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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-09-16
. By o. J. Coffin

Fosters is offering a camera
free to purchasers of $40 worth
of school books.
Dean Paulsen is going to press
today or tomorrow with a four
page edition of the Smoke
Screen.
Parson Moss, except for one
appendix, is back from Wash
ington and points north where
he spent his summer vacation.
ScuppernOngs have appeared
on the local market.
Cantaloupes are gone, and to-
matoes are half the size of last
months offerings.
Cap'n Alf Pickard's negroes
are digging holes here and there
on the landscape.
Willie B. Sorrell's movie pail
ace is nearing completion, while
the new home of Sutton & AL
derman grows apace.
Faculty members new and old
are bustling about with knitted
brows, trying to think of what,
if anything, they came up town
for.
On Emerson field the football
squad is tackling the dummy,
passing, punting, running sig
nails and recovering wind lost in
the summer vacation.
The new stadium, in response
to the unusual September rain
fall, is covering itself with green
in a most satisfying fashion.
Dean of Students Francis
Bradshaw and Col. Bob House
are. continually in conference
over possible and improbable
problems Of fall and winter
quarters.
DR.. Thomas j. Wilson, Jr.,
University registrar, sees some
thing like 2,700 students in pros
pect, while Bursar Warren is
clucking over each and every one
assigned to a dormitory.
. The new wing of Phillips hall
is under construction.
The ditto of Peabody building
isn't-due, it seems, to some diff
ference Of opinion between the
University administration and
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-09-16
Battle Visits Village
Old-Timer Tours about and Sees
Things Old and New

William J. Battle, son of Kemp
Plummer Battle, was in Chapel
Hill Monday as the guest of his
niece, Mrs. John M. Booker. He
stopped by on his way to the
University of Texas, where he
has been member of the fac
ulty for several years.
Mr.. Battle toured about the
village with Mr.. and Mrs. Book
er. At Hippol Castle on Piney
Prospect, the home of the order
of the Gimghouls, he sat upon
the stone seat, erected last year
in memory of his father, and
gazed out over the valley. Then
he went by the new Zeta Psi
home on Cameron avenue and
explored it from cellar to attic.
Mr.. Battle was the leader 40
years ago, in building the origi-
nal Zeta Psi house at the Uni
versity, the little one room
building on the edge of the Gore
place. He was amazed by the
contrast between that modest
structure and the handsome Col
onial edifce into which the fra
ternity moves this week.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-09-16
Ford Afre Draws a Throng

The fire whistle blew Wednesday
evening not long after suppertime
1t was an idle hour, and everybody
who had an automobile or could leap
into somebody else's followed the
screeching fire engine to Vance
street, whence the alarm had come.
The cars, scores of them, poured along
Columbia street, Cameron avenue,
and Pittsboro street, three and some
times four abreast It turned out
that Mr.. Patterns Ford car had caught
fire, but the blaze was put out be-
fore the engine arrived.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-09-16
Chapel Hill Chaf

RuStlcS and small town peo-
pie have always believed that
honesty was more prevalent a.
mong them than in the big
cities. | seem to remember that
this was the theme of poets in
the time of the Emperor Angus
tus, and probably the idea was
old even then. The New York
Times said a few days ago that
hat-snatching was now freely
practiced in the metropolitan
subways. A miscreant stand
ing on the platform reaches
through a window, as the train
gets under way, and jerks a fine
Panama or fedora from a pas
senger's head. The passenger,
helpless, is carried on to the
next station half a mile or more
distant, while the man who got
the hat carries it off to a second
hand clothing dealer who, after
substituting a new band and per-
haps making other changes, dis
poses of the headgear to the first
available purchaser. When /
read this | experienced a feeling
of relief that here we did not
have to worry about hat-snatch-
ing and other such rascality.
OF course there are advantages
pertaining to city life, and those
who like it might argue that the
many urban joys compensate for
the risk of being robbed of a hat
in the subway, of having the
apartment rifled by burglars, of
getting trampled and maybe
casually shot up by daytime BAN
dts when you go shopping. The
chance of one of these misfor-
tunes happening to any particu-
lar individual is small, but the
consciousness of having to be
watchful is disagreeable. / have
in mind especially the apprehen-
sion about the contents of your
home. Not to have to be locking
the door whenever l go out of
my house is country comfort
that | treasure highly.
Bob Connor suggests to me
that | am getting TOO far along
in years and too fat to keep on
playing tennis, and that I'd bet
Continued on page tloo)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-09-16
BOND ISSUE MAY
BE ONLY WAY TO
PAY SCHOOL DEBT
UncOllected Taxes and Amount
Due from County Do Not
Equal Obligations
A TROUBLESOME PROBLEM

A bond issue may be neces-
sary to pay off the Chapel Hill
schools debts. No such solu-
ton of the difficulty is under
consideration now, but some per-
sons versed in educational fl
nance do not see any. other way
out =
AT their meeting Tuesday the
members of the school board,
faced by the need of ready
money for teachers pay and 9TH
er immediate requirements, de-
cided to float loan for $4,000,
and they had to give their ene
dorsements as security. This is
not a serious matter, because
funds due from the county
commissioners will soon be avail
able for the redemption of the
note. 1t is a larger debt of
longer standing that causes con-
Germ.
Two or three years ago the
school acquired real estate ad-
joining the grounds, to provide
more playground space, and out
lays were made for the equip
ment of the cafeteria and for
other subsidiary projects as
well as to cover deficits in oper-
sattiiRfagg sattiiRfagg expenses. The money for
these needs, to a total of $4,000,
was borrowed, and the notes
were endorsed, as was the one
this week, by the members of
the board. They stand person
ally responsible if school funds
are not procured to satisfy the
obligation.
An audit of county school fl
nances, by an accountant acting
on behalf Of the Chapel Hill
board, shows that the school
here failed to receive, in regent
years, about $1,000 which was
legally due from the county; and
there is an asset of about SIS, 900
in uncollected taxes here in the
school district. If both these
claims can be cashed in, then
the debt of $4,000 will be re-
duced to $4,000. 1t is not yet
certain, however, that the coun-
ty commissioners will accept as
final the audit upon which the
$1,000 claim is based.
NO more money can be OBJ
tanned by the raising Of the
school tax rate in this district,
for the rate is already at the
limit allowed by law. Of course
the increase in property valua-
tions brings an increase in total
school revenue, but this is re-
quired for mounting operating
expenses--it is not sufficient to
permit the accumulation of a
fund to pay off debts.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-09-16
Miss Latta Robbed of Food

A little while after Miss Louise
Latta was operated on in the hos
pital in Durham, one day last week,
she found herself eager for food. A
nurse came in, placed before her a
tray containing a most appetizing
meal, and disappeared. The patient
had a delicious-looking tidbit on the
fork, and her mouth opened in well
come, when the nurse rushed in, ex-
claimed: This wasn't meant for
you!', seized the tray, and went out.
Miss Latta was pained more deeply
by this experience than by the oper-
alton, but there was nothing she could
do about it. She had to wait till
next day to eat.
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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-09-16
Wake Forest Game . Week on

The football teams Of the Univer-
sity and Wake Forest meet here Sat
urday, September "a, one week from
tomorrow, for the first match Of the
season.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-09-16
Fisher Sings Usual Refrain

Sam Fisher OF Asheville was here
yesterday. When friend met him
on the street. and expressed the hope
that he would be in the village a long
time, he started singing his usual re-
frain; "Got to 60 home tomorrow"
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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02
MASS MEETING
AT THE PILGRIM BAPTIST
CHURCH AND BETHESDA
BAPTIST CHURCH


Information had been impaired from
secret course for some time past that
had for its purpose an endeavor to in
spire to degree of educational
thoughtfulness. Institutions of vari-
GUS characters throughout the country
had called upon their alumni for an
assemblage with the paramount issue
in view Of putting back of the institu-
tons that gave them their place in the
educational world. Atlanta, the Athens
Of the south, has two great institutions
known as Morehouse College and
Spelman University. These institu-
tons needed the financial support and
it was decided by the faculty TO avail
themselves OF the opportunity to visit
the students assembled with their
friends to tell the existing condition.
AT Bethesda Baptist Church, 53rd
street and Michigan avenue, an after
noon program was prepared in which
the Rev. w. M. Bennett, pastor of
International Baptist Church; Rev. E.
T. Martin, pastor Of Bethesda Baptist
Church; the Rev. E. L. Randall, pres
ident of the ministers conference, the
Junior Choir Of Olivet Baptist Church;
Rev. J. H. Branham, assistant pastor
of Olivet Baptist Church, Rev. I. A.
Thomas, of the End Baptist Church of
Evanston, master of ceremonies, all
participated. Music by the Junior
Choir and Octet of Olivet Baptist
Church. Violin solo by DR.. J. w. Nc
Caskill The master of ceremonies in
troduced Judge William H. Harrison,
who in turn presented the president Of
Morehouse College, DR.. John Hope,
who, in his usual mastery manner,
impaired to the vast audience the ne
cessity of their united support both
morally and financially behind these
institutions. He drew the picture Of
the Negro long ago, when he was
struggling to obtain an education and
how the white philanthropist of the
time gone by was hesitating as to
whether he should continue to lend
financial assistance to race who had
grown from four million in the COS to
fourteen million strong American citi-
zens, occupying vocations in every
walk of life, receiving substantial sal
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02

aries for their labor. And ne pictured
that yesterday had passed and the mil
lions of intelligent men and women
Of our group should raise themselves
to the fullness of character and stand
behind their own who are unable to
help themselves. He reasoned out the
Jew going back to Jerusalem taking
millions Of dollars Of American money
to reconstruct that city, then he asked
the agents of institutions of ours why
ii is that you are not able to incul-
cate in the minds of the men and
women of our group that it is their i'm
perative duty to take from a part OF
their earnings sufficiently to keep in
tact on an equal scale with every adj
vancement for the institutions which
belong to your race as we do to those
Of ours. This was the message brought
to this great concourse of people by
the fourth president Of Morehouse
College. that distinguished scholar, DR..
John Hope.
He not only talked to them from
this educational point of necessity, but
he picked our the salient points in the
decision of the United States Supreme
Court in the Louisville case and the
case in New Orleans. He drew plain
ly the point that these millions OF
American citizens were the only COM
ponent part of the United States, man
and womanhood, that had to appeal to
the United States Supreme Court for
justice and right, therefore he said
you can see more plainly the reason
for united front for broader field of
better education, of deeper research
that we may be able to reason with a
hostile opinion of judge and jury who
are called upon to pass judgment upon
the rights of our citizenship. And
then he turned over new page and
out Of the 18th and 18th amendments,
where the constitutional rights to vote
had been barred in the state of Texas,
and on an appeal to the United States
Supreme Court for the first time in
a half century, associated Justice
Holmes of Massachusetts,, with that
frmness of Wendell Phillips and
others who were in the sleeping cities
beyond, smiled in a new scene from
the skies as this venerable jurist read
an unanimous opinion, although in his
Both year no part of decision he was
ever connected with during his time
on the bench has been of a more i'm
portant character than the one he rem
dered that the constitutional barrier
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02

against the rights Of the Negro in the
state of Texas to vote in the primary
was unconstitutional in its entirety.
Again ne pointed to the fact that it
is expected of us, as group, to begin
to maintain our institutions ourselves.
This was the imaginative step in an
endeavor to have it clearly understood
that we must rise to the fulness of our
personal duties one to the other. He
was assured by the responsive call OF
a collection that they understood his
message. The Rev. L. K. Williams,
president Of the National Baptist Con-
vention, rose and pledged that it would
be a part of his mission to the menu
bers of the church throughout the
country to have them see the neces-
sity Of educational preparedness. In
the evening Of the same day the serv-
ices were held at the Pilgrim Baptist
Temple, 33rd street and Indiana ave
nue., the Rev. J. c. Austin, pastor. A
musical program adequately fitted for
the occasion was rendered. B. H.
Fletcher stated the purpose of the
meeting. Mrs. Mary Cole rendered
vocal solo; Attorney VIM. E. King
was master Of ceremonies, DR.. ]. Syl-
wander Trice introduced the speaker.
His story was of like character of
the address in the afternoon.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02
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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02
Cos. and. Well

Sir Walter Scott, author Of the
volumfnous Waverly novels, was at
the same time president Of the Edin-
burgh Gas Light company. according
to the magazine Gas Logic. Appar-
emily, adverse critics in Sir Walters
lifetime didn't have our slang phrases,
or we should have heard Of his side
line industry long before. Don't you
think?
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02
MuroIs Centuries Ago

Archeologists have found In south
ern Europe evidences of the first mu-
raj decorations, dating back, accord
ing to their compilations, to the Sixth
and Eighth centuries B. c. These dec
orations were crude paintings on the
walls Of these primitive living abodes
and depicted, for the most part, the
live game on which these early peo-
pies depended for food.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02
PrieeEes, OH Painting

The Oldest oil painting In existence
to-day, says the Market for Exchange
"a believed to be one Of the Madonna
and Child marked with the date
DCCCLXXXvL which In Arabic nu-
meraIs ID $50, or about the time OF
Charlemagne. The painting once
formed part of the art treasures OF q
Florentine palace and was purchased
BY Bencivenni from a broker In the
street for a few Iivres.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02

When a cat is frightened or angry
It ruffles up the hair Of its body and
tail in order that it may appear more
dangerous. The cat does this by q
chemical discharged by Its adrenal
glands.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02

"a hypocrite." said Hi Ho, the sage
of Chinatown, "is always nervous. He
lives in fear that some one will find
out as much as he knows about him.
self. Washington Star.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02
Go Up, Young Man

The young fellow who studies avia-
ton is the one who is bound to rise
to the occasion.-WO Evening
Post.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02
Couldn't Stop Her

Ad. In exchange-"Lost, gentleman's
gold watch; $25 reward and no ques-
lions asked-unless my wife answers
the door."-Boston TRANSCRIPT.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02
Market for Wild Creatures

A yard where lions, tigers and 9TH
er animals and serpents are bought
and sold is feature of the East end
of London.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02
Displacement

If the missing link" is discovered,
the human race might do well to put
It in the place of some Of the links
that are not missing.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02
Mankind's Blindness

Surely half the world must be
blind; they can see nothing unless it
glitters.-Hare.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1927-04-02
With Odds on the Auto

The great human race is between
the stork and the automobile.-Pass-
ing Show.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-04
N0LIN AND REED AWAIT
 FATE IN MURDER TRIAL
Judge Takes Hour and Half in Charging Jury
 in Lawrence

Lawrence. Mass, Oct. 4 LPt-1udge Joseph r. Quinn today spent an hour and half charging the jury which retired at l1;25 q. m, to consider the cases Of Leo Nolin of South Groveland and Herman A. Reed of Waterbury, Conn, charged with murder, and of Mary Cwickla, IS years old Suffield, Conn, girl in diCted as an accessory after the fact, The three were tried for the shoot ing of William H. Griffin, a Haver- hill storekecpcr, on the night of March [, last
 The court instructed the Jury that they should return one of three yer diets against Nolin and Reed-guilty of murder in the first or second de- gree or not guilty. He said that if the jury believed the CwiCkla girl helped Nolin 10 evade arrest in a rooming house at Hartford. Conn. knowing at the time that he was wanted for the murder of Griffin they should find her guilty as an ac' CessOry.
 . AS Judge Quinn finished hi' charge Reed aros" in the prisoner cage and exclaimed: II never harmed anyone in my lie and I don't want anyone to harm me"
 1 His counsel tried to quiet him hu
 with tears in his eyes Reed added 1 "I am very, very sorry that I go
 into this company
New Britain herald., 1927-10-04
NORMAL SCHOOL DORMITORY
 PLANS TO BE INSPECTED
Architects to Submit Ideas On S350,- 900 Structure to State Board
 of Education

Preliminary plans for the new S350,00 dormitory building which is to be constructed in the rear of the New Britain State Normal school on Stanley street will be submitted to the state board of education at its meeting in Hartford tomorrow. Ac- cording to Principal Marcus White, final plans will pc decided upon with a few weeks.
 The need for the new dormitory at the school has been felt for many years and It was after several un- successful attempts that an &ppro- priation was made by he tate leg islature.
 Many out of-toWn girl students have been inconvcnicnccd because of the fact that they must live In private houses in the ncighborhood of the school Much of the hard ship of travel to and from school in the winter would be eliminated with the new dormitory, it is believed.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-04
WOMAN DIES IN LEAP
 OFF HIGH BLOCK ROOF
Former New Britain Resi- dent a Suicide in
 New York ;

New York, Oct. 4 Cpi-Mrs Flor ence Potter Basney, a governess. for merly of Hartford, Conn. committed suicide by jumping from the roof of a seven-s story apartment house at 3eo West e5th street today. the po- lice said.
 For the last three weeks she had been out of work and was despon- dent, according to Mrs. Elsie Wiley with whom she lived. Mrs. Basney was about 50 years old.
 Hartford, Oct. 1 GPl-Mrs. Basney was the wife of Nicholas Basney. who has recently lived in New Brit ain. The couple lived on Jefferson street, Hartford, about five years ago.
 Relatives said today that Mrs. Basney a few years ago was a pa tient at the State Hospital for the Insane in M,ddletown.
 Nicholas Basney is listed in the city directory as living at eo Chest nut street and be,ng employed by the Russell S Erwin Mfg. O.. but inquiry today at the Chestnut street house brough no information as to | his whereabouts. The owner Of the house said there was no person by that name living there and he could not remember anyone of a similar l name.
New Britain herald., 1927-10-04
Herald Playograph to Give
 All Action of World Series

The world series baseball games open tomorrow aft ernoon in Pittsburgh and The Herald Is prepared in other years to give the public instant and complete ice the progress of the game which scheduled to be- gin at 80 o'clock eastern standard time. This special baseball service will continue during the series.
 The Herald will be linked by direct telegraph wire with the playing field where the Associated Press has staff of trained sports writers to report the game in de- tai to give play by play description and to give inter- esting sideghts.
 The Payograph board has been installed outside the Herald building Church street and this instrument will visualize the actual playing of the game. The Play ograph will show which team is at bat and in the field the player bat the of the ball from the pitchers hand whether the batter strikes, fouls hits and the watch the action on the Playograph is next best to ing the actual game. The megaphone service will aug ment the Playograph.
 Also at the conclusion of each game The Herald vii. publish sports extra containing complete play by play account of the contest and complete box score.