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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1931
Page
4
A rilgious reflection cites Ecclesiastes 1 18 and contrasts learning rules of wisdom with living by them. The passage notes the toil God assigns to humanity and warns that study without practice yields hollow effort. Quotes Saadi about labor and wisdom.
In North Carolina a debate over a representative's duty to reflect constituency wishes versus acting on conscience resurfaces as Josephus Daniels challenges Senator Horton. The piece argues for a synthesis that honors public will, expert study, and the representative's responsibility to decide, backing or opposing the MacLean school bill based on its merits for tax relief and state economy.
The people of Asheville enact a new city charter creating a budget control commission outside the governing body. The commission will receive the year's budget and study it under special act procedures.
Debate centers on a budget control commission to bridge elected councilmen and spending excesses. The nine member body, drawn from capable citizens, aims to predict surpluses and deficits in government. Observers note Asheville adopted the plan to curb costly confusion, while High Point debates incorporation.
A. J. Maxwell urged North Carolina to slow the recent rapid progress and avoid both reckless expansion and a backward plunge. He warned that higher education spending must be restrained to protect UNC’s landscape, while stressing that the goal of college is to foster inquiry and character, not merely deliver credentials. He argued for prudence in public law and a call for modernizing antiquated rules.
Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins of Dartmouth argues the common view of college as a mere warehouse of facts is wrong. He tells midwestern Dartmouth alumni that the prime function of a college is broader than storing knowledge, emphasizing development of judgment and character.
A playful column notes paradoxes and wordplay from language quirks. It cites lines about fish in schools, a janitor, April fueling, a man designing his fate, and a facetious tensorialist who calls dandruff chips. It mentions Doug Fairbanks and Our Mary in a society role, suggesting shifting times.
A column delivers readers’ personal questions about marriage, wealth, and future plans with quirky answers about professions, a note on Ethel Barrymore’s birth, Bluebeard lore, writing advice, and a humorous dig at newspaper men. The piece hints at more questions answered in Friday’s paper.
A blaze in a six family flat in Detroit on March 23 killed Harriet Malach, 10, and injured four others. The fire forced more than 50 residents from the building, with efforts continuing to control the blaze and assess damage.
Washington reports a renewed push for farm relief measures led by calls to restore the equalization fee and export debentures. Senate leaders McNary and Watson renew the fee, while the farm board weighs selling up to 200 million bushels of wheat to limit price impact.
Lexington March 24 The annual county commencement for the elementary schools of Davidson County will be held in Lexington on Saturday April 11 at 9 30 am. Miss Margaret Linker supervisor of rural schools says preliminaries to select contestants will be April 2 at six group sites for oral reading story telling spelling oral English and Written English with Primary and Grammar grades contesting in separate events.
A list of numbered clue prompts spans multiple definitions and wordplay hints. Entries include items like Indian tr and iron equivalents, words for obstruction in a river, moral terms, and various objects or actions such as trained attendants for the sick and wayside hotel.
Raleigh March 24 Senator John W Hinsdale Wake county author of the Hinsdale luxury or commodity sales tax bill urges adoption of a luxury tax to fund a six month school term. He warns a general Day Bill would be ruinous to merchants and could leave the state with a large deficit, proposing cosmetics and legal document stamps as part of a minimum 9 million annual take. He stresses the MacLean act as key to avoid ad valorem taxes on land and urges its preservation to prevent higher levies on property.
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