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Vol. 11. No. 30. PRINTERS RETURN FROM THEIR TOUR OF 13,450 MILES They Went to Canada, Then to Mexico and over the Moun tains to Pacific Ocean EXPENSES LESS THAN S3OO Bob Moore and Spec, Mc- Clure of the staff of the Orange Printshon came in last Satur day in their travel-stained but unwearied Ford sedan. Thus they ended a 9-weeks tour that took them to New York, Boston, Vermont, through Maine and New Brunswick to Nova Scotia, up the St. Lawrence to Quebec, Montreal, and Niagara Falls, to Chicago and North Dakota, down through the Middle West to Mexico, to Mexico City, and over the mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Leaving -Mexico, they returned to Chapel Hill by the Gulf and South Atlantic states. They rode 13,450 miles. The expenses of the entire trip, in cluding gasoline and oil, food, a visit to the World’s Fair, oc casional moving picture tickets —everything—came to a little under S3OO. They did not shave from the time they left Chapel Hill until they were nearly here again. It had been their intention to come into the village with their beards, but their vanity was stirred by tw'o attractive girls' whom they, met in Georgia. The girls chaffed them about their savage aspect, and off came the beards. The photograph here shows them in Mexican costumes, Moore on a donkey and McClure standing before a cactus bush. On their second visit to Mexi co City, after they had gone over the mountains to the Pacific coast and back, Ambassador Josephus Daniels had them into dinner. For a few minutes they (Continued on page, four) Football Prices Cut Purrhawr of a Season Ticket (ietn a 42 Per t ent Reduction A 42 per cent cut in the price of admission to the football games in Chapel Hill this fall is offered to anybody who buys a season ticket. Taken singly, the eight home parries, five varsity and three freshman, will cost $11.45. The season ticket is sold for $6.60. Os this, 60 cents is the federal tax. The states sale tax is in cluded in the $6. “We would rather play to a capacity audience at half price than to a half-filled stadium at regular prices,” said R. A. Fetz er, director of athletics, in an nouncing the reduction. The season tickets are already on sale at the office of the Uni versity athletic association. The varsity home games will be with Davidson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and Virginia. Storm Victims Need Clothing The victims of the storm that ravaged eastern North Carolina last week are in urgent need of clothing. Whoever in Chapel Hill can contribute clothing is asked to send it to Mrs. W. S. Bernard. She will send it promptly to relief headquarters in New Bern. Miss Wilson Operated On Miss Alice Wilson underwent an operation for appendicitis this week in Watts hospital. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Moore and McClure, While on a Visit to Mexico, Don the Costumes of the Country V*'f~ i -»V » * • Members of Faculty Approve School Tax Pincushion of Supplement after Ad journment of Regular Meeting After the adjournment of the University faculty meeting Monday morning, the members resolved themselves into a cit izens’ meeting for the purpose of discussing the proposed sup plementary school tax. R. J. M. Hobbs, member of the town’s school board, present ed a statement about the situa tion of the school. He explain ed the provisions of the new state law relating to the length of the term and the salaries of teachers, and he gave illustra tions to show what effect the supplement would have upon the tax bills of property owners. In cluding the supplement, the to tal school tax will be much less than it was last year. A few of the citizens, among them W. W. Pierson and D. I). Carroll, arose to say that they had been informed that rumors had somehow got afloat that they were opposed to the supple ment, and they wanted to deny these rumors and to record themselves as hearty advocates of it. It was evident that the facul ty members were strongly in favor of supplementing the state fund. When the subject had been thoroughly discussed H. H. Wil liams introduced a resolution that the meeting go on record as advocating the tax. The resolu tion was passed without a dis senting vote. H. M. Wagstaff’s Letter about the School Tax To the Editor : I wonder if you would wel come in your columns a word for the point of view of those who may reasonably question the policy involved in voting the proposed ISVa-cent supplement for the Chapel Hill school in the special election to be held Oc tober 12? I do not propose to argue the point that it is a wise thing to have the best school that can be paid for, any more than I would argue the point that it is a wise thing to have the best University that the state can afford, with the right of all interests justly considered. The state has decided, through its elected representatives and, I am convinced, on the basis of cold revenue facts, that it can have a University costing, for the next biennium, up to 68% of what it has been paying for that advantage. Also it has decided, by the same process, that it can have an eight-months public school term, financed by a new form of tax levy—the sales tax CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1933 Professors’ Vacation Ended by Mosquitoes Mangum and Pierson Flee Home after One Night at Ocracoke When Dr. Charles S. Mangum and William Whatley Pierson set out on their vacation they were fairly bubbling with enthusiasm. Their fancy conjured up one de lightful vision after another; fishing from a motor boat, sail ing, surf-bathing, strolling on the beach and looking out over the moonlit ocean, lolling on a veranda, sleeping long and late, and consuming vast quantities of sea-food. They were going to stay on the coast a week. They drove to Beaufort,passed a peaceful night there, and the next rlay proceeded to their par adise—Ocracoke Island. As they debarked upon the pier that runs from the island shore out into the sound, just before supper time, they were welcomed by an army of mos quitoes. The physician had on knickers, and he estimates at. 25 the number of mosquitoes on each stocking by the time he reached the land end of the pier. The historian wore long trous ers, but these gave him no pro tection: the eager throng crawl ed up under them, and, more over, bit him upon the hands and face. The natives explained that the recent storm was responsible for the plague. When it had died down pools of water had been left here and there, as breeding places; and the wind had shift - (Continued on taut tnige.) —and costing a reduced sum as compared with what the public school system has been costing the people under the old form of control and maintenance. There were a number of ideas behind this change that were ex pected to make it advantageous. The most fundamental of these, I think, was the idea of econo my. The old local school units, under the old system of iocal control and maintenance, had involved themselves in bonded debt and grinding tax rates that were heading them practically all into bankruptcy. These local units, through the legislature, gave up the liberty of going to heli in their own way because they found themselves in diffi culties too formidable for their own solution. So the state as a unit was called upon to effect a solution, to find away out of the morass. The way out to the legislature seemed economy and self-discipline, the fortitude to do without those things that (Continued on next png*) Chapel Hill Chaff When I entered H. A. Burch’s workshop at the inner end of Wilson court Monday afternoon he was shaping a piece of wood in his lathe. It was a baseball bat, and I saw dozens of bats in racks along the wall. “Oh, I sell ’em all around,” he said in reply to my question. “You see those two I’ve just put the oil on? I’m mailing them to a young man in Gibson ville who wrote me for samples. A day or so ago I got an order for two dozen from the high school over in Durham.” One of these” bats looks no whit inferior to one of Spald ing’s. At least, it doesn’t to me, and I doubt if an expert finds it any less serviceable. The revival of the interest in baseball has made a good market for Mr. Burch’s product. The game is played not only in the towns; teams have been organ ized at many crossroad settle ments in the country. Mr. Burch’s fame as a bat-maker spread through Orange and the nearby counties. Ash, the wood from which bats are made, grows in the creek valleys around Chapel Hill. Not long ago a lumberman re ceived an order from Spalding’s for a car load of ash logs. Some that he had left over was bought for the workshop in Wilson court. Mr. Burch worked for the Uni versity for eleven years. During the building period in the 1920’s he was the man who kept the tools in order for the contractors, T. C. Thompson & Co. He work ed sometimes as a carpenter. He inspected and weighed all the crushed stone that went into the Kenan Stadium, 7,000 tons of it. When building ceased he was thrown out of employment. He bought the garage that was for (Continued on laat pagt) Mrs. Kluttz’ Vote Resident Who Pays Heaviest Taxes to ('ast Itallot for Supplement Mrs. A. A. Kluttz, wffio pays heavier taxes than any other res ident of Chapel Hill, wrote to the editor yesterday to say that she was going to vote for the special supplementary school tax. This is her letter: “In a time like This we must show our colors. Our Chapel Hill school needs the help of all of us. I have no children, but my mother and father taught me to believe in schools when times were even harder than these. “I now pay taxes on $45,000 (an assessment reduced from $60,000 since last year). I owe $24,000 and can scarcely pay the interest. The merchants to whom I have let my stores have had such a hard time that some of them have been unable to pay the rent, and some of the form er occupants quit and left their rent unpaid. “I will gladly vote for the school supplement as a matter of pride and faith in our town and our University, and for the sake of decent treatment of our teachers and the children of Chapel Hill. In the spirit of the N. R. A., let us join in and ‘do our part.’ ” Methodist Reception Tonight There will be a reception for Methodist freshmen and new comers to Chapel Hill at 8 o’clock this (Friday) evening at the Methodist church. All church members are urged to at tend. Herndon Chosen Registrar for Special School Tax Election - o He Is Assigned to Post as a Result of Complaints that the First Incumbent, Paul Robertson, Asked Persons Who Came to Register How They Intended to Vote and Expressed to Them His Own Opinion on Issue WHEN AND WHERE TO REGISTER R. D. Herndon, registrar for the special school tax election, will be at the Lyon hardware store from 10 to 1 o’clock and from 3:30 to 5, every day except Satur days, for the enrollment of voters. He will be at the school athletic building all day on the two remaining Saturdays (tomorrow, the 23rd, and the 30th). Registration ends at sun set Saturday, the 30th. In order to vote you must register. Anybody is qualified to register and vote who has lived in the state a year and in Chapel Hill’4 months and who intends to make Chap el Hill, from now on, his (or her) chief place of resi dence. The Repealists’ Meeting Tomorrow Afternoon They Will Make Selection of Delegate Advocates of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment who live in Orange county will meet at 3 o’clock in the afternoon to morrow, Saturday, September 23, in the court house in Hills boro. The purpose of the meet ing is to select a candidate for delegate to the repeal convention in December. All citizens who favor repeal, men and women, are asked to at tend. There has been very little dis cussion of the repeal question in Chapel Hill recently. As far as public affairs are concerned, the interest of the community has been centered on the school tax election. Nobody has declared himself an aspirant to the post of dele gate from this county. Among the repealists in the village— such as have thought about the matter at all—the idea seems to he that anybody chosen at to morrow’s meeting will be satis factory. The person chosen must file notice of his candidacy with the county board of elections, con taining a declaration that he is for repeal. In order for his name to go on the ballot, a pe tition supporting his candidacy must be signed by qualified vot ers equal to 2 per cent of the number who voted in this coun ty in the gubernatorial election of 1932. McCorkle Heads Music Dept. T. Smith McCorkle has been appointed acting head of the University music department. He has been a member of the faculty here for eight years. A native of Texas, he was in Kan sas City University before com ing to Chapel Hill. He has won distinction as a concert violin ist and as director of the Uni versity band. The Jewish New Year The Jewish New Year is being celebrated this week, and Ber man’s and some other stores were closed yesterday and will be closed today (Friday). $1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy R. D. Herndon, former post master here, has been chosen by the board of aldermen as regis trar for the special school tax election to succeed Paul Robert son. Mr. Robertson resigned at a meeting of the board last Satur day evening as a result of com plaints that he had* addressed questions to persons who came to register, as to how they were going to vote, and had express ed to some of them his own opinion in opposition to the special tax. Bonner Sawyer, town attor ney, conducted the inquiry for the board. Charles Craig and Walter Hackney, Negroes, told what Mr. Robertson had said to them. Marvin Utley said that Mr. Robertson had asked him how he was going to vote and that he had declined to answer. Alt* Pickard told of a conversa tion in which R. M. Squires had said’that he had heard Mr. Rob ertson express an opinion on the tax question to a person who had £ome to register. Mr. Robertson, who was pres ent at the inquiry, said that he might have asked some persons in a casual manner as to how they thought the election would go, but that he had not sought to influence anybody’s vote. The aldermen went into exec utive session to consider what action they should take. They decided that Mr. Robertson had not maintained the impartial ity that is required of a regis trar. Later Mr. Robertson ap peared before them and present ed his resignation. They elect ed Rev. B. J. Howard to take his place; but Mr. Howard declined to serve, and at a special meet ing Monday they elected Mr. Herndon. The registrar will enroll vot ers at the Lyon hardware store from 10 to 1 o’clock and from 8:80 to 5 o’clock every day ex cept Saturdays through Septem ber, and at his home at other hours. On the two remaining Saturdays in the month, tomor row and the 30th, he will be at the school athletic building all day. Registration will end at sunset on Saturday, the 30th. Kiwanis Scholarship Loan Fund for University Student; No Endorsement Is Required The Kiwanis Club of Chapel Hill has established an Honor Scholarship in the form of a loan fund of $75. The money will be lent to some young man or woman, se lected by a committee from the club, to cover tuition in the Uni versity. The beneficiary must live in Chapel Hill or Carrboro or the nearby country. Whoever receives the award will make a note upon which no endorsement will be required. Character will be security. That is why the term Honor Schol arship is used. The money is available for this year because a previous loan to a student has been repaid. Legion Auxiliary Meeting The American Legion Auxili ary will meet at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Charles Shields on Vance street.
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