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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1931
Page
4
A religious snippet from September 14 1931 quotes Isaiah 12 3 on drawing water from salvation wells and notes the condition of salvation as belief in Jesus Christ evidenced by repentance for the past and amendment of life for the future, attributed to L L Noble.
The piece argues that North Carolina’s tax load is high relative to income and work, with 40 million annual debt service and 21 million for roads. Public education costs exceed 30 million, leaving little room to cut taxes quickly. It urges honesty and efficiency to slow debt growth and notes taxes rise easier than they fall.
A Richmond youth has devised an invention to recover about 125 million dollars in known treasure from waters under 100 fathoms. He has identified a cache near Cape Charles as the closest to his base of operations and likely first target for his diving venture.
Louis Miller of Richmond unveils a robot-armed submarine to search shallow seas for sunken gold and treasures. He cites 1911 Cape Charles wrecks carrying a million dollars in semi refined gold and suggests hands with explosives could recover valuables sunk long ago.
Gandhi spoke in London and North Carolinians heard him via radio, revealing a leader with vast common sense and practical views. He linked freedom, social control, untouchable issues, and India’s economy to lay conclusions on governance drug and whiskey evils, beyond mere sanctified rhetoric.
Mrs Lindsay Patterson of Winston-Salem reports from Russia about the Soviet system. She notes that foreign experts must not speak harshly to workers and describes the Five Year Plan’s relentless labor, union oversight, and the regime’s approach to home life amid stark poverty and overcrowding.
The passage describes people enjoying free cultural and social amenities including movies plays concerts and access to medical care and nurseries for many children implying a sense of heavenly conditions beyond ordinary judgment.
Bruce Catton argues that early fears of air travel remain unjustified after the National Air Races. Military and civilian pilots logged eight days of safe, high speed flying with minimal incidents, supporting flying as a safe pursuit. He cites a Wall Street article noting that consumer wasteful use of free department store delivery raises prices and wastes resources.
The Greensboro Record notes pellagra deaths in seven months of 1931 total 430 versus 607 in the same period of 1930. Health authorities and newspapers credit education, improved treatment, and the Live-at-Home movement for better diets among workers, reducing fatalities.
A political writer blames England’s latest crisis on spendthrift methods while noting the government is led by a Scotchman, highlighting irony in leadership.
Edison, confident in his own judgment, defies medical advice and rides in a car. The incident underscores his relentless drive to pursue invention despite restrictions.
Fifty-one young people gathered in Wesley Memorial Methodist church to hear the first of a series titled Ten Comments for Boy and Girlips. Miss Vera Idol spoke on the first commandment urging a life of varied interests and avoidance of being “boy crazy and girl crazy.”
GEO H Crowell writes from The Enterprise about attending the Farriss Bible class at First Baptist Church with Willis Johnson as president. He recalls past seed-sowing, reflects on missionary hardships, Paul's miracles, and urges living as a Christlike ambassador while praising Dr Conrad's sermon Digging Ditches a Victory Faith and anticipating a new church next spring.
A delegation to the School Board disputes the Sunday article about Night School funding. They say the board gave attention and sympathetic hearing, promised careful review, and suggested a $2,500 appropriation could support night schools. The council now decides whether to fund education for disadvantaged adults and children.
Davidson readers will host Dr. Edwin Mims head of Vanderbilt University English department for a Wednesday lecture. Gastonia plans to show a portrait of Judge William Gaston to the county and hang it in the courthouse. New Bern grand jury finds no indictment for H G Spivey of Windsor in a fatal auto crash. Asheville reports Ray DeHart 22 may be fatally injured when a light truck overturned near Bryson City.
Dr Edwin Greenlaw Johns Hopkins professor who died here Thursday was buried yesterday in Chapel Hill city cemetery.
Charlotte event announced for September 22 as Senator Cole L. Blease of South Carolina will address the Moose lodge. In Kinston North Carolina J H Glick store operator near the police station was arrested after officers found liquor in his building.
In Gastonia North Carolina Georgia Tickle suffered near death while Andrew Ingle had a hip wound and Mrs W H Foster tended an elbow wound after a pistol fight. Mr and Mrs Foster were jailed following the incident.
A chicken with four legs four wings and two backs hatched at the Joseph Hagans farm near Dudley but did not survive Hagans displayed the remarkable find in Goldsboro, N C.
In Goldsboro North Carolina Ernest Phillips among four men held for a club room robbery. About 15 men victimized. loot valued at roughly $200 and a diamond ring. A hearing is scheduled in the coming days.
In Lovelock Nevada local Indians foretold a harsh winter, following ancestral patterns. They say a heavy pine nut harvest signals the Creator’s warning to protect his people, as they venture to gather supplies ahead of winter’s approach.
Carl Byrd, brother-in-law of the late outlaw Otto Wood, pleaded guilty to an assault in municipal court and was fined five dollars plus costs, then jailed for 30 days for nonpayment. The session featured a heavy docket with liquor law violations, drunk and disorderly, and hit-and-run style penalties, including fines, suspended sentences, and driving bans across numerous defendants.
Memphis in an interview marking his first year on the criminal court bench Judge Phil Wallace 134 says an honest expression or a tough look does not indicate guilt and that appearances mean nothing in assessing crime.
The annual weed burden on Indiana farms is estimated at 200 dollars per farm totaling 44 million dollars, reflecting widespread crop impact and economic strain across the state.
North Dakota apiaries report significant honey shipments to France, reflecting strong cross Atlantic trade. Beekeepers note steady demand from French buyers and expect continued shipments this season.
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