A Thought on Persecution and Truth
The excerpt quotes a biblical moment with Pilate scouring Jesus and a Latimer maxim about persecution implying a higher likelihood of truth with the persecuted side.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1930
Page
4
The excerpt quotes a biblical moment with Pilate scouring Jesus and a Latimer maxim about persecution implying a higher likelihood of truth with the persecuted side.
On Labor Day unemployment in Oregon is higher than any year since World War II. The piece argues the cause lies in production outpacing absorption and financing, with calls for government or industry guarantees as jobless and hungry crowds demand stability. The essay warns against labor wars and urges structural reform to reallocate resources for global happiness and safety.
Henry Clews and Company foresees brighter business and a trade revival. Prices fall, consumers buy more, labor relations improve, and production costs drop as manufacturers modernize and reform processes. The piece notes North Carolina papers resist party bias and hints at a future independent Republican paper becoming influential.
A man pursuing personal aviation found initial slow interest, but recently public enthusiasm has become exceedingly keen as locals show growing attention to flying endeavors.
The Charles Kenner air school thrives as Charles L Amos, hosiery maker, bought two planes and started a flying establishment. Initially used by Amos and a few friends, the field now offers a program with Pilot Davis in charge and over 20 student flyers. Flying schools may hasten adoption of air travel nationwide.
A number of prominent men back a weekly newspaper to be launched in Raleigh on Friday called The State Republican. The plan would avoid the risks of starting a daily and reflects cautious support for a Republican platform amid a crowded Raleigh press scene.
A Washington dispatch by Ray Tucker critiques modern politics showing outs fear of full control and lack of clear programs. The piece links congressional fate to party in power and notes public disdain for legislators. It also discusses the Chicago air races tragedy of Lieutenant De Shazo and warns shows must protect spectators as stunt flights thrill crowds.
Iceland reportedly hosts five sheep for every resident, highlighting a unique agricultural density. The statement reflects the country’s large livestock ratio relative to human population.
A group of janitors enrolled in summer courses at North Carolina State University may form a team. The joke hints they would name themselves the Red Sox and notes they often sit in the cellar.
A young man and his fiancée were sentenced in Florence to jail for kissing in public but were released when they wept. The report notes a fast bawl preceding the release.
The author describes Franklin in extreme western North Carolina near Warrior Mountain. The town sits among Blue Ridge peaks with a slow pace, little noise, and a single daily train bringing a few fortunate visitors. The first night is spent under a heavy blanket listening to rain and reflecting on the area's calm beauty.
The text describes a yellow and black painted tea room with grape border along a porch and the inviting Ann's Gift Shop filled with antiques. The narrator spends a morning drifting through majolica pottery, ancient flintlocks, and playful handmade kittens with red ribbons.
Every Friday night a town street dance delights residents with children Charlestoning for prizes and boys clogging with vigor while parents rekindle courting days. Old time mountaineer fiddlers play, occasionally sipping colored Coca Cola from bottles as the tunes regain vigor between intervals.
Nearby two girls camps with Indian names attract local visitors from the city who pause to watch youthful vitality. Old timers recall past years as their steps quicken and their hands crack with a sudden, startling sound.
The passage notes Asheville seventy-five miles away as only intermittently pleasant with moments of warmth. It praises the region’s ferocious mountains that could overheat a radiator during a climb, shaping a vivid travel-impression brief.
A jolly section of mountaineers reveals a city connection among relatives, prompting a humorous moment as the narrator admits forgetting family names. The scene ends with a self deprecating lecture on the need to keep up with kin and a ceremonial display of remorse.
An observer extols verse as a stimulating hobby likening it to reading sharpening the mind, playing piano tuning fingers, romance sparking imagination, and golf expanding vocabulary. The tone is promotional and reflective.
A playful note of avoiding notice while passing with a parasol. The speaker compliments the other person as sweet but jokes that rain will wet a fellow’s feet. The light dialogue captures a flirtatious, weather themed moment.
Josiah W Bailey Democratic Senate candidate to address the State Moose convention in Raleigh as part of Labor Day events. Asheville hosts a 5000 attendee industrial celebration at American Enka and an air circus at the Asheville Henderson airport. R R Lawrence head of the North Carolina Federation of Labor will speak by radio from WBT Charlotte. Banks and government offices closed. industries largely open.
GEO. H. CROWELL writes of joyful worship at Union Tabernacle Sunday school and 11 o'clock service. He recalls Bethel NC memories, urges all churches to return to simple gospel evangelism, and hopes heavenly blessings will open windows of heaven if worship is in spirit and truth.
A police inspector at The Hague and the director of Leiden’s state marine institute developed a one man speed trap. The device looks like a monocular with a circular base and finger stops. The officer focuses on a speeding car, starts a built in stopwatch, then reads the time to calculate speed from a chart.
Prune growers of Napa county California have fixed wages at 3 dollars a ton for picking and 85 cents an hour for tree shakers.
Under court order and deed of trust, Walter E Crissman trustee will sell Lots 20 and 21 Riverside Park Development in Guilford County at public auction on Wednesday Sept 17 1930 at 11 00 A M in front of High Point Municipal Building. Sale starts at 160.00 cash and is subject to a prior deed of trust and unpaid taxes.
The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear 14 appellate arguments from the second district including Wright Bynum and Aaron Sharp sentenced to electrocution for the Williford murder in Wilson County. Also on docket are Peter Harris Ned Harris and James Hagans in a manslaughter case tied to Tom Cooper’s death in Edgecombe. Two Rocky Mount civil damages suits total 90 000, Hamiltons seeking 40 000 and 50 000 for injuries from an inert cable on a sidewalk. Atlantic Coast Line appeal involves Lewis Dickey awarded 40 000 after a car collision with a train in Martin County.
John Hancock Blake 63 a North Carolina native known as a lumber expert in South Carolina. KE R Mclver Coker 26 a junior interne at Roper hospital Charleston. Mollie Currie 74 widow of John C Currie a prominent railroad man.
David Clark Simpkins a retired businessman and New Bern North Carolina native is noted in an AP obituary notice. The brief memorial identifies him as a longtime community figure with ties to the local business scene.
Mrs Sue D Swindell 85 widow of the Rev F D Swindell and a charter member of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Ickory North Carolina reports the death of John Henry Eliott age 59, a well known local contractor. The obituary notes his prominence in Hickory and his long career in construction.
Cotton in fair demand but prices dip across categories in Liverpool. American grades lead sales with 4,000 bales traded and 2,100 American among receipts, futures quiet with Oct at 6.10 and May at 6.29.
Employees in civil departments of the British government now number 430,000, compared with 890,500 just before the World War. This shows a substantial reduction in civilian staff since the wartime peak.
The new Stockholm facility is described as Europe’s largest garage. It will house about 1,500 cars and stands as a major urban infrastructure project in the capital.
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