Yol 17, No. 28
Durham Agrees'
With President
On Neutrality
He Does Not Think Executive
Should Be Hampered by
- Measure
SAYS WADSWORTH MADE
AN EXCELLENT SPEECH
Wnen Congressman Carl Dur
ham was here at the week-end
for a short visit to his family, I
asked him how he stood on the
question now agitating political
circles in Washington neu
trality. N
“I am for the measure which
the President and Secretary Hull
want,” he said. “I don’t believe
in enacting any arbitrary em
bargo law that will tie the hands
of the Administration in an
emergency. Nobody knows what
may happen. A crisis may arise
suddenly, affecting the whole
world, and the President should
be free to act to protect the in
terests of this country.
"Os course Congress could be
called into special session at any
time, but in the meantime the
President shouldn’t be put in a
straight-jacket with respect to
our foreign relations.
"Along with all but one of the
North Carolina representatives
I voted against the embargo
amendment. After, this amend
ment had been carried, however,
we voted for the bill as so
amended. The original bill had
been approved by the Adminis
tration, and those of us who
supported it in its first form pre
ferred not to have it killed; we
preferred that it go on over to
the Senate and that the embargo
amendment be ft*gid out."'
Mr. Durham expressed ad
miration for the speech on neu
trality delivered in the House a
few days ago by Representative
Wadsworth of New York. He
said this was a masterly state
ment of the case against enact
ing an arbitrary embargo law.
While Mr. Durham does not
agree with all the points made
by Mr. Wadsworth, he thinks
that the policy advocated by the
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Bible-Kissing Revived
Result «f Acquittal of Defendants in
Recent Liquor Cane
Bible - kissing, unknown in
these parts for many years, was
a conspicuous part of the pro
ceedings in the recorder’s court
Tuesday morning. Chief of Po
lice Sloan, Officers Wright and
Norwood, and other witnesses
were careful to kiss the volume
when they took the stand.
This was the result of Judge
Mclntosh's acquitting three de
fendants in a liquor case, a few
days ago, because the police did
not swear -on the Bible to the
search warrants.
After the acquittal, Moody
Durham, clerk of the recorder’s
court, bought Bibles for the
court, for his own office, for the
office of Justice of the Peace
Paul Robertson, for the police
station in the Town Hall, and
for the police station on Frank
lin street. These places had
never been outfitted with Bibles
lief ore.
The ancient law concerning
oath-taking on the Bible, long
in desuetude here, was resur
rected and invoked by C. P. Hin
shawapd L. J. Phipps, attorneys
for the defendants in the liquor
case. There are predictions that,
a« news of this case spreads,
Chapel Hill’s boom in Bible sales
will be duplicated throughout
the state.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
emu*
Pin Ball Tables Installed Here,
Used lor Gambling by Subterfuge,
Trouble Both Town and University
Pin ball tables, which do not
themselves “pay off” and there
fore do not technically violate
the state law against gambling
devices, have been installed in
several places in Chapel HUI.
There’s a trick in it. The trick
is that a pay-off is made not
in all the places in the village
where the tables are operated,
but in some of them—not me
chanically but by the passing of
money from one human hand to
another; one of the hands be
longing to the owner or an em
ployee of the establishment
harboring the table, the other to
the winner.
If there be a winner, which
there seldom is. A player of this
game does not have anything
like what is commonly called “a
gambler’s chance.”
An old statute in North Caro
lina says that no gaming table,
such as pool or billiards, or any
other game shall be operated in
a public place in Chapel Hill
without the written approval of
the President of the University,
He has refused to give his ap
proval in this case and has asked
Playground Has an Open-House Celebration
The children of Chapel Hill’s
summer playground held open
house at the elementary school
Wednesday afternoon. The pro
gram included a stage entertain
ment, an exhibition of hand
craft articles made by the chil
dren, and indoor and outdoor
games.
The entertainment consisted
pf three written*, di
rected, and acted without the
aid of adults. The most amusing
was “Hollywood Scene,” which
depicted the tribulations of a
movie director trying to syn
chronize his cast and his cam
eramen. Joe Escourido, as the
hard-boiled but frustrated di
rector, kept up a barking, rapid
fire harangue which delighted
the audience.
The handcrafts exhibit in
cluded bird houses, wooden
plaques, fly swatters, a wooden
dagger, pottery made of clay
from the Mason farm, hand
woven articles made of string,
copper vessels made from cap
tured stills, cloth pot-lifters,
checkerboards, puppets, and a
puppet theatre.
Automobile traffic on the main
street, of the village was halted
last Friday afternoop to make
way for the second annual "On
Wheels Day” parade of the
playground. The parade was
A Bill of New Plays
Three new one-act plays,
written and directed by stu
dents in Frederick H. Koch's
summer playwriting course, will
be given at 7:30 tomorrow (Sat
urday) evening in the Play
makers Theatre. Admission:
free.
An Outdoor Band Concert
The All-State High School
Band, composed of high school
students taking music in the
University’s summer school, will
give a concert at 4:30 Sunday
afternoon under the Davie Pop
lar. This will be the last outdoor
band concert of the summer.
Fred Koch, Jr., to Miami U.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Koch, Jr.,
will leave early in September
for Miami, Fla., where Mr. Koch
will become a member of the
faculty (drama department) of
’the University of Miami, Flor
ida.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939
that the aldermen do not li
cense the tables.
But C. P. Hinshaw, town at
torney, has rendered to the al
dermen the tentative opinion
that they cannot legally refuse
to license the tables. He bases
his opinion on the North Caro
lina statutes as they stand to
day. The recent general as
sembly legalized such things as
pin ball tables with the provision
that they were not to be used for
gambling.
The claim of the concern that
owns the tables, and rents them
to stores, restaurants, bowling
alleys, and other establishments,
on a fifty-fifty split of the reve
nue, is, of course, that they are
not gambling devices.
And it is a fact that some
times they are not.
"There is no pay-off in con
nection with the table at our
bowling alley,” said J. B. Johns
yesterday. “If the light comes
on, showing a number, that
means that the player is en
titled to that many extra games
—one, two, three, or whatever
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made up of children riding, push
ing, or rolling the following ve
hicles and contraptions (all
decorated): hoops, wheelbar
rows, old tires, bicycles, tri
cycles, scooters, wagons, old
wheel on a stick, toy autos,
roller skates, doll carriages, and
baby carriages.
The procession marched down
the middle of Franklin street
from the elementary school to
the post office and back again.
It was led by Officer Yeargin on
his motorcycle. After him came
Raymond Stainback carrying
the American flag, next Larue
Sparrow and Bobby Farrell car
rying between them the play
ground sign, next the children's
rhythm band, and then the main
body of the parade.
Cost of Using Electric Lights and Gadgets
Under New Schedule of Rates Now in Effect
Many a householder has wondered just how much is the cost of
current for an electric light, or fan, or iron, or refrigerator, or
other convenience, for a certain length of time.
When I was examining the University Service Plants’ schedule
of new reduced rates one day this week, I said to myself: Sup
pose, for example, you put in a new lamp with a 100-watt bulb;
how much would it cost you, per hour, to keep it burning? I
went to J. S. Bennett, superintendent of the Service Plants, and
asked him to give me such information. And he made out the
table that I am presenting here.
To understand the figures you have to bear this in mind: Since
the price of current per unit declines as consumption rises, the
cost of additional current is pot the same for one user as for an
other. For example, if you have been using 50 kilowatt hours a
month (which costs $1.90 under the new rates), then the rate for
every additional kilowatt hour up to 150 is 2.8 centsbut if you
have been using 150 kilowatt hours a month (which costs $4.70
under the new rates), then the rate for every additional kilowatt
hour is 1.8 cents.
Example: A kilowatt is a thousand watts. When you burn a
100-watt lamp 10 hours, that is the equivalent to consuming 1,000
watts, or one kilowatt, for one hour. The cost of this kilowatt for
one hour, if you are adding it to a normal consumption of 60 kilo
watts a month, is 2.8 cents. So you burn your 100-watt lamp ten
hours for 2.8 cents; which means that you burn it 3.8 hours for
one cent. If your normal consumption is 160 kilowatt hours a
month, you pay less (1.8 instead of 2.8 cents) for every additional
kilowatt hour; so you burn your 100-watt lamp 5.0 hours for one
cent.
Number of Hours of Use for One Cent
Additional Um far Addition*! Us* for
Castomor Who Is Customer Who Is
UsiagMkwha Using 150 kwh a
Month (11.90) Month (14.70)
Number of Hour* Number of Honrs
Per 1 Cent Fori Cent
Utah fsn , M IM
W-wstt lamp . f. «J 4.5
lamp : M 5.0
190-wstt lamp S 14 IT •
Refrigerator (Family 81a*) f M U
Chapel Hill Chaff
An editor never knows what’s
going to be picked up from his
paper and passed around the
country. The paragraph about
Mrs. T. J. Wilson’s blue hair
probably holds the circulation
record for Chapel Hill chron
icles. (It was blue because the
hair-dresser put too much indigo
in the washing mixture).
Last week’s piece about 2Va
year-old Avery Russell’s going
on a visit, entirely nude, to the
vlsen home, and bursting in on
k flute recital by a Chinese
visitor, T. Z. Koo, has been re
printed not only in North Caro
lina but also in Baltimore and
Richmond papers, and no doubt
it will pop up in many others.
| When the yellowed clipping is
pulled out of an envelope and
shown to Avery when she is
sixteen or eighteen, I wonder
what she will think about it?
There was a time when a young
woman would have been embar
rassed, to the point of blushing,
at seeing it down in print that
she had gone visiting without
any clothes on, even though the
incident had happened in her
infancy. But in tki* day a
young woman would get no emo
tion but merriment out of it,
and my guess is that, when
Avery has grown up, embarrass
ment will be even less in vogue
than it is now.
• * *
Henry Hamilton, a year and
eight months old, a Virginia
mountaineer by birth, is here
visiting his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Hamilton. When
he was hardly a year old he was
impersonating Tarzan—beating
his breast with both hands and
giving a weird shriek. Tarzap is
a person of great courage and
resource, and maybe it was his
influence that was at work on
Henry when lightning struck
the Hamilton House on‘Hooper
lane Sunday afternoon. •
The rain was coming down in
torrents. There was a flash of
lightning, and then a tremen
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Town’s Tax Rate Will Decline
Two Cents to $1.63; County’s
Will Be Same as Tear Ago, $1
Ken field’** Sporting
Goods Store
John F. Kenfleld, University
tennis coach, is to open a sport
ing goods store on the main
street of the village in the fall.
He has leased from Collier
Cobb, Jr., for three years the
building once occupied by W. 0.
Lacock and later by Johnson-
Crew. It is now undergoing al
terations, and Mr. Kenfleld will
install shelves, counters, and
other equipment before college
opens in September.
His decision to open a sport
ing goods store is the result of
the law which limits the Uni
versity’s operations in retail
merchandising. Until now all
sorts of supplies needed for golf,
tennis, and other spoils have
been on sale at the Book Ex
change. The law provides that
henceforth the Book Exchange,
which is part of the University,
shall sell only to persons con
nected with the institution, and
even to them it is allowed to sell
only articles the use of which is
incident to classroom work (ex
cept for articles priced at 15
cents or less).
A Sunday Concert
A Chamber Music Recital Will Be
Given by the Music Faculty
A concert of chamber music
will be given at 7:30 Sunday
evening in Hill Music hall by the
faculty of the University’s sum
mer school music department.
Everybody is, invited.
Here is the program:
String Quartette, Op. 18, No.
2, Allegro—Beethoven.
Interludeium in Modo Antico,
Op. 15, No. 3 (for string quar
tet) —Glazounow-Pochon.
Divertimento, Op. 26 (for
woodwind quartet)—Mason.
Brass Quartet, Adagio, Alleg
ro—McKay.
Quintet, Assez lent sans
trainer (for flute, violin, viola,
cello, and piano)—Cras.
Quintet, Op. 44, Allegro Bril
lante (for piano and string quar
tet) —Schumann.
The following faculty mem
bers will take part: Earl Slocum,
flute; Herbert Hazelman, bas
soon; Harris Mitchell, French
horn; Edgar Alden, violin; Eliza
beth Mitchell, violin; Dorothy
Alden, viola; Walter Bloch, cel
lo; Charles Miller, qomet; Rob
ert Simmons, trombone; Herbert
Livingston, piano. '
Assisting artists will be
Mark Altvater, oboe; Hubert
Henderson, cornet; and Allan
Garrett, clarinet.
Julian Woody Visit Village
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Wood of
Edenton were here gt the bank
ers’ convention this week. Mr.
Wood was a student in the Uni
versity in the 1880’s. Mrs. Wood
is the former Miss Mary Ander
son of Chapel Hill. In the course
of her three-day stay in the vil
lage she saw some of her old
friends, among them her cousin,
Mrs. Julia C. Graves; Mrs. N. H.
D. Wilson; and Mrs. Lyman
Gotten.
Operation on Judge Mclntosh
Andrew Mclntosh, judge of
the recorder’s court, had his left
foot amputated in Watts hospi
tal Wednesday. He was getting
along well yesterday, His sub
stitute on Hie bench at Hie ses
sion of the court this week was
Clarence Pickard.
Jl-50 a Year In Advance, k a Copy
Town Debt Service Rate Down
14c; Rate for Operating
Expense Is Up 13V 2 c
BUDGET FOR~STREETS
SHOWS AN INCREASE
The aldermen have put the
tax rate of the town of Chapel
Hill (including the school rate)
at $1.63, which is 2 cents lower
than it was last year. This is
called the tentative rate because
it is based on a tentative budg
et. The state law requires a
municipality to draw up a ten
tative budget and hold it for
public inspection for 20 days
before taking final action on it.
The tax rate of Orange coun
ty has been put—in like fashion,
tentatively—at sl. This is the
same as it was last year.
Thus a property owner in
Chapel Hill will pay $2.63 on the
SIOO of assessed valuation in
stead of the $2.65 he paid last
year.
The following table shows
the component parts of the town
tax rate last year and this year:
1938 1939
Debt Service $0.59 $0.45
Oper. Expense 72V6 -86
School 33 y* .32
Total town rate $1.65 $1.63
Last year the town rate was
based on total assessed valua
tions of $3,325,000. The aider
men estimate the total assessed
valuations this year at
000. This increase of $50,000 is
due to the construction of new
buildings, mostly homes.
The town’s putative budget
shows increased requirements
for nearly all the departments.
One of the largest increases is
for street repairs and main
tenance. The concrete sidewalk
on the business block of Frank
lin street have ypot to be rebuilt
over a considerable area. West
University drive is to be wid
ened west of Ransom street. The
easternmost block of McCauley
street is in bad need of repair.
And there are patching and
draining to be done.
Old Firehouse Is Gone
A lively View Is DUcloeed by lbe
Removal of an Ugly Building
M. J. Dawson’s men have fin
ished tearing down and remov
ing the old flrehouse-and-jail
which stood in the middle of Co
lumbia street at the north side
of the Rosemary-Col umbia in
tersection.
Villagers who had got used to
being stared in the face by the
ugly old brick building when
ever they came north along Co
lumbia are delighted by the
beautiful view now opened up to
them. For stretching northward
from the village is an expanse
of wooded hills, and persons
coming from the direction of
the Inn now look out over these
wild and lovely ranges to the
horizon.
When the new Town Hall
(with its firehouse and jail)
was being completed several
months ago, the old building
was advertised for sale on con
diUon that it be removed. Whan
no buyer turned up, the alder
men decided to give it to any
body, who would remove it. Mr,
Dawson accepted this offer. He
•aid yesterday that he had
found a use for everything ex
cept the two steel prison cages,
and that he was sHll hoping to
And somebody who would IHgw
to buy them.