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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1927
Page
4
A devotional note quotes Matthew 26 41 urging vigilance to avoid temptation and adds a sly remark about liking slipping but not falling from an author identified as Hare. The brief reflects religious reflection and moral caution.
Senator Reed defends Democratic ideals of government by people over money and laments the drift toward powerful money interests. He warns that protecting the ballot and old principles is essential to prevent the nation’s liberties from fading like a vanished “tale.” He cites W. E. Dodd on farmer decline and notes schemes to aid farmers face obstruction from big business and tariff excess profits.
The 3.25 million dollar state school equalization fund was distributed to 90 of 100 counties with ten wealthier counties receiving little or nothing. Robeson rose from about 10 000 to over 82 000 while Camden dropped fifty percent and Dare was cut 1000. The board’s changes elicit calls for a full accounting and raise questions about prior distributions and fairness. The piece warns against wealth worship and urges a government of people, not money.
The article notes a rising house fly population in High Point and across North Carolina, counting roughly double last year's levels. It recalls a past statewide anti fly campaign led by E. P. Wharton in Greensboro and the health department, urging stable hygiene and swift swatting.
After his transatlantic flight Lindbergh remains an idol in Europe ten days after. Editorials praise him and poets and artists celebrate his feat. Busts and portraits appear in Paris galleries as schoolchildren learn of his daring achievement.
Le Bourget commandant Major Weiss credits Lindbergh with uniting nations and boosting French morale. The piece lauds his “white apparition” as a beacon of grace and hope, while contrasting Provincetown town criers fading from American life with modern newspapers continuing the record.
A peculiar advertisement from Chicago boasts a soft-crumbled cracker safe for timid lovers in bed. It teases a full page feature with Senator J Boomboom McWhorter praising the product while another man endures uncomfortable friction, claiming broad wisdom for America.
A New York man reportedly holds more than one thousand patents yet his home screen door is described as letting flies inside.
An Asheville Times excerpt from Newark Evening News warns against overdoing national Lindbergh celebrations. It argues newspapers should record public sentiment while avoiding press excessive adulation that could burden the aviator and distort the era's true taste.
The writer recalls a conversation with Marie about independence for women and recounts travel experiences showing ongoing sexism. A hotel clerk refuses a single woman a room and a dining room waitstaff shuffles seats, revealing entrenched views of unescorted women as less acceptable than men.
A period of showers at the beginning of the week in the South Atlantic states and another period of showers around midweek in the South Atlantic and East Gulf states. Temperatures will be below normal in the South Atlantic early week, otherwise near normal most of the week.
Heavy rain halted play at the Greenville Country Club delaying the Carolinas tennis tournament finals. Officials expect the final matches to be carried over into next week.
New York June 18 Cotton goods trading slowed in gray cloth while finished lines gain demand for early delivery. Yarns firm, ginghams slow, rayon damasks and bedspreads up, towels steady, flannel and blankets stronger as mills push summer and early fall sales. Prices in primary markets listed for print cloths, sheetings, tickings, denims.
By Swan staple ginghams nine cent dress ginghams priced at 145 to 161-2 cents and prints at eight cents, indicating basic fabric and print costs listed in the era’s shopping page.
Chicago grain markets edged higher as wet weather loomed in the southwest and northwest and forecasts called for showers across much of the corn belt. Wheat gained 5-8 to 1 cent, corn up 3-8 to 1-7 cents, oats up 1-8 to 3-8, while provisions were steady to down 5 cents.
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