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Vol. 1. No. 18 SUMMER SCHOOL PUNS BIG 4TH Preparations Being Made for Jolly Celebration Next Wednesday Morning- 1 '' NOBLE CHIEF OF CEREMONIES The Summer School is going to have a big celebration on the 4th of July, next Wednes day. It is going to be a jolly oc casion, with just enough sol emnity to satisfy the ghosts of the great men who signet! the Declaration of Independence 147 , years ago. The merry making will start the night before the third of July, with a dance. M. C. S. Noble will be the j master of ceremonies on thej Fourth. Everybody knows what 1 a favorite he is in the summer school and what an atmosphere of joy he spreads at every meet ing where he presides. A. H., Pattersoh is Mr. Noble's asso ciate, his particular duty being j to assemble the crowd for the parade around the campus. • The men and women of the Summer School will gather soon j after breakfast on the lawn in front of the alumni building. They will be mobilized in var- j ious groups St. Mary’s students, j Peace students, N. C. C. W. stu dents, and so on through a long list of institutions and 3tates. Ejach group is to have its dis tinct costume. Perhaps some! of them will sing songs, and Certainly they will give lusty yells. Men will be on hand too but naturally their somber gar ments will be father oversha dowed by the gay and varied attire of the women. Once Abraham Lincoln said that the .soldiers who went into the army of the Potomac melted away so fast that getting them together was like shoveling fleas. A .H. Patterson recalled (his at a recent faculty meeting when he was talking about get ting the paraders into line. But of course they will arrange them selves at last. The University summer-time orchestra, led by electrician Graham, will lead the procession, and the whole company will move around the campus and into Memorial Hall. The ceremonies are scheduled to begin at half past ten o'clock. JEWISH HISTORY LECTURES Dr. Abram Neuman of Philadelphia is to deliver a series of lectures to the sum-, mer school students on the nights of July 2,3, and 5 on Jewish history and literature, under the auspices of the Jew ish Chatauqua of America. The people of the town are cordially invited to attend. THE OLD WEST ft GUTTED The Old West Building, one of Ihe oldest structures on the campus, is having its interior almost completely tom away. All the windows are gone, and the place has an extremely deso late look about it. But in two or three months it will have been converted into a servicea ble modem dormitory, with fire proof staircases and proper san itary fixtures, The reconstruc tion of the Old East, which is going to be treated in just the, same way, will begin shortly. 1 The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES • Editor , Tj-n pi m i Farm Exhibits in Bank Chapel mil Chan _ |;M.- C. Blackwood’* Picture* to Fol „ . . , j low A. M. Dodson’*. I was walking along Pittsboro j „ street after supper a few day.-, q Blackwood is the next ago when I saw a baby, just man W hose farm i s to be shown learning how to walk, entirely at the Bank of Chapel nude except for a strip of cloth Hdl f rom now on f or a few days about as big as a pocket hand- ex hibit replaces that of A. kerchief, .around his middle, j Godson. The same sign re He was the son of Henry A. j ma i ns above all the diplays: i Whitfield and was sitting on j “This bank wishes to help all ; the porch of his home, looking \ legitimate agricultural enter out at the passers-by and now p r i ses .” The idea is to illus i and then waving his hand at j trate go od farming methods, and one of them. I have rarely to pass on suggestions from one seen a more pleasing sight, f arme r to another, so that every never a more sensible costume one may benelt from what the for a hot day. I walked to the ot b er has learned. All are in porch and found him as friend-, v it e d to come in and examine. ly as he was handsome. If I the pictures, printed pictures in this paper I a. M. Dodson, whose farm is should like to show young Mr. out 0 n the Hillsboro road, has Whitfield just as he appeared had unusual success, and it has that evening, as something good conie to him largely through to look at and as a lesson in j his attention to live stock and how to be comfortable. poultry. Twenty-five years ago he was a tenant on the farm he | When a negro man of Dur-j owrs today. Besides growing ham overturned his Ford sedan f me wheat and corn, he makes in front of the Pratt home on j money on cows, pigs, and chiek the Durham road the other e ns. Last Christmas he took in night I was amazed to see how $240 at one time by the sale of ! big the vehicle looked when several pigs, seen from the bottom, which At the end of each year he was now boldly exposed to the has made out of livestock and public gaze. I could hardly poultry enough money for him. bring myself to believe that this ge ls and his family to live on, was an exact duplicate, as it was and everything he gets out of l of my own car, and I had a new j his cron is clear. His land gets respect for myself for being the better every year instead of be owner of such a prodigious , ing worn out, because he is al thing. ; ways taking' care of it and im • * ■* i proving it. When I was on the train one An agricultural expert who afternoon last week I saw sev- was going through the county eral gowns of the new Egyptian made the statement that was .style, but so pretty afterwards posted up beside the as that worn by Miss Hickerson pictufes in the bank. It ran at the country, club dance ifi H s fallows: “If all the farms Chapel Hill in May. I like to j n Orange county were run a look at the changes in fashions this one is> it would be one of in women’s dress, and were it the most prosperous counties in I not for. the expense of it I would North Carolina, maybe in the welcome several changes in United States.” each season—one a month, say. „ _ , ' , * T , , Mr. Dodson has a herd ot New styles give variety to the! , , human snectacle iattle ,ncl «M n * several an spectacle. ■ tered Jerseys,\about 100 Rhode ■ T ii i Island Red hens, 6 pure-bred Whenever I walk along the _T, , , . , „ „ , , i lJuroc sows, fields of clover knee west edge of the campus, back . . , , | . .7. . ‘ , , high, and well-pruned orchards. ;of the library, lam struck by , • * . ! , , . 1 Jhere are other farmers in •the thought that there is sure- . . . , ~, ° , . Orange county who have follow ly going to be a disastrous nre , .' 4 ~ , / * , , , .. led the same up-to-date methods here some day, The fraternity. T , , , , , . . , , , , ; as Mr. Dodsons, and, like him, houses are of frame and htey j I . .they have succeeded. I hen , are jammed up close against . , , ... • J J , success goes to show that the, one another. If one ot them: . ... . ... , , * , ... opportunities in Orange are gjod catches and Jhere is a wind, it 1 ~ , ... . , ... . ~ . . , t , ~ - they need only to he taken! will be the finish of them all. ~ . e . „ advantage of. Not only of them, but, in all . liklihood, of th/cluster of wo d- . e.i Ftructures between the fra- enin g L)ance I‘lll'ty houses and the lllam Summer Schooler* Gathered in slieel. This whole district con , . Force in the Gyinnakiuin st .rules a big rsik. The University gymnasium Chapel Hill has been hotj was packed tor the opening re lately, but before you begin ception and dance of the sum cussin’ about it just take the ; mer school last Saturday night, trouble to recall how few weeks careful observer estimated j ago you were quarreling about the ratio of women to men as 5 Ihe prolonged cold weather and to 1. This meant, of course, ' were praying for warmth. For that the males were in high fa my part I consider warm wealh-! vox. in short, they had what er far more agreeable than col l economists call a scarcity value, and 1 would eliminate winter al- The gowns were pretty. The together if I could. It is a orchestia performed well. There • urse on mankind. 1 detsst «,y as j in abundance of iced punch wearing or carrying an overcoat; j nnoCuoUß but agreeable. Every * * * body seemed to be in a good lam glad Parson Moss is go- humor. The occasion was a ing to have a good rest this . ktcs.h. summer. He needs it.' I have The night before, Friday, never known a busier man. And there was the forma! opening Ive never known one whos. 0 f ;he summer school in Mem presence gives so much pleas * orial Hall. President Chase me to so many different kind*js;)pi:e, welcoming the summer of men and women. Some wise j students. N. W. Walker, direc old fellow once said: “Don’t: tor of the summer school, pre bother about making other peo- sided and introduced Mr. Ch^se. 1 |ple good. Make yourself good p {iU J .lohn Weaver told about the a ! other people When, niusical program for the sum-: (Continued on Page 4) mer session. CHAPEL HILL, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1923 ROBERT BINGHAM | AS HE iS AT 85 • The Cclcntl Visited bv a Former Pupil Is Found Reading 0. Henry. MIND STILL KEEN AND ACTIVE BY LOUIS GRAVES When I was in Asheville th? other day I went out to see my old schoolmaster, Colonel Robert Bingham. Nobody ir y Chape’ Hill or anywhere else'in Orange County—nobody but the newest new comer —needs to be tdld who Robert Bingham is. The name has been famous, here abouts for a century and a quarter. I found him sitting by a win dow, a board across the arms of his chair, and on the board a volume of O. Henry. The story he was reading was “The Fourth in Salvador.” He is an insatia ble reader, his daughters told me, and fairly devours books, knagazines and newspapems. If you lookt at his head and not his body you find it hard to believe that he is nearing 85. He has the same bright eye, the same ■quick interest. From his fea tures and complexion you might take him for a man under six tv. And his hearing has suf fered very little. I have never known a person alltv that remains so vivid to I me. after many years of s<'p?r tion as Colonel Bingham. Just ; twentv-five, wars ago I entered •■»is school o-i the hill across s h ■ Broad river from Ashe ville and for nine months 1 : saw him and heard him everv \ day. The change in education I nl fashions has made many of his methods seem, today, rather harsh but I cling to the belief; *hat there is a lot of good in them, and that some of th»-1 “bleed and iron”, to use Bis - j mark’s■ phrase, which marked; the management of the Bing 1 ham School might not be a bad j aid to discipline in some more I mod- rn institutions. One of his practices was to have boys fight out their quar rels. in my year at Bingham’s there were two strapping fel lows there named Oowden and j Cerstle. They were both foot ball players, and each was a sort of a hero in the school. But they were like two roosters in a barnyard—neither one of them v.'us willing to split the glory evenly with the other. They . nai led at each other for a while Everybody saw there had to be a showdown. One afternoon Colonel Bing ham led them out upon one of the grass plots between the trto tows of barracks and told them to g> to it. The whole school, .bout a hundred boys, forme I a circle. Colonel Bingham acted as referee. There weren’t any fixed rules as to the length rounds. Now and then the Col .'ml would step in bet a,- the gladiators, separate them, and let them blow awhile. Then they would be back at it again. Cowd'T. was a Texan. He had !’•• d on a ranch and was as hard as nails. Cerstle was from Chattanooga. His weight was about the same as his opponent’s aroutd 200 pounds, and he was famous for his'"' speed. After ward he was on the University, nf Virginia football team and j • FOontimied ot Page 4) Equalizing Taxes ’ Aiseasor* and Aldermen Trying to Reach Uniform Ba*is ■ The town and county author ities together are working hard this week trying to adjust tax assessments fairly. It has been known for a long time that property has not been levied upon uniformly. Oue tax payer got off with two small an assessment —another’s was too big. Sometimes two men ! living side by side, whose land per front foot was plainly the same value, had widely different values putrupon their unit fron tage. The county and township as sessors. Fred Walker and J. M. Whitaker, together with the members of the town’s board of aldermen,, these last two or three days, have been going over, i the tax listings one by one. Their method is to try to get at the actual value of each piece j of real property, and then they assess it at GO per cent.- In determining values, of course, they seek the best ad | vice they can find in the way of | expert knowledge of real es tate in Chapel Hill. • i In hitting upon 60 per cent of market value, they are trying to reach a ratio about the same jas that which prevails in tlv* county at large; for, since Chap el Hill has to pay its large share of the county taxes, it is im portant that the town pay on the same basis of percentage value as the other parts of the county. ; In this present review of as sessmei ts there have been sum. | cuts, there have been some im i creases, and some properties have been found to be assessed at just the figure they should j be in the judgment of the group now struggling with the pro j blem. . Curb Market Active i Farmer* Bring Much Produce in Twice Every Week. Vegetables are more plentiful |at the twice-a-week curb mar ; ket than they have been in a j k-ng- timt-. Twenty farmers were.on hand last Saturday, and their vagons presented a wide va icty of produce. The matked is on Columbia Street, near Andrews’ Store, and runs from /•G3O to H o’clock Wednesday ! j and Saturdays. j f 'h' -kens, eggs, and hams are 1 ing brought in from t!i ••ntry : r, considerable quantl -1 : s. Spinach has been in great ! a-i-and for babies, and thor 1 has been plenty of it. The straw berry season is about at an end, but dewberries and blackberries are coming on now. And the 'farmers are offering carrot:-' ' beets, Irish potatoes, cabbages; . cucumbers, snap beans, ami ! squash. The man and women who • active in establishing the t Hi ke* are particularly anxious • .o’ t'-e f .jople of the town k - - ’h;> hours in mind and attend the sales. THE HOLLOW GETS \ GIRL A girl, Jean Scott Hibbard, has been added to the popula tion of Baby Hollow, the section of Chapel Hill officially known as Park Place, down on the edge of Battle’s Park. Until now there were exactly three times !> ""any boys as girls there, but 1 •ho a-rival of Jean Scott makes , ‘be score ;2 to 5. She has one j brother, John, .and. one sister, Peggy:’ $1.50 a Year in Advance. sc. a Copy MODERN HOUSES BUILT FOR HENS Several Orange Farmers Are Erec ting Structures According to Latest Correct Standards . FEEDING IS IMPORTANT PART Several farmers around Chapel Hill are building poultry houses. They are realizing that when they go into egg and chicken production on a large scale, they have got.to have a proper home for the hens. - Jeter Lloyd. Glenn Lloyd. S. M. Oldham and Nebin Dollar are among those who are about to ’’ put.up buildings for their flocks Ivan Lloyd has nearly finished his. The houses are being con structed according to the best standards'' known to poultry raising. The depth is 12 feet, and the length depends upon the size of the dock. Fifty fowls require a length of 10 feet. The house is 8 to 10 feet high in front and 4 to 6 set high in the rear. On the inside there is a dropping board to catch the manure, the nests being under neath it and the perches above. On the average, there is a ne< for every four hens. R. P. Harris, agriculture teacher in the Chapel Hill school, has been helping the far mers with the planning, and he took part in the actual building of Ivan Lloyd’s hen-house. “To make money on poultry”, says Mr. Harris, “you have got to have the right sort of hous ing. Sometimes an old building which a farmer uses for irs hens, is the worst p. i‘ »le place for them. It is apt to be full of the vermin that ought to be kept away from the poultry. It I won’t do just to have a place to put the hens to go to roost at night. They must be able to stay in the house when the . weather si too bad for them out - side. “A modern poultry house is not expensive. It is apt to cost leys than the wrong kind, be cause often the poultry man wastes lumber when he doesn’t build according to the best stap. dards. A house for a fair-sized ftoc.k of hens should not cost more than twenty-five dolla»-i . altogether, including the la bor ” Vi e -ential part of a poultry house is the self-feeder. This is a hopper, with an opening a; ;he bottom, made sn that the feed drops down from above as fast as the chicken co rrr.es it. One of the great mistakes some people in the poultry business make is to give their chickens too little food. A hen has t X Have tiO cents worth of food a year to live but that much won’t male, m.r productive. If the poultryman gives her from $1.25 to s!.l ( ).worth of food a year he can make a profit. But if he i;n:i“i Iceris her he will lose monev instead of making it. Ihe difference between 90 cent; and #1.25 means the difference between profit and loss. h has been found that it costs about 25 cents a year less to feed Lrghom hens than the other well known breeds. Some times the difference is even greater. This is why the Leg horn? are coming to be such fr.vontes with the poultfymen. The new houses now being Continued on Page 8
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