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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1930
Page
4
George Eliot asserts that deeds act independently of a person’s will, comparing actions to children that live their own lives beyond their creator’s control. The reflection centers on autonomy of behavior and moral responsibility.
Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania defends his stance in a federal case challenging the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission's power to reassess investment figures for the Clarion River Power Company. He argues inflated valuations like 144 for neckties and 4000 for a grand opening dinner justify deflating rates to a fair return on actual investment, a nationwide issue in utility regulation.
The stock market appears to have turned as of November 10 and shows four days of steady gains. Observers now largely believe a bullish trend has started due to improved trade prospects and renewed demand for equities after the previous crash.
Returns from the recent state election show none of the three constitutional proposals carried. The most important measure, the property tax classification amendment, appears unlikely to pass despite belated returns reaching Raleigh.
Read a 1830 Edinburgh Review essay where Macauley forecasts long term gains despite recent distress. He notes wars taxation and debt yet argues that wealth trends rise, with visions of population growth cities and railroads shaping 1430 to 1830 advances, asserting the tide will come in.
Bruce Catton argues that fear and distrust pervade Europe making peace unlikely. He warns that governments in England France and Russia are ready to believe in plots of war while disarmament talks stall. A pessimistic view follows suggesting a repeat of 1914 dynamics and fragile global stability.
An 18th century-style reflection in High Point Enterprise notes how forecasts of future comforts and technologies would have seemed fantastical to earlier generations. It contrasts imagined improvements such as post offices yielding riches, swift coaching between cities, windless ships, and horseless riding with the credulity given to Gulliver’s Travels.
Figures from 63 counties show 85,384 voting for the amendment and 121,191 against it. Twelve counties gave it majorities including Guilford and Buncombe. Buncombe, despite strong tax relief sentiment, cast the amendment with its largest county majority, signaling belief that law change must come before tangible property tax relief.
The department of commerce reports unemployment rising by 900000 since April 1 and 3400000 seeking jobs. Despite a cautious margin of error, officials say the trend suggests hard times ahead. President Hoover urges preparation with special emergency measures nationwide.
A fragment suggests the saying burning the can die at both ends may refer to a person who is always lively. The text tone hints at a conversational remark rather than a formal report.
New York education officials plan to teach proper posture by using moving pictures in classrooms. Pupils will be required to stand during these instructional sessions.
A Chicago observer notes Armistice Day underscores a shift from billets to bullets for some factions. A columnist argues that replacing unemployment with gangsters would calm streets, while warning that self made men lack home polish and discipline.
Upton Sinclair jokes that judges who gave the Nobel prize to Sinclair Lewis were fooled by mistaken identity and hopes the error will be corrected.
A concert will be held tomorrow night at 8 o clock in the Junior High school auditorium by the Lenoir Rhyne College glee club. The Luther League of Emanuel Lutheran church sponsors the program which aims to surpass last year. Twenty seven boys and girls comprise the group directed by Professor Frederick Stanley Smith with Miss Frances Stehler at the piano. Names include girls Pearl Ballentine Bobbie Crouch Eloise Efird Elizabeth Friday Margaret Herman Cecil Kiser Mary Marshburn Louise Martin Elizabeth Mauney Ruth McGinnis Lela McBee Evelyn Patterson Mae Teufel Merceil Thornhill Irene Wyant and boys James Aderholt Henry Ammex Allen Arndt Willie Boland William Freed Jacob Fritz Luther Leach Frederick Meretz Joe Meretz Chester Perry Grier Sherrill Harold Sox.
More than 1,000 attended a memorial service at Calvary Church with Rev. Clarence McClellan Jr in charge. Jessica Randolph Smith spoke, presenting Confederate flags to Mrs. E L McKee and Mrs. L M Bashinsky as Mary Lou Cooper and Alice Dills Weaver unveiled a bronze tablet marker.
United States Senator Gerald P. Nye, chairman of the campaign funds committee, examined the Nebraska Senatorial races from the last summer primary to the November 4 general election. Frank Healy, the Washington field investigator, has been in Nebraska since the first hearing in July.
Marshal Pilsudski’s coalition captures 247 of 444 seats in Poland's parliamentary elections. He gains control of the chamber, reversing a dissolution vote of 118 in August.
A Sunday outline notes five o clock vesper services at First Methodist Protestant church led by Rev. R I Farmer on Hidden Well-springs and ongoing. Morning sermon titled The Man of Action urged achievement through action and faith. The piece cites Nehemiah and Shakespeare on action, contrasts youth activity with tradition, and references Bishop Shipman on youth in modern conditions.
Dr Charles Haddon Nabers challenged pessimists at First Presbyterian vesper on The Sanctity of Authority a study of the Fifth Commandment. He cited a 1908 Watchman paragraph noting changes in views on divorce and morality. The talk referenced enduring moral shifts over generations.
Father Luke Hay at St Edward's on Sunday urged consideration for others, citing Jesus feeding the girl Jairus after her restoration. He said love of God and neighbor requires active regard for others, not mere avoidance of harm, warning selfishness harms both God and self.
Reverend Tom Alderman Sykes preached on the Paul’s Mars Hill message and the experiential nature of salvation. He urged believers to rely on God's strength today, be living witnesses, and let the Kingdom of Heaven be evident in their lives.
Otis Stokes a Black man on a Washington bridge was killed by a Warren Winfield driven car. In Rosemary a nine year old son of Deputy Sheriff Gray injured by a Woodrow Wilson truck driver. Wilson 17 of Littleton held. In Elizabeth City Leo White Currituck Black man accused of attacking and holding up Will Cohoon a night watchman at a local factory captured by a sheriff s posse. Eastern NC funeral directors gather Wednesday afternoon.
Rockingham North Carolina authorities reported J M Seago aged 49 who was injured when a bus struck his car Friday died yesterday. The incident occurred in Rockingham and details of the collision are being investigated by local police.
The North Carolina Historical Society will hold its annual meeting in Raleigh December 3 and 4.
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