Vd. 5. No. 13.
MAKE READY FOR
COMMENCEMENT
University Authorities and
Alumni Secretary Busy
With Preparations
UPPMANN IS THE SPEAKER
The University’s commence
ment will begin next Friday, one
week from today, with the sen
ior class day exercises in Ger
rard Hall, and will continue
through Saturday, Sunday, and
Monday.
Daniel L. Grant has made ar
rangements for the accommo
dation, in the buildings on the
campus, of hundreds of return
ing alumni. Many of these will
bring their families, and one
. building will be assigned to the
women and children. The class
es holding reunions are: 1888,
1889, 1890, 1897, 1907, 1908,
1909, ,1910, 1917, and 1926. Sat
urday is alumni day. There will
be a general luncTieon at mid
day, a baseball game with t\e
State College in the afternoon,
and at nightfall the various class
dinners. The President’s recep
tion to the alumni in the eve
ning will be followed by a ball.
Rev. William A. Jenkins, presi
dent of Davenport College, •de
livers the baccalaureate sermon
Sunday morning, and that after
noon there will be vesper ser
vices under the Davie Poplar.
The Glee Club will give a con
cert either in the afternoon or
the evening.
The graduating exercises will
take place in Memorial Hall
Monday morning, with Walter
Lippman, celebrated writer and
one of the editors of the New
York World, making the com
mencement address. After the
ceremonies President Chase will
be the host at a luncheon to
the University’s distinguished
guests at the Carolina Inn.
The visiting committee of the
trustees will hold a meeting at
four o’clock Friday afternoon,
and the full board meets Sat
urday.
O. C. T. S. Finals -
Negro Institution Has Commence
ment; Orations and Singing
Chapel Hill’s negro institu
tion, the Orange County Train
ing School, held its commence
ment exercises last Friday eve
ning. The white people who at
tended were impressed by the
simplicity and dignity of the
ceremony and the appreciative
attention of the large crowd.
After the congregation had
sung a hymn, Rev. John H.
Caldwell pronounced the invoca
tion. There were orations by
three members of the graduat
ing ciass, Elma Edwards, Jos
eph Riggsbee, and John A.
Snipes. The Glee Club sang
several songs. James Snipes’
solo and the male quartet’s
spirituals were particularly ap
pealing.
Rev. Eugene Olive delivered
the commencement address, and
M. C. S. Noble of the University
faculty presented the diplomas.
Several other members of the
faculty were present.
Twelve boys and girls gradu
ated. At the close of the exer
cises they received a great many
gifts.
Chaperone’s Closing Dance
The Chaperones will give their
last dance of the season at the
Country Club tomorrow (Satur
day) evening. Mr. McCorkle will
lead the German.
The Chapel HOI Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Chapel Hill Chaff
As we strolled along the street,
after attending the school cir
cus last Saturday evening,
George Coffin Taylor seemed
composed enough. But at the
corner by the Baptist church a
look of consternation spread
over his face. With faltering
voice he said: “I don’t remem
ber where I parked my car.” As
far as the eye could reach, in
all four directions, cars lined the
curbs, their black shapes melt
ing away in the distance. Mr.
Taylor WTinkled his brow and
thought, thought, thought. But
it was no use. His car might be
back in the school yard. It might
be anywhere on any one of half
a dozen streets. Or it might have
been left at home. Mrs. Taylor
had gone to the school ahead of
him and so could give no help.
The expression on her face, as
her husband pondered, was one
of mingled pity and resignation.
When last I saw them they were
walking slowly homeward.
* * *
It is strange how, as the years
glide past, a man remains so
unconscious of his alterations in
A
contour. When the silhouettist
who recently visited Chapel Hill
completed my likeness, pasted
the black outline on a piece of
white board, and held it out for
my inspection, I was astonished
to find that he had given me a
double chin. Not only astonish
ed, but indignant. At the first
opportunity I studied a mirror
carefully and learned with sor
row that the silhouettist was
right. I resolved at once to quit
eating so many starchy foods—
and kept on eating them/ A few
days later a haberdasher, when 1
asked for a belt, brought out a
thing that seemed to me, when
he stretched it out, to be about
long enough to go around the
center of a coca cola barrel. I
told him he was insulting me,
but the belt, fitted exactly. Last
Sunday morning, when I drop
ped in at Sutton & Alderman’s
drugstore, Mr. Sutton eyed me
thoughtfully and said: “We’re
going to have a beauty specialist
here tomorrow you’d better
come and get a treatment.” This
inspired another resolution on
diet; but that very night I was
consuming large slices of white
bread plentifully adorned with
butter, and potato salad with
mayonnaise dressing. I don’t see
any satisfactory way out of the
difficulty. '
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One of the agreeable features
of life in Chapel Hill is the pos
(Continued on page four)
Mrs. Roberson 81
Her Friends Spring a Surprise Party
on Her; Numerous Gifts
The three women’s circles of
the Baptist church gave Mrs. A.
B. Roberson a party Wednesday
in celebration of her 81 years.
Her birthday is June 4.
They sprang the party on her
as a surprise after she had been
summoned to the church to at
tend what she thought was a
routine meeting of her circle.
Scores of her friends were there,
and they heaped gifts upon her.
Somebody made a count of these
and found they numbered more
than 50. The principal decora
tion at the affair was a great
cake with lighted candles on it.
While Mrs. Roberson gazed at
the gifts in wonder the women
sang songs in her honor. After
an hour of jollity her two
daughters, Mrs. Charles T.
Woollen and Miss Nellie Rob
erson, took her home,
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, MAY 2% 1927
Complying with New Law, County
Will Issue Financial Statement
This year for the first time
the people of Orange county will
have presented to them an of
ficial statement, in understand
able form, showing the financial'
condition of their county govern
ment.
The new county gowKnment
law r , enacted by the redjku? legis
lature, requires all of
ment3 to present to the county
accountant not later than June 1
their budget estimates for the
ensuing year. The accountant,
combining these departmental
estimates, must submit /to the
commissioners not later than
the first Monday in July a bud
get estimate for the entire coun
ty, The amount to be expend
ed must be based on the coun
ty’s income.
After the budget estimate is
prepared it must be filed in the
office of the clerk of the board
of commissioners for public in
spection. The law further re
quires that a copy be given to
every newspaper published in
the county.
It has long been knowm to all
students of government that the
affairs of counties have been
grievously mismanaged. And
Orange has been no exception to
the rule.
No man who attends the meet
ings of the county commission
ers can fail to realize what a
farce the present system is.
With around a quarter of a mil
lion dollars of revenue to be
handled every year, the methods
employed are so imperfect thal,
waste is inevitable.
Three commissioners get to
gether once a month. Bills that
have been piling up since the last
meeting are shoved at them,
and they have to pass upon
these bills with the most meagre
knowledge—sometimes with no
knowledge at all—of the ser
vices and materials for which
they expend the taxpayer’s
money. /V
It is obvious that any concern
with so much money to atiminis-
Riding to New York
Hall to Make the Trip on Horseback;
Passes throuKh Here
J. B. Hall, who used to con
duct a newspaiter in Sanford,
came into Chapel Hill on horse
back Wednesday morning. Hav
ing been in North Carolina re
cently to clear up his affairs, he
is now riding to his home in
New York state.
Many years ago Mr. Hall was
an active horseman, but of late
he has not ridden much. So he
is taking it easy at first with
the hope of making longer
stages later.
“I have got a good little bay
mare,” he said when he dropped
in at the Weekly office, “and I
expect to get through with the
trip all right. I figure I will
spend about five weeks on the
way."
When he went out of the office
he was bound for Mr. Fisher’s
riding club, where he hoped to
get food and shelter for his
steed. But he come in two or
three hours later and said the
storm had overtaken him, and
he had turned in under a shed
near fire headquarters and
found there somebody who of
fered to supply him with horse
feed.
Poppy Sale Be(rina Today
The annual Poppy Sale of the
American Legion will be held Friday
and Saturday of thia week before
the pest-office.
ter ought to have some man
steadily on the job. Such a safe
guard is omitted on the ground
of “economy,” but the probabil
ity is that the commissioners,
meeting once a month, and the
rest of the time occupied about
their own affairs, waste more of
the public money through un
businesslike procedure than they
would have to pay to a compe
tent man to look after the
| routine county affairs.
Here is one recent example:
A young man was arrested for
stealing a few months ago.
! While he was under bond, await
ing trial, he was injured in an
automobile accident. An exami
nation at the hospital disclosed
that he had an active case of
syphilis. After he had come out
of the hospital he was sentenced
to the roads and joined the band
of convicts.
j Here he was in such close
I contact with other men that
there was danger of his com
municating to them the disease.
There is now a recognized cure
for syphilis known to all physi
cians. It consists of injections
of a serum commonly known as
“606”. Any competent physi
cian is capable of administering
the treatment.
The Orange county road
superintendent came before the
county commissioners and said
that the county physician would
not give the convict the treat
ment. Upon this representation
the convict was taken to a phy
sician outside the county, and a
charge of $l5O for the series of
injections was presented to the
county. The commissioners ap
proved the bill, and the item ap
pears in the latest published list
of expenditures.
This amount of $l5O is what
a physician asks from a well-to
do patient for such treatment.
Such a charge is probably justi
fied in view of the prevalent
practice of physicians in adjust
ing their charges to the financial
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Warren to Box
Will Meet “Charlotte Strongboy” in
Durham Next Monday Evening
Ad Warren, the leading ath
lete in the University and the
national junior heavyweight
champion of the United States,
will meet Len Hoffman in a box
ing bout in the city auditorium,
Durham, next Monday evening.
This will be the last of five
bouts held under the auspices of
the Durham post of the Ameri
can Legion.
Hoffman is described on the
program as “the Charlotte
strong boy, a fast rugged heavy
weight, who can stand with the
best of them.” His weight is
given as 185 pounds, while War
ren’s is given as 175. The pro
gram says that Warren is “the
pugilistic pride of North Caro
lina. . . . has defeated men who
are high in professional circles
. ... is a tiger in the ring.”
The evening’s entertainment
begins with a four-round match
between Irish Tom Gallagher of
Durham and Tommy Fagan of
Raleigh, both lightweights.
They / are foHowed by two
negroes, Kid Kemp Horton and
Thomas Hayes. Eddie Ccriiins
of Fort Bragg meets Johnny
Dixon of Raleigh. And the
semi-final bout is between Tres
co Johnson and Mike Devero.
Tickets may be purchased
from E. K. Powe, Jr., in Dur
ham. -7
Hints for Trustees
No citizen is so lowly in this
land of the free that he doesn’t
feel qualified to tell the notables
how to do their work.
Here are the University trus
tees about to meet in Chanel
Hill, and I am moved to make
certain suggestions to them.
First, let them give a name to
the woman’s building. Every
body in the village has been
wondering why they haven’t
done this long ago. And it
seems to be generally argued
that no other name than Spencer
deserves serious consideration.
Why not put names on the
University buildings? Many
strangers going through the
campus would like to be able to
identify them. And it is not a
mere matter of satisfying curi
osity. • Often a person in search
of a professor or a student is di
rected to Phillips hall, or to
South, or to Steele, or to some
other, and they ought to be
marked so he could find them
easily.
Then, wouldn’t it be a good
idea to place the date, 1793, in
iron or bronze on the Old East?
And perhaps the dates of origin
on other of the older structures?
I hope that, since it is out of
the question to get rid of Mem
orial Hall, the trustees will give
their sanction to the plan to im
prove the exterior of it by the
elimination of the freakish little
gables and the unsightly porch
and shed in front. And it will
be a good thing if the slope that
used to be in the floor is restored,
so that the audience may have
a fair view of the platform.
Ice Cream a I Fresco
Large Helpin’s Will Be Served on the
Church l.awn This Evening
There’s going to be a big ice
cream party on the lawn of the
Methodist church this (Friday)
evening from 6 to 9:30 o’clock.
It is a benefit, the object of
which is to raise a fund to send
the president of the Chapel Hill
branch to the Epworth League
to the Blue Ridge conference
this summer.
It promises to be a gay spec
tacle as well as satisfying to the
appetite. Japanese lanterns will
be strung about, an orchestra
will play sprightly tunes, and
the Y. M. C. A. quartet will
sing.
The young man who told the
editor about this entertainment
said: “Let everybody know
we’re going to serve extra big
helpin’s.” So this information
is passed on to the inhabitants
of Chapel Hill with the under
standing that the Melhodist
community stands as guarantor
to the young man’s promises.
The editor does not happen to
know who are the officers of the
Epworth League, but he sug
gests that anybody who does not
get what he considers an ample
portion of ice cream approach
the head caterer and threaten
to make a complaint to Clyde
Eubanks, or H. M. Wagstaff, or
L. R. Wilson, or H. W. Odum or
some other person high in the
church councils.
In addition to selling ice cream
on the lawn the managers of
the enterprise offer to supply it
to boarding house keepers and
other householders at a special
price. They can send for it any
time after 5 o’clock.
CoatmuhUy Club to Meet
•The Community Club meet* in the
Pariah house of the Episcopal church
thia (Friday) afternoon at 3:80. The
delegatee to the meeting of the State
Ftoieration .will make their report.
$1.50 a Year in Advance. sc. a Copy
COURT ASKED TO
STOP TAX SALES
Judge Issues Temporary Order
And will Hear Fur
ther Argument
THE SHERIFF DEFENDANT
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Roberson, Whitfield and
Phipps, as attorneys for the
Chapel Hill Insurance & Realty
Co., have started a proceeding to
enjoin the sheriff of Orange
county from advertising land
for sale because of the non-pay
ment of 1926 taxes.
Judge Midgette signed a tem
porary restraining order Tues
day. This prevented Sheriff
Lloyd from carrying Out his in
tention to publish the advertise
ments tnis week. The judge will
hear arguments in Graham next
Friday, June 3, to determine
whether to issue a permanent
injunction.
Although the nominal plaintiff
in the case is the Chapel Hill In
surance & Realty Company, the
decision to bring the suit came
as the result of consultation
with many taxpayers.
In Chapel Hill township alone
there are 456 citizens whose
property was about to be adver
tised when the restraining order
was issued. How great the
number is in the entire county
is not known, but it is thought
to be probably between 1500 and
2,000.
This suit of the Chapel Hill
attorneys is similar to those
which have been brought in oth
er counties in North Carolina.
Thfj new law to enforce the im
mediate payment of taxes has
caused protests all over the
state. A prevalent opinion
seems to be that it was sprung
upon the state too suddenly—
that delinquent taxpayers should
be given a little more time to ob
tain the necessary funds to
square themselves with the
sheriff.
In this, as in other counties,
the law governing the settle
ment of taxes has not been
strictly observed. It has been
the custom to postixme tax sales
for six months, a year, or often
a still longer time, after the
specified time. The measure
put through the 1927 legislature
bears hard on many persons who
owe taxes for two or three years
back. They are hoping the
courts will come to their relief.
Playmakers’ Caper
A Jolly Entertainment Will Take
Place in Theatre Tomorrow Night
The Carolina Playmakers, reviving
a custom of a few years ago, will
give a Caper in their theatre tomor
row (Saturday) evening at 7:30.
This is a sort of family party, for
the troupe itself, but everybody who
has had anything to do with the or
ganization,—as director, as scene
shifter, or what-not—is invited.
The show will be followed by the
presentation of emblems (Playmaker
masks) to the students who have
earned this distinction. After this
comes a dance; and refreshments will
be served.
Among those who are making ar
rangements for the Caper are Archi
bald Henderson, Hubert Heffner, F.
H. Koch, F. G. Haronian, U. T.
Holmes, P. L. Elmore, Bill Atlee, Eral
Thompson, Charles Norfleet, Bill
Perry, J. Z. Banner, Sheppard Strud
wick, J. M. Booker, and Misses Jose
phine Sharkey, Anne Darling, and
Marilee Shaw.
Coal Pricea May Rise
J. S. Bennett said yesterday that
a strike might aend up the price of
coal, and that it—would be prudent
tor householders to lay in a supply.