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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1931
Page
4
A Greensboro area opinion argues the state conference tax plan will reduce Guilford property taxes from 38.7 to 15 cents per hundred, cutting current revenue from 785 674 to 304 760 dollars. It warns school funding will suffer six month state allotment and the plan favors merchants and counties without heavy industry.
A Southern college president argues adversity shapes youth with dignity and purpose. He notes postwar youths' shift from soft living to striving, praises wearing poppies on Poppy Day to honor war dead, and urges support for disabled veterans and their families through Legion and Auxiliary efforts.
The article notes new state law forcing counties and cities to live within income, banning deficits added to debt and requiring next year tax increases. High Point faces tax reality with a $1.20 rate and a large gap between street assessment estimates and actual collections, including a $180,000 shortfall.
The Southern Baptist Convention ended its meeting by adopting a resolution denouncing any candidate for high office who does not openly back current prohibition laws. The piece argues laws alone cannot enforce morality and warns against voting for a dry candidate regardless of other positions. It critiques linking morality to prohibition and notes broader issues in 1932 politics.
The city council should set levies for compulsory foreclosure as with taxes and street assessments to ensure finances meet the director of local government scrutiny. The new state functionary wields broad powers, and economies may be needed to keep the city in condition.
Fragments describe a World War era tradition linking poppies to fallen soldiers. The piece notes that on the Saturday before Memorial Day May 23 the poppy will be worn by millions in tribute to the dead.
The article analyzes the General Epistle of Jude, noting its likely Palestine origin before 79 AD. It highlights Jude's fiery tone, Old Testament echoes, and central message to preserve true faith against false teachers, followed by a fourfold study of sins of emotion and will. It cites sins of emotion like perversion greed cliques and gluttony and sins of the will such as rebellion envy pride and fault finding.
The article surveys Jude's list of sins from unbelief to deceit and the moral tone of warning, then shifts to light personal notes about pets and a playful nod to the Marx Brothers. It ends with casual musings on Poppy Day and spring fever as the author reflects on daily life and writing.
Oslo reports optimism for Sub Journey 10 with Sverdrup and Sir Hubert Wilking, sighting a voyage avoiding heavy ice and ironclad dangers. Graf rendezvous, usable ice under 12 feet, but July fog and open water pose navigation and frame icing risks. Submarine aims to maintain course via periodic sunlit rises and may drill ice if openings fail.
The Tomlinson nine beat Adams-Millis 19 to 11 in an eight inning affair marked by heavy hitting and sharp fielding. Hayworth and B. D. Boyd led the attack while Stone and Martin sparked the losers. Tomlinson seeks amateur opponents and invites manager contact via Boyd Stut, care Tomlinson Company, or phone 4521.
The Paris committee of the International Hotel Alliance suggests staff buttonholes in distinct colors for each foreign language. The alliance spans hotels in twenty four countries across four continents and would implement the idea if approved.
The text ranks countries by annual meat consumption per inhabitant. It cites values: average 136 units for some country, France 133, England 130, Sweden 86, Denmark 75, Norway 61, with Sweden and Denmark and Norway listed among others.
In Shawnee County Kansas a census shows 6 172 horses and only 326 tractors on farms. The county remains among the state’s wealthiest.
New York May 16 reports another drop in cotton as improved southern weather and easy Liverpool rates weighed on futures. Week end covering and trade buying provided brief support but closes showed net declines of 9 to 14 points with May and December futures easing to near day lows.
In Valladolid Spain May 16 AP fifty medical students detained professors in a classroom demanding pass without exams. They argued strikes and disorders wasted time this year and asked faculty to omit examinations. The faculty refused.
In Raleigh on May 18, Representatives Connor and Cherry on the house revenue bill and six months school term discuss a dream scene where Andrew Mellon leaves 100,000,000 to North Carolina for the term with a 5 or 6 percent ad valorem tax. The tale involves a tense caucus led by MacLean and warned by Josephus Daniels against accepting the bequest.
A speaker laments war and militarism on Poppy Day urging lasting respect for sacrifices made in war. He critiques leaders and advocates a peaceful world, warning that forgetting their deaths would turn into a new cycle of violence and hollow patriotism.
Cline Gray, a Black woman from 1592 Lee Street, was stabbed just below the lung with an ice pick by her husband shortly after midnight and remained in serious condition. Officers Kiger and Metcalf searched for the assailant until 3 a.m. but could not locate him.
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