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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1917
Page
3
Washington reports government information tying the I W W to German funding and a campaign to cripple war production. Cabinet members, including President Wilson, fear widespread strikes, arson, and profiteering, with 250000 people involved and copper and lumber industries targeted.
A Philadelphia Press item notes British sailors arriving at Halifax report that the convoy of American transports bound for France sank six submarines. The quip suggests Secretary Daniels should hire the sailors to enhance reports, implying they do better than Creel.
A Washington report says allied governments are exchanging views on Austria with hints of a forthcoming peace move. Italy opposes separate peace with Austria, warning that such a step would betray its interests. US officials reiterate it seeks victory over Germany and has no concessions on war aims.
A columnist contrasts pacifist professor H W L Dana with his grandfather Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The piece argues Longfellow’s wartime stance and poetic conviction justify fighting for one’s country, urging readers to ignore Dana’s antiwar propaganda and return to classic patriotic verse.
The article quotes officials urging belligerent powers to move their populations closer to government decision making. It frames this as a strategic move to ensure stronger wartime unity and policy implementation.
Across white morning mist the sun flung bars of red and stars on blue. Freemen watch the dawn and hail a miracle as the banner hangs briefly in the sky. They call it a boon from God and a heaven born flag before day breaks.
A Kansas City Star item recalls a debate between a blacksmith and a gardener over which trade predates the others. The gardener cites Genesis about tilling Eden, while the blacksmith asks who forged the spades.
Paris reports the Eemilienne Moreau rose won a Bagatelle prize and was named for the Loos heroine who aided British wounded under fire. The white bloom has large petals and deep green foliage, shown with Edith Cavell. Judges urged allied lawmakers to protect new flowers as art.
Executors offer for sale 376 acre farm five miles from Sea Grove Richlands township Randolph County North Carolina with timber estimated 502000 feet two building sets and stream water mill site suitable for tobacco grain crops cotton clover and tobacco. Auction planned if no private sale at court house door Ashboro N C at noon Saturday September 29 1917. For information contact E L Stack South Mills N C KE L Stack Attorney.
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