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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1919
Page
4
A collage of commentary notes the Senate and public views on the league of nations and the peace treaty. It laments U S delays, jokes about Picardy and Poland, questions a telegraph rail plan, and hints at political maneuvering around Clemenceau and Rockefeller while urging speedy ratification.
The piece debates the league covenant and treaty's commercial effects on the United States. It critiques Senate ratification delays, discusses international trade dangers and profits, and argues for the league as a means to prevent war and foster global commerce while noting contemporary sanitation issues on Main Street.
Readers urge the council to remove prominently painted garbage cans cluttering Main Street near the Bank of Commerce and seek accountability for who authorized placing them. The missive calls for action and warns city health and street cleaning departments to address the issue.
Walter Royal denounces editorials endorsing the Versailles covenant and claims Americans oppose the league. He cites 1919 election shifts in the ninth district and other states, arguing Congress, not foreign powers, must decide troops and peace. He insists the United States should mind its own affairs.
A list of observances and meetings spans anniversaries of John W. Geary’s varied roles, the Delava house fire in Albany with sixteen victims, Chicago memorials for an Iroquois Theatre tragedy, a Beaumont Texas city charter vote, a New England Society visit in Brooklyn, a Dallas poultry show, Minnesota farmers meeting topics, a Roosevelt American League educational push in New York, Intercollegiate Prohibition Association talks in Chicago, and a Des Moines plan for a new planet search using giant telescope arrays before January 31.
The piece questions William Jennings Bryan returning to politics, noting his past resignation as secretary of state and doubting a Democratic nomination. It criticizes Bryan as a diminished figure and suggests his ideas may have been appropriate long ago but not today.
In Bellefonte a deer brought down by six hunters near town leads to a dispute over division of the head and hide. Each hunter claims the first shot under local custom, and the matter may go to the courts for a decision.
In Washington Sir George Paish, a leading British economist and former editor of The Statist, is profiled for his influence on European economic recovery and international credit ideas. The piece lists today’s sports calendar including events in Havana New Orleans Pinehurst and New York.
Rudyard Kipling, poet of soldiers, born in Bombay, 54 years ago today. Professor Stephen Leacock, writer at McGill, born in England, 59 years ago today. Simon Wugzenheim, Colorado financier and former senator, born in Philadelphia, 52 years ago today. Major General Charles G. Treat, U S Army officer, born in Maine, 60 years ago today.
In Grimsby England a magistrate imposes fines of 225 dollars on seven fishing vessel captains who entered mineinfested North Sea waters despite a British Admiralty ban. Agents prosecuted the cases, highlighting the dangers to widows and orphans.
Liverpool December 30 Twenty five dollars are now required as entrance fee from every new member to the National Union of Dock workers. The levy aims to curb the influx of labor that exceeds demand.
A year ago Vilna was reported captured by Bolshevik forces. President Wilson declared to a large Manchester audience that America would join only a coalition of nations in the war effort.
The United States Steel corporation began building the largest coal storage basin in the world at Clairton. It will hold 400000 tons of coal, enough to run the plant for six months in emergencies. The concrete basin spans 600 by 800 feet and will include two traveling cranes with a daily capacity of 2900 tons.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy that works through the blood to clear catarrh on mucous surfaces. It claims to destroy the disease’s foundation and improve general health, offering a $100 reward if it fails to cure.
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