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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
CARRBORO SOON
TO HAVE A NEW
WATER SYSTEM
Bond Issue of $4,000; Contract
Let to a Burlington
Company
DISPOSAL PLANT INCLUDED

The town of Carrboro, Chapel
Hills next-door neighbor to the
west, is going rapidly ahead with
the construction of a new water
and sewer system.
The contract has been let to
the Burlington Construction
Company, and this concern has
already put its force into action.
The work will go on through the
fall and winter.
Recently the Carrboro alder
men authorized a bond issue of
$4,000 to cover the water and
sewer pipes, a standpipe, and a
sewage disposal plant. The a.
mount of the contract is several
thousand dollars under that fig
ure, SO that there appears to be
a safe margin.
The water is to be purchased
from the University, which,
through its Consolidated Service
Plants, owns and conducts the
water supply system in Chapel
Hill. The water will be filtered
in the University's present plant
and will be piped out to Carr
bOro. Some water is already be-
ing piped out to Carrboro, and
arrangements have been made
for the laying of such new mains
as are needed.
The disposal plant is to be in
the Morgan creek valley, out to
the southwest of Chapel Hill. A
week or SO ago a delegation from
.CarrbOro appeared before the
aldermen here and proposed that
the two municipalities join their
two sewer system$;9 Carrboro's
northern section to empty into
Chapel Hill's existing line and
Chapel Hill to lead it's sewers
from the Pittsboro road section
into the new Morgan creek val
ley disposal plant. But a COM
mittee of the Chapel Hill board,
after a study of this plan, report
ed against it, deciding that the
lay of the land was such that
Chapel Hill could provide, more
economically, its own outfall
from the Pittsboro road section.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
COMMISSIONERS
CANCEL ACTION
ONPAVlNG ROAD
Rescind Resolution to Lay Hard
Surface East Of Chap
ell Hill
PROJECT "UP IN THE AIR"
"The King of France Went up the
hiU

"The King of France Wemt up the
hill
With taOe1aty thousand men,;
The King of France came dO1OR
the hill,
And ne'er Vent up again."
This old rhyme is called to
mind by the action of the Orange
county commissioners last week
and this week.
They had meeting on We'd
nesday of last week and author
lied the borrowing of $25, 900 to
lay a hard surface on the old
Raleigh road from Chapel Hill
to the Durham county line-a-
bout 2 1-3 miles. This was in
response to the proposal from
the Durham county people
that Durham would bring
the hard surface westward to the
line if Orange would meet them.
Then the commissioners had
another meeting on Monday of
this week and rescinded the pre-
vious action. SO the hard sur
faceswon't be laid-that is, not
until some further positive &C
tion is taken by the county's gov
ernors.
Chapel Hill wanted the work
done. A group of Hillsboro cit
liens didn't want it done-at
least, they didn't want the coun-
ty to borrow money for it. And
they headed off the enterprise in
a snappy and competent fashion
1t was all over, and the rescind-
ing resolution was spread neat
ly on the minutes, while Chapel
Hill was still licking its chops.
so to speak oyer }4ye the prospect of
the new road
Last week the resolution to
borrow the $4,000 and proceed
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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
Plumbing Reform
The Aldermen Decide that There Must
Be More Rigid Inspection

One of the subjects which the
Chapel Hill aldermen have been
discussing, in their recent meet
ings, is the quality of plumbing
work done in Chapel Hill.
R. r. Benson, the plumber, ap-
peared before the board a week
or so ago, and made an appeal
that a modern plumbing code be
adopted and it's provisions be
strictly enforced. He said that
the approving of inferior work
by the towns inspector made for
unfair competition, inasmuch as
well-trained plumbers who main
tanned proper standards could be
underbid by those who did not
fulfill modern requirements.
The aldermen retained two ex-
perts from Durham to go around
with committee of the board
and examine several installa-
tions. And the committee re-
ported, at the meeting Wednes-
day evening, that they had
found several houses in which
the plumbing was unsatisfac-
tory, and, in some cases, danger
GUS to health. Other jobs they
found well done. 1t was resolv-
ed to put into effect a more rigid
inspection system.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
Graham Resigns
Sends Letter Withdrawing as Counsel
for County Commissioners

A. H. Graham of Hillsboro,
chairman of the Democratic eX-
ecutive committee of Orange
county, resigned last week as
counsel to the board of county
commissioners.
He sent a letter to each of the
three commissioners, announc-
ing his resignation. No action
was taken upon it at the boards
meeting on Monday of this week
and the fact that Mr.. Graham
was called in, at that meeting,
and asked to give legal advice on
the matter of resembling the res
olution for building a new road
has led people here in Chapel Hill
to think that perhaps the COM
missioners will ask Mr.. Graham
to reconsider his decision.
He is a member of the legisla-
ture and is one of the leading
lawyers in this section of North
Carolina. Since returning from
the World War, in which he won
two promotions and ended up as
a captain, he has taken an active
part in the affairs of the county.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
The We'll Lectures
Henry Noble MacCracken Will Deliver
Them October 20, 30, and 81

Henry Noble MacCracken,
president of Vassar college, will
deliver the We'll lectures here
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
evenings October 20, 80 and 81.
Mr.. MacCracken's lectures will
concern training for public ser
vice. The general topic, John
the Common Veal is taken
from the title of an old English
play. The first lecture will be
"The Complaint Against the
Times; the second, Leisure
and Loyalties"; and the third,
"Neighborhood."
The first We'll lectures, were
delivered at the University in
1914 by William Howard Taft.
Since that time they have been
established as a permanent foun-
dation by the families of Sol
We'll and Henry We'll of Colds
boro.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
A Colloquy in 1885

editors of the Charlotte Oh
SeTUer.
Starr: Hello there, Madry!
Modry: Hello, Starr! When d
you blow in?
Starr: Came through last night.
Pretty slow travel-never saw
the road so crowded:
MGdry: The highway commits
sion is rotten. They ought to
have had that road widened to
60 feet a year ago.
They drop doaOn into chairs
that happen to be vGcated Just
then by t1OO other vtsitors.
Starr: What the hell is the mat
ter with the coaches this year
Seems to me they've got plenty
of good material. Lettin' David
son tie 'em again! You fellows
on the newspapers keep up with
these things. What's your idea
about the chances today?
Madry: / don't know much about
it. Haven't paid any attention
to sports since I took over the
real estate and financial pages.
All see is that the team doesn't
seem to have any drive when the
pinch comes. They take the ball
all down the field and then have
MT got the punch to put it over
the line. (He pGuses). To tell
you the truth, Starr, I've sort
O. lost interest. Can't get up
much excitement over who wins.
Oh, | howl with the rest of 'em
out on the field, but if the dear
old Alma Mater loses it can't
make me sad. Love to come
back and see the old gang,
though. Band playin'-singin'
and all the rest-nice holiday"
Starr Shaking has head doubt
| fully: Yes, | know-but all the
same don't like to see Carolina
humiliated year after year.
There's a Virginia man in our
sales ohice-he's just waitin' to
give me the .ha-ha when l come
in tomorrow. "F
Mddry takes a copy of the
Tar Heel from a table at his side
and idly scans the front page.
Starr, droVing has chair closer,
Continued on page taOO)
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A Thrilling Tale
Capt. Noel Holds Crowd SpellbOund
with Narrative about Tibet

Captain J. B. Noel, displaying
pictures of the expedition to
reach the top of Mount Everest
in Tibet and accompanying them
with a narrative of the adven-
ture, thrilled a big audience in
Memorial Hall Tuesday evening.
He was the official photograph
eer of the expedition sent out by
the Royal Geographic Society of
Great Britain, and his camera
caught the daring pair, Mallory
and Irvine, as they started out,
with oxygen masks, on the last
'6OO-feet dash from which they
never returned.
His pictures showed not only
regions of the Himalayas never
before trod by man, but also the
mOnaSterieS and homes, and the
manners of life, of the people of
Tibet. In this far land a woman
has several husbands, but a man
has only one wife; the tongue is
stuck out as a greeting to
strangers; children are rubbed
with oil as a protection from the
cold, and are never bathed; the
highest mountain of the Hima-
Iayas is worshipped as a god ;
barley and Yak's milk are about
the only food. Captain Noel told
all about these things and many
others just as strange.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
Reception for the WOrkmans

Three ministers of Chapel Hill
and their wives-Mr. and Mrs
A., S. Lawrence, Mr.. and Mrs
Walter Patten, and Mr.. and Mrs
Eugene Olive-gave reception
Monday evening, at the Law
renee home on Rosemary lane
to Mr.. and Mrs. M. T. Workman
Mr.. Workman is the head of the
new School of Religion here. Of.
ficials of the village churches and
the members of Mr.. Workman s
seminar group were the only 9th
er guests.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
HOyle Sink Here Today

Hoyle Sink, North Cardinals
commissioner of pardons and ex-
ecutiye secretary of the salary
and wage commission, will ed
dress the students in chapel this
(Friday) morning.
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Chapel Hill Chaf

That tale of Eli Merritt's a.
bout Mr.. Toy, told to H. E. C..
Bryant thirty-five years ago and
related by Mr.. Bryant in last
Fridays Weekly, sounded bit
fishy. Eli was a notorious-well,
yarn-spinner, to, put it mildly.
And when he had Mr.. Toy, who
had lived among negroes all his
life, addressing him, the negro
janitor, in such ceremonious
fashion, the thing seemed ex-
tremely fanciful.
Mr.. Toy was asked about it
this week. He was amused at
the yarn and was not particular
ly anxious to "get out from un-
der, but questioning reinforced
the impression of several citi-
zens, whose residence dates back
to the nineties, that Mr.. Toy had
been confused, in Ellis tale, with
a Mr.. Atkinson who Joined the
faculty at about that time.
This Mr.. Atkinson had never
been in the South before and one
of the first convictions he form
ed here was that the white peo-
pie did not pay the negroes e.
nough for their labor. He offer
ed Bill McDade $50 a month to
be the man-of-all work around
his home. This was fabulous
pay in those days, and Bills eyes
bulged with wonder and delight.
Besides being offered such high
wages he was called Mr.. Nc
Dade.
But there was something else
to the bargain than wages. The
new faculty member arranged
a system Of fines. twenty-five
cents deducted if the study was
not properly cleaned, and SO on.
The story runs that at the end
of the first month, instead of
Mr.. Atkinson's owing Bill 500,
Bill owed Mr.. Atkinson So. l
believe the professor agreed to
compromise by paying rrsome
smaller sum than the $2QEqrigt
|.inally offered; but the cAnnecr
ton did not prove mutually &c
greeable, and he and Bill parted
company. Eli Merritt liked to
narrate events in which he was
the central figure, and the proba
ability is that he borrowed the
McDade-Atkinson plot and
changed the names of the char
acters to suit his own purpose.
Howard Mumford Jones says
he counted 49 sign boards on the
highway right of way when he
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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22

A Halloween dance will be
held at the Country Club next
Thursday evening, October %.
There will be entertainment for
those not danciRg,A A full at
tendance of all club members is
desired. Those who wish to be
transported have only to call
Mrs. Harold D. Meyer.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
Skyscraper Talk Tonight

A talk on "The Skyscraper as
as Illustration of Imaginative
Life in America, accompanied
by lantern slides, will be deliv-
cred in Phillips Hall this IFri-
day. evening by Edgar Wind,
member of the University fac
uIty in the philosophy depart
ment.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
Parent-Teachers Meet

The Parent-Teachers Associa-
ton met last night Thursday.
IN the school auditorium. Paul
John Weaver discussed music in
the school, and E. R. Mosher
told of the demonstration school
project.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
County Is Widening Road

The county is widening the
road from Chapel Hill to Black
woods school house beyond
Orange church. The work has
been under way several days. A
force of convicts is cutting the
road to q width of 20 feet.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
FOister in New Orleans

John L. Foister, Chapel Hills
fire chief, left last Saturday to
attend the convention of the In
ternational Association of Fire
Chiefs in New Orleans this week.
He will probably get back day
after tomorrow.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
SCENE l

Time: Thanksgiving Day,
1885. Elevem o'clock in the
morning. The Carolina Virginia
football game is to begin at 2::SO.
Place: The lobby of the Caro-
lima Inn. A jam of men and
aUOmen of all ages, some seated,
some standing, some mOvimg to
and fro. Blue-Gnd-aOhite ribbons
on tUpets and bodices, aOith an
occasional glimpse of the Virgin
ia Ordmge-dnd- blue. Greetings of
Eong-parted friends, ively talk,
laughter.
Two alumni, Julian S. Starr
and J. T. Madry, meet near the
fireplace at the east end of the
lobby. Starr is a manufacturer
of tertiles IN Rock Hill, South
Carolina; Madry is one of the
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
Mencken with Us

n. l.. Mencken came to chapel
Hill last Saturday. He had as
companion Paul Patterson. Mr..
Patterson, as publisher of the
Baltimore Sun, is the man who
pays Mr.. Mencken one of his
several salaries.
They stayed from about noon
until half past seven o'clock
when Archibald Henderson sped
them over to Durham in his lux
urious sedan to catch the eight
o'clock train to Greensboro. 4
Chapel Hill did an excellent
job in confirming the impression
which Gerald Johnson, H. w. O.
dunn, and Roulhac Hamilton had
already planted in Mr.. Mencken's
mind-namely, that Chapel Hill
was an oasis in the Sahara. l
hasten to add that use The word
oasis in no vulgar sense suggest
ing the satisfaction of a physical
thirst. l mean intellectual oasis.
After talking with President
Chase, L. R. Wilson, H. w. O.
dunn, Paul J. Weaver, Roulhac
Hamilton, Oscar Coffin, and
others of our leading Intellectu-
ais, the visitor was so fed up on
art, literature, and research that
he was in sad need of something
brutal in the way of an antidote; !;
so they took him to the Caro-
lina-Duke football game. In the
evening he returned to the
Things of the Spirit by going to
a party at Mr.. Henderson's and
|conversing with, among others,
Mrs. Henderson, Paul Green,
Miss Mary Henderson, Norman
Forester, Howard Mumford
Jones, and Fred Hanes, the fam
GUS physician, book-collector and
African big game hunter Of
Winston-Salem.
At this point l record an Incl
dent which impressed me deeply.
Mr.. Patterson kissed Mrs.
HAhes's hand. And with a
grace which | must confess, in
'alf humility, is far superior to
our simple manner of address
practiced here in Chapel Hill.
Ever since / read IN early
youth about the founding of the
colony of Maryland by Lord
Baltimore I have always asso-
ciated the name Baltimore with
elegance and courtliness. 1t may
or may not be that if l had be-
come acquainted with the city
this conceit would have been
dissipated. Anyway, it has per-
sisted. And now it becomes
more firmly fixed than ever by
my observation of this gentle
man, Mr.. Patterson. The faint
gasp when he was informed by
Mrs. Henderson that she was a
grandmother, the look of bewil-
derment, the infection of the
voice when he pronounced the
word "No"-I have never heard
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q E. w. Knight, who, was suf-
fering with an infected tooth,
is recuperating. He will be able
to go to work Monday.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22

President Chase has returned
from Statesville where he de-
liYered four addresses. IL
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1926-10-22
EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Weekly has a consf6srable
number of distant subscribers.
For example, there are DR.. Ja-
cocks in the island of Ceylon,
Mr.. Royster in Europe, Mr.. Sa-
vile in Venezuela. And a few
hundred scattered over the Unit
ed States. Necessarily they are
unfamiliar with the current hap
penings here on the Hill. There
fore it is advisable to give these
words of explanation before pro-
ceeding to the dialogue here be-
low.
In this latter end of October,
1926, the University atmosphere
is fairly cracking with excite
ment over a newspaper contro-
versy. A new weekly journal,
the Faun, has appeared, with
Julian S. Starr, Jr., as editor:
It is severely critical of Univer-
sity life as exemplified here-of
the conduct of athletics in par
ticular. And it attacks J. T.
Madry, editor-in-chief of the Tar
Heel, as the upholder of a la
mentable status quo. Mr.. Madry
delivers a vigorous counter-at-
tack. Letters flow into the Open
Forum columns of the Tar Heel,
condemning and defending. The
campus is all stirred up.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-09-29
CITIZENS UR &c
FAIRGROUNDS

Additional municipal playground
facilities were advocated last night
by the Iowa Circle Citizens Associa-
ton and the Kalorama Citizens
Association recommended the erec'
ton Of a new House of Detention.
Lack of Fairgrounds for children
living in apartment houses and In
the thiclSly congested sections
brought the submission OF reso-
luton by M. A. Robbins requesting
the location of new sites.
Robbins also submitted a resolu'
ton recommending an increase in
the number of Commissioners OF
the District but it was not adopted.
Criticism of the present facilities
at the House of Detention, now
located at Fifteenth Street and
Ohio Avenue Northwest, was con-
tanned in a report of Mrs. Harvey
w. Wiley, chairman Of the Kaio-
rama citizens committee on chari-
ties and corrections. objection was
also made to the procedure OF the
Juvenile Court.
Both associations discussed, but
failed to act, on the proposed loca-
ton of the midcity market. Further
reports are to be made.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-09-29
MAN IS
ARRESTED

Taken into custody yesterday be.
cause he was thought to resemble
one of the men wanted in a daring
train robbery in Oregon in 1928, a
man who gave his name as Michael
Ambrose, 24pyears old, was released
today when he satisfied Postal In
spectors d. J. Sutherland and J. w.
Johnson that he had never been
out of the eastern part of the coun-
try.
Ambrose's arrest came as the re-
suit Of posters describing the rob-
bers and offering rewards totaling
$4,000. Persons seeing Ambrose
eating in a restaurant thought
that he resembled one of the three
De Autremont brothers wanted in
connection with the affair.
Ambrose, when taken to police
headquarters, laughed at his arrest
and gave story OF his life.
The three De Autremont brothers,
Roy, Ray and Hugh, are said to be
the bandits who on October IL,
1923, held up a Southern Pacific
passenger train, killed the engineer,
fireman, brakeman and Railway
Mail Clerk E. E. Dougherty, after
ward dynamiting the mail car.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-09-29
TIRED FEELING" MAY
BREED FATAL ILLNESS

ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. o.
Feel tired all the time? 1t may in
dicate a fatal malady, DR.. Chris
TOPPER G.. Parnall, medical director
Of the Rochester General Hospital,
told the annual convention OF the
American Hospital Association. He
said:
"That persistent tired feeling may
be, and often is, an easily remedied
complaint, but no chances should
be taken. There should be no delay
in diagnosing the cause. 1t may
mean q fatal Illness"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-09-29
SKELETON
WASHED UP BY FLOOD

HAGERSTOWN. Nd, Sept. %
Flood waters during recent severe
storms washed out the skeleton OF
a Union soldier on Antiemtam
battlefield, nears Sharpsburg, 81
years after the battle. Bones, the
heel of a shoe and brass buttons
from the uniform of a Union soldier
were found by Lester Reel. tenant
on the Piper farm, over which some
of the hardest fighting ragged. The
bones were inferred in the national
Cemetery adjoining the Battlefield.
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Kahn. Several Of the conspirators
have been arrested.
Details of the plot were not dis
closed.
Ria Kahn was elected Shah last
December IS by the constituent
assembly, following the overthrow
of the dynasty OF Shah Sultan
Ahmad, and the crown Of Darius
was made hereditary in his family.
| The Japanese government has
appropriated about $4,000 for the
construction of radio stations in six
cities.
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FOUND TO KILL
NEW PERSIAN SHAH

LONDON, Sept. 20. - According
to a report from Teheran, the
Persian authorities, have discovered
a plot to assassinate the Shah, Ria
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No more worrying, says the song.
The author and composer must have
had some experience apartment hunt
ing and finally found the place they
wanted through classified ads in The
Times and Herald
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-09-29

A railroad engineer is the in.
Vontor of coal shovel that
registers the amount of fuel
handled in a device attached to its
handle.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-09-09
SEWARD DAILY GATEWA1
SEAL BULLS INCREASE
 ON WESTWARD, ISLANDS.

Telegraphic reports from Superin- tendent H. J. Christoffers to the Bur- eau of Fisheries of the Department of Commerce at Washington, D. O., state that the count of fur-seal bulls on both St. Paul and St. George Islands, of Alaska, was completed July 20.
 It showed that there were 4,034 har. em bulls and 423 idle bulls on the islands, including 1O2 branded and 312 unbranded six-year-old bulls. This would seem to be a satisfactory in- crease over the number in the pre- vious year, the Bureau of Fisheries observed, although it deferred defi- mite comparisons until later figures were made available.
Seward daily gateway., 1926-09-09
BUREAU OF HsHER|ES
 RECAPTuRE TAGGED GOD

The Bureau of Fisheries of the De- partment of Commerce at Washington, D. C., has just reported that, during the last three years, it's employees have tagged 36,792 cod, pollock and had dock off the New England coast. Met al tags are clipped over the tails of the fishes to enable the bureau scien- lists to study their migrations, rate of growth and habits.
 During their operations, the bureau the experts recaptured l. 672 of the tagged fishes, all of them being released again. Forty of these were recaptured a second time, and one, a pollock, was taken out of the water third time.