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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1930
Page
4
The governor argues for careful selection of representatives for Raleigh and county boards, stressing competence over partisan recalls. He warns against letting presidential vote lines or the Simmons Bailey issue influence candidate choice, and says debt awareness and reform progress depend on elected leaders.
Federal Trade Commission seeks agreement among ribbed hosiery manufacturers to elevate and standardize business practices. Conference likely in Chattanooga with Garland Ferguson presiding. industry shifting south with North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky plants dominant. Key issues include contracts, false branding, price discrimination, rebates, uniform contracts, and other anti competitive practices.
Virginia and Maryland governors pledged full cooperation to beautify the Potomac riverbanks for fifteen miles westward to Great Falls. A private bridge project and boulevards are planned, under the National Park and Planning Commission led effort to make Washington the world’s most beautiful capital.
Executives discuss suspicions of bad practices in competition. They expect a thorough review to separate substantial charges from doubts. The focus shifts to building a market on stronger and better lines as the era of sharp methods declines.
United States customs court unanimously supported Mrs McCormick Ganna Walska claiming Paris as home while Harold P McCormick resided in Chicago. The ruling marks a shift toward female independence and new standards for marital authority.
Bruce Catton argues that distant famine news lacks urgency until it affects a nearby city and family. He contends Americans would respond promptly to a local starvation disaster, implying a gap between empathy and distant crises.
The column contrasts China's looming famine with Western indifference and reflects on civilization’s softening, then notes two Eastern airlines cutting pilot salaries despite talk of growth. It also questions Western propaganda about Russia and reports weak turnout for William B. Shearer’s New York lecture.
A scholar notes poets seldom are athletes while many are long winded. A teacher adds learning saxophone is challenging, underscoring worries about cross disciplinary talents.
Physicians work to isolate the germ behind parrot fever while several women who underwent operations are identified as having cases.
A British newspaper ad offers a lighthouse for sale sparking a lighthearted note that someone should buy it, train it to box, and pair it with heavyweight Primo Carnera in a fanciful matchup.
A New York City mayor known for tardiness awarded himself a pay raise despite his chronic lateness. The incident underscores questions about accountability and executive perks granted without public comment.
A reader from High Point discusses the Church Triumphant and Church Militant, stressing born again belief, baptism by the Holy Ghost, and the invisible yet visible bride of Christ. He contrasts church membership with salvation, cites biblical teaching, and invites others to join in faith and prayer.
L. R. Harrill reports a ten county study showing 120 communities influenced by 4-H club members with 4,000 enrollees and 102 rising to community leaders. Projects included school ground beautification, rest rooms, soil and livestock campaigns, fairs, aid to a needy family, libraries, and a cottage for a 4-H camp.
The secretary of state will confer with Dino Grandi and Andre Tardieu in separate sessions to establish rapport with Colonel Stimson and lay groundwork for the five power conference. He will likely stress the Allied ideal of limiting and reducing naval forces.
AUA news reports Colonel Stimson plans to repudiate an entente cordial notion and stresses understanding between Great Britain and America as a prerequisite for naval talks. A late Downing Street meeting with Prime Minister MacDonald is said to have clarified Britain’s stance on battleships.
The New Yorker details Fiorello LaGuardia’s interpretation of section three, arguing it is a novel provision that limits the eighteenth amendment’s life unless future contingencies occur. He notes ratification rules apply, and that section three must be re ratified by a specified period or become inoperative.
A united program for all departments will open Sunday school at Central Friends Church tomorrow morning. Prof. J T C Johnson of High Point College will speak and the Brotherhood men will sing. All members are urged to be on time.
George Hossfield of Paterson New Jersey achieved world champion status by typing an average of 135 words per minute setting a new benchmark in speed and accuracy for professional typists.
Jan 21 marks start of live London to U S broadcasts of the naval conference with King George opening the talks. NBC and CBS plan two week coverage including Ramsay MacDonald speech and delegate addresses via 5GSW Chelmsford and Atlantic short waves to NBC and CBS chains.
Wake Forest college was admitted to the National Collegiate Association. Professor J G Carroll announced the move. Pat Miller _head coach_ was named chairman of the third district covering Maryland North Carolina and the District of Columbia. The association sets rules for interscholastic contests among member schools.
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