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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-03
First Term Statistics
More Students Here than Ever before
in the Summertime

The University registrars
records for the first term show
that the student body was the
largest ever to gather for a
Summer School. The total reg
istration was 1852.
Teachers and prospective
teachers formed a larger per-
centage this year than ever be-
fore; 1,109 were already teach
ers, and 20S were preparing to
teach.
Women were in the majority.
They always are, but the ratio
of men to women was greater
this year than usual, there be-
ing 729 men to l,O23 women.
Five hundred and fifty-two stu
dents held college degrees.
The students came from 21
states, the District of Columbia,
and Cuba, and from every coun-
ty in North Carolina except
Avery and Swain. Of the coun-
ties, Orange had the largest rep
resentation, 1O6.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-03

lacks the touch that makes for
perfection. When you can as
semble your guests in celebra-
ton of some special event, then
the affair gains distinction.
Somebody is always going to
the hospital, and subsequently
coming back home. Hardly a
week will pass that there won't
be an opportunity for an opera
tion party.
When heard of these enter
tainments for Miss Noble | real
lied that | had an excellent
chance to qualify as a practi-
toner of the new fashion, fol
my neXt-door neighbor, T. F.
Hickerson, had just come back
from having his tonsils extract
ed in Durham. l had a lot OF
fine peaches, and so | hastened
over to his home to invite him tC
a peach party. His throat was
not yet ready for any but liquid
food, but it will be, today or to-
morrow, and | expect to use him
as a means of entering the COM
pany of the alert along with
Miss Love and Mrs. Kluttz.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-03
NEW COURT MAY
RI CIT IT'D UCpE
DA UAA OA kAIlAeE
Aldermen TO Act on Petition
for Tribunal for Trial
of Minor Offenses
ELECTION MAY BE CALLED

A petition for the establish
ment of a recorders court in
Chapel Hill, signed by scores of
citizens, has been presented to
the aldermen for consideration
at their meeting next Monday
night. If they approve they will
call an election for early in Sep
tember. Such an election muse
be advertised every week for
four weeks before it is held.
Under the law. if a majority
of the citizens vote yes, the
court will be organized. The
first Judge-or, as he is called.
recorder-will be appointed by
the aldermen, but in the future
ne will be chosen by popular
vote just as are the mayor and
aldermen.
Persons accused of minor of
lenses, are tried in recorders
court. AS it is now, these cases
have to go from Chapel Hill to
the Superior court in Hillsboro.
Accusers and witnesses are sub
Jected to expense and the loss of
time; and prisoners, if they do
not get bail, have to be confined
while they await trial.
HUre than half the cases
tried at Hillsboro come from
Chapel Hill.
1t costs the county IS cents a
day to keep anybody in Jail, and
here will be saving for the
county if Chapel Hill has a court.
1t is thought that the court will
be self-supporting. The Judge
has to sit only a few hours one
day week, and the costs of the
actions should be enough to re-
munerate him and the prosecut-
ing attorney. The court could
be held in the McGalliard store
building which the town owns.
Albert Coates, of the Ujniiver-
sity's law faculty, is interested
in the project. The suggestion
has been made that some law
student, who. has obtained his
license and is taking advanced
work, serve as prosecuting at
torney. There are always sew
efaf PERSONS III the University
law school qualified for this task.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-03
VenabIes in the North

Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Venable
and Misses Louise and Frances
Venable left Saturday for a
months vacation. Miss Louise
Venable went to Quaker Ridge,
New York, where she will be for
a while before going up into the
Adirondacks with friends; Miss
Frances Venable joined Miss
Elizabeth Branson in New York
Mr.. and Mrs. Venable are visit
ing their son Charles near Phila-
delphia.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-03
School for Secretaries
Chamber Of Commerce Representa-
tives TO Come Here Aug. 81

The University's extension
division and the North Carolina
Commercial Secretaries Asso-
citation have announced plans for
a five-day school for chamber of
commerce secretaries to be held
here from August 27 to August
81.
Several University faculty
members will lecture to the sec
retaries on subjects of value and
interest to them in their work,
and these lectures will consti-
tute the basis of training.
There will be luncheon meet
ings for the discussion Of secre-
tarial problems, and recreation
program.
Professors who will address
the secretaries are d. d. Carroll,
E. c. Branson, s. H. Hobbs, Jr.,
H. W. Odum, William Olsen, H,
A. Haring, Jr., Paul Wager, E.
]. Woodhouse, Clarence Heer, C.
B. Sparger, and H. ID. Meyer.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-03
TOtten and Harrar Building

The excavation for the H. r.
Totten home overlooking this
end Of the Country Club golf
links has been finished, and the
diggers are now preparing the
ground for the G. A. Harrer
home at Buttons near the far
end Of the links.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-03
Mrs. Battle Married

Mrs. Della Clark Battle was
married in New York last week
to Benjamin Bronson, formerly
of Warrenton in this state, now
a fur merchant in New York.
The ceremony was performed in
the Church of the Transfgura-
tion, famous as "The Little
Church around the Corner" "
Mrs. Battles daughter, Mrs.
Henry Palmer; her son, Richard
Battle; and Mr.. Bronson's chill
dren were present. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bronson will make their
home at the Hotel Gregorian.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-03
Mr.. Noble Goes to Canada

M. G. s. Noble left yesterday
for two-weeks vacation In
Canada. He goes first to Mon
treal and then on down the st.
Lawrence to Quebec.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-03
Chapel Hill Chaff

- = @~A N/tG[NI
While rafting about the vii
lage a day or so ago i turned
from Cameron avenue into the
little road by the old 7. J. Viii
son place and visited Carter
Court, so named because H. D.
Carter designed the houses there
and lives in one of them. was
impressed by the tidy aspect of
the lawns and by the flowers and
shrubbery which had grown up
under the care of the little COL
ony. The six houses are occu-
pied by H. D. Carter, l.. B. Rog-
erson, D. E. Schreffler, c. E.
Vashaw, Messrs. Ausbon and
Evans, and T. E. Hinson. Mr..
Schreffler has a flourishing
vegetable garden underneath
the. cOmmunity's giant water
tank which rises just to the rear
of his dwelling. The steel col
umns supporting the tank form
a boundary for the garden, and
it occurred to me that if Mr..
Schreffler's vegetables were
ever menaced by drought he
might get a 80 rifle and put a
few holes in the bottom of the
tank.
Trucks loaded with bushel
baskets of peaches have been
coming into Chapel Hill from
the Pinehurst region, about Is
miles to the south, in the last
few days. The fruit is beautiful
and delicious, and is sold for 81
a bushel, sometimes rs cents.
As As came came home home from tennis
Tuesday and rounded the corner
from Columbia into Franklin
street | came upon one of these
trucks. In it there must have
been two or three dozen of the
big baskets. / took one aboard.
A few hours later, that evening,
| saw Mr.. Hibbard buy the last
basket. The papers tell of an
unusually large peach crop, and
| am glad this village is so sit
uated as to get the benefit of it.
A streamer headline in the
music section of last Sundays
New York Herdld-Tribun read
as follows: ALBERT Coates
Makes His Stadium Debut Sun
day" Frequently the New
York Times publishes poems
signed Nat Henry. We have an
Albert Coates and a Nat Henry
in Chapel Hill, but learn that
neither Of them is the person
whose name appears in the New
York papers. The nearest our
Mr.. Coates ever came to making
a stadium debut was to attend
the football game here last
Thanksgiving Day; and the in
Inmates of our Nat Henry say
he has no leanings at all toward
the writing of poetry.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-03

John Couch Of the Universi-
ty's botany department will con-
duct a tour through the Arbore-
tum Tuesday evening. Every
body who wants to go along
should be at Davie hall at seven
O'Clock.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-03

If anybody has seHt letter to the
Chapel Hal Weekly or the Orange
PrintshOp and has not rsceived re-
PIN, this may have been due to the
fire which destroyed mail on the
,Oag TO Chapel Hill Monday morn
ing.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-03
Mrs. Wilson Better

Mrs. T. J. Wilson, Jr, re-
turned Sunday from the hos
pital, much improved in health.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-03

The Chapel Hal Weekly. sI.sO q
year.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-28
Prosperity Straws

For several years there have been four
fundamentals Of American prosperity SO truly
basic in character that genera. business has
improved or declined about in proportion as
their combined contributions have been favor
able or unfavorabe. These four factors are
the condition Of ease and availability of credit
accommodations, and the state of three funda-
mental businesses - automobiles, steel and
iron, and building construction
] Credit accommodations at the present time
are reasonably satisfactory. Interest rates are
at fairly reasonable levels. Credit is available
for business uses on easy terms. The steel
and iron industry is enjoying satisfactory pros
'perity. 1t is well known that the automobile
Industry is humming along at more than
average rate and that it anticipates still better
business as the summer advances. AS for
building construction, the volume since the
first of the year has been larger than the op-
stimistic had predicted.
] To these pleasing omens might be added the
activities of the stock market. Wall street
evidently is confident of good times ahead,
and is not alone in that opinion. The present
market certainly indicates improved business.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-28

!. Circus day is here again. If the town kid
dies could only know how the country children
would envy them, if they only knew of their
sophistication about circuses and circus day
events they would want to go out into the
highways and byways and bring the country
kids in to participate in the happy events of
circus day.
i Every kid in town seems to be keyed up
to high pitch of excitement today. It's really
the big day Of the year for the little folks and
it's a shame everyone can't be afforded the
opportunity to 60 and see. Grown-ups grow
tired of seeing and hearing about the things
which delight and fascinate the kiddies. After
al. grown-ups are only children who have got
ten old and the only reason they don't enjoy
the same things the children do and to the
same extent is because they have become "fed
up" on them.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-28

Darling Nom:
I think / told you about Shirley
Wells being in an accident. That
bump on the head, l mean. Her
father was going to sue Ted be-
cause Shirley claimed she begged
him to slow up and he wouldn't.
At first she didn't want her dad to
do anything about it, but as it
turned out she had to have an K
ray taken and it showed something
wrong.
She's been quite sick. So her
father engaged a lawyer. Shirley
got a letter from the company Ted
works for, asking her to give them
an account of what happened.
Shirley didn't show the letter ia
anyone, but she answered it and said
that she had received an injury
while driving with Ted when his
car hit rise or some obstruction
in the road. She said he was speed
ing.
Well, the next day a man came
to see her and said he was from
Ted's employers. He showed Shir-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-28
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

Washington, May 28.-More than
13 years ago the German embassy
here advertised in the newspapers q
warning to Americans against sail
ing through the war zone on British
ships.
That was the beginning of the
story Of the Lusitania. which was
torpedoed six days later near Ire
land with loss of 124 Americans,
whose deaths proved the greatest
single factor in pushing us into war
with Germany.
The incident is now being closed
1t was within a week or two OF
Nav z, the thirteenth anniversary
of the Lusitania catastrophe, that
the heirs and survivors of the
American victims began to receive
the $2.5OO,O00 damages awarded
them by the Mixed Claims Commits.
sion against Germany.
Most of the money has been paiG
and the rest will be dolcd out as
fast as the remaining successful
claimants file their applications
with the treasury under provision
of the War Claims Act. That &C,
provided for immediate payment OF
all death and personal injury
claims and all claims under $780,.
600. The other claims are being
paid by installments. The money
will really come from Germany
but as it is being collected over 9
75-year period under the Dawes
plan, Congress decided to take care
Of the American claimants while
some Of them remained alive.
The Mixed Claims Commission
under the umpireship Of Judge Ed
win B. Parker Of Texas, started
out with nearly 1880 claims for ar
aggregate Of nearly $1,000, 100000
1t scaled them down to awards oil
about 5000, 100000. With one
American and one German mem.
Der, plus Parker, it handled botf
American claims and those of Ger.
many for war-seized property Of
her nationals.
Four millions were awarded fol
384 American death and persona
injury claims, the greater part oil
this involving the Lusitania IA
talities.
These Lusitania awards were
made strictly on the basis of what
the death Of a passenger meant il
financial loss to the heir.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-28

isn't likely to be intrusive. The
show business is the show bust
ness-just as any business might be
after 18 years; an endless round of
costumes to be attended to and
mended!
Manhattan snapshots: Mrs. Les
lie Carter hurrying to matinee
performance. Remember when
"Zaza" was the last word in naugh-
ty? and the "Sapho" was
wicked beyond imagination? A
revival today would probably get a
big laugh. =. Ina Claire, one of
Broadway's favorites. She's an
other who came out of the ranks
of chorines. ]. Let's see. So did
Dolores Costello, Louise Brooks,
Mae Murray, Marion Davies and
Greta Nissen. David Warfield,
white-haired and wraithlike, start
ing for Europe. And quite an
noyed because a newspaper confused
him with a ticket scalper of the
same name.
Taxicab drivers who regulate
their own tips and then ask you
rs that all right" OF course
you can start a fight! The in
creasing number of urchins who
open your cab door for you on
Broadway and expect at least a
nickel. Jean Hersholt, the film
character man, who I have always
thought could be quite as good as
Jannings if they gave him the right
pictures. Do you remember him
in Greed? =. Or, more recently,
as the Jewish father in "Abie's
Irish Rose" i. He runs away with
the picture, if you ask me. :. Lynn
Farnol, the rising young publicist
who, I am told, is heir to a south
ern fortune but is determined to
show the folks at home" he can
make his own roll. Tex Richard,
who gets his whatever happens to
the other fellow. The popularity
of horseback riding in the park this
season The ired-looking song
pluggers, milling around Tin Pan
Alley. And the endless banging
Of pianos that one hears in that
belt now that the windows are open.
!; GILBERT SWAN.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-28

1t begins to appear that our old friend Indy
has a sense Of hunor.
friend recently told how he and two other
pals Of Indy spent an evening with the lat
ter in New York not long ago. They made the
evening uncomfortable for the aviator by per-
sistng in singing the song Lucky Indy
Indy begged them to desist, but they grinned
and kept at it.
Next day Indy piloted them from New
York to Washington in big cabin plane They
had hardly taken the air before he began to
guide the ship into an up-and-down, rocking
horse motion. The three friends were not
good airmen; they soon became extremely sea-
sick. They pleaded with Indy to put the plane
on an even keel.
Indy turned around and grnned. "Now
let's hear you all sing Lucky Indy" he
ordered. And sing it they had to- all the way
to Washington.
Score one for the transatlantic aviator's
sense Of humor.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-28
BARBS

Oy6lSIS anu OOpI6uOO
Undersea radio experiments off
Hatteras and Beaufort, N. c., had
to be discontinued 'because singing
oysters made SO much noise that the
delicate radio mechanism was at
fected." We suggest some of these
oysters be signed up in place OF the
sopranos Probably the oys-
ters threw a wrench into the radio
works with few ditties about those
old crustacean mothers Of theirs
Or, probably the urge to
song was provoked by thoughts of
going back, back, back to where the
Shiny seaweed grows. But
it's barely possible some oyster has
written hit and called it "Bye, Bye,
Bivalve" and the oysters are all car
cling it in their beds. Any
way, it seems to be . job for some
censor or other. It sounds like q
shell game to US,
A rookie policeman in New York
heard shots, Investigated and caueak
q gunman. Well, he's a rookie, and
il can be overlooked this time.
A Kansas woman was granted a
divorce because her husband
struck her with one Of Ter own bis
cults. The Judge decided il was ex-
IRENE cruelty.
The farmer gets only dollar
bushel for corn. It seems to be
much more profitable to SCI it by
the quart.
copyright, 1928. NEA Service, Ine.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-28
WASHINGTON 81
LETTER SKI

For the death Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ebert Hubbard the heirs received
$57, 000-$25, 900 to Ebert Hubbard
II, $500 to Katherine Hubbard
and $4,000 to Miriam Hubbard.
Elbert and Katherine were chill
dren by Hubbard's first marriage;
Miriam by his second. Ebert and
Miriam were heirs to Hubbard's
100000 estate. Two sons Of the
first marriage, Ralph and Sanford,
were awarded nothing by the COM
mission because their father had
not contributed to their support for
a long time before his death.
The estate of Alfred G. Wander
bilt entered $250,000 claim and
was not allowed anything. Van
derbilt had spent nearly 100000
year on himself and family, but
he had left $l5,O00,O0O to his wild
ow and two children and it was
shown that he had not been adding
to his estate. Hence the decision
that his death was no financial loss
to the heirs.
Aged sisters of Charles Froh-
man, the unmarried theatrical pro-
ducer said to have died with the
assertion that death was life's most
beautiful adventure, filed claim
which was also denied on similar
principle. The commission felt no
relief was needed, as Frohman's
movie stockholdings had increased
in value.
The two sons Of Charles Klein,
another producer who went down,
are receiving $4,000. They were
born in America and Klein had
filed papers for American citizen
ship before his death. Mrs. Klein
got nothing, as she was a British
subject. and still is.
The widow and daughter of Al
bert L. Hopkins, president of the
Newport News Shipbuilding &
Drydock Co.. drew $4,000 on the
claim that Hopkins had always
spent his $25, OO0-a-year salary on
his family because of business and
social connections" He had left
no estate except a small insurance
policy and the commission held
that he had invested his salary for
future benefit.
Mrs. Andrew Bilicke, widow Of a
Los Angeles realtor, got $4,000
and each of her children $4,000
the largest award for a single
Lusitania death. 1t was shown that
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-28
IN NEW YORK

New York, May 28.-Whenever
and wherever Broadway characters
are charted, the name Of Kate Red
dy must occupy a place close to the
top of the list.
OF course you've never heard Of
Kate. She is no impresario of the
"gay white way" such as George
White or Earl Carroll or Flo Zieg-
field or Gene Buck. Kate is q ward
robe mistress. And for Is years
she watched the chorines come and
60; she has put away their hastily
discarded spangled gowns and
watched them don their dollar-down
street clothes; she has seen them
marry millionaires and beheld their
start toward the gutter; they have
wept on her shoulder and snapped
their fingers triumphantly under
her nose.
And Kate has gone on, sitting on
the sidelines mending the endless
assortment Of rips and tears in the
costumes.
If you were to ask Kate what con-
stitutes the greatest tragedy in the
life Of any chlorine she would not,
in all likelihood, mention drink or
parties or wild living-but the pass
ing Of youth. Only the woman who
sits on the sidelines knows how
anxiously lady Of the ensemble
watches her mirror as the years
slip by. To be sure drink, high liv-
inr and all that will contribute to
| the wrinkles and the lines and the
circles under the eyes. But Time is
slowly cruel.
Kate has mothered more than one
younRster who came out OF the
small towns to the big city without
the slightest idea Of what Broad
| way was all about. But, like all
such pcrsonages, she reserves her
philosophy and advice for those who
want it bad enough to seek it. She
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-28

Bilicke's earning capacity as a re-
altor had pyramided an original
$4,000 investment into $2,70O,OO0
in less than IS years. He had
spent up to $4,000 a year on his
family and the commission decided
Germany ought to pay for the loss
Of his earning power.
Samuel NJ. Knox, president of the
New York Shipbuilding Co., was
awarded $4,000 for injuries in the
Lusitania sinking and 1890 for
property loss at the time. He bare
~ escaped with his life after going
down under smokestack and being
rescued from the water by life
boat. He died in 1924, so the money
goes to his estate.
Many other claims were made to
the commission which were felt to
be poorly grounded. A distiller
brought an unsuccessful claim for
900, claiming that Germany
had brought on the war and that
the war had brought on prohibi-
ton, running his business!
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-28
(Offlclal City State and County Newspaper
Isn't This a Grand Country?

Oscar Backman, Wilton, longed for the
homeland So he went back to Sweden on a
visit He finds things changed, he writes The
Tribune. He's lonesome for North Dakota
Back among the old friends in Trolhatton he
finds living costs higher than in North Dakota.
A meal that would cost As cents in Bismarck
costs $3.50 to 81 in Backman's old home town.
II wouldn't trade good old North Dakota for
anything here" he writes.
Mr.. Backman is simply having the same eX-
perience many of his countrymen have had.
He's coming back convinced that as home
place there are few places in the world that
equal North Dakota
Yet North Dakotans more often take that
fact for granted than they appreciate this
state
In North Dakota you can sit down at any
day to dinner where everything on the table
is produced within the state. Choice butter,
white bread made from the worlds finest mill
ing flour potatoes that are the worlds finest,
water-white honey from sweet clover fields,
meat at it's best in the entire range, the
choicest of all the vegetables, rich milk, straw.
berry shortcake and pumpkin pie.
And we take it for granted.
Until we 60 abroad.
Coal from our own mines here. Coal at 70
cents bushel in Sweden.
to that land, for from it and the other Scandin.
avian countries came many of the men who
have made it what it is, who have developed
its greatest possibilities and thus have aided
greatly in its steady growth and progress.