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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1927
Page
4
A short religious and literary pairing about walking in light and plants turning toward illumination. The first quotation is a biblical verse from John 12 35 urging watchfulness, while the second quotes Schiller on plants finding joy in light.
A Shakespearean sonnet celebrates timeless beauty despite the passing seasons. The speaker compares aging to winters and springs, arguing that the beloved’s beauty remains as vibrant as ever while youth fades. The poem warns that beauty's season will end long before the beloved is born.
The tobacco market shows record sales with rising demand across varieties from cigarettes to snuff. A veteran warns prices may fall, while expansion continues as North Carolina dominates cigarette production and cooperative marketing could stabilize profits.
Public finance notes report Davidson county borrowing at four and a half percent while High Point pays three. More NC towns and counties are pricing bonds at four and a half percent, with a recent million dollar issue yielding about fifty thousand dollars less than a similar county issue. High Point faces another million dollar sale and high note debt, prompting calls to seek cheaper credit through state guidance and brokers like Bruce Craven.
The piece laments widespread financial missteps in public works across North Carolina. It warns that high borrowing costs and resource waste impair credit and delay recovery. It calls for a central advisory board to save millions, noting a 5 percent interest burden on a 30 000 population town as prima facie evidence of mismanagement.
Two film producers stake claims in a Cedar City mountains location with sheriffs guarding the site. Each side threatens force to protect possession, risking real violence unless neutral observers capture the scene for audiences.
Buncombe today opened the first county junior college in North Carolina with 85 students on site. The unit uses space at the new Biltmore high school building and will offer first year work this year and second year next year, aiming to relieve congestion at state colleges and universities.
A tribute to early aviators led by Nungesser and Coli and including Mildred Doran and Lowenstein-Wertheim in daring flights. The piece defends long distance air races as brave pursuits that push aviation forward, arguing critics overlook the goal of expanding human reach and that some risk is necessary for great progress.
The piece argues nations must adopt compulsory arbitration to curb war, noting U S resistance to the World Court and Britain’s cautious stance. Poland presses for a general anti aggression pact as the League Assembly discusses the issue. Arbitration could reduce but not erase war.
The article reports France preparing to honor the American Legion with a special medal and welcomes from forty French cities. It quotes Marshal Foch on loyalty and faith, and General Pershing calling the visit a great goodwill pilgrimage, amid plans for a notable national display and joint ceremonies at Verdun and the Arc de Triomphe.
A letter from Alice A. Barker to the New York World accuses the South of liquor rich homes and parties, but a Asheville Citizen columnist rebuts her view as biased and unrepresentative, saying Southern homes vary and liquor is not everywhere.
The Gordon Bennett balloons drifted from Detroit toward the Florida coast with several landings noted in South and North Carolina. Dux and Bee landed near Newberry and Randolph respectively while Belgicia touched down near Syracuse. Several other balloons remained unobserved or reported at various southern towns as crews rode out shifting southeasterlies.
The comment notes Mussolini's tenure and jokes about the leaning tower of Pisa remaining crooked after several years in office, reflecting satirical tone about leadership.
Masons are summoned to a 9 a.m. Wednesday communication of Numa F Reid Lodge No 344 for paying last respects to deceased Brother H B Hyde. All Master Masons urged to attend. By Order W M H C Massey and Sec W E Herndon.
Cotton spot in Liverpool remained steady with sales of 10,000 bales, 6,900 American. Prices ranged from 11.22 for strict good ordinary to 13.22 for American strict good mids. Futures closed barely steady with September to July contracts trading around 11.58 to 11.72.
The tropical disturbance noted yesterday by the weather bureau is now reported to be centered several hundred miles south of Sable Island and moving rapidly northeastward.
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