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New Britain herald., 1927-08-23

The Paradise Park team made absolutely sure of the Rotary Boys League pennant yesterday afternoon when 1t swamped the Smith team l6 to 3. From the very first inning, the Paradise team had big lead and with Herman Schmarr pitching i'll his usual good form. the Smith batters were held almost helpless before his misty twists.
 "Hermie" allowed six hits, passed two men and for q stabuizer struck
New Britain herald., 1927-08-23
CAME POSTPONED

The game between the Stanley Works and New Britain Machine teams in the Girls Industrial base ball league was postponed last night because of the fact that many players on the Stanley Works team are on vacation. A date for the contest will be set by the man. agers.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-23
PIRATES TO PRACTICE

There will be an important prac- tice for the Pirates baseball team tonight at 6;30 o'clock at Willow Brook park. All players are asked 10 be present.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-23

x-Batted for Johnson in 7th.
 Nx-Batted for Galloway in 9th
 Xxx-Batted for Powers in 9th. Philadelphia 0lN GOO no0-2 Chicago O23 100 0Ox-6
 Two base hts-Barrett, Cobb (2), Grouse. Ward, French Three base hit Kamm. Losing pitcher-Quinn. Umpires -Ormsby. Rowland and Connally. Time -l:S2.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-23

WASHINGTON TEAM BOWS
 TO BOYS CLUB LETTERS

Nebdala Pitching For Winning Team, Plays Sensation aly-Fans II Eaters After First Man Faces Him Paradise Park Has Walkaway With Smith Team Last Games In Rotary Boys League to Be Played Wednesday Afternoon-Accounts of Contests.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-23
Totals

-TNTH TOT TuUT m StN. Washington ......... 900 OoO G0O-2 Detroit .....1uO I0l 01x-3 Two base hits--Speaker. McManus Heilmann. Three base h!ts-Warner, Blue. tmpires-Ilildebrand, McGowan and Gel sel. Tlme-1:3S.
 Second Game. Washington .........Olo 900 0no-S LetToit .................,l00 100 330 cox.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-23

xx-Batted for Carlson in 9th.
 z-Bdtted for Wertz in 7th.
 Chicago 200 01O 00O-3 Boston 1l0 600 l2x-5
 Two base hits-Gautreau. Welsh, Far rell. Three base hit-Webb Winning pitcher-Eobcrtson. Empires McCor- mick. klem and Mclaughlin. Time-1 3S.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-23
WASHINGTON
Paradise Park Wins

Two base hts-Zujko. sablenec. Kom Vlns Skonieczny. Three base hit-kaczyu- skI l. Cm pire-INnch
New Britain herald., 1927-08-23
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT
lBN the Associated Pressl

NbN lilt hSSUCldltu tTeSSl
 New Iork-Joe Click, Brooklyn, defeated Bobby Garcia. Baltimore. 10 rounds
 Holyoke. Mass-Pete Zivic. Pitts burgh, defeated Tony Carney, New Bedford, 10 rounds. Eddie Elkins, New York, defeated Phil Goldstein, Pittsburgh, 10 rounds
 Trop. N. Y.-Johnny Reisler. New York. vs. Sig Reopen, Beaver Falls, Pa, called no contest. rounds. Joe Schlocker California. knocked out Joe Jofeano. Texas, 1 round.
 Fights Tonight
 Los Angeles-Fidel Labarba vs Johnny Nacca, 10 rounds Non- title.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-23
PARADISE PARK

Two base hits-schubert, Miller. Three base hits-Baloch, Schmarr. Umpire Noonan. Time-l:i1
New Britain herald., 1927-08-23
Totals 4l g l9 2T naAAnA laa Maara |. r.h

x-Batted for Moore in 7th N-Batted for Pennock in 9th Nov York .............. 001 OOl 002-4 Cleveland ..............202 Ol0 4Gx-g
 Twas base hits-Dugan CD, J. Sewell, CD, Summa. L. Seweu. Home run-Ruth. Cmpires-Nallin. Vans and Dineen Time -3:10.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-23

Two base hits-Bogdanski. Flis. Um- pres-Grail and Gaida. Time--l:t0.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-23

Legion ..................... .403 I4-16 Laurels ,,............... 900 Ql2-
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
Plays Tech Tomorrow
Carolina Team Will Face a Difficult
Opponent in Atlanta

The University of North Car
olina and the Georgia Tech foot
ball teams will meet on Grant
field in Atlanta tomorrow (Sat-
urday) afternoon. Past per-
formances seem to forecast a
Tech victory. South Carolina
beat North Carolina Ia to 6 last
Saturday, and on the same day
Tech won from the celebrated
Crimson Tide" (the University
of Alabama) by - to 0.
Only once before have Caro-
lima and Tech met. That was in
1916 when the Georgians won
out by 10 to 6.
In the match in Columbia last
week Carolina made eleven first
downs to its opponents three,
but was held when it neared the
goal line. South Carolina had
better success in the passing
game. In the final quarter
SWink of South Carolina inter-
cepted Whisnant's pass and ran
40 yards for touchdown.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
Legion Elects Officers
Harmon Commander Again; Bennett
and Martindale Vice-C Commanders

The Chapel Hill post of the
American Legion, at its meeting
last Friday evening, reelected j..
0. Harmon commander. Mr..
Harmon is now touring Europe
after having attended the Le-
gion convention in Paris. He is
expected home toward the mid
die Of next month.
The other officers were also
reelected: J. S. Bennett and
Charles Martindale, vice-com-
manders; Paul Robertson, ad-
jutant; w. f. Thompson, finance
officer; George Lawrence, ser
vice officer; and Rev, Alfred S.
Lawrence, chaplain.
In the past year the post, be-
sides giving aid to disabled world
war veterans living near here,
contributed to the support of the
Oteen sanatorium. The men,
bers are anxious to extend the
relief work, and Mr.. Bennett and
Mr.. Robertson have been de-
puted to inquire into the possibil-
ity Of having benefit perform
ances at one or both of the NOV
ing picture theatres. American
Legion organizations in other
towns have added considerably
to their revenues in this way.
The Chapel Hill post had 100
members last year. and it was
decided at last weeks meeting
to repeat the canvass which was
so successfully carried out in
1926 by the teams headed by
Charles Martindale and Willie
Hogan. These two members
have again been asked to head
the teams.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
Attack on Bad Checks
A 50-Cent Charge to BE Made for
Every One Not Covered by Funds

The Bank of Chapel Hill an
nounces today that hereafter a
charge of so cents will be made
for every bad check passing
through the bank.
For a long time the CONNER
cial community of Chapel Hill
has suffered from checks that
turn out to be no good. There
have been numerous protests
and appeals against the nui-
sance. The University authori-
ties and the student council have
taken a hand in the matter and
have tried to bring preventive
pressure upon such students as
are addicted to the habit. But
in vain. Now an attack is to be
made upon the most sensitive
and vulnerable part Of the hu-
man anatomy - namely, the
pocket nerve.
If a depositor draws a check
which he has no funds to cover,
the 50-cent penalty will be laid
upon the next deposit he makes,
But in some cases the next de-
posit may never be made, and
then the charge lies against the
person who passed the check
through. For example, suppose
that Jones, a merchant, accepts
a check for $40 for pair Of
shoes and has it entered to his
credit at the bank. If there are
no funds, or insufficient funds,
to cover it, the check is returned
to Jones and not only the $40 but
80 cents more is debited against
him by the bank. This may
make Jones more careful about
accepting checks.
"On one day last week. said
Cashier Hogan yesterday, 1--WE
had to return 40 checks which
were no good. In most instances
they are drawn not with fraudul-
ent intent but because the draw
er doesn't know his balance has
disappeared, But as far as the
trouble and expense to the bank
is concerned, it is all the same.
In fixing the 50-cent charge we
are following the practice of
banks in Durham and elsewhere
which have been forced to do 1t. I"
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
The Village Is Again Seething
With Criticism of the School

All day long yesterday the viii
lage was alive with criticism of
the methods of administration
and instruction followed in the
school. Protests were carried to
Mr.. Walker, secretary of the
town school board as we'll as dean
of the University's school of edu-
cation. There was a confer
ence between Mr.. Walker and
Mr.. Mosher, the superintendent !;
parents met together and voiced
their criticisms; and when this
newspaper went to press yester-
day Thursday afternoon eff
forts We're being made to ar
range an immediate meeting of
the school board.
The present tense situation
was precipitated when second
grade pupils came home We'd
nesday at midday and informed
their parents that they had been
told to return in the afternoon to
pursue their reading lessons,
This was in contradiction of the
understanding arrived at last
month in settlement Of the dis
pute about the single session and
the double session. At that time
a committee of citizens confer
red with the board and Mr..
Mosher, and it was agreed that
an alternative program would
be followed: the children of
those parents who preferred the
single session would stay only
through the morning; the chill
dren of those who preferred the
double session would return in
the afternoon. But all the es-
sential subjects were to be
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
Living Cost Conference
A Troublesome Problem to BE Dis
cussed at Meeting Here Tuesday

A living cost conference will
be held at the Carolina Inn next
under the auspices of
the North Carolina League of
Women Voters and the Univer-
sity's extension division.
r. M. Grumman will make an
address of welcome at 1920 and
K. J. Woodhouse and Miss Ger
trude We'll will state the pur-
pose of the meeting, Mrs.
Chase Going Woodhouse will
talk on "The Scope and Chief
Problems of Cost of Living"
Mrs. Harris 7. Baldwin, chair
man of the committee on living
costs of t the National League Of
Women Voters will describe the
committees program.
At the afternoon session the
principal speaker will be dean
B. F. Brown Of State College,
and at the evening session Ed
ward P. Costigan win deliver an
address on "The Tariff and the
Tariff Commission"
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taught in the morning. and the
afternoon was to be devoted to
subordinate subjects such as
music, nature study, drama and
handicraft.
Now many parents fear that
this agreement is not being ad-
hered to. Just how it happened
that the second-grade children
were..told to come back Wednes-
day afternoon, and who was re-
sponsible for the order, was not
quite clear at going-to-press
time yesterday.
This episode has led to a
spirited discussion of the larger
aspects Of school affairs.
The general criticisms on the
street are that the school board
pays the superintendent no sal
ary and therefore does not have
the usual control which an edu-
cational board has over its ad-
ministrative officer. There is
objection, on the same ground,
to any teacher or teachers who
give their services free of
charge,
1t is also said that the school
of education Of the university
dominates the school. Too many
interlocking directorates, so to
speak. Two members of the fac
ulty of the school of education
are members of the school board,
the superintendent of schools is
a professor in the school of edu-
cation, the principal of the high
school is a professor in the school
of education, and so also is the
principal of the elementary
school.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
Chapel Hill Chaf

In Durham Tuesday l ran into
Frank Webb, president of the
Blacknalrs drugstore morning
club, Lathrop Morehead, Judge
Sykes, and other members of
this cheerful organization. Our
topic of conversation was the ag-
gressiveness of students in seek
ing free automobile rides. We
all agreed in the opinion that
standing at the curb with a
yearning look was harmless e.
nough, but that the invasion of
the roadway and the loud calls
to passing cars, now so frequent
ly INDUCED in, were highly of
fensive.
r. X X
One is apt to get frank speech
from members Of ones own fam
lily. When remarked that had
better begin dieting or | would
soon be getting fat, my sister
said: you are already fat" l
went to a mirror and the sight
of my pendant jowls proved that
she was entirely correct; but ex-
cept when | am looking at my re-
Election it is very difficult for
me to comprehend this. Every
body else seems to realize a man
is getting fat before he is willing
to admit it himself, | look for
ward to diet with dread. Po-
tatoes, sugar and cream, bread
and butter-must these things
be forbidden me, or at best ra-
toned out in contemplate doles :?
| have heard of a reducing pro-
gram which allows you plenty to
eat, but the things | like best
are always mentioned as the
most destructive to a slender
shape.
\ f, P. Cate $ pet. crow has often
Visited my printshop. Once |
found it sitting on the stair
platform railing at the front
door; and at another time it was
solemnly observing the linotype
operator through tie south VIM
dow, Recently, however, it has
displayed a decided preference
for the. steps at the rear of the
Carolina theatre, where it seems
to be attracted by the music of
the pipe organ.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
"The Beggar's Opera"
Keen Interest i'm Next Weeks Per-
f0rmance; Jones to Give Reading

The Chapel Hill community is
anticipating with keen interest
the performance of 'The Beg
gar's Opera" the first comic
opera written in English-in the
city auditorium Of Durham next
Thursday evening, October 27.
Tickets are on sale at the Of
flee of the University's music
department; and, in order to
make attendance convenient,
Miss Elizabeth Balm, Mr..
Weaver's secretary, is arranging
for automobile transportation.
Every car-owner who has one or
more seats to spare, for the trip
to Durham and back, and every
body who would like to occupy
these seats, is asked to notify
Miss Balm telephone 318-blue).
Under the auspices of the
music department of the Com
munity Club a reading of the
opera win be given by Howard
Mumford Jones in Gerard
Hall next Wednesday, October
26, at 4:30. On this same occa-
sion songs from the opera will
be sung.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
AphrOdite by Wilson's Door

George Watts Hill of Durham.
alumnus of the University, has given
his alma mater a copy of the fam
Gus Crouching Aphrodite by Giovanni
Barranti, the original of which is in
the Vatican museum In Rene, The
figure is that of a bathing goddess.
1t stands on the mezzanine floor Of
the library just outside the door of
Librarian L. r. Wilson.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
SHORTCUT ROUTE
DEPENDENT UPON
COURTS DECISION
Outcome of Lawsuit in Wake
County VIII Affect Road
From Here to Nelson
DISTANCE MAY BE SAVED

The state supreme court is ex-
pected to hand down soon, per-
haps next week, a decision that
will clear the way for the con-
struction of the road from Chap
ell Hill across the south end of
Durham county to Nelson-the
short cut to Raleigh. The pro-
ject was held up for a determin-
alton of the question of the high
way commissions power to Sc
lect. a route
The case now pending con-
Germs roads in Wake county, but
she issue involved there is ex-
actly the same as in Durham
county; and so, if the supreme
court upholds the lower court,
and says that the commission
may select the route and is not
compelled to make changes at
The behest Of county commission
ers or groups of citizens, then
the Chapel Hill-Nelson road will
be laid out according to the sur
vey approved by the commission.
When the engineers made
their survey they found that
they could cut 5000 feet, some
thing over half a mile, from the
distance by the present road be-
tween Evergreen Farm and
loves Grove. This could be
achieved by eliminating an ell
bow. But the proposal for the
shortening brought a protest
from owners of land along the
existing circuitous road. Their
property would be left off the
new road, and therefore they
didn't like the scheme.
Since the question as to the
commissions authority in a SIM
liar situation had been brought
into court in Wake, it was decid-
ed not to proceed any further
with the work in Durham county
until the powers Of the commits
sion We're defined by the states
highest tribunal,
John Sprunt Hill, highway
commissioner for this district
said yesterday:
"The supreme court is going
to decide this question: Shall the
commission have the right to
lay out highways along routes
that will best serve the interest
of the public as whole, or shall
it be compelled to lay them out,
in each county, in the interest of
the individuals who prefer other
routes than those approved by
Continued on page four
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
Currie in Durham
Secretary to University President
Settled Down to Live There

Claude Currie, alumnus of the
University and for several years
secretary to the president, has
settled down to live in Durham.
He is practicing law and is at the
same time secretary of the Sc
curity Building and Loan Asso-
citation.
He was a member of the SEN
ate from Moore county in the
last legislature, but he told a
friend this week that he was
cherishing no political ambitions
and had no present intention of
entering politics in Durham.
1t is a pleasure to the people
of Chapel Hill to know that Mr..
Currie is in such easy reach of
the village. He comes over fire.
quently from the city to pass a
few hours in his old haunts.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
The Toy Douthat Wedding

Or. Calvert r. Toy will be married
sin Danyille tomorrow to Miss Field
ing Donthat. His parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. d. Toy; his sister, Mrs.
Charles Coolidge; his cousins, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. M. Dey; and Misses Louise
and Frances Venable are going to
the wedding. DR. Toy Is to build a
home on the lot facing Boundary
street. next to the McIntoshes and
opposite the new home Of M. e.
Hogan.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
Selden

Charles A. Selden, now going
about among the colleges for the
Ladies Home Journal to inter-
view educators about the ques-
ton of limiting the number of
college students, talked with
Messrs. Royster, Bradshaw, and
House Monday morning. In re-
counting his conversation with
Mr.. Bradshaw he said: While
we were talking about intelh-
-gence tests | lit my pipe. A mo-
ment later, becoming aware of
a strong smell of burning, | dis
covered that | had neglected to
put out the match and had burn
ed a hole in my trousers. This
makes me wonder what sort of
a rating on intelligence your
dean of students would give me" "
y
Selden came 70 the New York
Sun in the time of Charles A.
Dana, and he was one of the
group of clever writer's who
maintained for that paper its
unique character for many years
after the great editors death.
He was on the Sun when | first
made his acquaintance, along
about 1908, and soon after that,
firing of night work, he moved
over to the EveRjng Post.
y =
When he was still a young man
he bought a farm near Plain
field, New Jersey. He was total
ly innocent of any knowledge Of
farming, but the venture turned
out to be profitable because of
the money he earned from news
paper and magazine articles in
which he lampooned himself as
a farmer. After a while, through
his zeal and persistence, he did
actually become a competent
farmer and, with the aid Of an
Italian who lived on the place
as a tenant, he cultivated fruit
and vegetables at profit. This
Italian, by the way, was not
merely a tenant and a helper
but a congenial friend, and one
of his employers books was ded-
icated to him.
+
When Selden had written a
series of So articles on various
Continued on page fo,o)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
FORMAL OPENING
PUTS new CLUB
INTO FULL SWING
227( Attended Dinner and Dance
at Hope Valley; Golfers
Swarm on the Links
HOME COLONY is GROWING

The Hope Valley Club between
here and Durham had its formal
opening last week and is now
in full swing. Scores of golfers,
from Durham, Chapel Hill, and
Hillsboro, are on the links on
every fair day, and the club
house is the scene of frequent So
cial gatherings.
Only nine holes are open for
play now, but the other nine are
being put into condition rapidly
and will be open possibly before
the winter is gone and certainly
by early spring. Marshall
Crichton, a golf professional of
high standing both as player and
teacher, is in charge of the links
and gives lessons to all men,
bers who want instruction.
A residential colony is grow
ing up around the club. William
McDougall, who came recently
to join the Duke University fac
ulty, is moving into his home
overlooking the course. Other
Duke professors who have come
or soon will come to dwell there
are A. S. Pearse and Messrs.
Cannon, Branscomb, and Miller.
R. j. Mebane, r. L. Montgomery,
John Crouch, w, f. Franck, and
H. n. Snow are to be members
of the colony too.
Under a special arrangement,
which provides for a reduction
in the initiation fee, students in
the two nearby universities are
admitted to membership. Uni
versity Of North Carolina stu
dents who have enrolled are j.
s. Adams, Jr., Louis A. Carr,
John B. Crudup, Frederick w.
Dick, Randolph w. Grier, and
William F. SHaffner, Jr.
The complete list Of Chapel
Hill residents who have become
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1927-10-21
Good Morning, Grandma

Good morning, grandma, I"
said Clyde Eubanks when Mrs.
T I Wilson Il. walkad into
the store last Saturday morn
ing. The grandchild is a boy,
the son of MFR. and Mrs. Mar
vim Wilson, now living in Ra-
leigh. He will probably be
named Marvin.
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W.T. Nhdse nome Tor Christmas
President Chase has written to Rob
ert B. House from Italy that he ex-
poets to be in Chapel Hill Christmas.
Mrs. Chase and Beth viii probably
spend several months more in Europe.
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Mrs. Kate Burr johnson and Miss
Harriet Berry came over from RAJ
leigh for the weekend.
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Mr.. and Mrs. C. T. Woollen are in
New York.
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When Selden had written a
series of So articles on various
Continued on page fou9)
, 1927-04-08
LOCAL

The day before yesterday bunting from
the skeleton structure Of the property
No. II King Street in this town, indicat-
ed that the roof was raised, The pro-
perry in question was recently purchased
by Mr.. Casper Holstein of New York
City. a native of this island who has en-
trusted the erection of a two storey and
basement residence thereon to Mr.. Daniel
Joseph, builder of Yonkers, N. Y. Ia this
work Mr.. Joseph has established a prece-
dent il local construction, as regards both
style and speed in assemblage, in that
but a week ago the remnants of the old
home were being torn down. This occa-
sion of the roof raising was observed in
the afternoon of Wednesday with sus-
pension of work an hour ahead of the
usual time, and serving of refreshments
on the premises to the workmen and
guests among the latter being council
men jackson, Berg and Alexander who
, 1927-04-08
THE JACOBS MYSTERY.
BY FRANKLIN PIERCE BAUM.

I've got it,"
Got WHAT"
Just the girl for my sister, " emclaim.
ed pretty Maude Jacobs as she folded
the letter she had been reading, MY
chum Vivea Foss, that | became so we'll
acquainted with, while making the trip
from the Virgin Islands to New York,
is coming to spend the summer with me.
| know you'll fall in love with her"
The person addressed was her big six
foot brother Tom, a travelling salesman
and collector for the Raymo Company
and who like herself was a native of the
Virgin Islands.
Who is this Vivea Foss, anyway"
remarked Tom, that | am f~or-ordained
to fall in love WITH"
"She is a very dear friend of mine.
She lives in New York City. She is