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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1932
Page
4
Auditors in two reports sharply condemn city bookkeeping and say records lack balance with the ledger. They fault the tax sale certificate book and call for a thorough system revision while noting staff willingness to perform duties.
A reflection on jury discretion in perjury cases and the Lexington inquest. The piece notes how juries may favor popular mood over strict law, citing George Younce's perjury acquittal and the impact of technicalities. It contrasts old North Carolina penalties with modern outcomes.
A sermon urging personal accountability and humble service to heal society. The speaker, T. A. 8, asks readers to evaluate life through Christ’s values, stressing human dignity, mutual aid, and overcoming fear, suspicion, race, and class to foster community and world peace.
Congressman Lambeth delivered a tribute to Martin Luther Kesler before the Thomasville Rotary Club. The speaker praised Kesler as a honest, steady, God‑fearing leader whose life combined intellect, gentleness, humor, and unwavering will to uplift humanity despite no longer being present.
A compendium of short reflections on rural life, food shortages and reform era politics. The piece notes farmer boycotts and city hunger, comments on voting duties, cites Richard Rumbold, and ends with notes on Hopi snake dances and a Greek word for fish.
A New York minister warns that war is falling out of favor, arguing that public opinion shifts after hostilities begin and the conflict erodes support. He cites moral strain and rising casualty awareness as contributing factors affecting wartime resolve.
A columnist argues that women's suffrage has not benefited people yet he appears to overlook the impact on delicatessen owners and small business owners.
In Saxapahaw on August 27 the Southern Alamance Pioneer Association hosted the Lindley and Holiday families reunion at Spring Friends Church. Dr. W. T. Whitsett spoke on the family’s role in state development, with J. J. Holiday 88 among the attendees.
High Point College plans a September 15 opening with about 300 students, up from 275 last year. Dr Carl R Bowen becomes biology head as Dr Ben Hill moves to New York University, while Mrs H A White takes over journalism. Vera Idol returns as English head and Ruth Bellamy joins as speech and dramatics teacher. Louise Jennings becomes librarian and C Virgil Yow is named assistant coach as Hubert Watkins departs. The summer term ends and preparations for fall begin.
Funeral services for Cornelia Cochran, a respected colored woman, who died Friday in Pinehurst, will be held Monday at 2 PM at St. Steven A M E Zion Church. Born March 11, 1894 in Stanly County, she moved to High Point over 80 years ago. Survived by her father George Cochran step mother Sarah Cochran and sister Mariah Gilmer. Burial preparations by Hairlip Funeral Home.
Mrs. Miriam A. Fergu son forged ahead late tonight in the Democratic gubernatorial nomination race, pulling narrowly ahead of Gov. R. Sterling in Dallas Texas. The late-night result shows Fergu son with a slim edge as votes continue to be counted.
The Fountain by Charles Morgan receives high praise for its cost of romance and philosophy amid World War I flight and captivity in neutral Holland. Walter Van Tilburg Clark's Ten Women in Gale's House shows strong free verse and sharp character studies, especially the title piece and The Death of Chuang Tsu. Anzia Yezierska's All I Could Never Be portrays Fanya's hunger for knowledge and beauty, whose book success follows hardship and race-conscious longing.
Notes on film and books recount a John Barrymore lead in a screen work and Harriet Watts tale of a country cottage life. The piece covers Miss Yezierska’s new volume themes of foreigner struggles, and Gide’s autobiography translation by Random House along with Patricia Wentworth’s Red Shadow and League of Nations letters. It notes literary editors and fall lists from Claude Keill, Henry Holt and Company, and various authors’ upcoming works.
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