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Vol. 10. No. 45 RATE EARNED ON BUILDING & LOAN STOCK WAS 7.02% Report of W. O. Sparrow, Sec retary, Shows That Associ ation Is in Sound Shape SERIES MATURES FEB. IST The return on shares of the Orange County Building and Loan Association in 1932 was 7.02 per cent. This fact was ' announced to the stockholders at their annual meeting last Fri day evening in the Bank of Chapel Hill. Since the shares are tax-free, the return of the 7.02 per cent was net. The shares in the series of October 1, 1926, will mature next Wednesday, February 1. By that time they may have earned a small premium over the face value of SIOO each; if so, of course the holder will receive this premium. Since its organization in 1920 the association has made mort gage loans to a total of $792,500 for the construction or improve ment of 224 homes. Most of these homes are within the lim its of Chapel Hill; a few are in the outskirts and the nearby country. Total installments paid in since 1920 amounts to $722,- 808.50, and profits paid on ma tured shares in this period amount to $66,955.07. ,J. T. Dobbins was chairman of the stockholders’ meeting and Bonner Sawyer was secretary. W. () Sparrow, secretary of the Association, presented the bal ance 1 sheet, the income and ex (Cnntinniil on page thro ) Keen Interest in Opera Leoncavallo’s “Paxliacci” Will He Shown on Screen Here Monday Letters have come to E. C. Smith, manager of the Carolina theatre, from people in Raleigh, Greensboro, and other places who say they are coming to Chapel Hill Monday to see and hear the opera, “Pagliacci.” This production has not been I in North Carolina before exceptj once—at a musical festival in j Asheville last summer. In the cities of the North it has drawn: I great crowds. “In New York and elsewhere tickets to ‘Pag-! liacci’ have sold for $1.50 and sometimes more,” said Mr. J Smith yesterday, “but it will be given here Monday at the reg ular prices, 80 cents in the after noon and 85 cents in the evening. The screen version of Leonca vallo’s opera was made unjler the direction of Fortune Gallo, di rector of the San Carlo Grand Opera Company. The leading roles are sung by Bertini, Alba Novella, Interrante, Curci, and Mario Valle. The members of the chorus of 100 and the or chestra of 64 were selected from the Metropolitan Opera Com pany, the New York Philharmon ic, and the San Carlo company. Steel Tower on Campus A steel tower that seems to be about 100 feet high has been erected, as a temporary struc ture, on the campus between the South building and the library. It is used by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in connection with a triangular sys tem of mapping. One tower is at Duke University and the oth «er near Hillsboro. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOt IS CRAVES Editor Supporters of rMuention to Hold M ass Meeting in ltaleigh Tuesday In response to a call from a group of the state’s leading citi zens, men and women from all over North Carolina who are in terested in protecting education will go to Raleigh for a mass meeting at 2:30 next Tuesday j afternoon in the City Auditor -1 ium. This project was inspired by the proposal made to the legis lature by the state budget bu reau, for ruinous reductions in the appropriations for the schools and colleges, and by the apparent intention, on the part of many of the legislative lead ; ers, to base the appropriations ; upon this proposal. The budget bureau’s recom mendations, if carried through, ! would impose upon public school , teachers and school officers a | further salary reduction in ad j dition to the 10 per cent reduc tion made two years ago; would reduce the appropriations to the University and other institu tions to little more than half of the amounts voted by the 1931 legislature; and would com pel the abandonment of some of the most important activities of both the schools and the high er institutions. Enlightened opinion in North Carolina is rising against the assault upon education. The M rs. Hibbard Here She Sleeps Late, Strolls about the tillage, and Takes Pictures Mrs. Addison Hibbard, who left here to live in Evanston, Illi nois, three years ago, read the other day about the winter hon eysuckle and the japonica and the jasmine abloom in Chapel Hill, and the bees abuzz, and the sunshine and the balmy air. ’Phis aroused within her a great yearning. Bo great, indeed, that it was uncontrollable. And here she is, at the Carolina Inn, for a two weeks’ visit. Besides enjoying the spring flowers and the spring weather, one of her objectives was to sleep late in the morning. With her husband and the four children left in Illinois, this is not diffi cult. She came in Wednesday eve ning. After a long sleep and a leisurely breakfast and a chat with Mrs. Martin yesterday morning, she strolled out and found the weather matching the boasts in the Weekly. She called on Mrs. Toy; and sauntered down the main street and ex changed greetings with Mr. Ho gan and other commercial mag nates; and went to the South building and dropped in on Mrs. Sally Taylor Ray and Miss Mary Cobb and Miss Daisy Ross; and wandered on down through the Arboretum and surprised friends in the neighborhood of her former home on Senlac road. She has a kodak, and one of her pastimes will be to take pho tographs to carry back to John and Peggy and Jean, of the boys and girls who used to be their playmates. To Talk about Power W. S. Lee of the Duke Power Company and Ernest Gruening, one of the editors of the Nation, will speak at 8 o’clock next Thursday evening in Gerrard hall in the series of open forum meetings arranged by a Univer sity students’ organization. They will talk about power. CHAPEL HILL, N. C.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 27. 1933 adversaries of the slashing pol icy do not take the position, of course, that the schools and col leges should bear none of the brunt of the financial depres sion; they realize that all pub lic services have to suffer, but they demand that education shall not be made to shoulder an excessive share of the bur den. ; Chapel Hill is expected to send a large delegation to the mass meeting in Raleigh. Any body who has a car in which people may be taken to Raleigh, and anybody who has not a car and wants to go, is asked to com i municate with C. E. Mclntosh ' (telephone 4701). I At the meeting of the newly organized Chapel Hill Parent- Teacher Association Tuesday evening, Clarence Heer reviewed the condition of the state’s fi nances and the budget bureau’s proposals looking to a curtail ment of the educational pro gram. Under the budget bureau’s plan, two and a half million dol lars would be lopped off the ap propriations for the public schools, and most of this reduc tion would fall upon the salaries of teachers and administrative officers. The University would (C ntinned p.tge five) Planes Land Here \nil I M. Tull Elies to Air Tourne> in Miami, Florida Three airplanes from afar have landed at the Chapel Hill airport within the last week. Two came in Saturday from New York, one piloted by Rausch and the other by Roy Ennis. John I). Kratzer of Pennsyl vania came in Monday with a passenger, Miss Rachel Page. I. M. Tull, director general of the airport and Chapel Hill’s on ly resident aviator, attended the Florida air tourney last week. He flew from here to Miami in seven hours and 35 minutes. While he was in Florida he saw Miss Christine Lantz, his here last year, make her first solo flight. Storm Interferes with Hogan-Butler Goose Hunt The air was so still and balmy that Milton E. Hogan and George P. Butler, on the boat that plies between Atlantic and Ocracoke Island, sat out upon the deck. As they smoked and chatted they gazed over the placid wat ers of Pamlico Sound and con gratulated themselves upon the fine weather they were going to have for hunting wild geese. When the boat stopped at Portsmouth they disembarked,! got into a launch that had been ] sent to meet them, and were tak en to a hunting lodge on an is land in the sound. In a little while they were en sconced in a stake blind; that is, j a little box mounted on four, stakes that stuck up out of the ( water. With their guns in hand and with an abundant array of j decoys, they were ready for the ( geese. Os a sudden a cloud j blotted out the sun; other clouds came hurrying to join it, and presently the skies were hidden behind one solid cloud, growing thicker and darker every min ute. A breeze sprang up and grew into a wind. The water, recently so smooth and quiet, foamed and churned. The hunters had to go back to Chapel Hill Chaff “Among the strange maladies that afflict mankind are aritho mania—the uncontrollable de sire to count things; batopho ; bia—the constant fear that something will fall on you; and ergophobia—the morbid fear or hatred of work.” This information comes in the form of a clipping sept by some person unknown to me. Beneath the clipping, which is pasted on a sheet of white pap er,. is written this message: I “You may have ergophobia.” I do not recognize the handwrit ing', but from th* 1 fact that the envelope bears the postmark, ■'Washington Bridge Station, New York.” which is near New Fork University. I suspect either Oliver Towles or Thorn dike Saville. Well, whoever he is, his surmise is correct. * * # Some of the friends of Mrs. ;.T. J. Wilson, Jr., were robbed of a delicious dinner one eve ning last week. It came about ;this way: T. F. Hickerson, John Watson, j and Tom Noe were going in j Mr. Watson’s car to the conven j tion of the American Society of Civil Engineers in New York. Mr. Hickerson telephoned to Mrs. Wilson. “Come along with us," he said. “It’s a good chance for you to \ isit your grandson.” “I can’t possibly do it,” she said. ‘‘l’ve got guests coming in to dinner this evening.” j But after she had hung up 1 the receiver she had a second I thought about the trip to New York, and a third thought, and many more, all in the course of a few minutes. The result of all this serious thinking was that she called Mr. Hickerson and told him she had changed her mind. The importance of feasting her friends had dimin <Continued on hint page) Store Aids Loan Fund The Stetson “D” store sent President Graham Wednesday a check for $125.28 for the stu dent loan fund. This was in accordance with the offer the store had made to contribute to the fund 5 per cent of its sales. camp without getting a shot. Never mind, they told one an other, they would have their fun tomorrow. But tomorrow was Friday the 13th, and when they awoke and looked out of the window of the lodge they saw a storm that made Thurs day’s look like a zephyr. The wind howled, the rain poured, and Pamlico Sound raged like an angry beast. Mr. Hogan and Mr. Butler sat and smoked and played solitaire. Now and then they would arise and walk up and down the floor, and look out upon the storm, and then they would sit and smoke and play solitaire some , more. It was a long, long day. ( But what could you expect? It was not only Friday the 13th, I but the number of persons at the lodge was 13. | Saturday was better; not per fect by any means, but better. They installed themselves once more in a blind. Several flocks of geese and duck were accom odating enough to come near, and each of the hunters brought down a few. Mr. Hogan gave the directors of, the bank a goose j and-duck dinner on the follow ing Tuesday evening. The Government Denies Recognition to Wright And to North Carolina For First Plane Flight o “Scientific Clique” Has Done Injustice to In ventor and Is Responsible for Fact That Aviation’s Most Precious Relic Now Rests in a Museum in England _o ■ Unless secret influences in Washington are exposed and their decisions upset, a permanent injustice will be inflicted upon the state of North Carolina and upon Orville Wright, who with his brother Wilbur invented the first heavier-than-air flying machine. The Wright airplane made its initial flight, with Orville aboard, at Kitty Hawk, N. ('.. December 17, 1903. This fact is not in doubt. It is commemorated at Kitty Hawk by a giant monument dedicated last year, for which Congress appropriated $250,000. A et the W rights are to be deprived of the credit for their achieve ment. and North Carolina history is to be falsified, if the acts of the Washington "scientific clique” are allowed to stand longer un challenged. The official records of scientific developments kept by the l nited States Government are in care of the National Museum under the direction of the nationally chartered Smithsonian In stitution. These records not only fail to credit the Wrights with the original flight, but are so phrased that the first flight in a heavier-than-air machine is attributed to Professor S. P. Langley, late secretary of the Institution. Repeated efforts have been made to force a correction, in vain. Those who are behind the Smith sonian management have stood by the error, despite the informed opinion of the world. What difference does this make, someone may inquire, since the world knows and histories have declared that tin* first flight was made by the Wright machine.in North Carolina? Just this difference: The National Museum is the place where historians hereafter—the H. (!. Wellses of the future—must get their offieial scientific data sponsored by the United States Gov ernment. It is the only final snarer of sack information. Cur rent histories, many of which have given due credit to the Wrights, will go out of print, turn to dust, but the Smithsonian records will t ndure indefinitely. It is the duty of the Senators and Congressmen from North Hearing Next Week Mr. Crahum to Present l niversity’s Case to Legislatee Committee The hearing for the Univer sity before the appropriations committee of the legislature has been set for next Wednesday, February 1. President Graham, who has been ordered by his physician to remain at home until that day, will present to the committee a thorough analysis of the Uni versity’s situation and will ap peal for a revision upward of the figure ($390,000) recommended by the budget bureau as the maintenance fund for next year. Since the budget bureau’s re port came out there have been rumors from Raleigh of still other designs against the Uni versity. Certain legislators are said to be planning to propose the abolition of some of the di visions of the institution among them the medical school —and the reduction in the num ber of professors in the higher ranks. On the same day that Mr. Graham appears before the com mittee, Julius I. Foust and E. C. Brooks will appear to speak for the N. C. C. W. in Greensboro and the State College in Raleigh. The budget bureau has recom mended that their appropria tions be cut to about the same extent as the University’s. Fire at Murchison Home Clothing which Mrs. C. T. Murchison was cleaning with gasoline, in the garage in the basement of her home, took fire Monday afternoon. Several gar ments w’ere destroyed, but Mrs. Murchison escaped without in jury. The fire company respond ed promptly to a call and extin guished the blaze. A large crowd gathered. $1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy Carolina to see that the error is corroded and the persons re sponsible for it forced to recog nize the truth, which they have suppressed all these years. The most spectacular result of the mis-statements is the fact that the original Wright air plane, the most valuable single relic of aviation in America, now reposes in the South Kensing ton Museum of London. If Or ville Wright dies before the in justice to himself and his broth er is officially ended, the histor ic exhibit will remain in Eng land forever. It is not a complicated story— this monster injustice of the century. Professor Langley, a pioneer in the study of aviation, whose discoveries as far as they went have received all praise from the Wrights, attempted to fly his machine and fell into the Potomac River near Washing ton. His second effort and the plane’s final collapse in the river was on December 8, 1903, nine (Continued on next page) No Vice-President Yet Election of Officer for the '” v ' Postponed by Trustees' At their meeting Tuesday , Raleigh the trustees voted to postpone the election of a vice president of the Chapel Hill unit of the Greater University. The meeting was held in the Govern or’s office, and he presided. A special committee had rec ommended the election of Louis R. Wilson, now in Chicago. The general supposition is that the trustees' reason for not proceed ing 'with the election was the University’s desperate financial situation. The board authorized President Graham to make tem porary provision for the assis tance that the vice-president was to render him.
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