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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1930
Page
4
A brief reflection cites I Peter 2 11 urging abstinence from fleshy lusts as strangers and pilgrims. It notes lust as captivity of reason, enraging passions, hindering business and corrupting counsel, harming body and soul.
The UNC trustees meet Tuesday to accept Dr. H. W. Chase’s resignation as the university faces a pivotal leadership transition. Chase leaves during a critical growth period as the state trims debt and demands prudent spending, underscoring the need for a president with strong advocacy and vision beyond mere administration.
The trustees chose Dr. Chase, a faculty member with little state-wide name recognition, yet the decision has gained national notice for appointing a fine president. If they possess a gift for selecting leaders, they should recall it is easier to lose an excellent chief than replace a lesser one.
The High Point country club directors re elected Homer Wheeler and his officers for another year to push the consolidation plan with the Commercial club. Improvements to facilities were planned though unsettled business slowed execution, with reports indicating the club will strengthen social activity and recreation while aligning services with the consolidation idea.
Three University of Chicago professors weigh in on unrest among the jobless. They argue scarcity fuels communist agitation, urge nonviolent police responses, and warn against mistaking protest for danger. Prosperity return may curb agitation, with little fear unless economic decline deepens.
The article covers the burial of actress Mabel Normand with attendance by many film figures both celebrated and controversial. It describes a mix of fame and notoriety orbiting her final rites and the public interest surrounding her death.
The Hollywood of old honored Miss Normand at her funeral as former colleagues recalled her hard work and ambition. Reporters noted her enduring appeal and public indifference to the years of struggle behind success, while friends remembered a star who endured fame and failure alike.
Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross spoke to Washington women praising Miss Annabel Matthews on the U S board of tax appeals and urging both sexes to take politics seriously. She warned that despite suffrage a decade on, ethics in politics remains low and called for broader civic duty beyond women voters.
A playful, fragmentary extract features mockery about golf, city nicknames, and fate. It notes a man who empties a pocketbook when fed and muses on Chicago and New York monikers while the boy who saves magazines might become a dentist.
He argues the game is one of the easiest to play, and says others are wrong or dumb. The exchange hints at overconfidence and underestimation of the challenge involved.
A Mississippi woman who rhymed her confession of murdering her husband is described as a spring poet whose work has found success after being printed.
Cleveland engineers argue the high unemployment rate is partly caused by more women entering the workforce. They claim women earn money even when men hold jobs, implying wage dynamics affect men's employment.
Dr J Timothy Stone urged stronger church involvement in state university life during a UNC chapel talk. The Presbyterian leader, former moderator and seminary president, stressed the college church idea as a bridge to spiritual development for the mass of students across state institutions.
Lucile Dunbar chronicles a narrator who laments his newspaper’s faults yet cannot stop reading. He complains about missing items and want ads while admitting he plans to advise the editors. He mocks social notes and weddings but remains oddly attuned to every line.
A lyrical speaker addresses a slow foreigner and a cuckoo, recalling schooldays and springtime. The verses describe distant and near songs, sunlit hours, and the mystery of a voice in grassy places. The speaker welcomes the season and reflects on memory and nature.
Fayetteville adopts the slogan A City You'll Love after a chamber contest of 464 entries. Parkton youth Elbert Calhoun won with the winning line and a ten dollar prize.
The writer riffs on boopa-doopa phrases while recalling Washington's birthday illness and whisker growing. He laments liquor and warns of the narcotics threat, urging organized resistance to drugs and noting widespread, uncertain attitudes toward prohibition.
Lynn mass March 1 Dr Elihu Thomson announced progress toward a 200 inch telescope that will peer four times farther into space. The mirror will be produced by spraying quartz powder with an oxyhydrogen flame, a technique inspired by paint spraying. Smaller two foot mirrors are being tested for finding and guiding the big optic. The project costs about 6 million dollars, funded by international education boards and California Institute of Technology with General Electric supplying cost mirror work. The telescope will collect four times as much light and extend the observable distance beyond 150 million years light travel.
Charters filed in Raleigh add Blue Ridge Products Company Incorporated of Rutherfordton to manufacture and handle ice and ice cream with 1 250 authorized shares by J L Taylor L L Taylor Ella J Taylor and others United Church of Chapel Hill Incorporated non stock to promote faith by B E W Neville I W Pritchard M M Strowd and others Rockingham County Community Builders Incorporated of Reidsville to aid independent merchants dairymen and farmers with 500 authorized shares and 3 subscribed shares by H G Clark Chas T Somers and Paul J White
Guilford College notes a Sunday afternoon recital in Memorial hall at 3 30 featuring advanced students of Mr and Mrs Noah with piano voice violin cello solos and a piano violin cello trio. Public invited.
A newborn girl named Manci born to Jewish parents in Budapest weighed 21 ounces at birth. Early fears of non survival faded after blood transfusions from her parents, and by three weeks she measured 12 1 2 inches, now developing normally.
A dense radio grid lists afternoon to late evening programs across Atlantic City Baltimore Hartford Hartford Pittsburgh Philadelphia Philadelphia Rochester Schenectady Springfield Cincinnati Detroit Atlanta Louisville Nashville Memphis Richmond and more. It includes hotel ensembles organ concerts sacred services choir and orchestral programs, recitals, news, features, and special hours with WJZ WEAF WIZ and other networks.
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