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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
Little Commencement
Final Ceremonies Of Summer School
to Take Place Next Friday

The event that they call the
Little Commencement will take
place next Friday, August 81
one week hence. Ninety-two
students are expecting to receive
degrees. N. w. Walker, director
of the Summer School, has
called them together for meet
ing this evening. to discuss the
details of the program.
1t was last summer that the
Commencement was inaugurated
as a ceremonial. 1t is a logical
result of the University's policy
of extending its regular collegi-
ate work through the summer.
Every year brings an increase
in the number of students who
take summer courses in order to
add the few credits that they
require for graduation. Some,
having chosen the path of dalli-
ance instead of diEigent study in
fall, winter, and spring, are
making up for the time they had
to lose when they dropped out
because of sickness or lack of
funds or for some other reason.
After Saturday of next week,
until the middle of September,
the only campus activities will
be the coaching school and foot
ball practice. Those two weeks
are the quietest season of the
year in Chapel Hill. Monday the
18th is the opening day of the
fall term.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
The Student Tourists
Mr.. Grumman Hears from the Groups
Sent out by University

r. M. Grumman, director OF
the extension division, has re-
ceived letters from the directors
Of the University's two Euro
pean tours.
e. C. Metzenthin, director of
he Central European tour,
writes from Vienna, He reports
that he and his company of stu
dents we're spectators of the
Schubert parade on Sunday the
10Th of July. The weather has
been splendid throughout the
tour.
"AII is well along the Seine"
writes j. C.. Lyons, director of
the Residential Tour to Paris.
1--WE shall have to go to England
for five days, since the sailing
from Cherbourgh has been can
celed.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24

ed without a let-up for SO hours.
J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton
went to Washington in the
spring, pursued historical stud
les in the Congressional Library,
and thence proceeded to Ann
Arbor to teach in the University
of Michigan's summer school.
He and Mrs. Hamilton got back
to Chapel Hill few days ago.
E. w. Knight came in Sunday
from New York where he had
been teaching in Columbia Uni
versity. Mrs. Knight was
there with him for about ten
days.
A. NJ. Jordan, who also taught
at Columbia this summer, got
home last Saturday. While he
was in New York Mrs. Jordan
visited relatives in Chicago, and
the children were in camp.
Mr., and Mrs. Francis P. Ven
able, who went to visit their son
Charles in Chester, Pennsyl-
vania, are at home again.
Critz George has returned
from Beaufort, where he stud
led in the geological laboratory.
H. H. Williams has been on
Nantucket Island for two
months. In a letter to a friend
here, received this week, he said
he was soon to leave for Chapel
| Hill.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
2lAI m
mo I UTH OH Reu

Automobile drivers have been
uncertain whether or not they
are allowed, under the traffic
laws of the village, to turn to
the right when the red light is
on at the corner Of Franklin and
Columbia streets. They are not.
This ruling is in effect in most
communities which have stop
signals. Town Manager Fou-
shee has ordered signs, mo
Turn on Red" to be placed
against the pedestal Of Chapel
Hills signal standard.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
Rabbi Israel to Speak

Rabbi Edward Israel Of Balti-
more will lecture in Gerard Hall
at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon
on "The Drama of Spiritual Fun
damentals called the Book of
job" and at s O'Clock Monday
evening on "The Mysticism, of
the Psalms" The public is cor
daily invited.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24

Mrs. Robert l.. Gray came
over from Raleigh in her new
sedan Wednesday. Miss Nancy
Fish and Miss Virginia Lyon
were with her. Miss Fish serv-
ed as Chauffeur, but Mrs. Gray
is learning to drive and will prob
ably be at the wheel on her
next trip here. The visitors did
not stay long. They came, they
had luncheon at the Carolina
Inn, they saw the stadium, and
they departed.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
MAKING START ON
ROAD THROUGH
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Durham County Road Forces
Are Now Cutting Swath
through the Woods
STATE is COOPERATING

The road forces of Durham
county are now engaged in cut
ting a way for. the boulevard
that is to run through the cam
pus of the new Duke University,
connecting at one end with the
DHrham-Chapel Hill highway
and at the other with No. To-
the Central Highway-between
Durham and Hillsboro.
The first evidence of the work
visible to travellers is a tumble
of felled trees about four miles
this side of Durham. AS you
come toward Chapel Hill and
look off to the right you see a
wide swath through the woods.
The right of way is lost to view
at a distance of a few hundred
yards. Two or three miles to
the north is the clearing where
the buildings of the Duke me-
dical school are under construc-
ton.
This road is to be a joint en-
terprise of Duke, the county of
Durham, and the state of North
Carolina. The county does the
clearing and grading-the pre-
paration of the right of way.
The state lays a strip of con-
crete 18 feet wide. And Duke
lays enough more concrete to
make the total width 30 feet.
Its width entities the road to
be called a boulevard.
It's total length, between the
two present highways, will be
about six miles. 1t will give
easy access to Duke from the
west through Hillsboro and from
the south through Chapel Hill.
And the fact that it passes
through the Duke campus will
make it a popular route for peo-
pie who are not bound anywhere
in particular bat merely
driving for pleasure.
Incidentally, it will be a con-
venience to the Duke University
professors and students, and for
people from Hillsboro and be-
yond, who want to get to the
Hope Valley country club. Some
of the Duke uke professors pr have hsas4 81
ready built homes at Hope Val
ley, and their work will be only
ten minutes from their homes
by the new road.
1t is not yet known when the
road will be completed. Maybe
next year.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
SEWER TO SOUTH
Is NOW PROBLEM
FOR CHAPEL HILL
Lay Of the Land Prevents Con.
nectiOn with Towns Pres
ent Outflow Main
NEW SYSTEM NECESSARY

To provide a sewer system
for the southern outskirts of the
village-the residential section
that fringes the Pittsboro high
way and stretches back from it
to the west-this is the chief
problem that now faces the town
government.
The chief difficulty in the way
Of a solution lies in the province
of Biologists Cobb, Prouty, and
Bynum. A few million years
ago, when glaciers were slipping
this way and that, and inland
lakes and seas were chasing one
another over the landscape
when beasts slightly smaller
than Memorial Hall were tramp
ing the earth-hills were thrown
up directly in the path of where
Town Manager Foushee would
now like to run his pipes, And
valleys were placed improperly
between the hills. So it hap
pens that there is no grade by
which outlets can be connected
with the big outflow that serves
the greater part of the village.
A new and entirely separate
sewer system, leading off toward
Morgan's creek valley, is the on
ly answer. AS usual. the ruling
factor is that of cost. To lay
the pipes and build the disposal
plant will require an outlay of
several thousand dollars. This
means bond issue-and there
must be a revenue from sewer
rentals sufficient to cover the
interest, the sinking fund in
stallments, and the operating ex-
penses.
The town government has
made a preliminary survey and
is continuing it's studies of the
situation. The section out to
the south has been built up so
rapidly, and 80 many new homes
are being added, that, in the
opinion of the engineers, it may
not be long before the building
of the new system will be a
sound financial undertaking.
The Law of the land Is such
that, when the work is done,
there will have to be two or
three tributary pipe lines, run
ming down the hillsides, to an
outlet main in the valley at the
west.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
Notice to Candidates

All candidates for degrees at
the Little Commencement, Aug
use 81, are requested to meet at
Gerard Hall this friday
evening, August "a, at 7:30 P.
M, for the purpose Of organizing
the class and planning for the
commencement exercises. 1t is
important that every one ex-
pecting to graduate shall attend.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
The TayIors' Plans

George Coffin Taylor, who
has been in England, will return
to America toward the end of
this month. He will join his
family, who are spending the
summer in Provincetown, Mas
sachusetts, and they will go to
South Carolina for a week or
two before coming to Chapel
Hill.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
Mr.. Noble, I'll, Has Radio

M. c. s. Noble, dean of the
University's school of education,
has been confined to his home
by illness this week. j. S. Ben
nett had a radio installed in his
bedchamber Wednesday so that
he might hear Governor Smiths
acceptance speech. The static
kept him from hearing most of
it. He is getting steadily better.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
Koch Home from California

Frederick II. Koch, director Of
the Carolina Playmakers, got
home from California Tuesday.
He taught this summer In the
University of California.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
Mr.. Harper to Preach Here

Rev. w. A. Harper, president
of Elon College, will conduct the
union services in the Methodist
Church Sunday. preaching both
morning ard evening.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
Travelling and Trading

Mrs. Joseph Hyde Pratt has
gone out to visit her relatives
in Ohio. She knows somebody
there who wants to sell a new
Ford car. Mrs. Pratt intends
to buy it, ride back home in it,
and sell It when she gets to Cha
pei Hill.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
Special Meeting of Aldermen

The board of aldermen will
meet today or tomorrow to pass
upon the assessment scroll, the
list showing the amount due
from every property owner who
has been assessed for street
improvements.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24
scheidt Reached semi-FinaIs

Ed Scheidt reached the semi
final round in the Southern
Checker Tournament in Char
lotte. He was defeated by w,
g. Anderson of Salisbury.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-08-24

Guy JOhnsOns Have a Son
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Johnson
have a son, Guy Johnson, Jr.,
born last week in Burlington.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17
Encouraging Crime

An ardent advocate of crime suppression
said tat after listening to a distinguished man
speak on the subject of psychopathy for an
lour, he came to the conclusion that what the
earned gentleman was really trying to tell his
audience was that psychopath is man who
ills you and after he has done it says he
lot help it, and then proves it by an expert.
lhis incident probably explains to large ex-
ent why crime is so prevalent in America.
criminals are given every possible loophole to
wade the consequences of their acts.
It, large percentage of them are never
captured Second, when captured they are new
" convicted. Third, when convicted even for
he most serious crimes, they are tco often
1ardoned or given light sentences.
Too much of our legislation is Ct a rest 'ic-
i've character aimed at law-abiding cit zens, on
the theory that this will reform the ooks o"
;ause them to obey the laws. This is childish
'easonng. Crime today in the cities is an or
sanized business.
The mere con plicated laws we get, the easie,
hey are to eva9e and the les the individual
citizen feels he can cope with the situation. De
avs become vexatious and ultimate co vic
ton almost impossible, due to forgetf lness
nd the tendency to overlook the cts co, meet
ing the crime with the ultimate trial.
What the country needs is more enfo &C.
nent Of fundamental laws, more certain an,
more speedy punishment and more assuranc
hat convictions will be secured and senter ces
served when a l,wbreaker is proved guilty.
We need fewer nsychopathic arguments a1f
more actual punishment
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17
A Record OF Progress

The present generation has seen the oil in
dustry developed from small beginnings to a
point where the United States produces the
bulk of the worlds petroleum products
1t has seen the oil industry survive many a
stormy legal and political battle and it has wit
messed the evolution of oil pro 9uction from {,
precarlous enterprise into one Ct most sta
BILE industries.
The public today is vitality interested in
maintaining American supremacy in oil produc-
lions because the American people consume the
greater part of all petroleum products. Even
with such demand for oil in America, gaso-
line prices with us remain the lowest in the
world
This 81 record for an industry that was
born in adversely and reared in confusion and
uncertainty. It's recent progress along construc-
tive and standardized lines will bring great
benefits to the nation.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17
A Matter OF Principle Not.
Politics

There are certain things which only organ
lied government activities into the field of pr-
vate endeavor. Where to draw the line between
government operation and private operation OF
business, in the interest of the people, requires
keen sense of discrimination in rapidly
growing country like ours.
The effort to convert rational menace in
to national asset, the majority report de-
scribes the Boulder Dam proje,t should be
discussed its merits. AS a flood control
measure affecting seven states, there is gener-
al agreement that the building of flood con-
troll dam is a function of government. This
would be protection for all the people just as
is the improvement of rive~s and harbors, the
maintenance of an army and navy or the build
ing OF roads, and not a commercial venture pub
lcilly financed and tax-free in competition wit
private citizens and taxpayers.
But there is a great diffe eace of opinion
when in addition to flood contr d. the govern.
ment is asked to spend hundreds of millions Of
dollars charging flood control dam into a
power and water project which would be for the
Deneflt of a limited number of users, ard a
venture entirely commercial in it's nature
Here comes the economic question. where
snail we draw the line in putting the govern
ment INTO business? If it develop power to be
sold to certain southwestern states and pro-
Nldes water to be sold to certlin Pacific coast
cities, will it not be called on to furnish like
services in other parts of the country? IF fine
people want to hold down taxes and if they
wish to maintain their constitutional RIGHTS
Whch up to the present encourage % ivate mi
tatlve and enterprise, and reduce to a minimum
government competition in business with the
individual, they will have to consider this oucs
ton seriously and comment on it fearlessly.
This is problem for all the people to con,
sder not from partisan political angle but
from the standpoint of basic government pr.n-
cples and economic progress
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17
Progress

Fifty years ago when the telephone was
Joung, business was conducted largely en- ar
intimate face TO face bosis A half century has
brought about revolutionary changes which
tend to make contact between individuals less
intimate and more hurried In meeting those
present day conditions the telephone is used by
practically all the people to sove time and main
ain contact with the business and social world.
The old saying that cts small world after
III" is being made a feet by the telephone 1t
lnnihilates the disadvantages of distance and
init, to bring offices and people thousands of
niles apart together. Our modern, high speed
>usoiness and life is absolutely Dependent on it.
No other invention has done more to make this
oge of miracles possible. 1t is certain that his
.orians Of the futuree, in detailing the past
fifty years will give the telephone much of the
credit for the great progress made during that
ime.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17
Over Production

Overprouction is the greatest problem of
most metal mining inustries today.
In the battle to overcome it, the copper in
dustry has achieved perhaps the most notable
results. Producers have labored to increase
worldwide sales so that exports and imports
combined were last year large enough to alb
sorb excess production.
Overproduction in mining and agriculture
bring like results-low prices for producers
So large proportion of our population is en-
gagd in these two industries that without pros
porous conditions for miners and farmers our
prosperity is not properly balanced.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17
Gas And Industry

AS we read Of the increasing use of gas in in
dustry, CT employ it in our household life for
heating, cooqing or lighting, it may be well to
that little over hundred years ago
it was practically an unknown quantity For
thousands of years the world had been without
lis great fator of progress.
Today, he great advantages of it's use in in
dustry ere just beginning to be recognized. Eve
ry year sees new records Uroqen in it's consump-
ticn, and it has its part in producing an amazing
number of commodities.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17
Practical Business
Barometer

Commenting on the Lus.ne S conditions Ct
he country, Frank L. Dane, president of the
North American company, operating electric
properties in Cleveland St. Louis, milwaukee,
md San Francisco, said that the electrical out
out of the North American system totaled L.
1873. 387 572 kilowatt-hours during the IA weeks
2nded April s. an increase of II. 81 per cent
over the same period of 1927.
'This record" said Mr.. Dame lis most ell
ouraging sign of healthy business growth
nce the power output reports Of system ma
tional in scope are an index of actual industrial
production and forecast subsequent business
ctivity."
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17

Communications will no be published without
the name of the author is known to the publish
err.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17
Taxpayers Responsible For
High Taxes

"2ecpe viii never solve their tax pro. lens
lnltss they possess the lac s, & Us r. Mil
oank Johnson, who has made tEorouyn study
Of tax fundamentals.
anyone who damns offic ais fn crooked
aes and graft has a mighty Weak La SIS for
solving his tax. problems. Anyone, however,
1hc can go to officials of the community and
show them the actual facts, show tt EN- the
confidence in those facts, will do gieas work
You will find that they are u uay very gal to
follow any reasonable advice you may give
them
Taxpayers themselves, because of their de
mands on government, ere responsible for high
axes. Until they stop to think and to plan their
budgets for the future, as well as those for the
present, the taxpayers are going to be in the
same condition as the householder or family
that takes no thought for the morrow"
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17

Entered as second class mail matter February
10th, 1927, at C,intwood, Va.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17

Substations are rapidly tax
ing the place of local electric
power houses in many small
cities, electricity being made
in large super power plants
and shipped over high voltage
transmission lines. Increased
eliability results.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17
DICKINSON COUNTY HERALD
AzEs
Published Every Thursday al CIiniyoOd. Va.
PAUL RAINEs EDITOR:

The Dickinson County Herald is independent
IN politics. and it's columns are open to all par
ties at the regular rates.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17

Advertising Rates:-Classified ads, 2 cents
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The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17

Subscription. $3.50 a year, in advance. Six
months, 75c.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17

A Southern newspaper de-
lclares monument never will
Ire erected to the unknown 20
litican. And, most certainly,
mot to the politician who really
lis known.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17

One swallow doesn't make a
spring, but several of them are
sometimes good for a fall.
The Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1927-1930, 1928-05-17

The best jobs of face-lifting
are those which are done by
sudden prosperity. Louisville
Times.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15

cake, very rarely served, sometimes
of a Sunday afternoon.
Endanger Workers Lives.
Mitchell Bros. make no effort to
properly equip or manage their farms.
Rusty and WORKOUT machinery, broken
equipment fastened together with hay
wire, barns and buildings IN a half
tumbled-down shape All this causes
numerous small accidents. Recently
two of the silos were blown down be-
cause they were not properl
anchored.
Agricultural wage Iaborers are
practically unorganized. By building
a strong and thoro organization these
excessive hours, poor board, lodging
and low wages can be done away with.
"A, H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
Worker Correspondents Expose Chysler HARVARD Shoe and Mitchell
Deems Taylor Discusses
Russian Folk-Music

DEEMS TAYLOR, music critic and
~ composer played, sang, and talked
about Russian folk-songs b fore two
thousand enthusiastic listeners, many
of them Russians, Monday afternoon
at the Russian exposition at ITO West
57th Street. He gave long list OF
composers who have utilized Russian
folk melodies in their serious works,
naming particularly Tchaikowsky,
Moussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff and
Beethoven.
TO illustrate the epic songs OF
Russia, Taylor sang to his own ac-
compartment, "The Legend of the
Young Nightingale" which he said
Rimsky- Korsakoff had embodied in
his opera "Sadko." "The Conscript's
Return" used by Beethoven in the
finale to his Strong Quartet in F
Major, was given as typical of the
songs Of bandits.
mo other nation has such an i'm
mense body of folk-songs," said Tay-
lor. "There are fully ten thousand in
Russia alone, besides countless more
in Siberia, the Caucasus, etc. In no
other nation do the songs pertain so
closely to the days occupations. No
other are as poetic, or as strong,
simple, direct or free from senti-
mentality"
Taylor's talk was followed by a
song recital by Dora Rose, soprano,
whose program included "The
Soldiers Bride" by Rachmaninoff;
"Slumber Song," by Gretchaninoff;
and "Kalinka," a folk song.
AS the conclusion of it's three
weeks program of music, the Rus
sian Cultural Exposition will present
tonight the Balaleika Orchestra of
the Anton Checkov Society.