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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1931
Page
4
A debate over using convict labor for highway work in North Carolina splits opinion. Proponents say prison labor aids projects and reform, while opponents argue it deprives free workers and risks social issues. The issue also raises concerns about prison population growth and longer term reintegration.
The piece notes rising distress from unemployment and predicts harsher conditions next winter. It cites New York's governor, a presidential commission survey, and federal push for local readiness to shoulder social load while avoiding a dole crisis.
The paper urges each community to strengthen its response to social issues and favors an extra-governmental emergency body for winter. An agency with a single director would coordinate with clubs churches leagues and citizen groups to apply personal charity. It notes High Point cannot spend 65000 next winter to fund jobless residents.
The Outlook ridicules the Wickersham commission report on Causes of Crime calling it a voluminous confession of failure. An accompanying Cesare cartoon shows Hoover as the king of hearts asking Alice what she knows, with the dialogue Nothing Whatever emphasized as key.
Mecklenburg county and Charlotte plan a joint tax collection effort with a single collector for both levels. The appointee will earn 3600 dollars annually, amid adjustments to cross-jurisdiction duties. Guilford contemplates tax office junctions, though its two large towns pose greater integration challenges.
The Manufacturers' Record notes wide discussion on the American cotton problem. It argues for withdrawing part of the crop for a year with banking help, shifting acreage to food crops, and promoting live-at-home policy while considering foreign demand and price effects on planting incentives.
The text stresses that improvement hinges on Southwide effort to raise staple quality and yield, grow better cotton on fewer acres, and boost local food production. It calls for leadership from local bankers and farm-credit suppliers as much as from individual growers, urging the South to assume financial and business responsibility.
Bruce Catton rails at self serving politics as Seabury committee findings expose New York corruption from police to contracts, arguing Tammany Hall’s persecuted stance masks party loyalty over public duty. The column notes Britain’s budget cuts, bombing attempts, and Stalin’s wheat policy shift impacting global markets and American farmers.
A Chicago poet who became a ditch-digger to support his contract child is writing a new book titled No. More Babies. The remark signals a stark shift in career and perspective, highlighting personal sacrifice and social commentary.
The note urges planters to reduce cotton by one third and suggests corn as a more practical alternative. The plan hints at broader agricultural adjustments amid growing economic or environmental pressures.
The note on grasshoppers claiming mouths under the chin is referenced, but the tale seems irrelevant to Nebraska and the Dakotas, where the observation held little practical impact.
A playful aside says if Marlene Dietrich is a love thief, Josef von Sternberg did not mind being robbed, implying a celebrated on screen romance and public fascination with their partnership.
Europeans may see Dawes' pipe as a symbol of local conditions, suggesting external views mirror domestic realities and power dynamics shaping daily life. The remark implies a broader connection between Eurasian or Western perspectives and domestic policy or social strain.
Washington profile of Joseph E. Ra n s d e l l Louisiana congressman and former senator now executive director of the National Institute of Health Conference Board. He aims to end disease through a federally and privately funded institute, envisioning Washington as a world health center and a $50 million endowment someday. Hone of his long career includes battling cattle tick eradication and backing the Carville leprosarium.
A man testifies about entering the Berrier home with a public safety item, arguing with Mrs. Berrier, claiming threats to fatal harm, grabbing the item, and causing injury before fleeing after changing clothes and leaving with an acquaintance. No blood on him noted.
Dudley Moore recounts his movements in Lexington after a killing claim. He states he did not rape the woman and that he found no evidence of the husband at the scene. He describes visiting Piggly Wiggly Beck's garage and Bowers' filling station, the courthouse ride, going to Berrier's house, and informing others, then driving to town. He asserts the act was not his and that the statement is voluntary.
The New Orleans meeting urged farm board action to buy 8 million bales above market price and hold them for state allocations to cover the 1932 crop. Governors Long and Blackwood pledged state action if others join, while Governor Russell opposed an extraordinary session. A Texas counterproposal to curb acreage failed, with McDonald referring the plan to Governor Sterling. The group endorsed no cotton next year and the 8 million bale purchase plan.
London dispatch reports King George is returning immediately from Balmoral with Queen Mary. The move signals the inability of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to secure support for his economy plan as Liberal opposition to a revenue tariff remains. The King is due at Buckingham Palace early tomorrow morning.
The article reports that a labor government resignation seems imminent from both party sides. It notes Baldwin may be asked to form a government by the king if MacDonald retires, delaying a general election only if Baldwin can command a majority. The king is due in London early tomorrow.
Three gunmen in a taxicab shootout are killed or mortally wounded after a police pursuit. Hasse the taxi driver dies, along with robbers John Prechtl and Martin Bachorik. The pursuit ends with the cab carrying 71 spent shells and seven pistols found inside.
The fog story continues from page one noting Shana where the Lindberghs are spending the night. The town has about 1,000 people, with main industries in salmon hatching and fish canning. It hosts a whaling station, a radio station, and a bathing beach.
Turup is described as the largest and richest within the Kuri islands. The landmass stretches about 110 miles in length and ranges from two to twenty miles in width. Its terrain includes notable mountain peaks and five volcanoes that have erupted together in the past, though they have been quiet lately.
In Asheville the attorney argued the state presented convincing evidence of a conspiracy. McLendon highlighted letters and bank records claiming Lea and Davis used the bank’s credit for personal gain. He cited a letter to J Charles Bradord and a note about a $100,000 loan to show prearranged approval and foreseen checks.
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