Thursday, September 9,192 G
Raging at Knight Doesn’t j
Change the Faets
(From the Chapel Hill Weekly)
In his talk to the Civitan club
in Raleigh last week Edgar W.
Knight said that North Carolina
had been taking too much credit j
to itself for its “educational
progress” and that, in the provi- j
g i oll of school facilities and in !
the quality of teaching, ic was
still a backward state.
A number of earnest citizens
n re raging and roaring at him.
Os course, in a brief talk of this
o rt. he could not undertake a
comprehensive discussion of the
.details of the state’s educational
problem. He was hitting only
the high spots, and his critics
.attack him for having omitted
t 0 S ay several things they think
might properly have been said.
He chose to speak, mainly, not
of what the state had done, but
of what it had not done—and it
was a good choice. All the in
dignation that is poured upon
him can not change the facts.
He was telling the truth.
Here now, in the Greensboro
News, is Charles L. Coon of Wil
son with a column and a half of
stinging comment upon Mr.
Knight’s speech. And what,do
you get from Mr. Coon’s letter?
Why, a careful reading of it
shows that he is really on the
same side of the fence as Mr.
Knight! He is just as much
dissatisfied with the state’s edu
cational shortcomings as the
University professor is; and,
what is more, the reforms he
wants are precisely those which
Mr. Knight himself is known to
want.
Mr. Coon seizes upon certain
phrases in the speech as an oc
casion for satire without ever
refuting the main argument.
Indeed, having indulged his gift
for sprightly ridicule, the Wilson
superintendent goes on to con
firm Mr. Knight’s findings.
"Our first civic educational
school problem,” says Mr. Coon,
‘‘is to secure 100 county-wide
school systems, every one of
which puts every dollar in every
county behind the education of
every child in every county.”
Just what Mr. Knight would like
to have, as every one knows who
is familiar with his opinions. j
Again Mr. Coon says that we
ought to have “an adequate state
system of taxation with which
properly to support an efficient
program of public education.”!
Just what Mr. Knight believes. 1
“He never uttered a word of.
or a syllable of an adequate pro-*
gram to remedy what even most
parents already feel and know— 1
that poor teaching is the rule in
our schools and not the excep
tion.” And the poor quality of
teaching was the very evil at
which Mr. Knight’s argument
aimed! Naturally, he was
110 t attempting, in a luncheon
taiK, to lay down a curative pro
g*am in detail. That is hardly
a to perform in the presence
°f a lot of well-fed Civitans in
the middle of a warm day. It
K a joo for the study and the
council-chamber. ‘ j
;dr. (oon advocates “standard- 1
JZ] ng the work of the schools
0 L he end that it may be possi-
J e really to begin the definite*
gaining of teachers for work in
e schools.” Here, once more,
r ie is tn agreement with Mr.
Knight.
. then, does Mr. Coon
' £ ; unch this attack upon Mr. I
nig ht? We believe there are
two reasons.
First, there is the statement'
s Peaker made about county
ani <4 c Ky superintendents who
aiG “herior in ability and train-
J ,] g and sadly deficient in quali
fy 8 of leadership,”, Mr. Coon,
appens to be a county superin
tendent himself, and this phrase
Plainly r’iled him. But why
* ould it? Any fair reader
. n °w s that Mr. Knight did not
an that all superintendents
." ere deficient. He was estimat
-1 the situation in the large,
and we have no doubt that Mr.
j Coon’s opinion is about the same
I as his.
We venture the suggestion
that the second reason for Mr.
Coon’s attack is that hitherto he
has held the palm as the cham
i pion rebel and disturber in North
I Carolina’s educational life, and
he is upset by the appearance of
I a rival hell-raiser.
Let us not forget that this
same Mr. Coon arose in the
Teachers Assembly a few years
i ago and assailed North Caro-
I lina’s school system as a “crazy
j patchwork quilt.” His frank
ness so scandalized the company
that boos and hisses were heard
from all over the hall.
Mr. Coon’s success as a build
er and administrator of schools
has won him a well deserved
fame. And perhaps his chief
claim to the admiration of his
fellow citizens has been his
readiness to denounce compla
cency and inertia and to expose
the faults of an existing system.
I We are for him, and we hope he
will continue, with spear in hand,
to launch his charges at the
dragon of the status quo. But
we pray him not to want to keep
the field all to himself. Let him
hold his eminence as champion
hell-raiser, but there is no rea
son why Ed Knight shouldn’t be
allowed the place of runner-up.
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| New Milliken Light %
% Dims X-Ray’s Force *
£ Washington.—The newly dis- %
4* covered Milliken light ray has *
* the most powerful penetrating *
I * force of any ray ever brought *
' £ to human .notice, the Smithson- *
* ian Institution announced in a |
j * bulletin calling attention to the *
fact that the new ray will pen-
* etrate a layer of lead six feet *
thick, whereas the X J ray can be *
1 * stopped with a thin sheet of the s£>
* same metal. No one can foresee *
* by what renmrkable uses the *
* ray may be made to serve man- *
* kind, the bulletin added. *
4- The extraordinary penetrating #
* powers of the new ray depend *
* on the extreme shortness of the *
rjj wave length. Ordinary broad-
4c casting radio, or Hertzian rays, *
have waves from 100 to 3,000 *
* meters. Professor Langley 4*
£ found rays in the sun’s and *
* moon’s beams, which were in- #
% visible to the eye, of a wave *
* length of one-hundredth of a
$ millimeter, or 100,000,000 times %
shorter than 1,000-meter radio.
4c The new rayy which Milliken *
* has found are 2,000 times short- jj[
j * er in wave length than the *
* average X-ray. Jjj
Few Veterans Return
' Not Many of Last Year’s Varsity
Players in 1926< Line-Up
i
(From the Chapel Hill Weekly)
! It appears that not many of
• last year’s varsity football play
ers will be back in college this
fall, which means that ’Bob Fet
zer and his'assistant coaches are
faced with the task of building
a team mostly out of new ma
terial.
, A bulletin from the University
News Bureau says that the out
i look is for two regulars in the
. line as a nucleus,, and three let
ter men around whom to build
a backfield.
Captain Red Whisnant will be j
j at his old place as guard, and
Morehead, the 1925 tackle, will
, return. The three last year’s
I backfield men scheduled to re-
I port for practice this month are
Hackney, Sanford, and Ferrell.
The squad will include many
promising candidates from the
1925 freshman team as well as
I the 1925 second-string men.
*WHE NY OIThAVEG LASSES fitted ,!
by Dr. Mann you have the satisfac
| tion of knowing they are correct.
FOR OVER |
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wide Temedy for kidney, liver and -<
bladder disorders, rheumatism,
lumbago and uric acid conditions.
i
correct internal troubles, stimulate vital
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on the original genuine Gold
GOLD THIEF NABBED
BY MARKED METAL
Sluice-Box Robber Caught by
Old Police Trap,
William Lake, B. C.—A unique and
new method of stealing precious yel
low nuggets from sluice boxes lias
been tripped up by one of the oldest
traps known to police—marked! money.
The trap was varied slightly, for
instead of using government coins or
bills, police % officers stamped thin
sheets of gold and caught the robber
red handed, after he had avoided their
traps for more than five years.
Now that Frank Lane DeLong is
safely behind prison bars, where he
will remain for the next two years,
he probably will admit that the most
adroit maneuvers cannot escape the
tong arm of the law.
Back in i 921 officials of the Kitch
ener mine at Keithley creek suspect
ed that some one was robbing their
sluice boxes, but they failed to de
tect the thief. The thefts went on
intermittently for more than four
years. The thief, evidently believing
himself outside the law, became bolder
and the thefts became more numerous.
Finally, a plan was hatched to trap
the marauder. Several thin strips
of gold were marked with the letters
“K. M.” and doubled up to hide the
identification marks. '
Several days later DeLong walked
boldly into the local police station
and announced that he had made a
strike. As proof of his assertion he
produced two small bottles filled with
gold nuggets and dumped them on the
table. While one police officer edged
toward the door to cut off escape the
other sorted through the nuggets until
he came to the “plant.” When the
leaves were unrolled DeLong admitted
his guilt.
DeLong said he stole the nuggets by
placing a false box under the sluice
box, after boring holes through the
-upper box which permitted the nug
gets to drop through.
I
SHE’S A MAYOR
Mrs. Mattie Chandler, mayor-elect
of Richmond, Calif., is a home-lover
and fond of working in her garden,
where the photographer caught her.
She is also a skillful politician, and
won the election over nine opponents.
Canadian' Lake Monster,
15 Feet Long, Races Auto
Vernon, B. C. —A strarige monster
which inhabits Okanagan lake raced
a motor car being driven along the
shore road for several hundred yards,
says J. L. Logie, manager of a local
land company.
Mr. Logie describes the monster as
having a head like a sheep, a dark
colored body showing about five feet
above the water, and as about fifteen
feet long. Three other persons in the
ear with Mr. Logie say the monster
raised a swell about a foot high and
made the spray fly ahead of it as it
cut through the water at approxi
mately the same speed afc the automo
bile.
1 Names of Streets Tell
New Orleans’ Story “
1 New Orleans. Names of "
j New Orleans streets present a "
* mixture of French, Spanish and “
j AmericanUinfluences of other 11
j days and impress strangers In- !!
$ stantly as one of the oldest “
f of the interesting features of .>
| the old city. |
l The city itself was not, ■
» named, as many think, for the !
! French city of Orleans, but the ;
duke of Orleans. Chartres !!■
I street bears the name of his ;;
| son, the Due de Chartres. Royal
i street is said to have 1 been “
? named for Madame Royaler eld- ■
t est sister of the king. |;
J Bourbon bears the . dynastic '
I name and the dauphine is re- !!
I membered through Dauphine “
| street. A group of streets is
| named for the ifiuses, Calliope, |'
t Clio, Erato, Thalia, Melpomene, ■
| Terpsichore, Euterpe, Polymnia J’
| and Urania.
| The Napoleonic influence left !
| Napoleon avenue, Josephine
f street and a street for each of !
| Napoleon's victories, Ausferlltz,
I Jena, Cadiz, Constantinople and •
Berlin. Berlin passed during ;
the World war in favor of GeiP
eral Pershing street. !,
THE CH/ • C\M RECOCT)
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Bankrupt Sale
HARDWARE AND FURNITURE
THE ENTIRE STOCK OF
PENDERGRAPH 8 MCCAULEY,
CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
■ ■ -■ . I .
Prices Cut
33 to 60%
A Few Sample Baigaks:
Moline Riding Plows, selling usu
ally at $65 to S7O, Now only $25;
1 10-Piece 5-Ply Virginia Walnut
Dining Suite, a Beauty, Reduced
from S2OO to only $140;
* •
1 3-Piece Genuine Mohair Living
Room Suite, reduced from $300.00
to $190;
\ 9
Mahogany Living Room Suite, now
only $35.00.
Crockery, Stoves, Ranges, Heaters, Beds,
Springs, Mattresses,: Roofing, Plows, Tables,
> Flower Jars, Blankets, Rugs, and scores of
other things at reductions of 33 to 60 per ct.
A Real Sale is this. There are
Bargains, but they won’t last long.
So come right along. The sooner,
the better.
Respectfully,
* V'-C" \
vv ••. , i \ •
LLOYD-RAY COMPANY,
Chapel Hill, N. C.
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