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VoL 4. No. 1 MUSICIANS’PLAN FOR A SYMPHONY University Orchestra Will Be Expanded into Larger Organization MUCH TALENT AVAILABLE A movement is under way for the establishment of a Chapel Hill Community Symphony. This is to be an outgrowth of the present University orches tra, which is formed of about twenty students and, a dozen citizens of the village. Among those who are particu larly interested in the project and are working to carry it through are Paul J. Weaver, Mhj. Chase, T. Smith McCorkle, Mrs. McCorkle, Eric Zimmer man, H. D. Carter, Mrs. A. M. Jordan, and H. R. Totten. “The word symphony does not longer imply a hundred or so musicians,” said Mr. McCorkle yesterday. “Some of the *best orchestras are ‘little sym phonys’, with a membership of around thirty, and we believe there is a good opportunity here in Chapel Hill for the formation of such a group. “The University orchestra has shown the possibility of something still better. If we could interest the capable musi cians of Chapel Hill who play orchestra instruments, we could easily increase our membership to about fifty. “We could play a standard symphony and overtures and do them well. It is manifestly im possible for outside symphonys to be brought here because of the expense involved. But, regard less of the ever-existing impres sion that what we have at home can’t be worth while, it is a fact that we could give to the stu dents and to the townspeople the orchestra literature and present it in such style that it would be musically interesting and educa tional. Furthermore, such an organi zation would probably attain more or less prominence for the town throughout the state. We would probably never plan any tours, because it would probably be inconvenient for some o 4 the members. But it is not un reasonable to suppose that we ' might have people from other towns come in to hear such an organization.” “Tardies” Discussed The main feature of the March meeting of the Parent Teachers Association was a dis cussion of the number of tardies that occur in the school and of ways and means to eliminate them. The number of tardies in the high school during the past month was 319; of these 134 were checked against town chil dren. Sixty tardies occurred in the 9th grade, 39 in the Bth, 23 in the 10th, and 9 in the 11th. Parents are asked to notice on the monthly reports, how many times their children have been tardy and to cooperate with the teachers in improving this con dition. The subject will be dis cussed again at the association’s next meeting. School Basketball The boys’ basketball team de feated Mebane Tuesday night, 20 to 18, and today they go to Raleigh to enter the state tour nament. The girls’ team, which has made a brilliant record so far this year, will meet Middle burg tonight in the state cham pionship. series. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff I am frequently puzzled by the fine distinctions, made by ob servers of Lent, between what is allowable in the way of amuse ment and what is not. One ma tron active in social affairs ex plains to me that two tables of bridge do not constitute a real “party” and so are a proper pas time in the season of sacrifice. Another, more strict, considers more than onet table an infrac tion. And lam told that an en tertainment at the Country Club is proper enough, between Ash Wednesday and Easter, and that “stunts” may be performed, but that there should be no dancing or card-playing. All of which is rather bewildering. Oughtn’t there to be a fixed code to let the socially active know just how far they may go in merry-making? * * * George Gordon Battle of New York was here Saturday, to at tend the reunion banquet of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. Mr. Battle has been for many years an intimate friend of A1 Smith, and he told me that Governor Smith did not want to run for President but was anxious to re tire to private life and earn some money. The Governor has a large family and is not at all wgll-fixed financially. WWW \ Every now and then a sub scriber to the Weekly, when he meets me on the Htreet, tells me he is awaiting the bill for his re newal. Well, I’ll send these bills if I have to, but I wish that sub scribers would simply send in their checks without waiting for a special notice through the mail. The label on the paper tells when the renewal is due. The Week ly begins its fourth year with (his issue, and a considerable proportion of its readers began their subscription at just this time of year. We thank those who responded to the reminder (Continued on sage four) Boy’s Essay Contest Chance to Win Prize* by Writing on Radio Hroadcaating At a meeting of the Boy Scouts at seven o’clock tonight (Friday) in the Methodist Hut, the boys of Chapel Hill will be urged to compete in the nation wide $5,000 Essay Contest put on by the Radio Corporation of America. C. E. Graham, of the 1 Univer sity Consolidated Service Plants, will address the boys, telling them all about the terms of the competition. “The boys in this Uni versity Community ought to have a fine chance in this con test,” said Mr. Graham yester day. “The rules allow them to get all the assistance they want, and, with our own staff and the engineering school faculty ready to give advice, hoys here have a big advantage.” The subject of the essay is to be “The Advantages of Radio Broadcasting to the Youth of America.” The essay may deal with broadcasting in the past and present, or may take the form of suggestions for improve ments in the future. The contests lasts during March. Application blanks and complete information may be ob tained at the office of the Con solidated Service Plants. Two Chapel Hillians _ * Miss Louise Latta has been voted the most popular co-ed in the senior class, arid W. T. Couch the Inost original member. CHAPEL HILL, N. G, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1926 KENION FAVORS A FULL-TIME MAN Experience Has Shown Faults in Present System of County Government IMPROVEMENT IS NEEDED ■ * A. W. Kenion, who wjil go into the Democratic primaries in June as a candidate for the of fice of clerk of Orange county, advocates a new system of coun ty government. He thinks there ought to be a whole-time man on the job all the time, to see that the county’s business is conducted in a busi nesslike manner. ■ This is the letter from Mr. Kenion in reply to one asking him to state his views for the benefit of the readers of the Chapel Hill Weekly: “Replying to your inquiry as to whether I have any on the subject of county manage ment, I wish to state that for a number of years I have advo cated a whole-time Chairman of the Board of County Commis sioners, a part of whose duty should be to keep himself fully informed on all matters in which the county is concerned; empow ered to make investigations, ver ify claims, and supervise certain departments of the county’s work. Such a chairman would be able to lay before the Board, at its meetings, information on which it could act intelligently and with the assurance that the facts in all cases have been se cured. “For four years, duriqg my two terms as Register of Deeds, I was brought face to face each First Monday with the fact that three men—any number of men —however good and honest their intentions, or what their .busi ness ability, cannot dive into a mass of business to which no previous study has been given, while around them—sometimes on top of them—stands or sits a crowd of men continually, often vehemently, orating on subjects ranging from the school system to a mud-hole in the road—and conduct the county’s business without making mistakes. The wonder is how do commissioners manage as well as they do under such conditions. “In my judgment, the com missioner system of county gov ernment, with the improvement suggested above, is preferable to government by a County Mana ger. The latter (I confess I may not have the proper conception of what it is) savors too much of one-manism.” Phi Kappa Sigma to Build At the reunion banquet of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, Saturday night at the Carolina Inn, it was announced that the construction of a new chapter house would begin this spring. The fraternity owns the lot, part of the former Cheek place, on the southwest corner of Camer on avenue and Pittsboro street. Col. Thomas Branch McAdams of Richmond, Virginia, was toastmaster at the banquet and George Gordon Battle was the principal speaker. There are 17 members of the chapter here. Welcome to Basketball Team The University gives a rousing welcome to the championship basketball team at chapel ex ercises this (Friday) morning. There will be a special music pro gram. Frank Graham is the speaker of the occasion. ARRASMITH WILL REMAIN IN RACE Denies Report That He May Withdraw from Contest for Clerkship “TILL SUNDOWN JUNE STH” T. M. Arrasmith of Hills boro has sent a letter to the Weekly declaring that he will stick to the finish in the contest for the office of county clerk. “It has just come to me,” he writes, “that the report is being freely circulated that I have withdrawn from the race for clerk of the Superior Court. “I have no way of knowing from what source this report emanated. Therefore I take this my surest and best opportunity of correcting and contradicting same. “In entering this race I did so fully realizing the political con ditions of Orange county and with the full determination to stay in until sundown on June the sth, at which time the polls close. I have won many a race in the home stretch after being beaten away from the wire. , • “My motto has always been to drive close, keep of any and all jams, and be ready to go through whenever an opening occurred. In this way there is most often a reserve left for a final finish. “I am running my own cam paign am not coupled with any other candidate for any other office. Neither shall I advise or suggest that a voter shall sup port some other candidate in case they will not support me. Nor do I claim that there is only one lone man in Orange county capable of filling this office. ’ ."Some think and go so far as to say there may be more; just how many no one knows; let the people be the judge. “All candidates have lived in Orunge county long enough for the voters to form some idea as to each individual’s fitness for the place. “It is admitted, howevqr, that some are more familiar with the drafty corridors of the court house than others, having occu pied various different rooms in said building for the past de ade. But what difference does this make to the one lonely fel low on the outside who does not know the grapevine code and ci pher. “Crops of all kinds often grow better for a new tenant than for one who has been on the job for many years. Then, too, rotation of crops has been known to be beneficial to all concerned. In numerous cases doctors have been known to prescribe a change for the patient, and they do say it often works well. “This is going to be an elimi nation contest notwithstanding the first report that went out from the King George the 4t,h dome on the people’s building in Hillsboro some weeks ago. Hop ing to live to see the end of a per fect day on Saturday, June 6th, I am, sincerely, T. M. ARRASMITH. Marionettes on the 17th Clemen’s Marionettes will pre- 1 sent “Jack and the Beanstalk,” in four acts, irt the school audi torium Wednesday, March 17, at 3:30 P. M. and again at 8:30 P. M. The program will be accom panied by special music at both performances. Admission, 25 and 35 cents. Another Mad Dog Mrs. Wilkie’s Former Pet Found to Have Had Rabies The head of another Chapel Hill dog has been sent to the state bureau of hygiene in Ra leigh, and the official report comes back that the dog had ra bies. It was Mrs. E. C. Wilkie’s pet until last week. Then she gave it to Mrs. Bob Herndon on Mc- Cauley street. Sunday Mrs. Herndon, becoming suspicious of its behavior, sent for the police, and the police shot it. Dr. Na than, informed of the incident, sent the head to Raleigh. After the report came in from the state bureau, the Pasteur treatment was immediately ad ministered to the three Wilkie children and will be continued for 21 days. Until the 19th, nine days be fore the dog was killed, it had been going to the scrool yard and the school children had been playing with it. Basketball Champions Carolina Team Again Wins the Title in Atlanta Tournament The furious ringing of the col lege bell, about eleven o’clock Tuesday night, announced to the village that once more the University basketball team had won the Southern championship in basketball. Carolina captured the title four years out of the five years in which it has com peted. The other team in the finals at Atlanta was that of the Missis sippi A. and M. College. The score was 38 to 23. Before meet ing the “Aggies," Carolina had vanquished Clemson and the uni versities of Mississippi and Vir ginia. A telegraphic play-by-play re port came to Memorial Hall, and the closeness of the contest kept the crowd in a high state of ex citement. When the game was over the students, led by the band, paraded through the cam pus and the town, shouting and singing. Cobb, Dodderer, Newcomb, Hackney, and Devin composed the quintet in the final game. There were no substitutions. School HonoF Roll Lint of Student* Who Ditttinifuiiihed Them nelvc* in Htudiee The honor roll of the Chapel Hill high school for the sixth month is as follows: Eleventh grade: Roland Dod son, Lola llarward, Ernest Hearne, Esther Metzenthin, Katherine Morgan, Rosa Raney, and Francis Uzzell. Tenth grade: George Henry, Ben Lane, and Mary Adams. Eighth grade: Catherine Clark, Virginia Lea Harrison, Virginia • Ledbetter, Margaret Mclver, Lawrence Patten, Fred Patterson, Eliza Taylor, and Alta Mae Sinjms. In the junior high school the honor roll is as follows: First year: Elsie Lawrence, Edith Pickard, Tyal Mae Rey nolds, Mariana Taylor, Frances White, and Nathan Walker. Second year: Charlotte Cor bin, Betty Durham, Rena Henry, Elizabeth Raney, and Frederick Steiner. Mr. Chane to Speak Monday President Chase will make a talk at the chapel exercises Mon day morning. $1.50 a Year In Advance. sc. a Copy TOWN WILL HELP SUPPORT NURSE ■ ■ % Aldermen Vote te Pay Part of Salary in Interest of Public Health SCHOOL WILL COOPERATE * 1 At their meeting Monday night the board of aldermen vot ed tt> contribute $37.50 a month to the support of the negro nurse. The appropriation was conditioned upon the raising, by the negroes of the village, of last year’s deficit of $125 in the amount they had agreed to con tribute to the annual salary of the nurse. The meeting was attended by about a dozen Chapel Hill women active in community affairs, and they gave the board assurance that'.the negroes of the village would contribute $25 a month, and the Red Cross and the Tu berculosis Seal Fund $37.50 a month, toward the cost of main taining the nurse. All the mon ey is to be turned into the town treasury and is to be paid by the town to the nurse. She will * work under the direction of the health officer. * « In making the motion for the appropriation, Alderman R. D. W. Connor emphasized the fact that the public health work a mong the negroes benefited not only them but also the entire community. The white people are vitally concerned because they are served by negro cooks, nurses, and laundrywomen. A spirited discussion centered about the question as to the ex tent of the negro school’s coop eration with the nurse. Whether or not There has been cooperation in the past, the white members of the school committee, Messrs. Noble, Mclntosh, and Toy, say that there will surely be in the future. Among the women who came to the aldermen’s meeting were Mrs. Comer, Mrs. Toy, Mrs. Mac- Rae, Mrs. Carter, Mrs. J. E. Lear, Mrs. Leavitt, Mrs. Paulsen, Mrs. Cobb, Mrs. Ferson, and Miss Metcalf. Dr. S. A. Nathan, the health officer, made a report in which he said that the nurse had done excellent work among the ne groes and that the leading citi zens of the race in Chapel Hill had a high opinion of her ability and faithfulness. £ ■ —■ . Want Road Widened A large delegation of people of the Orange Church section went to Hillsboro Monday to pe tition the county commissioners to widen the road from Chapel Hill to Blackwood’s school house. Among the petitioners were M. C. Blackwood, Will Freeland, Alexander Freeland, George Johnston, David Burch, Henry Burch, Charlie Hogan, Lonnie Hogan, James Maddry, and*Dock Weaver. The commissioners a greed to widen the right of way, and the people of the section will do the surfacing. The work will begin at once and is expected to lie finished by the first of July. ■ f Critz George Married j Critz George, member of the faculty in the University’s med ical school, was married Satur day in Monroe to Miss Wilma Creehe. had not announc ed their engagement, and so the marriage came as a surprise to their friends in Chapel Hill. They will live with the Proutys on the Pittsboro-Pinehurst high way. . -i
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