Over in Roberson County a few nights ago an Indian woman died as the result of a wild party in which, according to testimony of principals and witnesses, there was much drinking. The coroner went out and looked at the body of the dead woman, asked a few questions and rendered a verdict to the effect that the deceased came to her death as the result of “too much high life.”
A whole sermon is expressed in that verdict, in fact we haven’t the slightest doubt but that there have been scores of deaths in this state and others in the union as a result of too much high life during the past several months and, as a matter of fact, this same high life is probably causing about as many deaths today in the United States as any of the known fatal diseases.
Too much high life. What does it mean to the younger generation of this and other cities? Far too little, that is apparent. Yet is has caused and will cause hundreds of deaths in North Carolina during the present year.
This same high life is no respecter of persons. It calls upon the wealthy and the powerful as well as at the doors of the pauper and the weaker ones. It exacts its toll with a relentless persistence. You can’t get away from it. Too much high life is, in the end, as fatal as a dose of deadly poison.
From page 4 of the Carolina Jeffersonian, Oct. 6, 1925
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