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regards as his capital stored up
for a rainy day, nor does he tie
himself down to monthly payments
Mus interest to the money lenders.
He simply taps his surplus, which,
because of accumulated interest. is
larger than he may have antici-
pated when starting the plan.
Cash Buyer Is Rare
The cash buyer of automobiles is
a comparative rarity today He may
increase in numbers as it becomes
apparent that installment buying
is overdone and does not apply to
all cases.
A young man starting out in life.
needing such transportation and
recreation as only an automobile
can supply. is justified in purchas-
ing car in keeping with his earn
ings But it may be a different
story with a man in better circum-
stances. +.
Experience has demonstrated that
as a result Of the installment plan
more motorists have bought below
their means rather than above and
that. in doing so, they have not
enjoyed the type of car they would
have bought if financing the pur-
chase under some more foresighted
arrangement.
The comparatively small number
of repossessions demonstrates that
the average person who buys a car
on time can and does pay for it.
The ability of these same persons
to buy luxuries, dabble in securities
and increase savings bank deposits
also demonstrates that not every
thing has been going into the pur-
chase of cars Stated another way,
it simply means that thousands
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considers to be q lifetime savings.
Frequently. losses are incurred In
converting securities into cash.
The motorist is much more likely
TO stint himself in his purchase
when going into savings than when
buying out of income. Such saw
Tugs, he realizes, stand between
himself and the poorhouse. He pre-
fers to gamble on something he
hasn't got-his salary-rather than
on what he has worked hard to
earn and save.
Several Plans Proposed
Buying out of surplus is a diff
ferent story. Several plans have
been suggested by persons who
have discovered that they can have
all the things they want on this
budget plan OF setting up a surplus
These schemes, while needlessly
complicated in many instances and
too small for the modern go
getter. do indicate that many minds
are turning from excess in install
inent buying and that the idea Of
setting aside a surplus for the
things everyone Graves is the logica
step now.
Automobiles are relatively expen
sive, and 1t is the opinion of those
who are giving thought to thu
newer ways OF buying that AM
adaptation of the surplus plan
to the needs of the automotiv'
buyer should be on broad scale
The modern man does not see AM
need for forfeiting the pleasure and
utility of car ownership while M
is building UP his surplus.
He first buys the car he feels
he can afford to purchase out O
income. But instead OF shooting tn
car to pieces the first year, trading
it in for another machine and put
ting his nose to the money lender
grindstone for another IL months
or more, he takes good care OF tina
first car, gets out OF the money
lenders grip and, meanwhile, use.
4 portion OF his monthly income fol
building up reserve.
Because he is saving and not
spending he can go the limit
There is no risk IL his salary Il
cut. II the unforeseen happens he
can adjust his capital and surplus
structure. He still has his old cal
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STORE GIVES FREE RIDES
70 ELERRATE BIRTHDAY

AsBURY PARK, n. j., May IL.
a local department store today
chartered every trolley car owned
by the Coast Cities Railways Com
many and the Asbury Park Belt
Lines for one hour tomorrow.
The store will give everybody
living near the $50 miles of track
q free ride during the hour 10
celebrate the stores fifty-sixth
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make him sacrifice the basis eco
nomics that go with everything
OF greater intrinsic value.
A similar situation exists when
buying out OF capital. The average
person hesitates to touch what he
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because he may lose his job or his
profits may not keep up the pace
at which they are running when
the purchase is made.
In other words, his plan Of fl
nancing has a marked tendency to
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could buy better cars and thous-
ands are regretting that they didn't.
The tendency is for the time pay
ment buyer to allow himself a MAJ
gin OF safety. If he can buy a
81, 900 car he limits himself TO $500
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Akror, Plants Making
$4,000, 600 Tires

It is estimated the Akron tire factories will turn out
81 100000 tires 1896 and the tire sascans are busy
figuring what that in various ways according 70
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Car Buyers Seek NelO
Financing Plan
By J. LEO SUGRUE
Times Automobile Editor

that the is seeking newer ana
better his purchases OF automobiles ana that
be the answer to the new demand
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One man mas eSJlinhLed LnAk IL
the $4,000. 900 were rolled out at
the rate of one d minute It would
require SO years for them to roll
away. Another has it that they
would contain the enormous total
Of $40 600, 900. 900 tire miles ough
miles to encircle the earth ESQ 900
times at the rate Of 10000 miles per
tire.
Another mathematician and geo.
grapher arrives at the conclusion
fhaf IL Akron's 1926 tires were to
be stacked in one heap, tire on tire,
at Akron. and the pile were then
tipped over, the peak would fall q.
Miami, Fla.
Times was. not so many years
ago either, when it was figured that
every car required six tires year.
That was in the days Of cross-wov
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and he is not caught In 9 financial
trap.
When he wants to buy q new car
he usaa his surplus funds. He buys
exactly what he feels he can afford
TO own. Interest on the surplus.
combined with the fact that he VIII
have no carrying charges on the
new car. places him in q position
where he is able To so just little
bit higher In his choice Of a car,
obtain added advantages and q more
genuine type OF economy.
If the new plan makes Roadway.
installment buying win be found TO
fill its place by helping newcomers
take to the road Buying out 0f
capitol will disappear. And those
who have SURPRISES viii give
greater thought TO their purchases,
thereby greatly raising the morale
of motor car ownership and
eventually placing business on q
sounder basis
Copyright, 1926.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-02-05
Leigh Runs Market Again

H. D. Leigh, who gave up his
market two years ago to build
and conduct an ice plant, has
taken back the market from
his son; he will run both market
and ice plant under the name of
his old corporation, the Univer-
sity Ice and Coal Company. Mr..
Leigh says that when he took
over the market last week he
had three pennies and two
white buttons as capital. "There
was $4,000 owing to me when l
quit the Market" he said yes
terday, land most of it is still
due. am going to run a cash
business now, giving a substan-
tial discount to all who pay
cash and a somewhat smaller
discount to those who pay within
two weeks"
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This to Be Great Reunion Year
for University of N. C.. Alumni

At the midwinter conference
of University of North Carolina
alumni, held here last week, it
was decided to change the class
reunions from the old five-year-
multiple plan to the so-called Dix
plan under which the classes
that were in college together
come back to their reunions to-
gether.
For example: by the old sys-
TEN, the classes of 1925, 1920,
1915, 1910, and so on back by
fve-year leaps, would gather at
the same time; by the new sys-
TEN, 1925, 1924, 1923, and 1922
will reunite together, and at the
same commencement 1906, 1905,
1904, and 1908. The advantage
of this is obvious-it brings a
man back to the Hill with a large
number of his friends in other
classes as we'll as his own.
But the 25th-year reunion re-
mains, regardless of and in ad-
dition to the Dix-plan reunions.
In order to make the switch
from the old to the new plan, it
is determined to make this COM
mencement of 1926 the reunion
year for three ffths of all the
classes-all those whose gradu-
ating years end in the numerals
l, 2, 3, 6, Z, and 8.
Thus there will be reunions,
this next June, of 1928, 1922,
1921, 1918, 1917, 1916, 1913,
1912, 1911, 1908, 1907, 1906,
and so on back-every class
whose year ends with any of
the six figures, l, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8.
The following year, 1927, will
come the reunions of 1926, 1910,
1909, 1908, 1907, 1902, 1891,
1890, 1889, and 1888. The sche-
dule of future reunions is con-
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Savilles to Venezuela
University Faculty Member to Advise
Government on Sanitary Engineering

Thorndike Saville is going to
spend a year in Venezuela as an
expert adviser of the govern
ment upon sanitary engineering,
and it is probable that Mrs. Sa-
vile and their son will be with
him. He is retained for this en-
terprise by the International
Health Board, the Rockefeller
organization which is engaged in
the promotion of public health
all over the world.
He will make a preliminary
trip to Venezuela this spring,
staying perhaps a month, and
will return there in July for his
full year. Whether or not his
wife accompanies him in July
will depend upon the observa-
tions that he makes, on his first
trip, as to the opportunity for
a comfortable home. Both of
them are studying Spanish dill
gently these days.
The selection of Mr.. Saville for
the work in Venezuela came as a
result of the reputation he has
gained among sanitary engin-
eers. Several of his studies and
reports have been published in
the national journals. Only re-
Gently he was appointed a men,
ber of the National Malaria Com
mittee, an organization, connect
ed with the u. s. Public Health
Service, which is carrying on an
investigation in the Southern
states relative to the effect of
impounded waters on malaria
and methods for the entire
elimination of malaria from the
region.
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Mrs. Verner's Etchings
South CarOlinian's Pictures Exhibited
by Miss COrnelia Love

Mrs. Pettigrew Werner, the
artist, who has frequently visit
ed in Chapel Hill, has some of
her etchings on exhibit here
now. They are in charge of
Miss Cornelia Love at the Kluttz
home, 304 East Franklin street,
and she will be glad to show
them to anybody interested.
These etchings are of houses
and scenes in Charleston and
Beaufort, South Carolina.
Until two or three years ago
Mrs. Werner devoted her talent
mostly to the painting of land
scapes and portraits. Then she
turned to etching, and her work
has been highly commended by
discriminating critics. This year
a number of her pictures were
sold in Florida.
Mrs. Werner used to come to
Chapel Hill as a guest of the
Battles. She is an aunt of Miss
Mary Werner who was here in
the University last year.
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Chapel Hill Chaf

At the meeting of officers of
local organizations of University
alumni, held here last week, one
alumnus arose and said that he
was already "clubbed to death"
that he seemed never able to
spend an evening at home. This
moved Carter Dalton of High
Point to tell of a conversation he
had with AL Fairbrother. Mr..
Fairbrother was talking about
what he called the nuisance of
clubs, and he said: II don't be-
long to but two clubs, the church
and the pressing club, and if it
weren't for the church wouldn't
have to belong. to the pressing
club"
returning from a University
alumni gathering Thursday
night, l opened a book and hap
pened to read John Milton's
opinion of his alma mater. In
1641, a few years after he left
Cambridge University, he wrote:
Cambridge, which as in the
time of her better health, and
mine own younger judgment, l
never greatly admired, so now
much less" With the dinner at
the Carolina Inn fresh in mind,
the thought occurred to me:
John Milton was a bum alumnus.
If a Carolina man said anything
like that about this place, John
Umstead would have him prose-
cuted for high treason.
When DIR. Minor of Asheville
was here last year I remarked
upon the cheerfulness which his
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tanned on page SO of the Alumni
Handbook issued by Secretary
Grant for class secretaries and
other officers of alumni groups.
He will be glad to answer in
quiries about it from anyone
who has not the handbook.
But the alumni association
does not attempt to make the
system inflexible. 1t is left to
the class organization itself to
make such adjustments as are
dictated by common sense. For
instance, a class having g re-
union this next June and also
having one scheduled for the fol-
lowing year, 1927, might decide
to omit one of the two.
Many other matters of inter
est to alumni, besides reunions,
were discussed at the confer
pence last week. At the dinner
Thursday night Wilfred B
Shaw, University of Michigan
alumni secretary, made an ad-
dress, and at the close of it sub
mitted himself to a lombard
ment of questions about alumni
organization.
The visitors went about the
University, to the administra-
tive offices, laboratories, class
rooms, and athletic fields. Fri
day evening the alumni were
guests of the Order of the Grail
at a dinnersat the Carolina Inn,
and this entertainment was fol
lowed by a meeting at which
President Chase and members OF
the faculty answered questions
from the alumni.
Dan Grant, secretary of the
General Alumni Association, re.
ceived many compliments fol-
having organized the conference
and carried it through so sue.
cessfully.
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TOWN HLARELED
FOR THE ARMEN
On Request of EdsalL Ford,
Bruce StrOwd Builds Sign
Facing Skyward
ON ROOF OF HIS GARAGE

Bruce Strowd has placed a
sign reading Chapel Hill, N. c."
on top of his garage for the bene-
fit of airplane pilots and passen-
gers The sign lies fiat on it's
back, of course, so that it can be
read from above.
Mr.. Strowd does not claim
this as his own idea. 1t was
done in compliance with a re-
quest from Edsall Ford of De-
troit. A request from head
quarters in Detroit, coming to a
Ford car agent, is equivalent to
a command.
The labelling of towns is one
feature of the scheme of Henry
Ford and his son Edsall to de-
velop airplane freight transpor-
tation. They intend to have
their carriers flying all over the
land, in time, and it will help
the pilots a lot to know where
they are. The letters are big
and white, on a black back
ground.
Edsall Ford, in his letter, said
nothing about paying the cost
of the sign. But Bruce may get
some revenue out of it yet. If
a plane runs out of fuel while
passing over here it may drop
down at the corner of Franklin
and Columbia streets to buy a
load of gas; or perhaps it may
need some repairs, in which case
Sam Atwater, chief mechanic,
wiLget to work on it, and Mr..
Strowd will have the novel ex-
-perience of being at the receiv-
ing end of money passing be-
tween Detroit and Chapel Hill.
The construction of the sign
gives airplane travellers an ad-
vantage over automobiles. For,
there is nothing to tell the motor
tourists that this is Chapel Hill.
Hundreds of 'em from far-off
states pass through here without
finding out the name of the
place. It has been suggested
that some such legend as Chap
el Hill, seat of the University of
North Carolina" be placed at
the bridge mile out on the Dur
ham road and the bridge a mile
out on the Pittsboro- -Pinehurst
road; but no move has been
made to carry out the sugges-
tion.
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NEW TAX MAY BE
TESTED IN COURT
Aldermen Place a Levy upon
Space Rented out to Visit
ing Vendors a.
$5 A DAY is THE AMOUNT

The Chapel Hill aldermen
have adopted an ordinance that
lays a license tax upon mer-
chants who rent out space to
visiting vendors of clothes and
other articles, and it is not un-
likely that some of the mer-
chants affected by the measure
may question it's legality and
take their case to court.
The fact that this is college
town brings here, during the
year, a considerable number of
representatives of outside con-
Germs, mostly makers of clothing.
These representatives rent
space, for the display of their
goods, at drugstore or some
other place on the main street.
The new ordinance places tax
of $5 a day upon whoever lets
out space to a vendor who does
not keep goods on regular dis
play; that'is to itinerants.
The municipal government
does not consider this a police or
regulatory measure. 1t is an
attempt to equalize, to some de-
gree, the taxes upon property
used by the towns permanent
merchants.
The same situation that led
the aldermen to enact this tax
measure exists in other college
communities, and many of them
have been puzzled as to what to
do about it. Two towns that
have exchanged correspondence
about the problem with the mum
icipal authorities here are Da-
wilson and Wake Forest, and, if
Chapel Hills ordinance is held
valid, these two may initiate it.
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Quartet February Is
Instrumentalists Will Come Here in
Place of Madame Sundelius

Madame Marie Sundelius, who
was to sing in Chapel Hill, on
the 23rd of this month, will not
come. She has had to cancel her
entire Southern tour.
The music department of the
University has been fortunate
enough to obtain, in substitution,
the New York String Quartet.
The quartet, however, performs
in Chapel Hill one week earlier
than the day-for which the sing
er was scheduled-on the 18th
in place of the 23rd.
Gerard Hall has been selected
as the place for the performance.
It is regarded as better for this
character of music. Paul j.
Weaver announces that he will
issue new tickets to the season
subscribers and will assign to
each person a seat corresponding
to the one that person has in
Memorial Hall.
The New York String Quartet
gave a concert in Chapel Hill in
the summer school session year
before last.
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(This is the fourth installment of
the "reminiscences of Peter M. Will
SON.
A. D. Hepburn held the chair of
metaphysics and logic. He looked
upon his students as syllogisms whose
premises he could vary as the con-
clusions required. If there had been
enthusiasm in his classes, he would
doubtless have analyzed it as an in
teresting phenomenon but it would
have made him personally uncom-
Portable. In seeking to teach youth
to think coldly, he was of course tack
ling hopeless task. And in his own
self-abnegation, in his fidelity to a
dying institution, he was himself
a refutation of all logics and justi-
fication of the most unreasoning
faith.
John Kimberly, familiarly known as
"Old Kim" (the appellation "old" was
given most professors not because of
their senility but because of our af-
fection) was professor of Chemistry.
He was looked upon with mingled awe
and respect. First because he was
accused of being a scientist and be-
cause the accusation was backed up
by testimonials from Harvard, Agga-
siz and Berlin. Then an insidious ru-
NOR had it that he alone of the fac
ulty had an income aside from his
class fees. Lastly, it was whispered
that he had given a dinner to some
seniors and juniors at which wine had
flowed. This gave great offense not
for the alleged moral reasons which
are assumed these latter days, but
because the hedges and byways had
not been beaten to fetch in the unin-
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Coolidge May See Plays
When the Carolina Playmakers Ap-
pear in Washington Feb 13

Mrs Calvin Coolidge, wife of
the President of the United
States, is a member of the Pi
Beta Phi. So is Miss Katherine
Bats, Carolina Playmaker. This
connection, it is said here in
Chapel Hill, may lead to the
presence of Mr.. and Mrs. Cool
idge when Miss Bats and her
fellow Playmakers give their
performance in Washington
Saturday evening of next week.
For Mrs. Coolidge does not sim
ply belong to the fraternity
she is an enthusiastic member
and gives an attentive eye to
any letter from sister Pi Phi.
Miss Bats has been in commun-
ication with her about the Play
makers trip.
The Washington appearance
will be one of the dozen or more
that the troupe will make in
the course of the tour north
ward. The North Carolina So
ciety and the University alumni
organization in the capitol are
to have a joint meeting on the
evening of the 18th and will at
tend the plays in a body. A
number of senator's and repre-
sentatives will also be there.
The first stop on the tour, to-
night, is at Oxford. After play
ing at Murfreesboro tomorrow
evening the Playmakers move
on into Virginia, going to Will
liamsburg and Richmond. Four
performances will be given in
Baltimore February IL and 13;
and then, on the way back home,
come the dates at Washington,
Harrisonburg and Sweetbriar
College.
The program is made up of
Paul Green's "Quare Medicine"
Paul and Erma Green's, Elk
ms" and Lucy Cobb's "Gaius
and Gaius, Jr."
Frederick H.. Koch will COM
mand the expedition, and his
assistant director, George Den
ny, will go along as manager and
actor as well. The others who
will make the trip are Olaudius
Mintz, f. K. Patterson, Miss
Katherine Bats, Miss Helen
Leatherwood, c. M. Pritchett, c.
c, Conner, David Romanow, D.
L. Happ, and w. H. Wipdley.
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Death of o. P. Wimberly

o. P. Wimberly died yesterday
morning in Watts Hospital, Dur
ham. Mr.. Wimberly came here
from Union county several years
ago. He is survived by his wife,
and by five children: Miss Hazel
Wimberly, Perry Wimberly, and
Mrs. A. B. Tittman of Chapel
Hill; Mrs. Claude Wimberlyo of
High Point, and Mrs. Blair of
Monroe.
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William Breach Sings Sunday

William/ Breach, baritone,
supervisor of high school and
community music in Winston
Salem, will sing in Memorial
Hall Sunday afternoon. Mrs.
Breach will be his accompanist.
This is one of the periodical Sun
day musical events arranged by
the University's music depart
ment, and the public is invited.
Mr.. Breach is we'll known here,
having taught in three sessions
Ct the summer school.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-02-05
Scrubby Rives Is Ousted as
Cheer Leader

Scrubby Rives, the most cele-
brated cheer leader the Univer-
sity ever had, can't hold the job
down in his own home hence
forth. Another voice is now
dominant in the family. Here,
in brief, is the whole story of
his reduction to assistant: Born
to Mr.. and Mrs. E. Earle Rives,
Friday, January 20, a daughter,
Frances Adele.
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DOuble-Header on Saturday

Mrs. 8. E. Leavitt and Mrs. N.
B. Adams are to be the hostesses
Saturday at two bridge parties
in the Leavitt home, one in the
afternoon and the other in the
evening.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-02-05
st. Valentines Dance

The Country Club is making
plans for a st. Valentines dance
on the evening of Saturday, Feb
ruary 13. Mrs. C. T. ,Woollen,
recently elected chairman of the
entertainment committee, is in
charge of the preparations.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-02-05
Basketball Team Goes North

The University basketball
team is now on tour to the north
ward. After playing Virginia,
the Catholic University, and the
Naval Academy this week, the
quint meets next week Harvard,
Maryland, Washington & Lee,
and V. M. /.
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Carolina 81, N. G. State 21

The University basketball
team won from N. C. State Tues
day evening in the Tin Can, 81
to Fl. Cobb scored IA points for
Carolina, Hackney 9, Vanstory
6, and Devin 2.