech. It notes a trend of denouncing campus liberalism and alleges lax reactions to strikes against liberal teachers, calling for proof if claims are true and urging proper verification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor
Lexington
Not to Be Judged by Immediate Returns in Advertising
The article discusses advertising strategies for ecom modities, noting most firms cut ad budgets during dull periods while a few large institutions maintain or increase spending to stimulate business. It references the cancellation of contracts linking manufacturers and retailers to a national furniture advertising campaign.
Campaign for Furniture Industry Recoups Part of Costs
After years of costly, largely unprofitable operations the fund announces return of unpaid notes for the remaining period. Furniture makers express relief as two million spent on the campaign may yield long term dividends through promoted home furnishing interest. Advertising financed through national publications should bring benefits gradually.
Helping an Agitator in Ohio Draws Broad Attention
The raid on a communist children’s camp in Ohio backfired by boosting Irene Dixon, a 20 year old agitator. Free publicity from the crackdown expands her speaking tour statewide, far enlarging her audience and activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Irene Dixon
Miss Dixon
Prohibition's uneven march in North Carolina reviewed
The 1908 Outlook piece by Josiah Bailey notes North Carolina's soon to begin statewide prohibition, amid a mixed record of enforcement. A Baltimore Sun article by Eric W. Rodgers reports widespread drinking despite laws, with bootlegging and social tolerance among churchmen and officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josiah William Bailey
North Carolina
Bailey
al Smith
Senate
Baltimore Sun
Eric W. Rodgers
California
Sand Hills
Rodgers
Kansas
Notable 1927 Executions and Posthumous Letters Amid Literary News
A survey of cultural items notes the August 23, 1927 Sacco and Vanzetti execution in Massachusetts and continued interest in their letters. It covers publishing moves for Festival by Peter Davies and Scribner’s Sons, new novels The Sons of Mrs Ahab and Rich Irish, Ireland in America, and the Lexow investigation as depicted in The Doctor and the Devil, with author and publisher updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Charleston
Massachusetts
Struthers Burt
Ivor Nicholson and Watson
Burt
Peter Davies, Ltd
Charles Scribner's Sons
Sarah Gertrude Millin
New York City
Lexow
Charles H. Parkhurst
Doctor
Vanguard Press
Charles W. Gardner
Parkhurst
Mexico
Southwest
Mary Austin
Isabel Peterson
Mrs. Austin
Houghton Mifflin Company
New Mexico
Melodrama and Socratic Shadows in New Books
A. J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle is praised for melodrama transformed by skillful writing. Sir Oliver Lodge's Past Years, Douglas Woodruff's Plato’s Britannia, and Blair Niles's Strange Brother join a summer slate as publishers announce autumn and August releases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Oliver
Socrates
Immortals
Europe
Britannia
Douglas Woodruff
America
England
Xanthippe
Albion
Loth
Plato
Woodruff
Putnam's
Blair Niles
Guatemala
Horace Liveright, Inc
Federal Reserve Buys Millions of Commercial Bills
New York August 1 The Federal Reserve System with the Bank of France arranged a 250000.06 credit to the Bank of England and prepared to purchase up to 125,990,900 in prime commercial bills to aid U S and British trade. Bankers say the move stabilizes sterling exchange amid gold flight, aiming to hold gold parity and support British imports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Reserve
France
Bank of England
New York
Federal Reserve System
Bank of France
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Wall Street
London
United States
Letters on U.S. Marshal race in North Carolina
Silas Casey and a Letter from J T Prevette supporter publish in High Point and Observer letters defending fair coverage of the marshals contest for Middle District NC. They praise Prevette, challenge incumbents, and argue party renewal and fair appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
N. C
the Enterprise
Charlotte Observer
Observer
North Carolina
Wilkes
J. T. Prevette
North Wilkesboro
Prevette
Jenkins
Wilkes County
Old
Hayes
Greensboro
Brooks, Parker, Smith and Hayes
Shaw Makes Bow 70 A Bankers
George Bernard Shaw, returning from Russia to London, condemned capitalism as doomed and lashed bankers for their alleged incompetence and muddled theories on world economic troubles. He criticized bankers as clueless about the true issues and blamed them for the mess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
George Bernard Shaw
Russia
London
England
Editor's Mother Dies In Georgia
SPARTANBURG S C Aug 1 Mrs James Crook 83 mother of J F Crook editor of the Columbus Ga ledger died here today at the home of a son W Reynolds Crook of Spartanburg Three other children survive They are Miss Hanna Crook of Anniston Ala Dr Martin Crook of Spartanburg and Emmett Crook of Charlotte N C Mineral services will be held in Jacksonville Alabama tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spartanburg
S. C
James Crook
J. F. Crook
Columbus
Sam Davis Sr. mourned as man of quiet leadership
Jamestown column recalls Sam Davis Sr. as a teacher and entrepreneur of conscience at Southern Chair Company. Colleagues recall his fair pay, loyalty to workers, and insistence on education and culture through the Lyceum Bureau. The writer offers personal sorrow and urges living readers to honor his memory with action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisches
Sam ‘Davis Sr
Sam Davin
Lyceum Bureau
Redpath
Sam Davis
Jack
Southern Chair Company
Heaven
Prize essay contest announced in Yorktown
Yorktown groups Daughters of the American Revolution and the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Association offer 500 dollars in prizes for essays by high school and college students on Yorktown and its impact on history. The contest aligns with the 150th anniversary events marking Cornwallis surrender to Washington October 14 to 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorktown
Daughters of the American Revolution
Yorktown Sesquicentennial Association
Washington
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