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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1918
Page
3
The radical socialist movement in Germany is widening its influence as members defect from the regular socialists. A small faction that split over war funding has grown to claim a second place on key Reichstag committees, shifting influence away from the long dominant socialists who now trail behind the Catholic group. Four Socialists switched sides early in the year.
River police in Rotterdam arrested a Dutch ship ping engineer on espionage charges for Germany. He posed as a port authorities inspector to board steamships from the United States and took copies of information from ship logs.
Kar Julius von Beethoven, a descendant of the composer, died at an Austrian field hospital. Deported from England in 1915, he joined the landsturm and served at the front. He was 40 years old.
Athens February 18 the Greek admiralty has authorized the employment of a woman seaplane pilot Miss Demise Kalimeri, daughter of a government airplane engineer.
Timetables show departures from High Point Elwood Hotel to Winston Zinzendorf Hotel at 8 00 A M and 2 00 P M. Additional runs leave High Point Elwood Hotel for Greensboro 9 00 A M and 3 00 P M. Departures from Greensboro Guilford Hotel occur at 11 00 A M and 5 00 P M.
The Frankfurt Zeitung denounces Pan-German advocates who urged a war and urged inevitability. It argues these voices misled foreign opinion, weakened German strength, and helped provoke the conflict. The paper warns the Pan-Germans their hour of reckoning is coming.
The government credits advertising with boosting the success of the draft and two liberty loan campaigns, noting that printer's ink played a key role in public awareness.
War savings institute in Raleigh reports county health officers and physicians noting thousands of school children examined this winter. In Wake County over 3,000 children studied and more than 280 with serious defects remedied, improving dentition ears eyes adenoids and overall school performance with remarkable progress observed.
Raleigh’s health survey led by Miss Nannie J. Lackland covers about 1 200 homes and food establishments. Eight unregistered births were found prompting warrants for attending doctors and midwives. birth registration is reported at over 95 percent, above federal standards. A full report by Dr C F Terry is due next week and a public meeting will follow. Lackland then plans another survey in Winston-Salem under the Women’s Council of National Defense.
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce supported retaining Camp Greene, sending telegraphic assurances to citizens that the organization would act morally and financially to keep the camp in Raleigh despite agitation for relocation. Charlotte News reports friendly comments in state papers.
The government will inaugurate an airplane mail service linking Washington Philadelphia and New York next summer. In a few years the Hickory to Lenoir route may shift from air to rail unless train service becomes available.
The Irazú volcano, Costa Rica’s largest and highest, wakes after two centuries of dormancy. Eruptive activity returns with ash, vapor, and steam as observers flock to the summit, while winds push emissions away from Carthage and toward the San Jose region.
In a ladies and gentlemen gathering a young speaker from below the Mason Dixon line extols women in business while noting fatigue and stress. She credits an herbal compound called Dreco for improved health and strength, saying it sustains and nourishes tired minds and bodies. The conversation shifts to the product’s manufacturer, but she frames her remarks as advocacy for women’s wellbeing.
Stockholm reports the Swedish State Bank shows net profits of £2,600,000 for the year versus £100,000 last year. Trade expansion is evident with over 1200 new shock companies formed during INF, aggregating £115,000,000 in capital.
Paris officials defend press freedom citing official statement that a provincial censor was disciplined for suppressing an issue that did not touch military diplomacy but contained insults toward M. Clemenceau.
The New Bern New Bernian reports the New York World has not sent a copy of its threat to the South as federal prohibition looms. Mississippi Virginia Kentucky and South Carolina may have informed the World the region will not be bull Dozed despite ratification pressure.
A Salisbury Post editorial asserts true Americans must be wholly committed to the United States and all things American. It denounces any who are not with the country as enemies, insisting there can be no halfway grounds and urging steadfast loyalty.
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