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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1931
Page
4
Bishop Mouzon questions Herbert Hoover’s stance on prohibition after eleven years since the Eighteenth Amendment. He notes public doubt about enforcement and quips that Hoover’s law enforcement commission acts like a weather forecasting agency for the president’s party, shaping expectations of a dry or wet spell in 1932.
A North Carolina report shows the electric chair has 20 year totals with 220 ordered to die but only 106 executed. Many are freed or die of other causes. fewer than half condemned for murder actually pay the penalty, highlighting the state’s capital punishment gap.
A historical note reflects on the electric chair and a new central prison, asserting the state will retain capital punishment indefinitely due to crime. The passage implies a stance that murders are treated lightly and that occupancy readiness is tied to ongoing punishment policy.
A High Point man received four months in prison and a $1000 fine for participating in an absentee ballot forgery in last May's city election. He has appealed and is on a $1500 bond. The case signals that election fraud will be treated seriously in North Carolina. Congressman Jonas urged cooperation to curb informalities that can affect vote integrity.
The North Carolina engineers society at Raleigh urges intelligent public economy over penuriousness. The keynote speech says bonds should fund necessary public work with proper repayment safeguards. George F. Syme backs legislative action to stimulate employment and currency circulation, warning against retrenchment and factory shutdowns.
In Raleigh citizens and legislators show a mix of childlike faith and fiscal boldness as calls arise to cut property taxes by half while avoiding sales taxes and governor proposed pay cuts. Debate over funding schools, roads, and public services remains vague, with strong ties to tobacco and tobacco interests highlighted in a disrupted House session.
A Greensboro context notes Guilford's senator and a Duke Power link to public education under compulsion. It warns that even with tight cost cutting, the state and its cities and counties must tax nearly all taxable items and people to service 537 million dollars in debt and keep institutions operating.
A London parish visit recounts Dr Harris Kirk of Baltimore delivering his final sermon to Westminster Congregational Church. Rev Hubert L Simpson hosts with Dr John A Hutton supplying. The service blends strong worship, warm farewells, and reflections on the marriage feast parable from Luke 14.
A High Point reader urges transparent school funding and a normal superintendent salary, questions high city payrolls, and calls for housing tax considerations, unemployment work, and against excessive municipal spending. The writer urges residents to discuss taxes and living costs to improve the town.
A motivational verse urges a young person to begin life with courage and persistence. It stresses sticking to the chosen path, facing rough seas, and proving oneself by effort and resilience, ending with the idea that a true finish is a life well earned.
SPECIAL TO THE ENTERPRIX ATLANTA Ga Jan 17 Contracts for the purchase of 35 100 tons of rail enough to lay 231 miles of track for delivery during February March and April have just been let by the Southern Railway System The purchase includes 400 tons of 130 pounds section 26 860 tons of 100 pounds section and 7 840 tons of 85 pound section rail Practically all of this order was given to the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad company and the rail will be rolled at the Ensley Ala plant near Birmingham Of the 35 100 tons purchased 30 655 tons will come from the Alabama concern the remainder of the order 4 445 tons was placed with the Bethlehem Steel company.
Washington Jan 17 Foreign service changes announced by the state department include William N Carroll of Clinton NC moved from vice consul London to vice consul Birmingham England, among other postings.
A prose fragment delves into solitude, memory, and creative hunger as a sleeper battles sleeplessness and overwhelming silence. The narrator confronts walls of books, music, and art, haunted by letters, longing, and the persistent ache of loneliness amid winter’s desolation.
First semester examinations start at High Point college Monday and run through the week. Registration for new students opens January 26, with old students adjusting temporary schedules. Classes for the second semester begin the day after. Extracurricular activities yield to exam cramming. The basketball team resumes February 5 at home against Appalachian.
In a town barbershop a white mill worker leers at a black patron, then strikes with a rolled magazine. The blow forces the black man into the customer’s lap as onlookers witness a brutal display of racial mockery and fear, revealing deep-seated social prejudice.
Louisiana rice production in 1930 is shown as 36 bushels per acre, totaling 17,676,000 bushels. The data highlights regional yields and overall capture of the year’s crop output.
In a Jamestown Weed vignette from 1991, a cautious farmer fears bank safety as a president never removes his hat. He plans to withdraw savings to hide in a tin can, while reflections on traffic rules and a dramatic, distressing horse incident mix with broader social notes about schooling and development in a rural setting.
Nevada beef owned by four 4-H boys sold at the junior livestock show in San Francisco, rising from 25 to 40 cents per pound as buyers bid on the baby beef entries.
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