VoL 11. No. 14.
A PICNIC GROUND
HAS BEEN MADE
NEARJHE LAKE
Undergrowth Is Cleared Away
and Woods Near Stream Are
Transformed into a Park
BOAT RIDES FOR VISITORS
A picnic ground, richly shad
ed by trees, with tables and
benches scattered about, has
been provided at the University
Lake about two miles west of
the village. It is there for the
pleasure of anybody who wants
to come.
Two or three acres of woods,
a little whiie ago almost impen
etrable because of the dense
undergrowth, have been trans
formed into a park. The trans
formation came about so rapid
ly that few people in Chapel Hill
know anything about it.
Men paid out of federal re
lief funds supplied the labor,
and so the project cost very
little. A few benches out of the
old Memorial hall, and tables for
which there is no further use
on the campus, were given by
the University.
A foot-bridge, made of planks
resting on rails discarded from
the railroad at Carrboro, has
been thrown across the stream
a few yards south of the dam
and leads to the picnic park
along the right bank. Down
stream from the bridge is a
shoal where children may go in
wading, and upstream is a deep
f)ool suitable for swimming.
One small section of the park
i a playground, with swings and
a slide.
There is abundant space, so
that several parties may enjoy
(Con tinned on loft jtnge)
Degree for MacNider
The Medical College of Vir
ginia awarded Dr. William deli.
MacNider the degree of doctor
of science Tuesday. Mrs. Mac-
Nider and Miss Sally Foard ac
companied him to Richmond to
witness the ceremony. While in
the city they were the guests of
Dr. and Mrs. James K. Hall.
Even if a Special Tax Is Levied, Citizens
Will Have a Smaller Tax Burden than Now
Owners of property in Chapel
Hill can pay a special school tax,
to supplement the allowance
from the state for the standard
8-months term, and still their
tax burden will be considerably
lighter than it was last. year.
The reason for this lies in the
tax-reduction measures enacted
by the recent legislature.
The 15-cent ad valorem tax
hitherto levied by the county has
been abolished, and that part of
the Chapel Hill school tax levied
for current expenses has like
wise been abolished.
The current expense rate in
Chapel Ilill was 39 cents last
year, the debt service rate 15
cents, and the capital outlay rate
1 cent, making a total school
rate of 55 cents. The rate that
the voters will be asked to ap
prove, for supplementing the
state’s allowance, will probably
be somewhere between 18 and
25 cents. Suppose it should be
25 cents.
The debt service rate this year
is expected to he 13 cents, and
there will he no levy for capital
outlay. If there were a special
tax rate of 25 cents, then the
total school rate would be 38
cents—l7 cents less than the
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Chapel Hill Chaff
Mrs. Lasley and Mrs. Dashiell
met at their marketing one
morning last week.
“I suppose you’ll be there this
afternoon,” said Mrs. Dashiell.
“Oh, yes, I’m going,” replied
Mrs. Lasley. “Let’s go together.
I’ll drive by and pick you up at
half past three.” And so it was
agreed.
At the appointed hour Mrs.
Lasley drew up in front of her
friend’s home on Park Place, and
Mrs. Dashiell came down t the
walk and joined her. Presently
they were rolling along the curv
ing road back of the campus.
“Why are you going this
way?” asked Mrs. Dashiell.
“Why not?” asked Mrs. Las
ley. “’This is the way to Mrs.
Edmister’s.”-
For a moment Mrs. Dashiell
was speechless with amazement.
Then she exclaimed.
“Mrs. Edmister’s! But I
thought we were going to the
missionary society meeting in
Durham!”
They stopped at the Proutys’,
and Mrs. Dashiell went in and
telephoned to her husband to
come and get her. When he ar
rived she had decided it was too
late to go to the meeting in
Durham.
• * *
James Peabody of New Eng
land, a biologist, was a guest of
the Oscar Hamiltons Sunday.
Dan Hamilton, 10 years old, an
enthusiast on moths and butter
flies, had been reading one of
Mr. Peabody’s text-books. At
a lull in the conversation at the
dinner table he said to the*
guest.
“You made a mistake in your
book.”
"What was it?” asked Mr.
Peabody, a little startled.
“You labeled one of your moth
pictures Polyphemus, and it.
ought to be Secropia. I can tell
from the marks on the wings.”
“You’re quite right,” said Mr.
Peabody. “Somebody else
called my attention to that when
the book came out, and I’m go
ing to correct it in the next edi
tion.”
present rate. Add the 15 cents
taken off the county rate, and
the decrease would be 32 cents.
Take, for example, the case of
a citizen whose property is as
sessed for $5,000, and assume
that the assessment remains the
same as it was last year. The
school rate last year, town and
county, came to 70 cents, which
meant $35 in on a $5,000
assessment. This year, assum
ing a special local rate of 25
cents and a debt service rate of
13 cents, the total school rate
will be 38 cents; that is, just a
little more than half of last
year’s rate. Apply a rate of 38
cents to an assessment of $5,000,
and the school tax bill is $19 —
less by sl6 than-last year’s bill.
Put in another way: a special
tax of 25 cents makes a differ
ence of $12.50 in the tax bill of
a citizen whose property is as
sessed at $5,000. For the Chapel
Hill community it means the
difference between a poor school
and a good school.
Here a special tax rate of 25
cents has been assumed for the
purpose of illustration. It may
be that the rate the voters will
be asked to approve will be low
er than that.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1933
North Carolina Dentists to Hold
Annual Convention Here Next Week
More than 400 dentists will
come to Chapel Hill next week
for the annual convention of the
North Carolina Dental Society.
The proceedings will begin Tues
day morning with registration
in the Hill Music hall and will
end Thursday afternoon.
The addresses, discussions,
and clinics will be supplemented
by entertainments—a banquet,
a dance, teas, tours, and drama.
Russell M. Grumman, director
of the University extension divi
sion, and Dr. J. P. Jones, chair
man' of the entertainment com
mittee, have been co-operating
with the officers of the society
in arranging the program.
Eminent dental scientists from
outside of the state will be here
as guests of the society to read
papers and to take part in the
discussions.
At the opening session Presi
dent Graham of the University
will deliver an address of wel
come, and Dr. 0. L. Presnell of
Asheboro will respond. A talk
by Dr. Wilbert Jackson of Clin
ton, president of the society, the
report of the necrology commit-
Termites Eat School
N’ejf roes’ Build ini; So Radiy Damaged
That It Is Declared Unsafe
Termites, the white winged
ants that feed on wood, have
eaten away beams and sills in
the building of the Orange
County Training School, Chap
el Hill’s Negro institution, and
have so damaged the structure
that it has been declared unsafe.
As a result of the condition of
the timbers, revealed by a care
ful examination, the school has
been forbidden to hold its grad
uating exercises in its auditor
ium. They will be held this
(Friday) evening in the Rock
Hill Baptist church on West
Franklin street. The smaller
children had their ceremonies
Wednesday and Thursday.
Once* before, a few years ago,
termites attacked the building.
The recent attac k was more de
structive than the* first. It is es
timates! that the necessary re
construction will cost between
$1,500 and $2,000.
Notice to Dentists
Th«*y Should Apply Promptly to
(irumman for Room Reservation*
Dentists who are to attend
the convention here next week,
and who want quarters in the
dormitories, are asked to com
municate with Russell M. Grum
man of the University extension
division. He will see that rooms
an* reserved for them.
While most of the rooms at
the Carolina Inn have been re
served, four buildings on the
campus are ready for the den
tists. More; than 200 rooms,
each with two beds, will be avail
able at the rate of one dollar per
night per person. Advance re
quests for reservations will aid
the committee on arrangements
in making plans for the comfort
of the visitors.
Hotels in Durham, less than a
half hour’s automobile ride from
Chapel Hill, have rooms at reas
onable prices for all Who would
like to be quartered in that
city.
(Jokers to Sail for Home
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Coker will
sail for America June 11 on the
steamship City of Havre. They
will be in Washington a while
before coming to Chapel Hill.
tee by Dr. J. C. Watkins of Win
ston-Salem. and a paper on
“Diagnosis” by Dr. U. Garfield
Rickert of the University of
Michigan will complete the ses
sion.
Group clinics will occupy most
of Tuesday afternoon, and these
will be followed by a barbecue
supper, given by the Durham-
Orange Dental Society, at the
University Lake. The visitors
will get back from the lake in
time to attend the University
commencement exercises at sev
en o’clock in the Kenan stadium.
At the evening assembly Dr.
William deß. MacNider of the
University medical school will
talk on “The Relation of Den
tistry to the Individual as a
Whole,” and Dr. L. Langdon
Sheffield of Toledo, Ohio, on
"Immediate Denture Service.”
At the Wednesday morning
session there will be talks by
Dr. C. Willard Camalier, presi
dent of the National Board of
Dental Examiners, Washington
(“Dental Education of the Pub
lic”), Dr. Robert L. Dement of
the Atlanta Southern Dental Col
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Mrs. Harr’s Dancers
Their Performance Delights a l,arge
Audience in Play makers Theatre
The dancing of the pupils of
Phoebe Barr delighted a big
crowd Monday evening in the
Play makers Theatre.
Mrs. Barr, formerly one of
the celebrated Denishawn Danc
ers, has been conducting classes
here since last fall, and this
spectacle was in the nature of
an exhibit of her methods and
results.
A feature of the program was
“The Congo,” danced by both
men and women. Y'achel Lind
say’s poem of that name was
read by. Mrs. Barr as an accom
paniment to tlie performance.
"The Battle Hymn of the Re
public” was presented by the
men. It was these two numbers
that aroused the greatest enthu
siasm in the audience.
In the first part of the pro
gram Mrs. Barr demonstrated
her plan of class instruction,
giving commands to the dancers.
In the second part the dancers
appeared in costumes and with
spectacular lighting effects.
The Repeal Campaign
ID-ported that Young Democrat* Will
Declare again*! ISth Amendment
The campaigns for and
against the repeal of the 18th
amendment are getting under
way m North Carolina.
The United Dry Forces start
ed last week with a manifesto
calling upon all citizens to vote
against repeal.
It is reported now that the
Young Democratic Clubs, at
their annual convention July 8
at Wrightsville Beach, will put
themselves on record as advo
cating repeal. Some forecasters
say that the Young Democrats
will call for repeal not only of
national Prohibition but of the
state Prohibition law.
United States Senator Robert
R. Reynolds, North Carolina’s
leading wet, is to address the
convention. Os course he will
speak for the repeal of the 18th
amendment, but he has not yet
said anything to justify the pre
diction that he will come out
against state Prohibition.
GWYNN AND KING
ARE ON LEAVE
J. Minor Gwynn, super
intendent of the school
here, will be on leave of ab
sence when he is studying
at Yale next year. He will
return to his present post
in September of 1934. No
body knows yet who will be
at the head of the school
while he is away. If Chap
el Hill becomes a “city ad
ministrative unit” under
the new law, the local board
will select the temporary
superintendent.
A. K. King is also on
leave and will return to the
school next year.
Commencement
Sermon, Band Mu*ic, Singing. Alumni
Reunions, Feasting, Speechmaking
The University’s commence
ment program will begin with
the baccalaureate sermon by
Bishop Edwin A. Penick Sun
day morning in Memorial hall.
There will he a band concert un
der the Davie Poplar at 5
o’clock and chimes from the
Morehead-Patterson Tower at
6. "The Elijah" will be sung by
the Chapel Hill Oratorio Society
at 8 o’clock in the Hill Music
hall.
Monday will be alumni day.
Judge Francis I). Winston will
preside at the general assembly
at 10:30 in Gerrard hall. The
alumni luncheon will come at 1
o’clock; the Carolina Playmak
ers will perform at 3; President
and Mrs. Graham will have a re
ception at their home at 5:30;
the class reunion suppers will
begin at 6:30.
Tuesday’s program includes
senior prayers at 10 o’clock in
Gerrard hall, class day exercis
es under the Poplar at 10:30, the
Mangum medal speeches at
11:30 in Gerrard hall, and the
Di-Phi debate at 3:30.
The academic procession for
the graduation exercises will
form at 0:40. The exercises in
the Kenan Stadium will begin at
7. Governor Ehringhaus and
President Graham will speak.
Percy McKayc Is Here
Percy McKayc and his daugh
ter are here at the Carolina Inn.
Tennis Team Lets Ample Attention from New
York Times as Result of Henderson Letter
Archibald Henderson wrote to
John Kieran, sports editor of
the New York Times, to tell him
that the paper neglected to give
proi>er notice and credit to the
University of North Carolina's
remarkable tennis team.
The consequence was that Mr.
Kieran put the headline, “Chapel
Hill and Contents Noted,” over
his column of comment one day
last week.
“It was a registered letter,”
he wrote, referring to Mr. Hen
derson’s communication: ‘Sir:
So far I have missed your story
—for I dare say you will get
around to it—of the spectacular
performance of our tennis
team.’ Zounds and gadzooks!
What tennis team? Why, the
tennis team of the University of
North Carolina ...
“The resident of Chapel Hill
who took pen in hand to ask
that justice be done to the great
college tennis team was Mr.
Archibald Henderson, a schol
arly writer who, in his lighter
hours, dashed off a biographical
study entitled, ‘Bernard Shaw,
Playboy and Prophet.’
$1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
ASKS STATE TO
KEEP THIS TOWN
AS SPECIAL UNIT
School Board's Proposal Will
Lead to Vote on Question
of S upplementary Fund
BOUNDARIES UNCHANGED
The Chapel Hill school board, J[
recently., legislated out of exist
ence but revived by the author
ity of the state school commis
sion, has petitioned the commis
sion for a special election to de
termine whether or not the fund
allowed by the state for the
8-months term shall be supple
mented by a fund raised by local
taxation.
If the petition is granted, the
Chapel Hill “city administrative
unit”—this is the name to be
used, according to the new law
—will have exactly the same
limits as the present Chapel Hill
school district. The district
takes in, besides the village
itself, only a small outlying area
which, though beyond the cor
porate limits, is really a part of
the Chapel Hill community.
The local board held a long
meeting Sunday and discussed
the situation thoroughly. The
members decided unanimously
that it would be wiser to sub
mit the question of a special tax
to the people in the present dis
trict rather than to a larger
electorate that would include
people out in the country.
This is the resolution adopted
by the board:
“That this former charter
school board, acting by authori
zation from the state school com
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Hearse Puzzles Neighborhood
Dwellers in Park Place saw a
hearse parked by the edge of
the woods at sunset Tuesday.
Some of them thought a funer
al must be in progress, and
wondered whose it was. Others,
knowing the hearse was some
times used us an ambulance,
thought there must have been
an automobile accident nearby.
Neither conjecture was correct.
The Kiwanis Club was having a
supper party in the park and
Eugene Andrews, the undertak
er, had ridden to it in his hearse.
“ ‘Sixty-two consecutive vic
tories,’ wrote Mr. Henderson,
‘and only a single defeat (Prince
ton, 1929) tells the substance of
the story that has many fascin
ating individual chapters.’ He
went on to tell about Bryan
Grant and others who were on
one or more of the .conquering
teams from Chapel Hill and of
John Kenfield whose coaching
produced such extraordinary re
sults.
“The letter was written more
in sorrow than in anger. It
was practically a notice that this
was a final attempt to set the
nation right on an epoch-making
feat, and, if it was disregarded,
it would be just another case of
justice being submerged in a
wicked world.”
In this manner was Mr. Hen
derson chaffed in the Kieran
article, but he achieved his ob
jective as well as if his letter
had been published just so: the
excellence of the North Carolina
tennis team was abundantly
celebrated on the sports page of
the Times.