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Page Two TW Cfapd M Wdft LOUIS GRAVES Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES On® Jmr $1.50 Six Months ;„1 1.00 Three Months .75 Eotrml m tecoo4-<liu matter February 2H, 1925, at the poeto®« at Chape! Hill, North Carolina, under the act of March J, 1*79. - V Renewed Hope for a 25% Raise For State Employees “Somewhat ambiguous to the lay mind” is the phrase applied by Robert E. Williams, Wash ington correspondent of the Sews and Observer, to the let ter in which Thomas H. Mac- Donald, chief of the United States Bureau of Roads, says that this state would not be penalized in the distribution of federal roads money if it trans ferred from its highway fund to its general fund an amount equivalent to 3 per cent on the sales of gasoline in the state. If our lay mind is a fair specimen of other lay minds, Mr. Williams is right. We do not seem to be able to understand just what the letter means : We do, however, understand this: that Harriss Newman, chairman of the North Carolina senate’s finance committee, hav ing gone to Washington and ob tained the letter from Mr. Mac- Donald, to take back to Raleigh with him to show his fellow legislators, is satisfied that it will enable the state to increase the salaries of its employees by as much as 25 per cent. Mr. Newman is a lawyer; he ought to be able to pass on the sound ness of Mr. MacDonald’s inter pretation ; and he probably has more influence than any other one man in determining the amount of revenue the state is to raise. Hence we are cheered by his forecast. He still hopes for the passage of the Hill liquor bill, which would swell the state's revenue. “But my revenue estimates are without reference to any tax on liquor," he told the news paper correspondents "while he was in Washington. “The $630, 000 which we can now add to the revenue bill (as a result of the statement of the chief of the federal bureau of roads) will in my judgment permit the budget to be balanced and all salaries to be increased 25 per cent, even if the yield on chain filling stations is reduced from $600,- 000 to $300,000. “My figures presume the re tention of the $500,000 from the income tax on dividends paid by domestic corporations, which was contained in the bill as it passed the house end which I expect the senate committee to remove over my opposition." Note that he says “senate committee" not “senate.” When the matter comes to a vote in the senate, the house’s provision for the tax on dividends has a good prospect of being approv ed. A raise of 25 per cent based on the present salary level is a restoration of only about 17 per cent of salaries as they stood in 1929. It is the very least that state employees should receive, and we are pleased that Mr. Newman is making a vigorous effort to put through a revenue bill that assures them of it. Metzenthin at St. Mary’s E. G. Metzenthin of the Uni versity faculty gave an illustrat ed lecture on “A Recent Trip through the Germanic Coun tries" at St. Mary's school in Raleigh this week. Track Meet Tomorrow The University will meet William and Mary in trade ath 4>AaMA»i>AW / flofltl*. ICVIMB UCIC VWMW»*V»» \m**»**~» day]P afternoon. This match opera Carolina's outdoor track season.^ The Perfect Breakfast c Sot only the art that is re « ; fleeted in architecture and sculp ture and drama, but the art of lii'ing as weU s is dear to the soul of a man whd is steeped in the culture of the Greeks. And u hat is more essential to the whole and perfect art of living than breakfast, the very capstone of human happiness? In last week's issue I chronicled the dissent of our Greek professor from my view that newspaper reading was an indispensable part of the ideal breakfast; and at the same time I chided him for frequently promising to write me a letter about this or that, for publication, and then failing to come through with it. I am delighted that my re proaches so stung his conscience that I can place before the Weekly's readers the following communication: My dear Louis: This is not seeking publica tion but an earnest effort to res cue for the grace of breakfast ing your news-infatuate soul. But incidentally my hat is off to a gifted reporter, seeing that he can extract an interview out of a “subject” who has not an idea big enough to inflate a toy bal loon with its gas. I have had many things hung on me but this is the first time I have been used as a rack on which to hang sparkling fancies (so much more delightful than any of my own!) in the sunlight of publi city. Yet, Louis, meek as I am, I must protest your damning me with text out of Holy Writ, however apt. I submit -before any competent court, the chef of the Waldorf, or Obie Har mon, that it is not “sinful” to lick one’s chops over this menu, e.g.—two fried-on-one-side eggs, golden jewels set in a frame of sizzling, odorous bacon, backed by a mound of browned toast, dewy with yellow, melting but ter, on side a cup of dark, steam ing coffee—such a spread as I prepared for us two one morn ing before early golf in Hope Valley. Or perhaps a No. 1 roe herring and hominy (not grits) might substitute. “Lust of the flesh," this? Rather, such a thing as a full blown rose, be gemmed with dew, a morning sunrise, a peach tree bursting into bloom, a great minor chord resolving a cacophony, a fifteen foot putt for a “down” and “one A “Crack-Down" Needed Here Three amendments to the pure food and dyug bill which are said in a despatch from Wash ington to be “greatly desired by the patent medicine interests fighting the measure," were of fered by Josiah W. Bailey in the Senate Wednesday. Tfie samej despatch says: “This afternoon representatives of the drug as sociation were quietly distribut ing briefs containing the three amendments introduced by Sen ator Bailey and offered by Sen ator Clark of Missouri. Both Senators Bailey and Clark, and Senator Vandenberg of Michi gan, represent states in which large amounts of remedies af fected by the act are manu factured.” We have not seen the text of the amendments and so are not prepared to make any comment upon them. We do not hesitate to say, however, that the mere fact that they are desired by the patent medicine interests arouses our suspicion. These in terests have consistently op posed efforts to force them to refrain from deceitful advertis ing is newspapers and period icals. Tens of thousands of buyers are being victimized every day by the misleading claims.made for so-called “reme dies.” As we have said before, thfere THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY, CHAPEL HILL, N. C. o up” on the eighteenth, port to a thirsting sailor from “a dry,” and best of all sweet converse of “quips and cranks" and quiet convictions with a proven com rade. Now intrude on this the damned newspaper muck: Facetious lying headlines in im possible cryptic English over columns filled with bunk, mur ders, brutalities, divorces of Cannons, Reynolds, Vanderbilts played up, sordid wealth apothe osized, insolent and stupid cap tains of industry held up for ad miration, false values and stan dards assumed, blatant personal ities—a Mussolini, a Hitler, a Huey Long, column on column,' communal and corporate selfish ness, taxes, political chicanery, the degradation of a state in homage to corporate wealth, its leaders (God save the mark!) playing personal politics while! the minds and souls of its chil dren are at stake, droughts and dust storms and flood victims! and tenant farmers, beyond the! help our pity or sacrifice might give, horrors of prison camps . . . Enough to spoil any break fast. True, there is in these col umns that that is not all pain- j ful and repulsive. We may read I of the Red Cross, Boy Scouts, the patriotism of a Bernard Baruch, the struggles of the great heart of our President for j social justice, his “million dol lar smile,” the victories of Coach Shepard’s basketball team, the marvels of science, the grandeur of the great souls, as of an Einstein, who stand on the outer verge of our Universe and peer out into the dim infinite for truth, the heroic responses to S.O.S. calls, at times the gentle satire of Will Rogers, etc.. etc. But breakfast is ill timing for all that. Give me just a glance at the headlines between breakfast and college bell call ing my first class. Then let all this perplexing stuff of an ir rational world wait until in my slippers, in the silence of my study, with my quieting cigar ettes in reach, I can present an imperturbable, reflecting mind to the impact of all these bom barding items of news. How ever for you and for me, “If you like that kind of a dog, why, that’s the kind of dog you like.” Yours with breakfast memories, W. S. Bernard. are good patent medicines, ap jroved by physicians of the high est standing. The makers of these have nothing to fear from a law that compels them to five in advertisements informa tion as accurate as that which jnder the present law must be given on labels affixed to bottles and packages. But there are ilso useless and actually harm ful medicines that are being sold to the public in vast quantities. Adequate protection against these cannot be assured through action by state legislatures, but only through enactments and enforcement by the federal Gov ernment. To use General Hugh Johnson’s famous phrase, wie want to see the Government ‘crack down”—hard—upon med .'ine-makers who have been prey ng upon the credulity of poor md ignorant people. The Absentee Rattett Legislators who are them selves . machine politicians, or who take orders from machine politicians at home, have defeat ed the effort to outlaw the ab sentee ballot in North Carolina. But while the notorious abuse has not yielded, thus far, to a frontal attack, it is being weak ened by attrition. *. Half a dozen bills to end ab sentee voting in individual counties, or to place new re- strictions around it, were re ported favorably by the house committee on elections day be fore yesterday, and it is said that more such bills may be in troduced. The committee’s report led Representative Morp he w of Graham to remark: “It seems to me that we are running into a state-wide law.” We hope so. Absentee voting is a device used for the selfish purposes v of politicians. It is ' contrary to the public interest, j and the sooner the state is rid of it the better. Symphony Society Meeting The executive committee of the North Carolina Symphony So-| eiety met at the Carolina Inn Monday evening. Those who at tended were Colonel J. H. Pratt, Fred B. McCall, Lamar String field. R. W. Linker, and Lyman Wood. Mr. Stringfield reported | that the Symphony Orchestra has played 108 concerts to audi ences that totaled 70,000. The resignation of E. A. Ewing as business fnanager was accepted, and Lyman Wood was appoint-j ed acting manager. The audit or’s report was submitted. Plans ; were made to increase the size !of the orchestra. * n Meteorologist Not Needed The United States Civil Ser vice Commission announces that, because of the fact that there are no vacancies at present and no contemplated vacancies in the near future in the position of Junior Meteorologist, the exam ination recently announced for this position will not be held. TODAY: ANNA MAY WONG in “CHU CHIN CHOW” CASH NIGHT TONIGHT BBlew Speed Record I Entertainment! ffi|} 1 ace Beery ieaas the way for , a nmoth fleet of planes, thousands f men, in a spectacle without par- SATURDAY allel on the screen! Scenes you SUNDAY wouldn’t think possible, plus ro- mance and laughter to make year’s entertainmen^^^^^^^j^^^^^^^ w> D V w Robert Young Lewis Stone Maureen O’Sullivan James Gleason —OTHER FEATURES— r’’’ jPv**. C artoon “Shorty On The Farm’’ -v 3s" Musical Novelty "Along Flirtation Walk" * MONDAY * TUESDAY PAUL LUKAS ALISON SKIPWORTH LILIAN HARVEY TULLIO CARMINATI in in ‘The Casino Murder Case’’ "Let’a Live Tonight" MOONLIGHT and MAGNOLIAS JMW Romance down in Dixie! Crosby crooning sweet and Jow to the loveliest miss on the ole Mississip pH An 4 U** comes Commodore Fields with his ■ merry troupe of entertainers! A show within a JM RING CROSBY JOAN BENNETT W. C. FIELDS ViHJi^LN I Wednesday-Thursday j l * livvvHHHHB -'* K v* * ' *' l TJ FRIDAY Midnight Show SATURDAY Gene Stratton Porter’s ej ™ DA \ GLORIA STUART U^ddie’; “ "with * «°»» ALfciANutk v with PAUL LUKAS ♦ in x - GLORIA STUART Doora Open at 11:15 P.M. “Maybe It'a Lane" Indian Ball Game Two teams from the Cherokee , reservation in western North ! Carolina will play the rough-and- tumble Indian ball game here Saturday April 27. This will be , one of the events of the Dogwood Festival. - ■* MODEL AIRPLANES 3 Model airplane kits and sup plies at low prices. See me about I irders to any company, especial ly Peerless. Pembroke 519 Hooper lane; telephone 7391. ; SALESMEN WANTED Have opening now for reliable salesmen age 25 to 50 years to - take care of demand for Raw ! leigh v, household products in Orange County. Good profits for lustlers. We furnish everything but the car to start you. Raw leigh Co., Dept, NCD-37-C, Rich mond, Va. LOST: A GLOVE Lost: One white reindeer glove, Thursday afternoon be tween 2:30 and 3:30 on Frank lin Street, between the A & P store and Hillsboro Street. Re turn to 506 North Street. Re ward. ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR For sale: about May,4s, elec tric refrigerator; good condition; approximately 5 cubic feet ca pacity. J. P. McConnaughey, tel ephone 4976. PUPS—CANARIES—IRIS Boston, Cairn, Chihuahua, and Scottie pups. Canaries. Iris. Shrubs. K. Tack, Bdx 70, R.F.D. 2, Chapel Hill. Friday, April 5, 1935 POSITIONS FOR WOMEN Wanted: Two ladies of refine ment in Chapel Hill and Carr bora for pleasant and permanent po sition. See Miss Pearce, Friday (today), 152 W. Franklin St. 9 A.M. to 8:30 P.M. FOR RENT Miss Josephine Sharkeys house for rent. Entire summer $l5O. Telephone 4946. COTTAGE FOR RENT For rent: three-room cottage, 215-A Vance Street. See Jack Merritt. FURNISHED COTTAGE For rent: the five-room fur nished cottage at 510 East Rose mary, belonging to Mrs. James M. Bell, is for rent for the sum mer, available in June, and for the year beginning September 1. For information see Madge Ken nejtte, 524 East Franklin Street. EXECUTORS’ NOTICE Having qualified as Executors of the estate of I. W. Pritchard, deceased, late of Orange County, North Caro lina, this is to notify all persons hav ing claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the un dersigned at Chapel Hill, N. C., on or before the 15th day of March, 1938, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebt ed to said estate will please make immediate payment. This 15th day of March, 1935. JOSEPHINE PRITCHARD and W. GRADY PRITCHARD, Executors of the will of I. W. Pritchard. * DR. J. ELLA HARDIN Osteopathic Physician Physiotherapy—Vapor Baths 503 Snow Bldg., Durham PHONE J-5101
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