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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1926
Page
4
A reflective note credits Luke and Steele on curiosity, likening inquisitive minds to funnels that pass along information rather than absorbing it for personal use.
An excerpt from John T. Trowbridge Selected from Darius Green and His Flying Machine describes Darius’s fall after his flying contraption misfires. A barnyard chaos ensues with broken parts and a laughing gosling as Jotham teases Darius about flying. The tale ends with a caution to mind one’s sphere before flight.
Congressmen Kerr spoke at Wind Sor on Bertie County peanuts urging federal restraint on Chinese goober imports while supporting a tariff wall for NC peanut growers. He argued protection helps labor wages and American living standards, noting competing cheap Chinese peanuts affect prices and weight per dollar.
A federal tax expert backs state efforts to raise income through taxation changes. Working with the budget commission, the adviser pushes for new revenue while the governor remains silent on specifics. Speculation centers on potential changes likely to be enacted.
A Raleigh report suggests North Carolina may raise inheritance taxes to match federal reductions on estates. Only 50,000 urban taxpayers fund state services for 3 million people, with 283,000 farms and few farmers reporting income. Suggestions call for tax reform and spending consolidation to meet growing appropriations and reduce waste.
Federal data show 21 627 people killed last year in auto crashes with maimed and total losses likely higher. The piece argues safety measures deserve serious legislation to cut property damage and lives, noting New York and Florida as especially deadly states and urging action.
John A. Livingstone of the News and Observer argues the justice of the peace system is a weakened relic. He notes legislative power growth since 51 years ago and 1917 to appoint more justices, often by governor and county party committees. The result is alleged abuse and cozier roosting for lame ducks in some counties.
The passage argues that magistrates and deputy sheriffs exercise a local privilege, noting it exists in some cities like Raleigh. It urges the 1927 legislature to relinquish its appointment privilege and reduce the governor's comparable power, aiming to restore the judiciary’s elevated status and improve governance.
A column riffs on farm life and odd ideas from elsewhere. A Tennessee farmer uses a radio in the cowstable to boost milk, while the old hired man recalls frost and lanterns. The piece muses on sanitation, entertainment, and curious headlines.
The Winston-Salem Journal recalls Henry E. Fries, Dr. Henry A. Brown, and Bishop Edward Rondthaler who, from 1877 onward, built Fries Memorial church and expanded Sunday school work. Their decades of religious service shaped the city, earning local reverence and a half century celebration hosted by Fries.
The High Point Enterprise lauds the Christmas drive by the board of public welfare with baskets and food for the needy. It credits generous city response and urges saving, education, and personal responsibility through stories of a saving boy and Florence Nightingale. Messages from Georgia F Hammond and W H Townsend accompany the appeal.
A historical note reports that flour produced from fish is considered suitable nourishment for domestic animals, indicating early experimentation with alternative feed sources.
The essay argues true heroism lies in ordinary scientists who fought disease, not romantic icons. It highlights Koch, Pettenkofer, Ross, Metchnikoff, Spallanzani, and Pasteur, noting their flaws yet praising their contributions to humanity and science as heartfelt, human heroism.
Arkansas floodwaters were receding as of December 27 leaving heavy crop and property damage. Lowland highways remained impassable in parts and a death toll reached six.
United States exports of discarded horseshoes are shipped to China where workers melt the chilled iron to craft knives. The unusual trade highlights reclamation of metal waste into industrial tools abroad.
Divers drilling by artesian methods beneath the Sahara have discovered fish and shellfish at depths around 200 feet beneath desert sands. The species resemble those found in the lakes of Palestine.
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