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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1922
Page
4
The plan outlines a broader city limits area with a sizable library system and development of parks playgrounds and elevated sidewalks. It calls for planning systems for paving extensions, a safety program, and a 20 000 population city with parks stations domes and water access within the expanded municipal area.
A nostalgic collage shows a moving family in a battered car headed for unknown places. The verse contrasts wanderlust with modern ease, noting sunlit highways and a growing brood including wife Mary dog brother Harry and a baby as they roam by lakes and rivers.
The city council votes to repair all horse watering troughs and place a new unit on Jordan Street near the police station. Councilman Ingram is credited for the idea, with the city manager and water department urged to act promptly to provide clean water for horses and reflect humane treatment of animals.
A city tour reveals new buildings and widespread radio telephone aerials. Amateur listeners tune in daily as eastern concerts are received, despite summer static disruptions. An Enterprise reporter notes broadcasts reach the nation, with western dog teams soon joining the concerts alongside growing auto and airplane advances.
A sports writer muses on how dwelling on past failures derails players and workers. He warns that living on yesterday’s glory signals decline, while focus on present tasks and daily progress fuels success. excessive future dreaming breeds self-hypnosis and inaction.
The Southern Railway officials stay ready to negotiate with striking workers as President Harrison proposes restoring arority rights. The company and other railroads differ on whether reinstatement should precede formal talks. The editor notes unions sometimes curb members from acting on personal judgment due to higher guidance and wonders if this case will follow that pattern.
The Durham Sun ponders Alexander Graham Bell’s invention and the telephone’s double role as essential tool and public nuisance. It argues phones speed relations yet invade privacy with constant calls and abrupt demands, hoping for a future courtesy in business use and social restraint.
New York reports Harry Kemp the Greenwich Village poet is pursuing boxing under trainer Philadelphia Jack O'Brien at age 38 as he challenges Jack Dempsey.Meanwhile a Washington Heights men's club bans cigarettes as effeminate and a social worker notes a daily trek of twelve miles and forty two flights climbed. Armando Kaliz and Amelia Stone, estranged years, collide in a hospital tale after Kaliz sustains a brain concussion and Stone suffers a separate Long Beach car injury. Stone visits Kaliz, both seeming cheerful despite their troubles and she wonders about meaning in the coincidence.
The passage argues that a thing of convenience should serve quickly and not be overworked lest it become a burden. It warns against imposing excessive demands that limit its future usefulness and potential.
London reports Aug 4 that Premier L, in the House of Commons, said peace negotiations to end the war between Greece and the Turkish Nationalists in the Near Eastare proceeding. The war has lasted about a year with Constantinople and Angora as key flashpoints amid international tensions.
Mur ray S. Kenworthy of Wilmington reports from Buzuluk that the famine area in Russia will need outside food for another year. He notes deaths from starvation, large districts without aid, and that 50 percent may go hungry next winter.{{}} Medical needs soar as typhus and cholera spread and villagers lack clothing and bedding. Russia remains a European and American danger without sanitary reforms.
Judge James I. Boyd departs Asheville to hear Seshoard Air Line Railway request for injunction blocking striking workers at Monroe from interfering with railroad operations. The case aims to restrain labor actions affecting service.
Allan A. Ryan, once known for his stake in Stutz stock two years ago, files for bankruptcy listing liabilities of 132,435,477 while reporting assets of 443,532.
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