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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16
Chapel Hill Chaf

One of the most stately and
;leisurely figures I have seen
lately is that of the negro, Vance
Riggsbee, who stands upon the
municipal street scraper as it
makes its way through the
streets drawn by a caterpillar
motor tractor. His function,
when he is not engaged in re-
moving stones and other OBJ
structions from the path, is to
act as ballast.
Doctor Kluttz has a new cow.
The last one got into the feed
section of the barn one night
when the Doctor left the door
unlocked and ate herself to
death. Some of the neighbors
who have observed that part Of
the cows ration consists of mo-
lasses are fearing that she may
pass the way of her predecessor.
The parenthetical stage di-
rections are an interesting part
of the George Bernard Shaw
Archibald Henderson dialogues
that have been appearing recent
ly in the magazines. Seriously,
Violently" ''explosively," these
I took with equanimity. But
when l came across a speech
that Mr.. Henderson made
"mischievously" / was startled.
/ have seen him thoughtful, Il
have seen him genial, solemn,
enthusiastic, exuberant, intense,
and in many other
moods, but / have never seen
him mischievous. ! am going to
keep a close watch whenever /
am in his vicinity hereafter, to
try to catch him at it.
My ticket in the forthcoming
election is: Davis and Gooch.
For President of the United
States, John w. Davis; for Com
mander of the Chapel Hill post
of the American Legion, Charles
E. Gooch.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16

Officers of the Chapel Hill
Post of the American Legion
for the next year will be Charles
E. Gooch. commander; George
Denny, first viee-commAnder:
George Featherstone, second
vice-commander; W. B. Neal,
adjutant; DR.. D. T. Carr, finance
officer; George Lawrence, ser
vice officer; and Rev. A. S. Law
renee, chaplain. At the meeting
Friday night Commander Carl
Durham reported that the post
had been instrumental In get
ting two disabled sx-sSrvIcs nasa
placed IN the GSvernnaoat hos
DitAl in gOhHHon uty within thO
MI W. Vaoat
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16
SCHOOL BOARDS METHODS IRREGULAR,
SOME EVEN ILLEGAL SAY AUDITORS
Report Expert Accountants States that Money Has
out Records Being Made Unbusnesske Practices Criticized

In turn pays the individual
teachers, is both illegal and un-
businesslke, and is to be severe
ly criticized. We recommend
that in the future all warrants
be drawn only in favor of those
to whom the board of educa-
tion is directly indebted, which,
when endorsed, will be an un-
questionable receipt"
Deposits Not Recorded
Pages / and 2 of the auditors
report are concerned with a
discrepancy between the balance
shown on the county treasurer's
books June 80, 1924, and the
total funds on deposit in banks
on that date. The balance on the
books was 1862 less than the
money on deposit. Of this dis
crepancy, $142 was ''in sundry
banks" to the credit of the
county treasurer, and $507 was
in the Bank of Orange, Hills
boro. Of this $5O7 the auditors
say:
This represents the excess
of numerous miscellaneous cash
receipts over disbursements,
dating from August 6, 1919,
which had not been entered on
the records of either the treas
urer or the superintendent and
apparently were not shown in
any of the annual statements
published by the board of edu-
cation" ~ -
A statement of this account
with the Bank of Orange is CIV
en- detail. Deposits totalling
81, ,439 were made, opposite most
of which, in the auditors report,
appears the notation, mo record
of source" One check for 1882
had been drawn, leaving $507.
The funds credited to this ac-
count, which were received and
by the superintendent,
Should" says the report, "have
Continued on Page ~
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$362,OOO

AT a meeting two or three
months ago the county commits
sioners adopted a resolution de-
claring that the tax rate would
not be raised; but the auditors
say that the present rate will
not bring in enough revenue to
wipe out the deficit of last July
30 and cover the budget for the
present fiscal year, and that un-
less more revenue is forthcom-
ing that deficit will be material
ly increased.
The passage of the report re-
lating to the tax rate runs az
follows:
1.-THE May budget, for ~ the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1925,
as finally approved July 81. 1924,
by the board of county commits
sioners, requires that $1o7, 900
be provided by general county
school taxes, which amount, to-
gether with the amount of the
school deficit at June 80, 1924,
(7,000), aggregates $4,000.
The abstract Of listed taxablea
for the year 1924 had not been
completed by the register Of
deeds before our Representatives
left Hillsboro. but he estimated
that the total valuation Of listed
property for 1924 would be Ap-
prOximAtely R1S.eo0,oO0. at
which valuation II would be
necessary to levy = general
county school tax Of 90 cents
in order to raiSO thO above-moh-
toned Q114,0O0 and pay the
shefiGs commit Ions. ne Fen-
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16
Women Urged to Vote
Campaign to Bring Them to the
Polls on Election Day

An active movement is on to
bring out the women voters on
election day, Tuesday, Novem-
ber a. The community club here
is cooperating in this at the re-
quest of Miss Gertrude We'll,
the head Of the League of Wo-
men Voters in North Carolina.
"The League is anxious to get
at least Is per cent. of the quail
flied women voters to the polls"
said Mrs. W. D. Toy, chairman
Of the civics department of the
community club, yesterday. "Of
course we would like to get
them to vote in still greater
number, but that is what we
are aiming at as a minimum.
Seventy-fve per cent. is a much
greater percentage of the women
or even of the men, I believe
than have voted in the past.
Women's organizations all over
the state are joining in this cam
paign to awaken women to an
interest in public affairs, and
naturally we want to see Chapel
Hill make a good showing on
election day"
Registration goes on every
day between now and Saturday
night, September 25, nine days
hence. On Saturdays the books
will be open at the Pickwick
Theatre from 9 o'clock in the
morning till sundown. On other
days they will be at Mayor
Roberson's Office over the peo-
pies Bank. Voters who have
already registered for previous
elections do not have to register
again. In order to vote O citizen
must have lived Q -yea= IN the TIE
state and four months In this
voting district. =.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16
HiIIsbOrO Tomorrow
Football Team Comes Here to Play
the Chapel Hill School

The Chapel Hill and Hillsboro
school football teams will meet
here tomorrow for the first
home game of the schools sea-
son.
In a scrappy contest last Sat-
urday, the Chapel Hill school de-
feated Oxford 2 to 0 on the OK
ford grounds. The visitors made
their score after having work.
ed their way down the field from
their own 20-yard line. A canter
around the end for 20 yards
and then two plunges put the
ball within 10 yards of the
goal. Oxford then took it on
downs.
The Oxford center passed the
ball over the quarterback's head.
When he recovered it he was
downed behind the goal, and
this made the only score of the
game.
With the exception of White
and Partin, the Chapel Hill
backs seemed rather slow to get
away, and Coach Blanchard ia
determined to put some more
steam into them. He has hopes
of winning a high place in the
state championship series.
Rocky Mount comes here ia
play Friday, October "a.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16
Belgian Savant Coming
Jean Capart Will Give Lecture on
Ancient Tomb, with Pictures

Jean Capart of Belgium, one
of the worlds greatest authori-
ties on Egypt, will lecture in
Gerard Hail Tuesday night
October 28, on "Queen Elizabeth
at the Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen. /"
His talk will be accompanied by
Illustrations made by him dur
ing the explorations of last
year. He accompanied the Queen
on her trip to Egypt and escort
ed her through the tomb.
Mr.. Capart has never been to
this country before, and he viii
make his first American ap-
pearance in Chapel Hill. This
comes about as a result of his
acquaintance with Wallace E.
Caldwell of the history faculty.
who studied under him for q
year. The Belgian Relief Com
mission arranged his tour.
He is professor of Egyptology
in the University of Liege and
director of the Egyptian section
of the Royal Museum in Brus-
sells.
Only one public lecture is an
nounced, but the distinguished
scholar will remain here for q
week and will appear several
times at Mr.. Caldwell's class
es. The public is cordially invit-
ed to hear him then as well as
as in Gerard Hall. In the course
of his weeks stay he will deliver
lectures at the College for Wo-
men in Greensboro and at Trim
ity in Durham.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16
POLICE PHONES
ON THE STREET
Instruments to be Placed on
Poles. Officer Can Be
Called Quickly
THREE ON ONE CIRCUIT

Three police telephones, fitted
with alarm bells, are to be plac-
ed on poles along the main street
between the post-office and
Andrews corner within the next
few days. These will enable any,
body to summon a police officer
promptly by telephone.
This is the way the plan will
work: Suppose, for example,
that Mr.. Wagstaff wants to put
behind the prison bars a burg
lar whom he has detected rifling
. neighbor's house; or suppose
there is an automobile collision
opposite Mrs. Lawson's and she
wants immediate official aid; or
suppose some group of revelers
are disturbing the quiet of the
night with boisterous laughter
and shouts; then call central,
and central will plug in on the
new circuit and start the bells
to ringing. A police officer is
always on duty on the block,
and he will run to the nearest
Of the three phones and find out
just where he is wanted.
Each of the three phones will
be in a metal box to which every
one of the towns policemen will
have a key. On the same circuit
and with the same kind of alarm
bell there will be a telephone in
the police station at Rosemary
and Columbia streets.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16
Police In New Uniforms

The three Chapel Hill police
men, Chief Featherstone and his
two aids, Williams and Sloane,
have donned spick-and-span new
uniforms. The cloth IL dark
blue, and down the front Of the
coat runs . row Of brass but
tons. The heaviness Of the suits
does not promise comfort in
such weather 90 has prevailed
recently. but the ofaeers ars
lucky in that the design is what
a. known ~ "NAvy SyIo," with
lspels instead Of Q dOOe-button.
ed eollaHA Part Of each uni.
form IL . @D uDon the frOnt d
which is pinned Q GbIAA.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16

eral county school tax rate for
1924, as fixed by the board of
county commissioners, is 54
cents, and it iS therefore evident
that, unless. additional revenue
is secured from other sources,
the deficit of $1,000 at June 80,
1924, will be materially increas-
ed during the current year"
Budget Allowance Exceeded
On pages 8 and IA of their
report the auditors compare the
school budget with actual ex-
penditures, as follows:
''The comparison of actual ex-
penditures with budget for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1923,
is shown in detail in Exhibit H,
a summary of which is as fol-
lows:
Actual expenditures $11S,0OO
Budget 100000
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16
University Sermon Sunday

DIR. c. B. Wilmer, professor of
dogmatic theology at Sewanee,
will deliver the University ser
mon for October in Gerard
Hall Sunday night at 7:3O. For
the last three years he has been
rector of st. Luke's church in
Atlanta. He served as chairman
OF the Georgia Committee on
lnter-racial Relations and was
active in promoting child labor
legislation in Georgia.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16
To Entertain the Teachers

Mrs. G. X. G. Henry announc-
es a reception by the Parent
Teachers Association to the
teachers at the school building
next Tuesday evening at 8
o'clock. Refreshments will be
served, and there will be an en-
tertainment program. All par
ents and others interested In the
school are invited.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16

The Playmaksr readings were
held last week and productions
By Judge Winston. Bill Cox, and
Miss Boswell were selected for
presentation later.
Mrs.. Fred Page Of Aberdeen
and her two children have ro-
turned home after q visit to her
mother. Mrs. A. C. NeIatOSk
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Expenditures in excess of
budget 5000
"The above excess of ex-
penditures over budget 1928
24) is due to the failure of the
board of education to make pro-
vision in the budget for retire
ment of school deficit serial
bonds amounting to $4,000,
which were due on July, /,
1924. This amount was remit
ted to the fiscal agent during
the latter part of June and was
included in the disbursements
for the fiscal ended June 80,
1924. Eliminating the above,
mentioned bonds and interest,
the expenditures for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1924, were
within the budget appropria-
tions by the amount of $4,000.
"The foregoing budget figures
do not represent actual receipts,
which fell short of the estimated
amount by more than $4,000.
AS a matter of fact, the board
of education showed a deficit of
over $1,000 (after taking ac-
cruals into consideration for
the fiscal year ended June 30,
1924"
Overpayments Listed
One section of the auditors
report says that several over
payments to teachers were dis
covered in the boards records,
and that these amounts have
now been put down in the re-
port as accounts due from the
persons receiving the over.
payments
Overpayments cited are: Tc
B. L. Bozeman, $22,60; to J. A
Abernathy, 1886; to Cynthia
Whitted, $3.50.
1sH.A FAfe overpayn1cntt of $3.50
to J. A. Abernethy," says the
report, represents the excess
Of the amount Of warrants
drawn in his favor, Gov
ering the salaries Of SeVera
teachers Of the HlllsborC
school for seven months
in excess Of the amount Of Sal.
aries due 10 bO paid TO tAeso
teachers. The practice Of Payins
the salaries Of several tGNCAOrn
% The DFiBdpAl q 3 GIoOA VII
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16
University Women's Party

The Chapel Hill chapter of the
American Association of Uni
versity Women will have their
annual party at the Presidents
house Thursday evening, No
vember 6. Supper viii be served
at half past six o'clock. and it
will be followed by card-playing
and other games. Tickets are
$l.2O each and can be obtained
from Mrs. Wallace e. Caldwell.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16

Invitations are out to the
marriage Of Miss Mary Curtis
Henderson, daughter Of Mr. and
Mrs. Archibald Henderson, 10
Claude Clinton Ramsay, at the
RDisDSpai church Wednesday
evening, OctObor n. at eight
o'clOuR.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1924-10-16

A. Lee Rawlings & Co., the
auditors employed by the county
commissioners to examine the
accounts of the Orange county
board of education, have SUBJ
mitted their report. It criticizes
severely the boards lack of
businesslike methods and says
that some of their acts, in hand
ling public money, have been
illegal.
lin this article, where large
amounts are involved they are
given in round thousands, for
the convenience of the reader.
For example, if a total comes
to $125,865 it is set down as
$126, 900, if it comes to $51, ,125,
1t is set down as $51,OO0)
One of the tables In the re-
port shows the total expendi-
lures by the board in two
years, July 1922 to July /,
1924, to have been $527, 900;
yet there was no systematic
keeping Of records. "The rec
ords were in such condition."
says the report, that it was
necessary to construct the
funds on our working papers and
use the records for reference
only. The minutes of the board
were recorded on loose sheets
of paper, and apparently were
incomplete, as there was no rec
ord, therein of numerous trans
actions which should have been
approved by the board and
which the superintendent in
formed us had been approved"
The report shows that the
total Indebtedness of the board
amounts to $4,000, divided
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Expenditures in
excess of budget

"The comparison of actual ex-
penditures with budget for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1924,
is shown in detail in Exhibit
o, a summary of which is as
follows:
Actual expenditures $122,0OO
Budget 117,0OO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17

tray made of a heavy mirror. On that, without any intervening tray cover or doilie, there are set six or a dozen cups and saucers, according to the size of the tray. One of the cups will be red, one orange, another blue; :; there will be a yellow one and a black one, and then one of opaque white And they are all surrounded on their edges with the finest of black out lines, while the handles are also dead or rather shiny black. There is a tea pot of glass in still another color, per haps green. There is sugar bowl, maybe in black, and the dear little cream pitcher or the more imposing jug for hot milk will come along in a fresh pink.
 I wrote an article not long since about dinner for 13 cents, ...-s now I find that one can get dinner in Vienna for four cents. My first state ment sounded radical enough, but this is going it one better. The four-cent dinner is a vegetarian one, and, need I state, as simple as can be. But the salient feature of the meal is its alto gether satisfactory price for the work CT who earns but little and must dis tribute his money in many ways. They contend here that, on the proper sort of vegetarian diet, their peasants and working people, who rarely if ever eat meat, are just as strong, if not stronger, than those people wlo de- vour animal food, ever contending that it gives them strength and power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17
Life In Vienna By IMAGERY WELLS

How would you like to go to the theatre at 6 80, be free again at 9 70, have a little supper and then go home to bed decorously and happily? That is the way they do in one of the largest cities of Eurspe-Vienna. The street cars stop running at 10 80, and after that you just naturally walk to the place you must go. .(Yes, there are taxis, but only a few of them, and they are not always to be picked up at a moments notice.) After 80, the car fares are heightened; in fact, they are doubled; and the cars them selves run very infrequently. Then when the fatal time an hour later ar rives, the streets are dead, the houses in the residential sections are without lights. Everything and everybody is fast asleep. You see, they all have their dinners ait noon and an eve ming supper can be slipped in before the early theatre, while a late one can be snatched afterward if you pre- fer that-or you can have both, and many of the people do, for they love to eat we'll. If you happen to be of the sleepy variety of humanity, you find this early theatre vogue very sa- lubrious to your nature, for you are wider awake than you ever hoped to be through a play or session of music.
 The exchange rate of money in Ger many is now notorious, but this is how it affects the working girl. A girl working in a big German factory where they make the finest sort of lenses for spectacles and field glasses told me how they arranged the pay days there. There is a payment made to the employees every third day, so that the operating firm can be honest and just in all its dealings and ren- der unto their workers a fair wage according to the rise or fall of the value of the money. Then, added tc this, they give half of this three-day distribution of pay in gold and half of it in paper, so that each worker re- ceives his or her salary consisting of tenn, of course, is the establishment of a thriving, rich concern. There are others not so stably organized, where they pay q set sum every week or month, and the employees can whistle if it is not enough to go around. It seems like a percarious way of living, does it not: And yet they must put up with it, because there is so little redress at the present time.
 Bohemian glass is one of the noted products of the world. and now they are having their coffee (and they do love coffee) from the brightest, most cheerful and most beautifully colored cups and saucers that ever met the sight of man. First, there iJ a flat
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Mrs. M4Gouvdn Enter.
 tains Et Louely Tea F4r Visitors

x Mrs. jam H. McGowan was a Snarm.ns .,,son ostess of yesterday after. oo. she entertained with a at her home on Cliff Road onipiln tng two attractive visitors
 rs' %o Stewart of Los Angeles and ~ Guy Taste of Pensacola, Fla.
 Roses and sweet peas were used eff. fectively throughout the home. The tea table was centered with beauti- tful basket of spring flowers. M Mrs. McGowan received her guests ewearing brown embroidered chiffon dress over yellow. With Mrs. Me tGowan were the honorees. Mrs. kStewart and Mrs. Taste and Mrs. Rus ss6l Lanier
 Assisting in the dining room were Mrs. Handlers Sevier, Jr.. Mrs. Will liam Given, Mrs. Harry Wheelock. Jr. and Miss Dorothy Thomas. Mrs James Arthur Smith and Mrs. J. A Martin presided at the tea table.
 Little Jane Stewart received the cards of the 135 guests that called during the afternoon.
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Successful Woman

nave q grouch against
 The Successful Woman. who is al- ways beautifully marcelled,
 Faithfully dressed. beautifully ap- pointed and So beautifully efficient That she reminds one of d perfectly managed dirigible!
 have a grouch, not because she is all of these things,
 But because she insists on handing out rules for success!
 The rules always read thus: Attach yourself, with the tentacles of an oetupus, to some firm.
 Work If hours a day and study your
 leyer's business at least four hours
 he evening.
 ways keep your mind, heart and
 on the job ahead
 ld beheld! At the end of 10 or gears
 ou will be made a captain of in try.
 ou will thereafter have your own ate office, with rosewood furnish Nhe salary of q steel magnate, And nothing to do but attend board stings, where every word you utter istened to breathlessly-
 ,h, yes, and you will be able to hand slL body of American womanhoOd " .sThe woman of it" is That she never tells American wom- Z anhood what to do
 If it strikes a firm that makes Il practice of laying off it's help every July,
 So that it will not have to give va cations;
 Or another firm that starts out with all new help every January, Because the old might ask for an in- crease;
 Or another, that lays off perfectly capable woman
 Because the 50-year-old boss wants the office Qrnamented
 WiNfa cute little thing, who features . ,baby stare and bobbed hair. The Successful Woman never gives the naswer to any of the reasons Why American womanhood cannot aiI get on top--why so many of it's representatives cannot get even de- cent salary
 She always talks from her own per- SOnal viewpoint, fThat's the woman of it)-- And so any advice she gives must 70 discounted
 Because she is woman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17

stepped upon his feet My, how he howled! Excuse me! said, Didn't I see large big monster snake there?'
 No you didn't! he howled, That is only a stick r"
 Mrs. Hoolygooly joined in with the others at laughing at this, then went on with the story. Well, sir! When Harry Hoolygooly came home that evening with his sticks, there came the strange man right behind him into the house. We offered him cakes and cookies, but he shook his head, I lost stick in the woods,' he finally told us, and believe this Hoolygooly found it!
 If I did. it has been burnt up!' Harry told him."
 No. it hasn't! the strange man said For whoever finds it can not burn it up! It is a magic stick and just burns when you tell it to, then it goes Out!
 Does it belong to you?" I asked the man.
 No he said, Yes, I mean! he