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Evening star., 1927-03-13
ToiIefries

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Evening star., 1927-03-13

The Sixteenth Street Heights Club
met Tuesday with Mrs. j. S. Lay, 707
Rittenhouse street. This was the pro-
gram meeting of the month and Mrs.
Nina Reed, the guest speaker. gave a
talk on Books and Things Talked
About" Mrs. Swain and Mrs. c. B.
Lingamfelter. a former member. were
guests. The next meeting will be
March %, with Mrs. James Duncan,
7l5 Underwood street hostess
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15

the assessors. to the best of their
ability, at 70 per cent. of mar
ket value. Their first figure on
the Lindsay property was
$4,000, but when he protested
against this they put it at
$4,000 to give him the benefit
of the doubt.
Il know where | can get Mr..
Lindsay a sale for his property
at $4,000 any day he wants it, -
said d, d. Carroll, one of the
assessors, yesterday.
Valuations placed upon near
by property, and recent sales.
are instanced by the assessors
as evidence that their figure of
$4,000 was not too high.
About a year ago Wallace Pat
terson sold for $4,000 his place
on the same avenue, about a
hundred yards nearer the cam
pus, with a frontage of half
Mr., Litdsay's. His land was in
the midle of the block, whereas
Mr., Lindsay's is on a corner and
backs upon a third street which
can be opened at any time. The
Lindsay land has a frontage on
Cameron avenue of $50 feet and
along Patterson street of about
300 feet. il.
B. s. Williams home (the old
H. H. Patterson place., on the
corner across the street, with an
area less than a fourth of Mr..
Lindsay's, is assessed at $500,
Clyde Eubanks' place across the
street, not on a corner and with
a smaller frontage than Mr..
Lindsay's, is assessed at $4,000.
The uniform 10 per cent. re-
duction, agreed upon at the hear
ing Monday, would bring Mr..
Lindsay's assessment down to
$l5, 900. The decision of the COM
missioners Tuesday (unless re-
scinded after the assessors are
heard) will lop off $4,000 more.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
Hunt for Rubber Here
Two Visiting Scientists Investigate
Plants in This Region

The doings of two young men
who came into the village at the
end of last week have caused
much speculation among the in
habitants. The strangers have
been going out into the woods
with little satchels. One citizen
asked them if they were survey
ing roads, and another if they
had something to do with the
new stadium.
They are botanists who were
sent to North Carolina by the
Ford Motor Company, the he Fl Fire re-
stone Tire Company, and the
Edison laboratories, to find out
if plants in this region could be
used for the manufacture of
rubber.
One is E. c. Able and the
other is a Dutchman, c. o.
Spalteholz, who has been in this
country three years. They have
both been doing graduate work
at Cornell University.
A milky fluid which scientists
call latex is the substance from
which rubber is made, and so
MIR. Able and Mr.. Spalteholz
are gathering all varieties of
milk plants. These they send on
to the laboratories in Orange,
New Jersey, to be analyzed,
From Chapel Hill they will go
to Plymouth on the coast, and
then to other parts of North
Carolina.
H. r. Totten and other men,
bers of the University's botany
department have been helping
them in their search.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
Lindsay Gets Board
To Cut $4,000 from
His Tax Assessment
But This Is Conditional Upon Further Consider
alton by Assessors Who Will Contest
Cut as Unfair to Town

c. L. Lindsay did not attend
the county commissioners meet
ing in Hillsboro Monday when
the Chapel Hill assessors and
several other citizens from here
were present to discuss the tax
assessments in the village and
when all argument was settled
by the agreement to make uni
form reduction of 10 per cent.
But he went over the next day,
when neither of the assessors
and nobody else from Chapel
Hill was there. and persuaded
the board to reduce the ASSESS
ment on his Cameron avenue
property from $4,000 to $12,-
600, about 80 per cent.
This decision, however, was
made conditional upon further
consideration by the assessors
and they are going to appear be-
fore the board on the 25th, one
week from next Monday, and
protest against Mr.. Lindsay's
getting a greater reduction than
was granted to other taxpayers.
The news of the reduction
came as a complete surprise to
the village, for the men who at
tended Mondays meeting left
Hillsboro with the assurance
so they understood-that no
changes in Chapel Hill assess
ments (other than the uniform
10 per cent, cut agreed upon)
would be made by the board ex-
cept after consultation with the
town assessors.
The most serious aspect of the
affair is of course not the amount
involved in this single case, but
the assault upon the whole equal
ization program. When one
taxpayer succeeds in getting his
assessment changed, the ques-
ton naturally arises in every
other taxpayers mind: What's
the use of having a systematic
valuation if, after it is complet-
ed, one individual can go to the
commissioners and get "out from
under?
The valuations were fixed by
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
Wiring the Stadium
WOOllen and Bennett Work out Plan
for Communications System


A visitor one day this week
to the office of j. w. Bennett,
the chief of the University's
electric and water department,
found him and Charles T. Wool
len studying a map of the new
Kenan stadium.
They were engaged in decid-
ing where the electric wires
were to run.
The communications service
Is an important part of the sta
dunn plans. Up at the top of the
west stand is to be the press
box, and the reporters gathered
there will have to be connected
not only with the outer world
by telegraph but with the play
ing field by telephone. Along
the edge of the field there will
be telephone instruments from
which the names of players, the
decisions of the referee and the
umpire, and the number of
yards gained or lost, can be re-
layed to the reporters. OF course
much of all this can be seen, but
there are times in every match,
especially when the ball is near
the goal, when it is difficult to
see, from the press box, just
what is going on. Then there
is the operation of the bulletin
board. This board, placed be-
hind the south goal, is to give
the spectators up-to-the-minute
information about the progress
of the game-score, what down
it is, and number of yards to go.
The man who shifts the monster
figures will get his information
from one of the telephones on
the field.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
MANY NEWCOMERS
ARE TO JOIN THE
SCHOOLFACULTY
Board Announces Additions to
the Teaching Force; Farrar
Heads English Dept.
WILL RENOVATE BUILDING

After the meeting of the
school board Wednesday after
noon Acting Superintendent
,Mosher announced the engage
ment of several new teachers.
p. C. Farrar, recently of the
Erasmus Hall high school in
Brooklyn, N. Y, will head the
English department and will
have the rank of associate pro-
fessor in the University under
the cooperative arrangement
with the school Of education.
Miss Sallie B. Marks, with the
rank of assistant professor in
the University, will be the super
vising principal of the elemen-
tary school.
Other newcomers are Miss
Clyde Wright (2rd grade), Miss
Ida Oettinger (4th grade), Miss
Gladys Cox 18th grade), Miss
Katherine Martin Gunior high
schooD, Mrs. Inez Boney (his-
tory in the high SCHOOL,, Miss
Johnsie Henry physical educa-
tion) Miss Enita Darling (mu-
sic supervisory and George
Lawrence (bandmaster). The
engagement of Miss Ellen
MeIick was announced several
weeks ago,
The board voted to have the
interior Of the. school building
repainted. This work will be
started at once so that it may
be completed by the fal.
Monday, September II, is fix
ed as the opening day.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
The Gravel Travels
Householders See Their Walks and
, Roads Taken Away by Rainstorms

Some Of the citizens of Chap
ell Hill who live on hillsides have
been forced to witness the de-
parture Of their gravel paths
and roadways in the violent
transforms of the last week or
so,
And some have received grav-
el they didn't want, which came
down from their neighbors' do
mains.
The Prestons, who recently
moved into their new home out
in Westwood, discovered, after
one storm, that the surface of
their road and path had emf
grated down to the Corners lot.
They brought it back, and 1t
made the same journey again.
The latest report is that they
are thinking Of waiting until
the summer is gone in order not
to have to repeat this recapture.
l.. M. Brooks has a beautiful
lawn in the valley below the
Odums. The rain washed a ton
or more of gravel over his stone
wall and spread 1t on his grass.
A large section Of the Logans'
front walk went.out through the
gateway anu ACROSS the sidewalk
into the street,
This sort Of thing happened
all over town. Roads and walks
have notsreceived such severe
treatment for years.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
Educational Conference
Experts Are Here to Discuss Many
Problems Relating to Schools

The Conference OH Elemen-
tary Education began yesterday
and will continue through this
(Friday) evening. The pro-
gram was arranged by M. c. S,
Noble, Jr., executive secretary
of the conference.
At this mornings meeting
10000 in Gerard Hall, with
Holland Holton of Duke Univer-
sity presiding, the topic for dis
cussion will be Teacher Supply
and Demand" The speakers are
John II. Cook Of the N. G. G.. W.,
James h. Hillman and M. G.. S.
Noble, Jr., of the state depart
ment of public instruction, John
Carr Of Duke University, d. B.
Bryan of Wake Forest College,
B. B. Dougherty of the Appa-
lachian State Normal School, N,
w. Walker of the University's
school of education, and II. II.
Wright of the East Carolina
Teachers College,
Supervision will be discussed
at the afternoon session (2:30)
under the Craftsmanship of John
C. Lockhart, by Miss Nettie
Brogden, Miss Margaret Gustin,
Miss Anne Holdford, and Miss
Carrie Wilson.
At seven o'clock this evening
comes the dinner, with Robert
B. House as toastmaster. Maj.
William A. Graham will preside
over the $50 meeting. A. T.
Allen, Fred w. Morrison, and
julie B. Warren will speak on
immediate educational detectives
in this state.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
Seek Successor for Grant

A committee of alumni, CON-
posed of John Umstead, L. p.
McLendoh, DIR. Charles Laugh
inghouse, Henry London, and
Kenneth Cant, are engaged in
on1nn4s..c- a a,,onoaae,. 20 nessse. Il
sS~fS~ptHS S~N~~S@vA Va D1hiSi
L. Grant as executive secretary.
1t was announced several weeks
ago that Mr.. Grant had resign
ed in order to take graduate
work in Columbia University.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
Curious over New Ford
Many Citizens Make Advance Pay
ments on Cars Soon to Come

Here in Chapel Hill, as no
doubt in every other town in the
country, there is much curiosity
about the nsw car which. Henry
Ford is said to be planning to
put on the market.
Many a Ford owner, who
would otherwise have made a
trade-iII before now, is still op-
Grating his wheezy old machine
so that, when he does exchange,
he may get the new model. Sew
eral hundreds of dollars have
been deposited with Bruce
Strowd, as advance payment, in
order to assure prompt delivery.
The Ford dealers have. no
more definite information about
the matter than anybody else.
They know only what they have
read in the newspapers and
what they have been. able to
pick up, in the way of gossip,
from the officials at the branch
factories. The report now is
that the announcement from
headquarters will come out in
August.
Mr.. Strowd says he hears that
the new car will have six cylin-
ders and standard hand-Operat-
ed gear shifts, that the chassis
will be a few inches longer than
at present, and that there will
be various improvements in the
engine and the cooling mechan-
ism. 1t is unknown what price
changes there will be. 1t is
rumored- that the coupe and Sc
dan will cost very little if any
more than the 1927 models, but
that there will be increases on
the open cars.
If Chapel Hills interest in the
new Ford is a fair illustration
of the interest of the American
people as a whole, the immedi-
ate sales will be vast. Probably
ten persons in the village, at the
very least, intend to buy at once.
Counting Chapel Hills popula-
ton as $500 and the country's
as 100,000,000, the United
States has 100000 times as many
inhabitants as Chapel Hill. If
there are 10 intending purchas-
ers for every $500 persons in
the United States, this means a
sale of 100000 cars right off the
bat.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
End Term Begins Next Week

The registration of students in
the first term who will remain
for the second term of the Sum-
mer School will begin tomor-
row Saturday and continue
through next Wednesday. The
registration of new students is
scheduled for Thursday, and in
struction will begin Friday the
22nd. The total registration for
the first term was 1854, divided
into CAT men and 1,010 women.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
The Tax Rate
Uncertainty as TO How II Will BE
Affected by Cut in Assessments

AT the meeting of the board
of aldermen Monday evening,
Town Manager Knox submitted
tentative report upon the eff
feet of the county commission
ers' action, with regard to as
sessments, upon the tax rate IN
Chapel Hill.
The decision of the commits
sioners to decrease all assess
ments in this township by 10 per
cent. brought a decrease Of about
$500, 900 in the total assessments
within the town of Chapel Hill.
Mr.. Knox figures that this de-
creases by about $4,000 the to-
tai amount that citizens of
Chapel Hill will have to pay in
county taxes.
AS far as town taxes are con-
cerned, the cut in assessments
causes no change. The budget
(that is, the amount of expendi-
lures for the next year, is al
ready fixed, and the tax rate de-
pends upon the total of assess
ments, AS that total goes up,
the tax rate is proportionately
diminished. 1t was expected that,
if the valuations handed in by
the assessors were approved, the
tax rate might be reduced; but
the action of the county COM
missioners has made this i'm
probable. Anyway, the cut in
the assessments, by reason Of its
reducing the contribution Of this
village to the county, effects a
considerable net saving to the
taxpayers here.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
Magician Entertains Crowd

Kringsberg, the magician, en-,
tertained a big crowd in Mem
orial Hall Monday evening
Geese and pigeons appeared
mysteriously in his hat-anC
other remarkable things occur
red. Mr. Kringsberg varied his
tricks with revelations about
spiritualistic hoaxes.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
A Useful Editor

Judd Ashby, editor of the
Summer Tar Heel, went on a trip
to the sandhill region this week.
He brought back a basket of lus-
cious peaches to the personnel
of the printshop.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
Public Welfare Institute

The eighth annual Public We'll
fare Institute will open here
Monday, Last year the enroll
ment was l16, and it is expected
to be greater this year.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
Chapel Hill 5Chaf

"Sectarianism Rampant at
Chapel Hill as Episcopal Church
Was Being Built" is the headline
over Archibald Henderson's arti-
Gle in last Sundays papers, and
he tells of the waspish attitude
of one denomination toward an
other. Times have certainly
changed. Late one afternoon a
week or so ago, when a shower
had left a gorgeous rainbow in
the eastern sky, ]. E. Lear and
NJ. c. S. Noble were standing in
front of the bank. Look" said
Mr.. Lear, pointing to the church
across the street, look what the
Lord thinks of us -Methodists
He has put that rainbow as a
halo right around our steeple. -
Whereupon the Episcopalian re-
piled: "Oh, that's just to reas-
sure you that you're in favor
we don't need any such mark of
approval" " Which is about as
violent an interdenominational
dispute as Chapel Hill can pro-
duce these days.
In the Baltimore Etening Sln
Gerald Johnson tells of the mel
anchOly effects produced by
progress upon life in the noun
tajns of western North Carolina.
In consequence of the automo-
bile road up Mount Mitchell,
zone encounters on that austere
summit fat women in high-heel-
ed shoes and chiffon stockings. -
And all over the Blue Ridge
there is no peace for the harm
less, inOffensive tramper; he is
lucky if he is able to march for
10 consecutive minutes without
ieaping at the sound of an i'm
perious honk to flatten himself
against the bank, or balance pre-
carlously on the outer edge of
the road, while a sinking, clank-
ing automobile goes by. II would
not dispense with automobiles.
| value the usefulness of the
things. But they do not enhance
the beauty of the world. never
pass up the main street of Chap
ell Hill, and see the cars parked
along the curbs, without reflect
ing how much less agreeable to
the eye this part of the village
is than it was generation ago.
These monstrous black objects,
with their snouts at the edge of
the walk, like hogs at a trough,
and now and then uttering nois-
es that are fully as unmelodious
as the grunting of swine. and a
smell little better-they are an
ugly sight!
Within the last few days
have seen in the Greensboro
Neaos two editorial eulogies of
Continued on page four)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15

Robert B. House played golf
in Durham yesterday, This ey-
ening he will make a speech at
the dinner Of the Conference on
Elementary Education.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
DIR. c. r. Toy Engaged

The engagement of DR.. Cal
vert r. Toy to Miss Fielding
Lewis Douthat Of DanviIIe, Vir-
ginia, was announced this week.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
Postpones Action on Permit

POstpOnes Action on Permit
The town manager told the
board of aldermen, at Monday
nights meeting, that Clarence
Pickard's application to erect a
filling station next to the Pres
byterian church had been tenn
porarily withdrawn. The mat
ter may come up later.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15
Two Doctors HonOred

Charles K. Gooch has a new
son whom he has named Eric
Lloyd, as mark of his esteem
for DIR. Eric Abernethy and DR..
B. B. Lloyd.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15

While w. X. Boyd of Duke
University is lecturing on South
ern history at Harvard next fall,
X. d. W. Connor Of the Univer-
sity Of North Carolina will take
charge Of part Of his courses.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-07-15

Within the last few days
have seen in the Greensboro
NeWs two editorial eulogies of
Continued on page four)
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-09-08
FEATURE

In this age when women are be-
inp placed on the same level as
men more and more offices for
merly occupied bv men are being
held by women. Right at the pres
emit time we hear great deal Of
women who are trying to compete
with our latest hero, Lindbergh.
Even in our high school this new
desire for equality with men has
been felt when at the openino of
this Observation-Disclosures
this school term two of our brave
sophomore girls enrolled in the
manual trainino course. Alice Mae
Smith and Edith Stradford thot
it would be GREAT sport to learn
to handle saw hammer or some
other tool to make tables stools
and other things that only boys
have made hitherto. ).
However, the feminine spirit of
the past roses to the surface the
third day when Edith decided she
couldn't continue the work. Alice
Mae is still enrolled in the class
and we hope that bv the end of the
wear she will be turnino out great
pieces of furniture.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-09-08
NO.
The BrOadcaster

The members of the senior class
elected staff for the K. III. S.
Broadcasters. Karl Reese who is
always prompt in transactino his
various duties WOO elected editor.
We are sure Karl will perform the
duties of this office very well.
Lulu Lampson was elected asso-
ciate editor. Last year Lula acted
as reporter for the Junior class
and her work proved satisfactory.
Her duty is to prepare an editorial
for the paper each week.
Joe Brown who has been in
terested in boys sports and has
participated in them is to fill the
office of Boys Sports editor.
Orc Mae Lyons is interested in
girls sports so she will act as
reporter for the girls.
Joe Siegfried belongs to the var
ious high school clubs and is a
regular attendant at their meet
lngs. He will report on their ac-
Invites.
Silver Mcguire has presented to
our English class some very pleas
ino material of ordinary happen
ings. She writes in very interest
ing and clever manner. Due to
these facts she will be our Feature
writer.
1t has been the custom to have a
member on the staff whose duties
are to write reports on each de-
partment in the high school. Elsie
Turner was elected for this re-
sponsibility.
Inasmuch as Art Carpenter al
ways sees the humorous side of
life and greets everyone with a
smile he will have charge of the
Joke Department.
All of the offices necessary to
edit the paper were filled but that
of typist. Two of our promising
stenographers are to have charge
of this work. Thew are Margaret
Crawford and Pauline Higley.
Watch for the reports from the
different departments and notice
what the high school can do along
these lines.
This wear we are ASKING each of
the underclassmen to elect a class
reporter. This will enable all the
classes to have their news in the
paper. 1t will further relieve the
editinp staff from criticism be-
cause the underclasses will be rep.
resented in the news. If each class
has his own reporter it is his re-
sponsibility to have the class news
ready for the editor.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-09-08
DEPARTMENTS

The beginners in Latin are now
being introduced to the different
cases of this language while the
Latin III students are havino Lat
in subjunctives.
The beginning French pupils are
learning to greet each other. They
are also learning correct pronun-
citation which is one of the most
important parts of this study.
The hammerinp of the typewrit-
ers gives evidence and signs of in
dustrv in the commercial room.
The BEGINNING typing students are
finding it rather difficult to get
used to the Snatch stroke The
advanced students find that thew
know more about tipping than thew
thot they would after the summer
vacation.
The second year students in the
COOKING department started the
year by cleaning the labratory.
They are now making jellies and
conserves.
The u. S. history class started
by sharpening their wits on civ
les quiz. The history books have
not vet arrived. so most of the
time is spent in oral discussion on
modern problems of the United
States.
The senior English students are
learninp how to stand erect and
also how to walk correctly. They
have organized a club which they
call the "Holy Howlers." Miss Bon
ner saws she hopes the first is
true. We needn't howl to make
ourselves heard. The other classes
are PURSUING their work in litera-
! ture.
The general plan for the science
department including general sci
ence, biology physics and chem
istry will be to present the general
principles involved in every dav
life and as far as possible make
practical applications.