North Carolina Newspapers

Vol. 11. No. 11. CHANGES MADE IN TRUSTEE LIST BY THE LEGISLATURE Two Houses in Joint Session Decide to Place Former Governors on Board COMMITTEE GETS REBUKE The two houses of the legisla ture, in joint session Tuesday, made several changes in the list of University trftetees submitted by their committee three weeks ago. This action was in the na ture of a rebuke to the commit tee, whose selections had been severely criticized. Cameron Morrison and O. Max Gardner, former Governors, who had been omitted from the com mittee’s list, were elected to the board. Morrison replaced W. Lunsford Long at Long’s re quest, and Gardner replaced R. Grady Johnson at Johnson’s re quest. The legislature has frequent ly been censured for electing its nwn members to the board, and Representative Scarborough made a motion to exclude all nominees who were members of the 1933 legislature. This mo tion was defeated. William T. Hannah was sub stituted for Senator Francis. “I think there are too many mem- of the General Assembly on the list,” said Francis in propos ing Hannah. Junius D. Grimes supplants B. B. Everett, brother of Repre sentative R. O. Everett, chair man of the lower house’s nomi nating committee. An effort to put George Stephens on the board instead of R. 0. Everett was unsuccessful. Grady Rankin asked that Ar thur Dixon be chosen in his place, and this was agreed to. Capus Waynick declined a nomi * nation and withdrew in favor of John W. Clark. Mrs. Annie Moore Cherry and W. D. Fau cette were nominatedjupon the withdrawal of '"Mrs. Thomas O’Berry and W. Kerr Scott. Senator Bailey’s proposal that W. R. Hampton be substituted for Josephus Daniels was dis approved. Bailey gave as his reason for the proposal that Daniels would be in Mexico for a long time. Eight members of the pres ent legislature were elected to the board: Senators Hayden Clement, C. C. Efird, John D. Beatty, and John W. Aiken, and Representatives R. O. Everett, R. L. Harris (speaker of the house), Mrs. Lily C. Mebane, and Harriss Newman. Sermon by Bishop Penirk Bishop Edward A. Penick of the Episcopal church will preach the bac calaureate sermon Sunday, June 4, in Memorial hall. Request for Modification of the Zoning Law There will be a public hearing before the Advisory Zoning Committee at 2:30 Monday af ternoon (April 15), at the Town Hall on the question of altering the former Acacia house, at Franklin and Boundary streets, so that it will consist of three apartments, two of three rooms and one of four rooms. This used to be the Hendon house. It was bought a few years ago by the Acacia (Masonic) frater nity, and was bought from the Acacia by J. Obie Harmon, T. E. Hinson, and G. L. Donnelly,. It is now occupied by the Chi Omega sorority. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Amendment to Law Gives People Here the Right to Vote Taxes To Maintain Quality of School It appears now that North Carolina’s school machinery bill is going to be so amended that the Chapel Hill school need not be wrecked. In the form passed by the senate, the bill contained a pro*- vision that only communities with a school attendance of 2,000 could hold elections to de termine whether or not they should tax themselves for “sup plements” (that is, for teach ers’ salaries above the state lev el and for various improved fa cilities). This would have rob bed Chapel Hill of autonomy, since the attendance here is less than 2,000. The house has changed the 2.000 t<* 1,000, and it is hoped that this amendment will be embraced in the bill that becomes law. The house also amended the bill to permit a 9-months term in any community where the majority of the people voted for University Pay 1933 Salaries 22.66?: under 1930'5; 32% Cut after July Ist. For the month of April the professors and other employees of the University received 57.38 per cent of their salaries of three years ago. That .is a cut of 42.62 per cent. However, the cut for the entire year does not reach that figure, because the salaries were at not so low' a level in the earl ier months. The fiscal year began July 1. For the five months through No vember the salaries were at 90 per cent of the 1930 level. Then 15 per cent came off the 90 per cent, and that brought the per centage of the 1930 level to 7G. 50. This continued for the four months through March 31. Then 25' per cent was taken off, and that brought the percentage down to 57.38. If the salaries for May and June are the same as they w r ere for April, the reduction for the entire year of 1932-1933 will be 22.66 per cent. The appropriation for the next two years provides for a cut of 32 per cent from the 1930 level, effective July 1. Thus 1930 salaries will he cut as fol lows: a $1,200 salary to $Bl6, a $2,400 salary to $1,632, a $3,- 600 salary to $2,448. New Mayor Sworn in John Foushee, Chapel Hill’s new mayor, was sworn into of fice at the meeting of the board of Aldermen Wednesday eve ning. The three aldermen elect ed to succeed themselves, M. E. Hogan, Clyde Eubanks, and J. T. Dobbins, were also sworn in. Chapel Hill's zoning ordinance forbids apartment houses in the residence zone at the east end of the village, but it contains a pro vision that an advisory commit tee shall consider requests for modifications and that the hoard of aldermen, upon the advice of the committee, may grant such requests. Ail persons interested in the matter are expected to appear at the hearing and state their opin ions. If the alterations are permit ted, Mr. and Mrs. Donnelly are to occupy one of the apart ments. CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1933 it. The senate had prohibited any local modification of the law' establishing a state-wide 8-months term. The passage by the house of several important amendments Ihrew the bill back on its first roll call reading and will prob ably prevent the legislature from adjourning this week. If it is ruled that the amendments are material, the measure will require three days for senate concurrence. It may he that it will be forced into conference: in that event, a greater delay is in prospect. Under the hill as passed by the senate the Chapel Hill school would suffer the loss of about $17,000 that now comes from local taxation. The term would he reduced from 9 months to 8 months; the teachers’ pay would he subjected to further drastic cuts; and important services would have to be abandoned. Clinic Next Tuesday Children Who Are to Enter School Next Fall Will Be Examined A clinic for the examination of all children who are to enter school next fall will be held from 9 to 12 o’clock next Tuesday morning in the school building. It has been arranged by the Parent Teachers’ Association. Many children are seriously handicapped during the first years of school because of minor physical defects which if discov ered in time can be corrected. Other children lose weeks of school time because they have not been protected by vaccina tion against smallpox, diph theria and typhoid. The law re quires that all children he vac cinated against smallpox before entering school. Parents of children who have not been protected should have them vaccinated as soon as pos sible. This clinic, for which there is no charge to the parents, will be conducted by Dr. A. M. Bcßride, Dr. Jean Craven, and other phy sicians from Duke hospital. The dental examinations will he made by Dr. Clark and Dr. Jones of Chapel Hill. Parents are urged to cooper ate by bringing their children to this clinic and following out the suggestions offered by the doctors. Three Graduates of 1883 The class of 1883 in the Uni versity is to hold its 50-year re union at commencement next month. Only three graduates are living: H. H. Williams of Chapel Hill, Numa F. Heitman of Kansas City, and J. Frank Wilkes of Charlotte. Fifteen other members of the class sur vive, but these did not complete their courses and receive de grees. Carolina Meets Duke Tomorrow The University of North Caro lina will meet Duke University in both baseball and track tomor row (Saturday) at Duke. Club Dance Tomorrow Evening There will be a dance at the Coun try Club from 9 to 12 tomorrow (Saturday) evening. The hostesses are Mrs. Foushee, Mrs. Bagby, Mrs. Burlage, Mrs. Baity, and Mrs. Saun ders. Dr. and Mra. L. H. Webb of Mus kogee, Olda., are here with Dr. Webb’s mother, Mrs. J. D. Webb. Slump in Beer Sales Demand for Beverage Declines Now That Novelty Has Worn. Off With the wearing off of the novelty of beer, sales of the beverage went into a big slump this week. But this does not seem to distress the sellers. “We take the falling off as a matter of course," said Charles Gooch last night. “We knew that the excited demand of the first few days was abndrmal. The sales are holding up fully as well as we expected. Here in our place we are selling about 25 gallons of draft beer a day. Bottled beer is in much less de mand: we sell only about a crate of that a day.” There is beer on draught at three places in the village now —Gooch’s, Sutton’s and the Smoke Shop. Harry Stern of the Carolina Grill says he ex peots to have his draught equip ment installed within the next two or three days. The price by the glass is 10 cents. It is agreed by all the purveyors that the price of 20 cents a bottle is a powerful dis couragement to the consumption of bottled beer. “Before long." said Mr. Stern yesterday, “I am going to put a small-sized bottle, holding 12 ounces, on sale at 10 cents.” A shipment of 20 half-barrels (the ISCjj-KaUon size) came to Gooch’s Monday by motor ex press from Esslinger’s brewery in Philadelphia. “These are the things I’m having a hard time getting,” said Mr. Gooch as he dived un der the counter and came up with a handful of pretzels. “I ordered ten boxes from the Na tional Biscuit Company, and they sent me two. I’ve been hav ing to buy pretzels at retail to keep from running out.” Portrait Exhibit Today Crayon portraits of University faculty members and students, drawn by pupils of James A. McLean, will he exhibited from 4 to 6 o’clock this (Friday) af ternoon in room 10, Hill Music hall. Anybody who would like to see them will he welcome. Tea will he served. With the portraits will he ex hibited pictures done by mem bers of Mr. McLean's class at the Chester Springs school, the summer school of the Pennsyl vania Academy of Fine Arts. Mr. McLean, who lives in Raleigh, has been conducting a class in Chapel Hill twice a week this year. It is made up of Uni versity students, members of the faculty, and other citizens of Chapel Hill. The Beards’ New Home Mr. and Mrs. Grover Beard are building a home on their hill overlooking the Durham road, a few hundred yards be yond the limits of the village. H. D. Carter made the plans, and Brodie Thompson is the contractor. The house is to he of two stories, with stuccoed walls. I.Aut Day of Art Exhibition Today (Friday) is the last day of the exhibition of the North Carolina Professional Artists’ Club in the Hill Music hall. The pictures will be taken to Winston-Salem for display Tuesday and Wednesday in the Rob ert E, Lee hotel. At the request of the University Consolidated Service Plants, the portrait by Mrs. Ruth Huntington Moore will be on view in the U. C. S. P. window on Mother’s Day. Advance in Prices Will Be a Misfortune to the Chapel Hill Community Chapel Hill Chaff On their way to visit Presi dent and Mrs. Graham a few' ■o days ago Mr. and Mrs. John Nal bro’ Frazier stopped over with some friends in Virginia. The ten-year-old boy of the house hold, coming upon Mrs. Frazier in the garden, lamented the dif ficulty of his history lesson. They were requiring him to learn dates, he said, and he couldn’t remember dates. He mentioned Abraham and Soc rates as the leading threats to his peace of mind, and there were others Solomon, Cyrus, Xenophon, Alexander. The guest sympathized with him. “I don’t know dates at all,” she said, “and I’m on my way to visit the President of the Uni versity of North Carolina. It will make me ashamed of myself if he asks me questions.” The hoy forgot about his own troubles in his concern about the impending humiliation of Mrs. Frazier in Chapel Hill. “You’d better learn,” he said. A little while later he came to her with a paper upon which he had written a long list of dates, beginning with Abraham. Ami he rehearsed her diligently. So she was well stuffed with ancient chronology when she ar rived here. It turned out, how ever, that she was not called up on to display her knowledge, since the conversation at the President’s House, when it left (Continued on last page) This Is Senior Week Members of Graduating Class Hold ing Their Annual Celebration This is Senior Week in the University. The members of the graduating class are going about the campus and the village in distinctive sweaters. The week’s activities began w'ith a meeting of the class Mon day evening. At the vesper ser vices, held at dusk Tuesday, H. H. Williams made a brief ad dress. Later in the evening the seniors were entertained by E. C. Smith at the Carolina theatre. The election of permanent class officers took place after the vesper services in Gerrard hall Wednesday evening. There were meetings of several commence ment committees Thursday. The first of the set of three senior-junior dances, the Junior Prom, will he given this (Fri day) evening in the Tin Can; the tea dance will he given to morrow afternoon and the Senior Ball tomorrow evening. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Forest Theatre Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will he present ed by the Carolina Playmakers next Friday and Saturday eve nings, May 19 and 20, in the Forest Theatre (Battle Park). The production is to be on an elaborate scale. Frederick H. Koch is the director. Samuel Selden is superintending the construction of the scenery de signed by Mary Dirnberger; it will stretch across the entire stage, 100 feet. Phoebe Barr has trained the dancers. Jane Knight will appear as Titania, Queen of the Fairies, Bobby Koch as Oberon, King of the Fairies, and Julia Booker as $1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy University People, Their Pay Severely Cut, Now Face In crease in Cost of Living An advance in commodity prices is one of the main ob jectives of the New Deal in Washington. The merchants and manufac turers want it. The farmers want it. The hankers want it. The speculators want it. Every body engaged in business wants it. The President of the United States, the politicians high and low, the economists, the news paper editorial writers, all de clare it to he essential to recov ery from the great financial de pression. But Chapel Hill has no cause to join in the hosannas at the approach of the advance in com modity prices. It will be a ca lamity to this community. Most of the income of the people here is in the form of salaries, and the family that lives by a salary is out of luck when bread, but ter, milk, eggs, meat, clothing, and the other necessities of life Ko up. One often hears it said that a rise in prices is hard on the “fixed income class.” It is had enough on that class, hut it is particularly hard on the Uni versity employees because their income has proved not to be “fixed.” It has been revised downward first by the legisla ture and then by the state bud get commission. In this pres ent fiscal year of 1932-33 their pay is 22.6 per cent down, as compared with the 1930 level; and, as a result of the action of this year’s legislature, the cut will amount to 32 per cent for the two years beginning July 1. Already there has been some advance in prices, and they are expected to go higher. If they do, there will he a general im provement in business. An im provement in business is sup posed to swell the public rev enues and therefore to lift the pay level of public servants, but experience "has shown that the raising of salaries lags behind, and usually far behind, the pick up in industry and trade. If the pick-up comes, and even if it meets the highest hopes, the University employees don’t stand a chance of having their former salaries restored before the legislative session of 1935. Final Exercises) in Stadium The University’s commencement ex ercises will be held at sunset Tues day, June 6, in the Kenan stadium. The alumni reunions will be held Mon day, June 6. Peaseblossom. Urban T. Holmes will have the role of Bottom. Others in the cast are Harry Davis (Theseus), Irving Suss (Puck), Martha Hatton (Hip poly ta),' Foster Fitz-Simons (Lysander), Eugenia Rawls (Hermia), Marion Tatum (Hel ena), Forney Rankin (Demet rius), and Meno Spann (the Lion). Thor Johnson's orchestra will play Mendelssohn’s music; La mar Stringfield will be an asso ciate conductor. Season tickets cover admis sion to the play. For anybody who does not hold a season ticket the fee is 50 cents.