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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1933
Page
4
A local bar member critiques an editorial arguing lawyers as a group enable unethical practice. He urges the profession to police shysters, faulting cloaked technicality and mystery, and notes public trust hinges on upright conduct within the legal system.
North Carolina confronts a shortfall as coal purchases for state institutions drop to half due to the NBA caused price surges and milder winters fail to ease the budget. Heating plants may fail through winter with current fuel allotments. Prices for overalls shirts and sugar rise, straining the purchasing budget.
A special legislative session may be needed for extra appropriations as higher prices threaten state finances. Officials warn that lifting prices could worsen the crisis and that basing costs on current figures with contracts delayed for months or a year is a gamble for North Carolina.
The High Point council has not budgeted an appropriation for night school operation amid a dispute over whether state law allows such funding. State director George W. Coggin contends night schools are separate from public schools and not bound by that provision, a view urging swift clarification for communities statewide.
The Raleigh Times deplores a revival of triggeritis among law officers in Wake County after deputies and Raleigh police were misled by a tin-horn deputy. They chased imaginary bandits, shot at tires near an innocent driver, and risked bystander danger, reviving a past scandal and warning against mistaken gunplay.
A wry pastiche ponders beer pitches and imperial duty toward Cuba, then pivots to an editorial on prayer evolution and domestic life. The writer recalls old time faith, jokes about an ice man, and derides modern cooking burdens while lampooning housework chaos.
Column notes weather worry and budget talk under a piney Piedmont Carolina lens. The writer quips on balancing the budget, treasury flows, and a sense of local life amid September storms and regional conditions.
Employment rose by 750000 in August with factory payrolls up 12000000, per Frances Perkins. The gains outpace hiring growth, boosting wages and purchasing power and signaling a continued business revival as consumers spend more.
U S commissioner of industrial alcohol James M Doran notes that with repeal the nation could see whiskey stocks rise from 4 000 000 to 50 000 000 gallons through rectification a process of mixing good liquor with grain alcohol to increase yield while the term cut gains a new scientific meaning in bootlegging debates.
The piece muses on fate and choice in daily life, linking natural order to human endeavor. It contrasts ancient architectural precision with modern political appointments and warns that voter power sustains or reshapes local government through elections.
The text argues against rushing the NRA's promises noting vast changes from radio and telephone access. It emphasizes patience and public support, recalling chaotic postwar conditions and the need to learn to follow before leading to ensure the program’s success.
Tiffany Thayer earns praise for One Man a novel noted for its lively plots and bold artistry. H B Bates’s The Black Boxer collection is lauded for quiet power and humane character study. Ruth Saunders’s The Book of Artists Own Bookplates highlights the art and history of bookplates.
Ruth Thomson Saunders surveys ex libris designs by V Stuyvaert and a gallery of modern bookplates with ideas framed around tools symbols and figures. Reviews of novels by Michael Home Kathleen Coyle Ethel M Dell Christine Whiting Parmenter and Boris Randolph on chiseling and a prolific work by George Goodchild.
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