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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1918
Page
4
The Enterprise outlines brief letters from readers on current topics and requires writers to include their names. It notes home delivery in the city by carrier and subscribes at 10 cents per week with a request to notify circulation for late delivery.
The Washington Star’s Sunday edition highlights Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan as exceptionally busy figures. It notes Roosevelt’s wider record of offices and books, Bryan’s strong public profile, and questions who will endure longer in their tireless pursuits.
The house passed the daylight saving bill on Friday, sending it to President Wilson for signing. If enacted, clocks will be moved ahead one hour for ten months, delaying noon while the sun remains high, with most gains seen in extra daylight for gardening and after work activities.
A High Point campaign launches to raise 1500 dollars to shield American troops from moral dangers near training camps and the front. Fifteen volunteers will canvass the city, each seeking 100 dollars, urging swift public support and wartime sacrifice.
A Vienna dispatch to the Vossteche Zeitung Berlin reports the demobilization of three of the eldest Landsturm levies serving with Austrian forces. The men born in 1867 68 and 1868 will begin immediately and be completed by May October and December respectively.
The funeral of Mrs. Lena Gilbert Ford and her son Walter Ford, two Americans killed in last week’s London air raid, was held at the Church of St. Saviour in Paddington. A simple Church of England service and brief sermon followed the burial rites.
In Manorville Pennsylvania on March 18 three miners were killed when a pocket of gas ignited from blasting lamps. Four other miners nearby escaped.
Austin reports both houses concur on the conference report to enact a statewide prohibition bill. The measure now goes to the governor after the conference strikes the definition of alcoholic beverages as any drink containing 0.5 percent alcohol.
Washington reports an additional credit of 11.2 million dollars to Belgium, bringing its total loan to 104.6 million. Allied loans now total 4.9606 billion dollars across the coalition.
A meeting of Post D Travelers' Protective Association of America is set for Friday night March 22 at 30 o'clock at the Elks' Home. New officers will be elected.
A 1917 German wartime exhibit shows leather substitutes for boots and shoes. It features soles, tops, and entire boots made from wood, paper, sailcloth, felt, rubber, horn, and more. Nine million wooden-soled shoes were produced in the first nine months of 1917 amid leather shortages.
Severe riots erupted in Belfast's nationalist quarter last night as Sinn Fein militants clashed with police. Dozens were wounded, with many policemen among the injured. The unrest lasted four hours before troops were deployed to restore order.
Washington reports district tax collectors and revenue agents plan an intensive post April 1 campaign to educate taxpayers on details of the many miscellaneous taxes in the war revenue act.
A concise editorial urging discourse over force, arguing reasoning and illumination rather than intimidation or violence. It presents torchlight rhetoric as the path for persuasive, peaceful public debate and civic engagement.
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