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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1929
Page
4
A compact reflection contrasts covetous ambition with the need to pursue a more excellent way. It notes how some writers blaze with display, resembling a public stage, while urging restraint and sincere purpose.
Dr James L Barton ordered a stop to solicitations in the United States for Near East Relief after 108 million dollars raised to aid 132000 orphans and millions of others. Twenty thousand children remain in care as economies are planned to finish the task with available funds.
A court convicts Rafe King of his wife’s murder on circumstantial evidence and questions why he did not take the stand. The piece argues a defendant’s silence may prejudice juries while praising or critiquing mercy in Cameron’s parole and the state’s justice in capital cases.
The federal tax reports show North Carolina had no income loss among taxpaying classes last year. Total tribute remains a little over 20 million dollars with gains driven by cigarettes. The state ranks as the second largest tobacco tax payer, indicating industrial security but prompting scrutiny of earnings averages and local tax potential.
The piece argues that most income tax revenue comes from tobacco wealth but NC has not taxed cigarettes directly like the federal government. It notes manufacturing escape from state levies and stresses that state prosperity should be measured by ordinary people's well being and solvency, not tax totals.
A column criticizes New York’s plan to create 50 secret police by the police commissioner. The scheme would place undercover officers among criminals with concealed ties to the commissioner and his secretary. The piece foresees misunderstandings at home and risks for civil liberty, predicting a short, costly life for the underground force.
A reflective piece contrasts Civil War veterans now aged and revered with their younger wartime exploits. It notes 2,000,000 Americans who served in France and imagines the future glory of World War II veterans. The essay also discusses aviation safety records and a tangential reflection on office fiction.
The article reports that fellow prisoners oppose parole for John Cameron and act as a potential obstacle to his release. It notes the governor's hesitation over reacting to prison sentiment and argues convicts still show civic concerns despite losing citizenship.
Senator Simmons, Democratic tariff leader, predicts a hard Senate fight over revision to protect farmer benefits and block a partisan tariff commission. He argues the bill shifts power to the president and risks surrendering tax-levying duties to the executive, with farm relief and agricultural equality at stake.
Governor Gardner named Mrs. Walter B. Sullivan of Charlotte Mrs. R. N. Duffy of New Bern and Mrs. A. L. Brooks of Greensboro to the North Carolina home coming committee to arrange fall activities with the state fair. The fair board will appoint three more members alongside Governor Gardner and several officials named in the assembly resolution.
Last year Americans consumed 350 million gallons of ice cream marking a sharp rise from under two decades ago when US yearly intake stood at 89 million gallons.
Special to the Ent. Thomasville notes Barney Clinard a California barley king returning to his north Thomasville home area to visit relatives. He speaks of leaving barley behind for fruit groves, enjoys seeing boyhood hills and streams, and says aviation education tours will travel through North Carolina with a Curtiss service plane visiting multiple cities.
The Curtiss Flying Service launches a Robin monoplane food will tour across North Carolina to acquaint the public with aviation. Pilot H. B Poindexter leads the mission with Billy Parrish as mechanic and relief pilot aboard.
Danbury North Carolina July 10 AP Roland Tilley a Danbury man killed a blue crane with a six foot wing span after mistaking it for a fish hawk in Lake Steadman. He paid a light fine and costs for the error. A second crane remains nearby unhurt.
In Lexington North Carolina the Fitzgerald brothers Linwood hook a catfish using bait near the top. They return to find a huge owl ensnared by their line with a hook through its wing.
New Bern’s first aerial marker has been completed on a large warehouse roof. The sign reads New Bern, N. C. and includes an arrow directing aviators to the town’s landing field at New Bern.
In Perquimans County North Carolina guards discovered flag handcuffs dating back over a century inside the county jail. The find highlights historical police equipment used in the early era of the facility.
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