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VoL 13. Now 23. Changes in the U.N.C. Facility Are Announced Susan G. Akers is Director of School; Hudson. Lyons Be come Full Professors MANY NEWCOMERS IN LIST Promotions announced by the University are! Susan G. Akers, to director of the school of li brary science; A. P. Hudson, to professor of English.; J. C. Lyons, to professor of French; Leon Wiley, to associate profes sor of French; J. 0. Bailey, to assistant professor of English; 'T. Noe, to assistant professor of engineering; C. H. Pegg, Cecil Johnson, and J. C. Russell, to assistant professor of history; A. G. Engstrom, to instructor in French; Scott Barr, to instruc tor in physics; W. A. McKnight, to instructor in Spanish. Kenan leaves of absence for two quarters have been granted to L. C. McKinney, Urban T. Holmes, and W. C. George. On leave without pay are H. G. Baity, W. D. MacMillan, E. E. Ericson, A. K. King, L. M. Brooks, W. F. Ferger, and Clar ence Heer. Returning from leaves of ab sence are T. J. Wooster, E. W. Knight, M. S. Breckenridge, H. D. Wolf, J. Minor Gwynn, Ray mond Adams, P. McClam rOch, T. Smith McCorkle, Paul W. Wager, Albert Coates, Bev erly Thurman, and George How ard. New department heads are Edward Mack (chemistry), A. JR. Newsome (history), and Adolf E. Zucker (German). Henry B. Dewing will come this fall from Colorado College as visiting professor of Latin. (Continued on last page) Loses $1,726 in Taxes Town Gett Lean Revenue as Result of Gift of Inn to University Chapel Hill loses about $1,726 in taxes as the result of John Sprunt Hill’s presentation of the Carolina Inn to the University. I University property is tax exempt. The Carolina Inn has been the Ilown’s largest taxpayer. It was lassessed last year at $99,000 i for real estate and $6,000 for [ personal property, a total of I "$104,000. The town’s tax rate I was $1.66 per SIOO, which made I the Inn’s town tax bill $1,726.40. I Orange county, on the basis lof last year’s tax rate of 78 I cents, loses $811.20 by reason of ftshe University’s coming into ■possession of Hie Inn. There is some doubt of the ■University’s legal right to ex emption from taxes on property ■bt used for educational pur ges—property such as the Inn, He main street building of the Hnsolidated Service Plants, and Hidences for which rent is HHirged. But the question has HPver been put to a legal test IXcause of the arrangement by fprhich the University makes ■regular contributions to the cost Hf police, health, sewage dis- Sbosal, and other municipal ser- Hices from which it benefits. Hecond Term Enrollment 537 (When the second term regis p,;on period closed Tuesday, | men and 191 women had dip enrolled, a total of 537. Lift summer 649 students were registered for the second term. The first term registration this year was 889, The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff You might think that going without a hat would be the best way to keep from losing one, but it doesn’t work that way. For, nearly everybody who goes bare headed most of the time does have a hat which he wears now and then—for example, when he fares forth under an exception ally hot sun, or when rain is fall ing or the weather is cold, or per haps for no particular reason. He takes it off in a friend’s home, or an office or a restaurant, and then, being so accustomed to hatlessness, he departs without it; and later, maybe days later, when he happens to want it again, he hasn’t the faintest idea where he left it. This has hap pened to me several times, and from the testimony of acquain tances I find it is a common ex perience. On a recent morning I found a cap oif a chair in the hall. Phillips Russell had visited me the evening before, and I knew it (Continued on loot page) Hudson’s New Book Volume on Humor in the Deep South to Be Published by Macmillan The Macmillan Company is to publish Humor of the Old Deep South, by A. P. Hudson of the University faculty. It will come out next fall or next spring. The book will consist of anec dotes, comic scenes, and tall tales connected with the lower Mississippi river country be tween 1540 and 1860, supple mented by biographical and crit ical material. Among the chapter titles are: “Yarns of the Spanish, French, and English Explorers,” “In dians,” “Hunters and Fisher men,” “Barnstormers,” “Doc tors,” “Lawyers, Judges and Courts,” “Politicians and Law makers,” "Preachers,” “Local Bards,” “Rivermen,” “Soldiers,” “Picaroons,” “Greenhorns,” “Schoolmasters,” “Duelists,” "Ghosts and Ha’nts,” “Random Cracks by Motley Folk.” Most of the research for Hu mor of the Old Deep South has been done here, at Duke, and in the Library of Congress, through a fellowship in the humanities granted by the General Educa tion Board. The subject mat ter of the book will not be en tirely unfamiliar to Chapel Hillians, since Mr. Hudson has told many of the yarns to his cronies on the golf course and to friends on front porches and lawns in the village. Mr. Hudson has already pub lished Specimens of Mississippi Folk-Lore and Folk-Songs of Mississippi and Their Back ground. The Holmeses’ Trip Urban T. Holmes, Mrs. Holmes, and the three children will sail from New York Aug ust 31 to spend six months in Scotland, England, and France. Mr. Holmes has .a Kenan leave for this period, and will return in March in time for the spring quarter. Mrs. Holmes’ relatives in Glasgow will be vtaited first for a few weeks, and Hie rest of the time will be spent in England and France, possibly with short viiits in other countries on the Continent. Molly r Ann, and Tignor, Jr., will not go to school while they are gone, because they will not remain long enough in any one place. CHAPEL HILL, >l. C„ FRIDAY, AUGUBT 2, 1935 Great Opportunity lor South iu Paper-Making* Declares C. H. Herty The effort of Charles H. Herty, former professor of chemistry here, to perfect the conversion of slash pine into paper pulp, and thus to develop a great paper-manufacturing industry in the South, has been the subject of several brief articles in this newspaper. A recent address by Mr. Herty in Dearborn, Mich igan, contains more detailed in formation about his enterprise than has ever before been given to the public, and extracts from that address are presented here. Let me correct one impression about this term slash pine. The slash pine is simply one species. Some people think slash pine is any old scrub pine that comes up, but we have the long leaf pine, the slash pine, the loblolly, the old field or short leaf pine, the Virginia pine and the pond pine, all commercial varieties. Now, paper makers turned aside from these. Only fifteen years ago it was said that you could not make kraft paper, brown wrapping paper or paper for bags, out of Southern pine. That was freely said, and yet to day sixty per cent of the kraft industry of the United States is in the South. Sixty per cent of the kraft paper is manufactured today in the South. All those fallacies have been disproven, but still they hold off from white paper. And why? It had the name “yellow pine.” They were thinking about the old heart wood, the lumber, and yet you can go down there and cut off a chip from a young pine; instead of being yellow, on the contrary it is remarkably light colored. Infantile Paralysis Three Canes Discovered in Carrboro; George F. Bason, Jr., Improves Bringing to four the total number of infantile paralysis cases in Chapel Hill and Carr boro, Rosa Whitley, 16-months old Negro baby of Carrboro, be came ill last Saturday and was taken to the Duke hospital. George Bason is Chapel Hill’s only case so far. He is said to be improving from an illness that has not been severe and is not thought likely to have seri ous results. He is still in Watts hospital. Two Negro children, Georgie Thompson, 4, and James Far rington, 3, both of Carrboro, were stricken with the disease July 18 and treated in the Duke hospital. They have been sent home, but it is feared that they will be slightly crippled. A quarantine has been placed on the families of stricken chil dren. According to Health Officer S. A. Nathan, physicians at Duke have sent the Thompson and the Farrington babies home in ac cordance with a well supported theory that the infectious stage of the disease ends after the first five or six days. The Pughs’ New Home Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Pugh have bought the former Sutton home on North street, near Hillsboro street, and will move in Septem ber 1. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Alexander live there now. Second Term Directories Student directories for the second term of the summer ses sion are available at the Y. M. C. A. office. * * - Now may I speak of the slash pine, that most wonderful of ail pines. Here is a piece of spruce that was shipped down to me from Nova Scotia. It is 50 years old. And here is a piece of slash pine on which we print ed our first newspaper. It is just six years old. Warm tem perature, long growing season; it grows practically the whole year around. Don’t think that this is a freak, because we had a whole carload of these, but I just brought one up to show you. There is a nine-year-old tree of loblolly pine, ten inches in diam eter. These things are growing, you see, without anybody look ing after them. Suppose we look after them a little bit! Then I want to show you what one young pioneer farmer down in Georgia is doing, to let you see where this program fits into the farm program. He is Marion down in Brooks County, Georgia, near Quitman. He has not been to college. He had to stay home and take care of the farm while his brothers went to college, and he hit on a very sini ple agricultural thought, which nobody else at the time had thought of, however. He wanted to put his farm into slash pine and be ready for the paper mills. He did not have the money. He could not borrow it. I advised him to try it out on a smaller scale, and he did. It cost him a little money to buy seedlings. It cost a dollar and a half a thou sand, slash pine seedlings, raised in. the state of Georgia in the .state nurseries. He had the la bor of planting. He said this, (Continued on page two) Swalin’s Recital Visiting Professor Will Play Violin Sunday Evening in Hill Music Hall Benjamin Swalin of DePauw University, who is a visiting member of the music depart ment faculty for the second summer term, will give a violin recital at 8:30 Sunday evening in the Hill Music hall. This will be the first of a series of weekly faculty recitals. The program is as follows; Sonata, C minor for pianoforte and violin, Op. 80, No. 2 Beethoven; Chaconne for violin S. Bach; Air de Len sky—Tschaikowsky-Auer; Min strels—Debussy; Indian Lament —Dvorak-Kreisler; Liebesfreud —Kreisler; Witches Dance—Pa ganini. There will be no admission charge and everybody is invited. Blake to C. M. T. C. It calls to mind the Central American revolutionary army of song and story—more officers than privates. Only one young man, Aubrey Blake, is going from here to the Citisens’ Military Training Camp at Fort Bragg this month, but Chapel Hill is sending three officers, Captain E. R. Rankin, First Lieutenant Obie Harmon, and First Lieutenant T. E. Hin son. Alt three are commissioned in the Artillery Reserve Corps. “Rankin and Hinson and my self are going down to the Fort tomorrow,” said Mr. Harmon yesterday. “Along with other officers we are going to get ready for the students, who come in Monday the 6th. We will stay two weeks; the period of train ing fcr the students is four weeks.” List of Delinquents In Print Next Week Nums at Property Owners Win Have Not Paid Taxes to Be PuMtoheS In compliance with state law, the government of the town of Chapel Hill will publish next week, and for three weekdf there after, the list of all persons and concerna whose town taxes for 1934 have not been paid. The list' will be made up at this week-end, but any delinquent can have his name stricken off it by settling his tax bill before 3 P. M. Tuesday. The properties on which taxes remain .unpaid wilt be sold at public auction at 10 o’clock Mon day morning, September 2, at the town hall, Columbia and Rosemary streets. In the publication of the list of delinquents, obligations to the town are put down in three sep arate classifications: taxes, street assessments, and sewer rentals. Aiding the Freshmen University Has Plan To Enable Then to Make Most of Their Talents As the result of careful studies of what has been done ip the same direction in other institu tions, the University will in augurate this fall a plan to aid freshmen in getting their bear ings and making the best of their talents. One feature of the plan is a committee of faculty advisers, composed of Corydon P. Spruill (chairman), M. A. Hill, Ernest L. Maekie, H. R, Totten, Harry K. Russell, and W. L. Wiley. To each of these will be assigned a group of about 100 freshmen; he will maintain contact with them and will counsel them on their various problems. The idea is to take account of indi vidual differences, with respect both to previous training and individual aptitudes, and to en courage every freshman to pur sue the kind of work which will be of most benefit to him. * The “house plan” tried last year with one dormitory, will be extended. Two dormitories in the outer quadrangle (Aycock, Graham, Lewis, Everett) will be reserved for freshmen, and rooms in the other two will be available to members of all classes. * An upperclassman will be in command of each of the four buildings, not to function as a disciplinarian, meddler, monitor, or killjoy, but as a sort of counsellor. He will be ready to advise the students in mat ters relating not only to their studies but also to their health, their finances, their activities in general. This scheme has proved successful at Harvard, Yale, and other colleges. Negro Meetings Called Off The Negro meetings in Carr boro, scheduled for this week, were called off because of the danger. of infantile paralysis. One was a Sunday school con vention that was to begin yes terday morning in the Methodist church, which is a few feet from the Carrboro-Chapel Hill line; the other was a revival that was to begin last night Mr. Scanlon to Preach Sunday The first union service will be conducted at U o’clock Sunday morning at the Baptist church by Rev. David H. Scanlon of the First Presbyterian church In Durham. He will bring his choir |,» * # ■ •:■ M ' , v > fej $1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy Tax Rate for Town Govt, to Fall 7 Cento Was $1.32 Last Year, Will Be $1.25 This Year; -Rate for School Not Yet Fixed EMPLOYEES’ PAY RAISED The aldermen have approved the tentative budget, covering the coat of town government for the year 1935-36, and it is on dis play at the town hall for all citi zens who care to examine it. The amount that has to be raised by an ad valorem levy is about $2,000 less than it was last year, and so the tax rate will be 7 cents lower. The 1934 rate was; for operation, 84 cents; for debt service, 48 cents; total, $1.32. The 1935 rate will be; for operation, 80 cents; for debt service, 45 cents; total, $1.25. These figures do not include the school tax rate. Last year this was 34 cents, bringing the total for town and school to $1.66. What the school rate will be this year is not yet known, since the school budget has not been completed. Auditor Pea cock and Superintendent Gwynn are working on it now, and it will be laid before the school board within the next few days. Employees of the town, like those of the University, are get ting a raise in pay this year, the raise being a restoration, or par tial restoration, of what they lost by reductions. On the average, it amounts to about 10 per cent. The budget is also affected by the rise in the prices of nearly all supplies and materials used by the town. The total requirements for op (Continued on but page) Henderson Playing Ckapvl Hill Youth Taking Port ia Tannia Tournament in Ckariotto Archie Henderson, Chapel Hill’s representative in this sum mer’s Southern tennis wars, reached the quarter-finals of the Middle Atlantic tournament in Charlotte Wednesday afternoon with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Ernest Eubanks of Charlotte. He play ed Burtz Boulware, Georgia Tech star seeded number four, yester day afternoon. Henderson was seeded sixth. If he beat Boul ware yesterday (the match was not finished when this paper went to press) he will play today in the semi-finals against the top-seeded Arthur Hendrix. Another University player, Ramsay Potts of Memphis, who beat Archie two weeks ago te win the Tennessee state title, also reached the quarter-final round. Henderson will play next week in the North Carolina state tour nament at Asheville. + Summer Session Bulletin ' * Friday and Saturday (today and tomorrow), 9 P. M., dance at the Gymnasium. Sunday, Aur. 4, 11 A. M., union services in the Baptist church; Rev. D. H. Scanlon and choir from First Presbyterian church, Durham. 8:30 P. M., violin recital, Ben jamin Swalin, Hill Music hall Wednesday, Aug. 7, 9:30 P. If., watermelon feast under the Davie Poplar. Friday, Aug. 9,9 P. M., dance at the Gymnasium. Vesper services at 7 every evening except and, Sunday, under the Davie Poplar*
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