Vol. 11. No. 13.
ASSOCIATION HAS
JOB OF PLANTING
AROUNDTIIE LAKE
Group of People Who Restored
Battle Park Will Beautify
.Slopes by the Reservoir
BODY IS INCORPORATED
Th£ Battle Park Association
has been incorporated, and the
University trustees have en
trusted it with the care of both
the park and the area around
the new University Lake.
A committee will prepare
plans for planting the area
around the lake and areas with
in the park. The improvement
of the park will be a continuation
of the work which has been
going on for two years, under
the direction of Colonel Joseph
Hyde fcratt. He is the leading
spirit in the new organization.
A man who has pleasant mem
ories of the late Kemp P.
Battle and of the walks with him
in the park has subscribed
SIOO for a life membership in
the association. The annual
membership dues are: active,
SI: contributing $5 to $25;
life. $100; patrons, SSOO or more.
Anybody who is interested in
maintaining the park as a rec
reational resort for the com
munity and as a memorial to
President Battle, is eligible to
membership. Dues should be
sent to Dr. James B. Bullitt.
Since 1931 the association has
opened nearly six miles of
trails, built eight foot-bridges
and a pavilion, prepared three
picnic grounds, cleared the
park of material that had been
dumped in it, placed many
benches and seats, and done
considerable planting. The re
sult is that the park is once
again a place of beauty.
It is easily accessible, with
many entrances. A map has re
cently been made, showing all
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The Finals
School Program Begins Sunday with
Baccalaureate Sermon
The Chapel Hill school com
mencement program begins
Sunday (day after tomorrow)
with the baccalaureate sermon
by Rev. Ronald J. Tamblyn in
the Presbyterian church.
Senior class day exercises will
take place at 4:30 Saturday af
ternoon, June 3 (one week from
tomorrow). The final exercises,
with the commencement ad
dress by Rev. E. McNeill Po
teat of Raleigh, will be held
Saturday evening.
The commencement exercis
es of the Negro institution, the
Orange County Training School,
are scheduled for Thursday and
Friday of next week, June I and
2. Senior exercises and play,
Thursday evening; graduation
exercises Friday evening, with
Howard W. Odum as the speak
er.
Miss Lawson a Winner
Miss Estelle Lawson, defend
ing champion, was a winner in
the first round of the Women's
Carolinas Golf Tournament day
before yesterday in Charleston.
She beat Mrs. W. A. Hutchinson
5 and 3. This paper went to
press before news of the result
of Miss Lawson’s match yester
day was received.
A Concert in Raleigh
The North Carolina Symphony
Society will give a concert Mon
day evening in Raleigh.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
United States Senator J. W. Bailey
Gives Views on Currency Inflation
EDITOR'S NOTE
United States Senator J. W.
Bailey was recently criticized
by some North Carolina news
papers for “not supporting the
President .” Since Mr. Bailey
voted against the Farm Relief
bill, important provisions in it
to which he objected, and ivhich
caused him to vote against it,
hare been practically abandoned
by the President himself: that
is, the President has given no
tice that he will not put the pro
visions into effect.
In the course of a statement
which Mr. Bailey made about his
position on the Farm Relief bill
published about two weeks ago,
he said that one of his objec
tions was that the measure “pro
posed three distinct currency
plans," and he thought that “one
at a time is enough."
This prompted us to write a
letter to Mr. Bailey to this ef
fect: “We do not believe the peo
ple of North Carolina under
stand clearly your position upon
the question of currency infla
tion. What kind of inflation, if
any, do you favor? And why?"
Here is his response:
In the Farm Bill there ap
peared to be, on its face, three
inflationary methods proposed,
as follows:
I. The purchase by Regional
Federal Reserve Banks, with
Reserve Notes, of $3,000,000,-
000 of Government securities in
the open market. I opposed this
because the effect would be de
flationary and not inflationary.
That is to say, the issuing of
$3,000,000,000 of Federal Re
serve notes in addition to those
outstanding w r ould absorb the
entire reserve of the Federal
Reserve System and cut off the
last hope of conserving the re
sources of that System for com
mercial and industrial and ag
ricultural loans. The System
w'ould become a mere depository
of Government securities and
would really be frozen since no
one could buy these securities in
such quantities except the banks.
This is what happened March
Bth: The banks were loaded
Gwynn Quits School
Will Study at Yale; King Also Re
signs, to Go to Chicago
J. Minor Gwynn, superin
tendent of the school here, has
resigned from the position in or
der to pursue graduate studies,
leading to a doctor’s degree, in
the department of education at
Yale University. Yale has
awarded him a fellowship which
carries SSOO and tuition for one
year.
Mr. Gwynn took over the ad
ministration of the school last
year, and he has made a success
of his task. It is not yet known
who will take his place.
He will be here through the
summer.
Arnold K. King, who teaches
history in the high school, has
received a fellowship from the
General Education Board and
will study next year at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Community Club
The last meeting of the year
of the Community Club will be
held at 3:30 this (Friday) after
noon in the Episcopal parish
house. Reports of the delegates
to the meeting of the State Fed
eration of Women’s Clubs will
be read.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY. MAY 26, 1933
down with Government securi
ties and their money was de
pleted accordingly. They could
not sell these securities.
The President is now under
taking to operate this plan. I
think you will see its failure in
six weeks. Mr. Hoover tried .-it
three different times and it
failed each time. It may be de-.
scribed as the normal plan pro
vided in our currency and bank
ing system. The only objection
to it is that it will not work un
der present conditions.
2. The next plan is the print
ing-press money, that is the en
graving of $3,000,000,000 of
greenbacks unsupported by val
ue other than the simple prom
ise of the Government to pay.
These are to be used to purchase
Government bonds and short
term paper in open market.
The objection to this is that
once we begin issuing money
without the support of actual
value, there can be no end of it.
Upon the failure of $3,000,000,-
000 to produce a satisfactory
consequence, there would be an
immediate demand for $3,000,-
000,000 more, and in fact there
was a demand for $2,500,000,-
000 more to pay the soldiers’
certificates which have not ma
tured. I will agree that the is
suing of $3,000,000,000 of Gov
ernment notes for the purchase
of Government bonds would be
inflationary. However, Ido not
think that people who hold
bonds payable in gold and bear
ing interest would willingly ex
change them for simple prom
ises to pay unsecured, and es
pecially when these promises to
pay are not promises to pay in
gold. 1 put the simple point to
you. If you had a Government
bond payable in gold of the pres
ent standard of weight and fine
ness and bearing four per cent
interest, would you exchange it
for a Government note not pay
able in gold, but payable in in
definite money and bearing no
interest?
The logic of the advocates of
the soldiers’ certificates in view
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The Play makers* Caper
Stage Entertainment to Be Followed
by Refreshments and Dancing
The Carolina Playmakers are
going to have their annual Caper
tomorrow (Saturday) evening.
It will begin at 8:30 and will end
at no particular time—when
ever the caperers get tired of
capering.
At some stage in the pro
ceedings will come the ceremony
of awarding Playmaker masks
to the young men and young
women who have distinguished
themselves with the troupe this
year.
Dougald MacMillan will be
master of ceremonies.
For the stage entertainment
something new has been devised.
It is a play in the manner of the
Italian comedia delV art, in
which the actors, with the
framework of a plot provided for
them, improvise their lines as
they go along. J. P. McCon
naughey has fabricated a plot
for tomorrow night.
There will be refreshments in
the greenroom. Thor Johnson’s
orchestra will play jazz for gen
eral dancing.
An invitation is extended to
anybody who has ever been con
nected with the Playmaker or
ganization in any capacity.
THE SCHOOL MUST
BE SAVED
The people of Chapel Hill
have a problem before
them. They must save
their school.
There are many uncer
tainties in the state’s new
school law. But there is
one thing that is not un
certain : that is, the Chapel
Hill school will be wrecked
if it has to depend upon the
allowance it may expect
from the state.
All citizens who want the
children of Chapel Hill to
have a decent education
should make up their minds
now to join in a vigorous
campaign for a special tax
to supplement the state al
lowance.
The required special tax
will put a very small bur
den on any single property
owner, but the aggregate
revenue from the tax will
make the difference be
tween a poor school and a
good school.
Poppy Sale Tomorrow
Women Volunteers Working under the
Direction of Mrs. W. B. Neal
The annual poppy sale for the
benefit of disabled World War
veterans will be conducted to
morrow by the women of the
American Legion Auxiliary.
Completion of the arrange
ments for the sale was announc
ed yesterday by Mrs. W. B.
Neal, chairman of the committee
in charge. More than 40 women
have been enrolled as volunteer
workers. They will sell the pop
pies at the post-office, the bank,
the drugstores, at other places in
the village, and on the Univer
sity campus.
The standard price of one of
the flowers is 10 cents, but fre
quently purchasers make an ad
ditional contribution.
Making poppies has given hun
dreds of disabled veterans em
ployment during the winter
months. These are the only per
sons who receive any pay in con
nection with the poppy program.
The Chapel Hill poppy corps
is part of a national army of
100,000 women. These women
hope to place “the flower of re
membrance” on at least ten
million coats before sunset Sat
urday. The money they take in
will enable the Legion Auxiliary
to carry on its relief and rehab
ilitation work for the veterans.
“Tweedles”
The seniors of the high school
will give Booth Tarkington’s
comedy, “Tweedles,” at 8:30
next Friday evening, June 2, in
the school auditorium. The play
is a satire about summer resort
life in New England.
P. C. Farrar is the director.
The parts will be taken by Ida
Winstead, Marie Lawrence, May
Crowder, Horace Hamilton,
Erika Zimmerman, Leon Russell,
Don McKee, Ted Caldwell, and
Irby Wright.
Club’s Supper and Dance
The Country Club will have a
barbecue supper at 6:30 tomor
row (Saturday) evening. After
the supper there will be dancing-
For the supper the hostesses are
Mrs. T. J. Wilson, Jr., Mrs. F.
O. Bowman, and Mrs. E. W.
Knight; for the dance, Mrs.
Grover Beard and Mrs. W. M.
Dey.
School Question Puzzles
Community; New Statute
Not Clearly Understood
Chapel Hill Chaff
I am keenly interested in air
planes, but not sufficiently in
terested to want to listen to the
roaring of their engines when I
am sitting out in the garden on
a Sunday afternoon. Or on any
other afternoon.
Several of my friends in the
village have told me of being an
noyed by the planes, and I un
derstand that complaints have
been made to the municipal au
thorities. The obvious remedy
for the nuisance is greater alti
tude. I suppose that Mr. Tull,
the ruler ami guardian of our
airport, having learned that the
clamor annoys the community,
will see to it that henceforth
the planes that go out from
there fly higher.
* * •
When Joe Jones and his moth
er were leaving the Forest The
atre. where they had seen “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream,”
they found an empty spectacle
case on the side of the road.
The next day some friends of
Mrs. Jones came over from Dur
ham to visit her. She was tell
ing them about the play and said
she was sorry that they had not
seen it. “But we did see it,” re
plied a woman in the party. “It
was fine. There was only one
flaw in the evening: I lost my
spectacle case.”
Mrs. Jones turned to a table
picked up the case, held it out
to the visitor, and said: “Well
here it is.”
Favors Tax Election
I*. T. A. Adopts Resolution Calling
for Supplementary Funds
Interest in the crisis brought
on by the state’s new school law'
brought a large attendance to
the meeting of the Chapel Hill
Parent Teachers’ Association
Tuesday evening.
The assemblage was told by
Superintendent Gwynn and
other speakers how seriously the
school here would be damaged
unless the funds to be allowed
by the state were supplemented
by local taxation. Upon a mo
tion by Harold D. Meyer, the
association adopted unanimous
ly a resolution calling for a
special election for the pur
pose of raising the necessary
supplements.
Mr. Gwynn explained how
the provisions of the new law af
fected the Chapel Hill school. If
it were operated in compliance
with that law, without any addi
tional money, it would be taken
off the list of accredited schools
of the Southern Association of
Schools and Colleges. The al
lowance from the state is not
even sufficient to warm the
building properly in the winter
and to provide other essential
services.
R. J. M. Hobbs spoke upon
some features of the new law.
Mrs. Harrer was elected pres
ident of the association, George
Howard vice-president, and Mrs.
Crockford secretary-treasurer.
Bull's Head Open in Summer
The Bull’s Head Book Shop
will remain open this summer.
Betty Barnett will be in charge.
Mias Dirnberger will be with the
Repertory Playhouse in New
York.
$1.50 a Year in Advance. 5e a Copy
A Local Tax Election Will Be
Held, but What WiU Be the
Limits of the District?
People in Chapel Hill are all
in a muddle over the question
of what is going to become of
the school. Nobody really un
derstands the new law—the so
called “school machinery act”—
and this community, like other
communities all over the state,
is looking to the newly appoint
ed school commission to clarify
the situation.
That there will be a tax elec
tion here, to determine wheth- ,
er or not Chapel Hill will sup
plement with its own funds the
meagre allowance from the
state, is regarded as certain.
But there is doubt as to the ge
ographical limits of the dis
trict in which the voting will be
done.
The state school commission
has the authority to determine
the layout of all the adminis
trative units. At present the
Chapel Hill school district in
cludes very little inhabited ter
ritory outside the corporate lim
its of the village; that is, the
school district is practically the
same as the village. But the
state commission is not obliged
to maintain the present boun
daries for the purpose of a tax
election. It may include much
more territory in the district;
the whole township, or, if it so
desires, two townships or more.
The people of Chapel Hill w ho
favor a special tax do not
yet know’ themselves wheth
er they want the vote taken
in the district as it is now
or in an enlarged district.
And some of the citizens
(though they are believed to be
in the minority) do not want a
vote taken at all; they would
rather be free of a special tax
and let the school sink to the
low' level established by the state
for the uniform eight-months
term.
If the district is enlarged, and
if the special tax is voted, the
rate of tax will not have to be
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A Beauty Pageant
Will B« Held by American Legion in
Memorial Hall June 16
A beauty pageant will be
held Friday evening, June 16,
in Memorial hall by the Chapel
Hill post of the American Le
gion. About seventy-five young
women are expected to appear
in it.
The winner will get a free
trip to the state convention of
the Legion in Wilmington this
summer, and the winner of the
beauty contest there will go as
“Miss North Carolina” to the
Legion’s national convention in
Chicago.
The admission to the pageant
here in Chapel Hill will be 25
cents.
To Decorate Veterans’ Graves
World War veterans will go
around to the cemeteries in Or
ange county Sunday afternoon
(day after tomorrow) to deco
rate the graves of veterans who
died in the war or afterward.
The Hillsboro group will meet at,
the court house at 1:30 P. M.;
the Chapel Hill group will meet
at the Episcopal parish house at ,
2 P.M.