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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-12-18
Honor Boxes Robbed

Somebody has been robbing
the "honor system" boxes at
which fruit and candy are sold
at various places around the Uni
versity campus. Not only have
the fruit and candy been taken,
but the coin boxes have been
broken into and the money car
ried away. These boxes are run
by self-help students. The
things for sale are laid out on a
shelf or table, and above them
is a placard with some such sign
as: "Take one and drop five
cents in the slot" Several boys
have been earning part of their
expenses by means of this mar
keting system. It worked out
we'll until a month or so ago
when the robberies began. One
evening a student observed two
young men in overalls loafing
suspiciously as he thought, a.
bout one of the boxes. Later it
was found to have been forci-
bly, opened. r. M. Hardee is
one of the University students
who is particularly interested
in chasing the miscreants down.
eve are watching the boxes"
he said yesterday, "and expect
to catch the thieves"
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-12-18
Alderman's Triumph
His Memorial Speech on Wilson
Makes Deep Impression

One day this week a former
resident of Chapel Hill-Edwin
A. Alderman, president of the
University here twenty-five
ago and now president of the
University of Virginia-occu-
pied the center of the national
stage. In the chamber of the
house of representatives in
Washington he delivered the
memorial address at a joint con-
gressional service in memory of
Woodrow Wilson. President
Coolidge and his entire cabinet
were present, and Chief Justice
Taft and his colleagues on the
standing joint house-and-senate
and most of the members of
both houses of congress.
The exercise took place Mon
day. Next day the papers all
over the continent were record
ing the deep impression that Mr..
Alderman's address made. The
Washington correspondents
characterized it as great
speech one of the finest deliver
ed in the capitol in the memory
Of the present generation.
Under the title, Alderman
Is Seen as Presidential Timber"
the Greensboro News published
a despatch quoting some of the
leading Democrats in congress
as saying that they saw in Mr..
Alderman the party's most pro-
missing candidate for President
in 1928.
Representative Stevenson of
South CarSlIna said that a mil
lion copies Of the address ought
to be printed, and the Green's
boro papers correspondent .sug-
gested that, inasmuch as Mr..
Swanson was a member of the
standing joint house-and-senate
committee on printing, he might
bring this about.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-12-18
Wallace StrOWd Moves
Leaves Wisconsin to Take New Job
in Nashville, Tenn.

Wallace Stroud, son of Robert
Stroud and for sometime past
the director and chief chemist
of the division of feed and ferti-
lizer inspection in the Wisconsin
department of agriculture, will
go to Nashville, Tennessee, to
become secretary of the Soft
Wheat Millars' Association. He
takes up his new duties January
1, and his father hopes that he
may be able to come by Chapel
Hill for a few days before that.
The magazine, Flour and
Feed, announcing the appoint
ment of Mr.. Stroud to the posi-
tion in Nashville, says:
CDR. Stroud's long service
with the Wisconsin department
of agriculture has gained for
him an outstanding reputation
for ability and fairness among
both feed control officials and
the feed interests with whom
ne came in contact. AS chair
man of the executive committee
OF the Association of Feed Con-
troll Officials of the United
States, his work in connection
with the problems of that body
has been of highly construc-
tive nature. At the annual meet
ing of the association, held in
October at Washington, he was
elected its vice-president."
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-12-18
Negro Children's Rally
They Make Contributions for the New
School Building

School Building
In celebration of the opening
of the new building of the
Orange County Training School,
out at the north end of Church
street, the negro school child
ren had a rally one afternoon
last week and made up a fund
as gift to the institution.
After the exercises in the
auditorium the children gather
ed in front of the new building
and had their photograph taken,
and then there was a football
game between the intermediate
and the grammar grades.
A number of white visitors
were guests of the school the
same day, including Mrs.
Archer, Mrs. Moody Durham, G.
H. Paulsen, Rev. Walter E..
Patten, and Mrs. Carter.
The first count of the money
contributed by the children
showed that the first grade had
given 1920, the second grade
$500, the third grade, $8.45,
the fourth and fifth grades,
$19.45, the sixth and seventh
grades $13.25, the eight grade
1925, the ninth grade 5000,
the tenth grade 81, and the
eleventh grade $4.00 This made
a total of $3.50, but before
night more gifts had brought it
to $1O5.00 More than 70 child
rem gave $1.OO EACH
The faculty of the school is
sued a statement of thanks the
school committee composed of
M. c. S. Noble, DR.. Charles s..
Mangum, and J. S. Holmes) for
the work which resulted in the
erection of the building, and to
all the white people and negroes
who helped.
In the September drive Char
les Brooks contributed 1925 and
Mrs. Compton $25. Since then
DR.. J. E. Shepherd has sent $25
and johnson Merritt IS.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-12-18
Aid for Crossword Puzzle Makers

tion of Research in Progress"
the man charged with making
crossword puzzles will find other
helpful titles; for example: .'The
Stratigraphy of Deep River
Goals" by Herman J. Bryson,
and "The Laccolith," by Gerald
R. Mccarthy; and the forecast
of a report by Collier Cobb on
the '1oessal" soils from Europe,
Asia and North America. That
word 'loessaP' will be knock
out for any crossword puzzle
solver not himself a geologist.
"RelatWity5h found in some
of Archibald /Henderson's titles,
has been so well advertised that
it would give nobody trouble,
but other words of Mr.. Hender-
sons such as "parametrically"
and "pseudosphere," are pro-
missing. His colleague, John w.
Lasley, would win gratitude
from the puzzle-makers for sug-
gesting to them "asymptotic
curves" Then another of Mr..
Lasley's helpful phrases is "os-
culating quadric." When l first
spied this l thought my eyes
were seeing wrong, for the word
"osculating", as | understood it,
seemed out of place in mathe-
matical treatise. However,
since it occurred three times in
the same paragraph it could
hardly be a misprint, and T. F.
Hickerson of the mathematics
faculty assured me it was not
that quadrics osculated fire.
quently and in so doing were
only obeying the law of their
nature.
On other pages of Research
in Progress" I learn that f. T.
Browne writes about certain
symmetric and skew-symmetric
orthoganal matrices" DR.. Mac
Continued on Page p
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-12-18

l have heard much complaint
to the effect that the crossword
puzzles published in the news
papers are too easy. People are
resenting the insult of being
asked to solve the mystery of
how to translate ''the staff of
life" into a word of five letters,
or to discover how to spell out
in three letters an animal used
in hunting quail,", or to work
out two-letter word from the
description, third personal
neuter pronoun."
Evidently it is up to the puz-
Zle-Weavers to make 'em harder.
They must employ more un-
familiar words unless they are
to be laughed out of court. AS
a help to them, at this critical
juncture in their profession, l
recommend a volume just issued
by the University of North Caro-
lima Press entitled Research in
Progress"
Suppose that after you have
finished your supper you turn
-condescendingly, recalling your
past easy triumphs, to the cross
word puzzle in the evening paper
and are faced with this as hori-
zontal, number one: "A genus
of gasteromycetous fungi char
acterized by a double peridium."
| am confident that many an
hour will have passed before you
find that the word that sums up
all this is none other than
Coaster. Which will have been
suggested by the essay by w. C.
Coker, ''The Coasters of the
United States and Canada" Also,
good possibilities lie in the
name of the piece which Mr..
Coker did in collaboration with
j N. Couch: "a New Aphanomy-
ces Parasitic on Fungi"
Passing on to the geology sec
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-12-18
SCHOOLBOYSSEEK
POULTRY PROFITS
Are Buying High-Bred FlOcks
and Caring for Them on
Scientific Plans
GOOD HOUSES ARE BUILT

Some of the boys who attend
the Chapel Hill school are going
in for poultry on scientific
plan.
This is the result of the train
ing they have been receiving
in the agriculture classes and
of the opportunities that are. be-
ing opened to them by the new
cooperative marketing system.
Gurney Riggsbee, who lives a
few miles to the south of town,
has bought a new flock of 100
white Leghorn pullets, and Walt
er Lloyd, who comes to school
here from the Bethlehem church
section near the west line of
Orange county, has bought a
flock of rs. Both of them have
provided houses for the chick
ems, and are setting out to feed
them properly and to carry out
all the other rules laid down
by experts for the up-to-date
poultryman.
The best authorities on poul-
try have found that, in this sec
tion, if the owner does his own
carpentering, a good house for
100 chickens can be put up for
not more than $26. The hens
lay so much better when well
sheltered, and the conquest of
lice and mites becomes so much
easier, that the larger produc-
tion in one winter will defray
the cost of the building.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-12-18
Howell Tree Burns
Dead Oak Catches Fire; Causes
Fright; Put out by FOister

A big dead oak in Vernon
Howell's back yard caught fire
about midnight Friday. He was
awakened by the glare and look
ed out to find the premises lit
up by the gigantic torch.
Mrs. Charles Mangum, in her
home just beyond the fence to
the east, was awakened at the
same time. At first she thought
the Howell garage, a few feet
from her window, was ablaze.
She reused DIR. Mangum and
they rushed downstairs in great
alarm.
Meanwhile Mr.. Howell had
called Chief Foister, and in a
few minutes he arrived with the
engine and put the fire out. To-
day it is charred to a height of
40 feet from the ground, and it
is soon to be cut down.
A self-help student had been
burning leaves in the yard in
the afternoon. He thought he
had extinguished the last spark
when he quit for the night; and
Vernon Kyser, going out at
eight o'clock to make a further
examination, VISA satisfied that
all was well. But fire had been
smouldering out of sight at the
foot of the tree and a breeze
that sprang up in the night
famed it into a blaze.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-12-18
CHRISTMAS
SUBSCRIPTIONS

Have you Thought of a
years subscription to the
Chapel Hill Hill w Weekly as a
Christmas gift for some
relative or friend?
Christmas subscrip-
tions cost $1.0O each in
stead of the regular price
of $3.50. This offer ap-
plies only to newcomers
on the list, not to rene
walls.
Orders for these gift
inscriptions should be
sent before Christmas.
They may be mailed to
the Chapel Hill Weekly,
Chapel Hill, N. c, or may
be telephoned to No. AT
or No. 220.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-12-18
Country Club Party

On the day after Christmas,
Friday of next week, the men,
bers of the Country Club and
their families will gather for
supper at the clubhouse. Each
family group will bring a bas-
ket Of things to eat. The sup
per will be followed by a white
elephant party" and there will
be swapping of duplicate Christ
mas gifts. Mrs. Leavitt is to
be the hostess for the evening.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-12-18
Glenn Patterson iii

Glenn Patterson, proprietor
Of the Patterson Brothers drug
store, was taken to Watts Hos
pital Tuesday. He is seriously
Ill with heart trouble.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-12-18

Mr. and Mrs s. H. Hobbs are
going to Baltimore.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-12-18
Chapel Hill Chaf

"A QuACC CClCpAAOAAC CnAA W OII1C1
Fosters house, in case of fire,
saves the community a fright,
but it gives the fire chief more
to do, and less companionship,
than if the siren sounded. When
he got news of Vernon Howell's
burning tree the other night he
reused his son, and these two
got out the engine raced down
the main street, connected the
hose with the hydrant, and put
out the blaze. One man who
happened to be on the street
joined them and gave aid, but
the members of the company
stayed snug in their beds and
knew nothing of the incident un-
til next morning.
I ran across Whit Webb of
Hillsboro in the Nash head
quarters in Durham the other
day trying to guess how far the
mystery car" would run in six
ty hours. The car proceeds a.
long a runway, ascends a gentle
incline, backs down and across
the room, and then does it all
over again-all very slowly.
Whit made a guess of three hun
dred odd miles; but the men in
the place began to rag him and
reminded him that the backward
trip didn't register on the speed
ometer; so he changed his guess
to thirty something. He is
looking for a big prize Saturday
night.
Doctor Kluttz was. having
trouble with his eyes last week
and he got a bottle of eye-wash
from the drugstore. But when
he went to the medicine cabinet
in his bathroom to get some of
it he consulted the wrong bot
tie and washed his eyes with an
earache cure. The error was
not discovered for an hour or so.
He said the stuff seemed about
as good for his eyes as the pre-
scribed remedy had been. Sew
eral months ago Doctor Kluttz
made a similar mistake and
drank some of the well-known
cleaning fluid, carbona, in place
of a liquid that had been pre-
scribed for his stomach. For
many days afterward he would
not smoke for fear of starting a
fire inside of him.
4 n
When the Strowd dog went
wild two or three weeks ago and
the family was taking the Pas
teur treatment to ward off hy-
drophobia, I put over the story
the headline, "Strowds Bitten
by Pet Terrier" Edward Ora
ham saw it in manuscript and
said he thought a much better
heading would be, "Will Bruce
Strowd Go Mad I realized
this was an improvement, but
Continued on page ~
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Mrs. Pratt and 10 left Tues
day for Springfield where they
will be for the next three weeks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-29


suppose great many of you reg
ularly attend Sunday school. went
constantly until / was Is years of
age and went away from home to go
to college. Moreover l want to urge
you all to regularly read the Bible.
You will receive the benefit from this
in many ways. 1t is a wonderful
history, it teaches you of the man
ners and customs of the nations of
the east. and its spiritual lessons
are of untold value. 1t is by no
means dull and dry book but is
filed with life. and If you become
familiar with it it will help you in
your daily work. AS I read it, and
do SO every day without fail, I am
astonished at the vast amount of
information it contains. Its lessons
are woven into everyday life in the
most practical way, and no man can
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be we'll educated unless he S thor
oughly grounded in it. If your par
ents do not read it to you, read it
yourselves. and when you come back
to the next boys conference you will
thank me for having awakened your
interest in the Book of all Books.
You all read the newspapers more
or less and know Of the troubles
they are having in Washington. The
Investigations show that things have
been far from right and that wicked
men have had far too much to do
with the manipulation of politics
and large affairs. Such men can do
more to tear down and destroy our
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To the Citizens Of Augusta,
Hallowell, Gardiner, Ran.
dolph and Winthrop:
On behalf of the Enter
. tainnent COMMITTEES of the
Maine; Boys Conference,
wish to extend to you the APP
y probation of the Committee
for your generous response
to its appeal for entertain
ment for the boys. You can
feel that you are in large
measure responsible for the
success Of the Conference,
and that you have contrib:
uted to the conservation of
Names most valua able
resouce-her boys.
ERNEST L. MCLEAN
General Chairman Entertain
. ment Committee
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20
SOON To RAT|FY
ISLE Of PINES
TREATY
Senate Formally to Concede
Territory to Cuba After
Long Delay

Ratification Of the Isle of Pines
treaty formally recognizing the SOY.
ereignty of Cuba over the Sisland,
which has been bitterly opposed by
Americans who have invested large
sums of money in the island, will
probably be ratified this week, it
was learned today.
The objections raised against rati-
fication are based largely upon a
ruling by former Assistant Score
tary Of War Meiklejohn, which was
Immediately repudidated by his Ad-
ministration.
Senator Wills Rep.) of Ohio, who
is leading the opposition against
ratification, bases his arguments on
the theory that this Government
should safeguard the interests of
Americans who have invested money
in the island under the misappre-
henSion it was United States terri
tory.
Senator Moses R.) of New Hamp-
shire declared, however, that Cuba
now exercises complete control over
the island and will without doubt
continue to do so. 1t is consequently
in the interest Of the Americans
there, as well as everyone else con-
erned, to have this treaty ratified
and the question definitely dis.
posed Of"
Moses predicted the treaty would
be ratified by the Senate. 1t was
recently reported favorably by the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Willis and Moses are both members
OF this committee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20
HOUSE TOFORCE.
BOND PROBE
ACTION
Failure Of Committee to Act
Will Result in Invocation
of New Rule.

Failure Of the House Rules Com
mittee to report out the King res
olution, calling for investigation
Of the duplication Of bonds by the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
will result in the Invocation Of a
new House rule to force the meas
ure to the floor.
Under the nav rule action can
be secured on any measure, pigeon
holed in committee, by securing
the signatures of $50 members to
q petition requesting action upon
the measure.
Treasury officials, It is stated.
are bringing pressure to bear to
prevent passage of the King reso-
luton, on the ground that nothing
of value can be accomplished by
any such inquiry. They deny that
the country has been flooded with
duplicate bonds. as charged by
Charles b. Brewer, Department Of
Justice Investigator, who has han
died the Bureau case.
Congressman Edward King, Of
Illinois, author of the resolution
and head Of the voluntary investi-
cation committee of the House, is
today prepared to surrender to
Morgan Beach, clerk of the Dis.
trict Supreme Court, the keys to
Brewers safe deposit box contain
ing evidence collected to prove his
charges of bond Implications. When
this evidence Is surrendered to
the court it will be deposited in
a bank and will be accessible for
inspection by Treasury officials.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20
CONGRESSMAN PLEADS
FOR OLD-TIME RELIGION

Former Congressman Philip p.
Campbell, Of Kansas, made a plea
for the old-time religion" as op-
posed to the effort to regulate con-
duct by legislation, at the annual
dinner Of the Washington Traffic
Club, in the Raleigh Hotel, last
night.
Senator Royal s. Copeland Of
New York predicted an era of
understanding which would bring
the Government and common car
riers closer together.
The Persian ambassador, Mira
Hussein Khan Alai, outlined his
nations work ). in the Transportation
field. Conrad H. Syme. and Odell
s. Smith also spoke. o. B. George,
president Of the club. was toast
master.
A moment of silence In honor
to the memory Of former Presi-
dents Wilson and Harding was Oh
served at the opening Of the ban
quet. Songs were given by Mar
garet Packwood, accompanied by
Harry Wheaton Howard. and George
O'Connor, accompanied by Matt
Horne
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20
1000 Smash School
Windows to See
Basketball

HARTFORD, Conn.,, Feb. 20.
in a vain effort to gain adj
mittance to the Dixies-Y. M.
H. A. basketball game at the
high school gymnasium, more
than 1000 persons stormed the
doors, brushed aside two pol
licemen, smashed several win
dows and were quieted only
upon the arrival Of the police
reserves.
The crowd tramped upon
several persons who had fallen
in the snow, and six tainted
when they were iostled by the
frenzied people behind.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20
MAD MAN KILLS
THREE;ENDS
own LIFE.
Tragedy Believed to Have
Followed Domestic Quarrel
Over Property Division.

DANVILLE, Ill, Feb. 20.-Bullets
fired by a mad man, crazed with
the spirit of revenge, ended three
lives some time before dawn today
and another shot, self inflicted.
sealed the tragedy in little home
at Philo, near here, until an early
pedestrian stumbled over the bodies.
The slayer. police believe, was
Louis Kuntz, butcher, Of Homer,
whose body was found just outside
the house.
His victims were: Joseph WhiS.
tie, his brother-in-law; Mrs. Whistle,
his sister, and Edna Whistle, his
niece.
The killings are believed to have
followed q family argument over
the division of some property.
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clothing, stated that she had no
intention Of doing him bodily harm,
but wanted to brighten him. He,
with the husband of Mrs. Hoyt,
had been imbibing OF ''moonshins''
at the Hoyt home for some time,
and 1t is understood that Agnew
became, abusive and even attacked
one OF the Hoyt children. Mrs.
Hoyt, the mother of seven small
children, and soon to become the
mother Of an eighth, ordered AgneW
from the home and when he no.
fused to leave she set fire to his
clothing to brighten him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-20
POLICE CLAIM "oFFIcE"
WAS REGULAR SAL DON

Thomas Adams. arrestea last
night in his novelty office, room
303 Baltic building, 606 r street
northwest, where he Ii alleged to
have been selling. liquor across the
bar to a crowd of patrons, was re.
leased today on 81 500 bond. 4 He
was charged with the sale and
illegal possession Of liquor.
Adams office was raided by Lieu
tenant Cornwell and officials from
detective headquarters and the
Sixth precinct station who aIIege
they found Adams pouring the
drinks for men and women and
taking orders for liquor over the
telephone. Eight gallons of al.
legged whiskey were confiscated by
the officers.