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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1929
Page
4
Four government leaders contemplate a plan akin to European examples as Congress weighs tariff policy and tax reduction. The article notes the tariff stance could threaten the government but Hoover retains a chance to win the tariff issue amid economic uncertainty and upcoming legislative action.
The Methodist Episcopal Church South secretary warns that gospel healers and healing missions have grown in the last generation and calls the church to reassess. He cites Vancouver and Denver campaigns with high proclaimed cures but a pattern of deaths, relapses, and new ailments among participants. He notes mental influence and questions the campaigns' lasting impact.
The federal radio commission rejects chain store censorship. The state tax on multiple stores draws evidence of favorable trade for NC chains. The Enterprise urges more funding for welfare, better charity organization, and civic leadership as High Point faces rising indigence and burden on the board of public welfare.
The secretary contrasts high cure rates at regular mind cure hospitals like Nancy Kranee’s with Lourdes and other faith healing shrines. He argues professional divine healers who profit from work are inferior to X rays, labs, and preventive medicine, condemning revenue-driven quackery.
High Point community faces harsh winter with empty coal bins, meager larders, and scant clothing as a Christmas fund appeal seeks support. The piece stresses real hardship beyond a routine charity drive and calls for reader response.
General Smedley Butler defends his record and warns that disarmament as a universal goal could spark a global arms race like pre 1914 Europe. He urges a safe middle ground between arming to the teeth and pacifism, urging world leaders to seek a restrained approach to peace.
A powerful session of congress looms with potential for sweeping action. Some lawmakers push reforms while others warn of overreach as debates intensify across committees and chambers.
The nation shows a stark divide in safety and judgment with antifreeze being dangerous but many people choosing to drink alcohol regardless. The remark highlights conflicting norms around risk, health, and social behavior.
A German investigator claims steam heat was known to the Romans, arguing this knowledge helped them excel in oratory and debate with the janitor. The remark frames ancient engineering as tied to rhetorical skill and public discourse.
A campaign for individuality in men’s fashion has begun in London. The note suggests that when read through the lens of golf attire the idea may not appear as delightful as expected.
Southern states would both win and lose in their bids for lower cotton freight rates. Examiner G H Mattingly recommends revised schedules in the interstate commerce commission teathy rate structure study, with slight southern changes and mileage based rates in the southwest. Complaints by cotton merchants from eleven states are noted, but Hoch-Smith relief is rejected as unjustified.
Accused members of a slot machine syndicate including six police captains went free as prosecutors dropped the case after key witness David C. Rockola refused to testify. The decision followed similar actions in a separate murder case against Lieut. Phillip Carroll and his squad, prompting resignation of special prosecutor Frank J. Laesch.
Berlin November 30 Captain Walter Bruns secretary of the Aero-Arctic Society which has planned a Graf Zeppelin polar flight next spring calls Byrd’s South Pole voyage a history making achievement from which scientists expect valuable data. He said the radio message to Byrd conveyed the society’s felicitations and its belief in aircraft as a practical tool for Arctic exploration.
A British steamer carrying 34 crew members was beached on Gardner Island in the Phoenix group and preparations to abandon the ship began after a wireless distress call. Navy radio later relayed uncertain but grave updates as the ship faced imminent loss.
Pittsburgh report details a chemist's arrest amid probe into the death of Carnegie Tech student Paul Ott aged 19 found dying at a dorm entrance from suspected poisoning. Coroner cites acute gastro enteritis. stomach analysis pending. Detectives examine Ott's room and kitchen areas for clues.
The St Andrews Society in Charleston marks its bicentennial with a two day celebration. A parade from the original Saint Andrews hall on Broad Street featured Caledonian pipers and twenty-one members in kilts and placards. Addresses were given by President M. Rutledge Rivers and Brigadier General Campbell King, Fort Benning, grandson of the centennial orator.
Berlin reports the Reichstag rejected a nationalist bill opposing the Young Plan and ordered a nationwide referendum. The plebiscite requires 20,000,000 affirmative votes, a goal deemed unlikely, with a final result anticipated at the December 22 referendum.
A native of Holland, A iudeke of New Hanover County became the first naturalized citizen to hold a high state office, appointed by Governor Max Gardner to the state board of agriculture. He will take the oath at the semi annual meeting on December 4. Ludeke succeeds George K. Grantham of Dunn.
Congress faces a new session as the Senate Faction split Republicans drift toward cohesion on funding bills. Senator McNary of Oregon eyed as assistant party leader to Gay, while Senator Vandenberg met with Mr. Hoover at the White House. The party majority remains divided with Idaho and New Mexico factions aligned with Democrats on tariff revision, threatening full legislative action.
Washington reports a meeting proposal to study fireproofing methods for matches and cigarettes after nine months of bureau research. Representative Edith Rogers cites $90,000,900 annual fire losses and urges voluntary adoption without new legislation to avoid hardship on industry.
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