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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-12-13
Chapel Hill Chaf

Thorndike Saville went to the
Gulf recently to join other en-
gineers in consultations about
the behavior of the water along
the coasts of Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Alabama, and Florida.
Naturally he expected warmth in
that latitude, and so he took his
bathing suit along. But his ex-
pedition happened to be con-
temporaenous with the cold
snap. The temperature was %
at New Orleans, % at Gulfport,
and 20 at Pensacola. Instead of
taking a dip in a mild and
friendly Gulf Mr.. Saville did all
his bathing in hotel bathrooms,
and when he was outdoors he
shivered in the icy blasts. At
Pensacola, where the engineers
inspected the waters of the bay,
one of the military men was
eager to get a close view of the
wreck of a ship far out beyond
the harbor, and the whole COM
pany went out on this mission
in an open launch. When they
came back to the pier they were
blue with cold and so stiff that
they were barely able to totter
ashore.
Often the Sunny Southland
does dirty tricks to people trust
ing to her geniality. When it
comes to weather she is capable
of the foulest treachery. In 1927
| was permitted to make a
choice of training camps, and
chose Columbia, South Carolina,
because | wanted a warm
climate. Everybody remembers
that winter of 1917-1918, 1t was
terrible. And the soldiers in
the Southern camps were the
worst sufferers because in
building the barracks here the
war department had gone on the
assumption that the main func-
tion Of roofs and walls would be
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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-12-13

After next Tuesday the
Christmas seals will be sold at
the postoffice. The sale Is in
aid Of the campaign against
tuberculosis.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-12-13
Tryouts for "Show or"

Tryouts for the selection Of
the tentative cast for ''The Show
Off," to be presented in January,
were held Monday afternoon.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-12-13
Paulsen's Feast to Athletes

Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. Paulsen
gave the Beta Theta Pi tag foot
ball champions a banquet one
evening this week.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-12-13
Newspaper institute January is

The University has issued in
vftations for the Sixth Annual
Newspaper Institute January Is,
16 and II.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-12-13

Please send renesOGl Of vour
subscription. See expiration date,
on name-LabeL
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-12-13

Under Contract One More Year
The University Athletic Asso-
ciation's present contract with
Chuck Collins, the football
coach, has one more year to run,
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
THE, WRONG STEER. By Richard NIilIOS

"H'm,' unused the Great Detec- tive. "You say you have missed sev- cral things from your wardrobe lately? Well, let me see. When did they begin to disappear?
 T first missed my cane on the nineteenth of August
 Aha. Proceed.'
 "Then three laundered stiff shirts vanished from my bureau. l didn't mind that so much, nor did l object to the loss of several new ties, but things began to look serious when couldn't find my fur coat
 Just as l though" chuckled the Great Detective, just as thought Anything else?"
 "Yes," replied the client; "one more little thing. My roadster dis appeared from the garage two nights ago"
 "Conclusive!" exlaimed the master Absolutely conclusive." And ther he smiled a sly smile. How is youl son getting along at college?' ht asked nonchalantly. My son?" queried the household CT. q haven't got a son"
 Good Heavens, man. exclaimed the Great Detective. "You've beer robbed,"
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09

lation without making conditions difficult for business in general. Be cause credit is very fluid, the board has not been able to curtail specu- lation as it might wish. High money rates would knock out a good deal Of speculation and at the same time probably iniure business. It required a rediscount rate of per cent in 1920 to upset the speculative struct- ure; and there was considerable in addition that was upset at the same time.
 The Federal Reserve Board shows no inclination to do anything too drastic; yet il is known 10 be irritat- cd by the speculative fever, Some bankers are said to hold that a sub- stantial showdown in the market would be q benefit to both business and the stock market later, saying it would reduce the loan structure and prevent the necessity for drastic ac- ton by the reserve board. Others hold to contrary views. while the more active spectators lose no time in attaching the entire policy of at tempting to control speculation.
 Whenever there is a drop in the stock market, such as occurred last Thursday, the tendency is to post pone the more or less feared action by the Federal Reserve Board.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
SIX MILES \ MIN TIE,
 OR FASTER

The Schneider cup race Saturday played to more than million spec tators. That is quite a show. No race in history ever had such an enormous gallery" Of onlookcrs. Flying Officers H. E. D. Waghorn, who won the cup, and R. l.. R. Atcherley, who though the runner up is credited with having made the fastest time during one lap, fitting ly provided their countrymen with a sight of speed such as man has never before seen
 The same men in the same ma chimes could fly even faster on a straight course The Isle of Wight course was one with four angles, two of them very sharp Much speed, the dispatches states, was lost in ne- gotiating the turns. Still, six miles a minute is rather lively,
 Who can say that such speed is impracticable for commercial pur- poses? The time may soon be here when it will be need regularly along routes mapped out for the ever conquering wings of aviation.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
GETTING < LINE ON THF, SCHOOL SITiATION

When the schools reopen, as they did today there is always a disposi
 ton to wonder whether q condition that has not been ideal will get worse or better. Superintendent Holmes, n his pre-ychool survey of faw days ago. showed a disposition to be optimistic, while admitting that definite EaoHlcdEo could only bo ob- 'ainod after the school population is enrolled and tho difference com- pared with last year noted.
 This city like many another, has been hard pressed 10 provide sum- ct"n' accommodations to a growing school population. This trouble is common in cities that are not stand ing @ll, but which are consistently growing There would be no such problem at all if the city were not progressing; and as the business men like to see such growth and boast about it there accms no req son fo find fault with growing school needs as we'll The log cal outcome is 10 provide sufficient buildings and sufficient accommoda- tions This costs tax money and is
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
THE PROHIBITION ISSUE
 IN NASS.iCHUS SETTS

Massachusetts looks forward to the greatest prohibition battle in it's history. According to the Boston Herald, it is bound to have a far reaching effect throughout the re- maindcr of the country The battle hinges around an initiative petition for the repeal Of the baby Nolstead act in the state. The voters last year recorded themselves in favor of a resolution by the state senate urging congress to repeal the 18th amend ment. Now the question to be decided by referendum in 1880 is whether the commonwealth shall continue to cooperate with the national govern- ment in enforcing prohibition.
 Bay State drys vainly point out that the prohibition law demands concurrent responsibility between the federal government and the states The vets and moists retort that the federal government is with out power to saddle concurrent en- forccment upon the states; and that no state can be forced to cooperate if it doesn't care to do so.
 The betting odds are that Massa- chusetts voters by a comfortable majority will refuse 10 cooperate.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
PASSENGER AVIATION IN BAD WEATHER

If there is one thing clear above all other points in relation to the tragic end Of the air liner City of San Francisco if IS that the ships pilot failed 10 receive an adequate forecast Of the type Of weather that was 10 be encountered in the south- west on the day Of ifs destruction: or, if such forecasts Were at hand. then it is remarkable thing Indeed that they were not needed
 It is known that, although tho storm caused an air fatality in aIdi- tion to those incident 10 the ground ing of the City Of San Francisco on Mount Taylor horde Of planes usually in operation along this air lane were kept in hangars al the time.
 Air experts have told us repeated ly that flying is 'perfectly safe" when the weather is good; and that as weather forecasts usually are accurate it is not necessary for planes and their passengers 10 be risked during storms or fogs.
 It is to be hoped that the rules and reguations of passenger flying become increasingly strict about not taking to the air when the weather
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
Z Fears Ago Today

Tax Collector c. H, Moore has completed his annual report for the year. showing that he took in .$1S1.41457. Ex-Mayor L. H. Poaso broke T bone in his left ankle yesterday when he stepped on small stonc and slipped
 q shoot tomorrow for both men and women.
 Owing 10 the continued drought the water commissioners have is sued a warning to the people Of the city against any extraragant use of city water.
 The Southern New England Tele- phone Co. has made application for permission to build two story brick and iron building on Court street. The republican town committee has completed arrangements for the banner raising across Main street this evening. Justus A. Traut was elected pres idcnt of the German Republican club at a meeting held last evening ! in the Turner hall.
 E. II. Hammond has finished the sinking Of an artesian well at the l Osgood Hill school. The entries for the athletic events at the Berlin fair will close Satur- day night.
 Frank w. Johnson left today tC attend the meeting of the nationl council, c. U. A. E., at Portland Maine.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
part of the price Of progress.

! part of the price Of progress.
 Last year the city spent S1,171,246 on educational purposes. This sum is less than a third the sum spent by Hartford, which expended s3.7S4,- S74.
 The difficulty expected in housing junior high school pupils this year ought to he only temporary, due to the noncompletion of fl rooms for their accommodation. The problem being but temporary there is no need Of considering it at length. But there is need of calling attention to the city's duty 10 obviate the neces- sity of utilizing portable schools. and where larger quarters are necessary it is folly to delay in providing them at the earliest opportunity. It is also worth while stressing the prevailing belief that part-time studies should be entirely eliminated as an imposi- tion upon pupils, and that cannot be i accomplished within reasonable time through the operation of part-time sessions anywhere in the city. The hope was expressed that there would be no part-time sessions necessary this year and this week will indicate whether that hope was justified. If this end is accomplished it will mean the elimination of a blcmish upon the school system.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
HOOVER AND THE CHILDREN
 OF THE MOUNTAINS

A man, like President Hoover to whom the prosperity of the Amcri- can home is so close to the heart. could be expected to be alarmed over the lack of education that afflicts children-and grownups-near his camp in the mountains of Virginia.
 The President, therefore, is said to be furthering move to finance a schoolhouse near his fishing lodge ground on the Rapidan river.
 The idealistic nature of the plan appeals to all. But what We cannot help thinking about is the duties of the state of Virginia toward it's mountain dwellers.
 Mountain folk live in other south ern states, too and according to those who at times have come into contact with them, they are pretty much all alike. Primitive in the ex- treme, they for generations have had little contact with the more civilized portions of the country and the edu- cational authorities of their states apparently have had little contact with the young folks in the moun- tains
 Illitcracy under such conditions is the prevailing characteristic.
 It is difficult to realize that in the United States such conditions could prevail, and among people who with out doubt are native white Amer icans' in the truest sense of the Word-fellow citizens whose ances- tors were among the first to reach these shores, who migrated to the then far west and then remained grooved in the mountain valleys.
 This primitive illiteracy and low standard of living ties the mountain oers to their mountains; they cannot leave for elsewhere because they would not fit in with a different mode of life.
 Yet to live in the mountains of itself is no hardship. Many a literate person in the teeming cities would vastly prefer the great outdoors sucf as this to their more monotonous toiL
 The standard Of living in the mountains should be raised to ap. proach the American standard; but if it merely were to turn the noun. tains into a standardized race like the remainder of us it might not bt SO valuable.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09

dicated at the instant the bal leaves the top of the mast. This sig, nal was put into operation soor after the completion of the State War and Navy Building in 1881.
 Q. What is the prop;r pro rounciation of salmon?
 A. Sam-on, with the accent or the first syllable.
 Q. What is the name Of the frs full iron clad ship built in this country?
 A, The Ierrimac, built for the Confederate Navy. during the Civi war.
 Q. Do snakes eat plant life?
 A. Snakes eat moving fife sucf as rats, mice, insects, amphibians fish, birds, and also eggs. They arc not interested in plant life.
 Q. Where and when was Texas Guinan born?
 A. Waco, Texas Tn 1891.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
Observations On The Weather

Washington, Sept 9,-Forecast for Southern New England: Show CTS tonight and Tuesday; not much change in temperature, moderate easterly winds.
 Forecast for Eastern New York: Local Thunder showers tonight and Tuesday; slightly warmer tonight; moderate, possibly fresh southerly winds.
 Conditions: Pressure is high this morning over the St. Lawrence val ley and the Maritime Provinces, also over the Rocky Mountain dis tricts, with center at Denver, Colo. A well defined area of low pressure prevails over the upper Mississippi valley, Davenport, Iowa. 29.7S inches. Temperatures continue moderate in the eastern sections at tended by high humidity.
 Conditions favor for this vicility unsettled weather with showers.
 Tom
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09

The news that Henry Ford is eo- ing to solve Detroits garbage prob- lem by taking it from the city and converting into greases and other products" should be of interest to every city having a garbage prob lem, including New Britain. Rather than doing something for nothing for Detroit, Henry may make little extra money. If private individual can accomplish that why cant a city? How much possible profit is being thrown away through the manner is which New Britain wastes its garbage? Let one of the tax pay CTS clubs figure that out.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
FROM OUR OWN INFANTRY DRILL REGULATIONS

Jane is a good little girl and has been carefully brought up by her mother, but, like all children, her high spirits sometimes run away with her.
 The other day Auntie found Jane bouncing up and down on the springs of her bed and said, Jane, if you misbehave, I'll have to send you out of my room."
 Jane got quietly down and looked at her aunt in childish bewilderment. You say if I mis-behave I'll have to go out, and Mother says I be have. What can I do?
 -Halsa Alison Kyser.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
RELIGIOUS PARADE ENDS WITH BRAWL
Deportation Of Cult Leader
 Urged by Citizens

kamsack Sask., Sept, 9.-CPl- Urging deportation of Peter Verigin head of the Christian Community of Universal Brotherhood, citizens of kamsaCk have sent telegrams to Robert Forke, dominion minister of immigration. This action was taken because of a battle near here when the marching Doukhobors were re- pulsed by officers and citizens.
 Four of those who participated in the parade have been sentenced 10 serve six months in Regina jail with hard labor. They appeared in court Saturday charged with creating a disturbance, while another is held under arrest in the local hospital where he is patient suffering from q fractured skull.
 According to information obtained at Verigin, where the Doukhobors met, Peer Nerigin has sent a tele- gram to his followers instructing that those who participated in the 0arade be expelled from the brother hood.
 Let's go shopping via the Herald Classified Ad route.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
THf. FEDERAL RESERVE
 AND THE MARKET

Ii is idle for Wall street optimisis to claim that the Federal Reserve Board cannot restrict speculation.
 The flight" between the board and the spectators has been waged for year or so. and though the board has occasionally slowed up specula- ton, the professionals feel that so far they have been winning.
 The situation that faces the board is whether if is important enough 10 restrict speculation at the risk of in turing business. So far the board has attempted to restrict credit to specu-
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
THE MACHINE AGE, NINlCTS TEACHING

While Dr. Herbert D. WeIte was making his first appearance at the state normal other educators were having similar experiences, and We could not help noticing that in Massachusetts one gathering of normal school educators was edified with a prediction that the time is near at hand when the uses of ma chimes in teaching would force their way into the school buildings.
 One Of the mechanical experts of which this age is peculiarly prolific told the teachers that the talking films held wonderful possibilities for the schools; that the time would come speedily when youngsters would obtain a soodly part of their education through the medium Of behoIding q teacher in the films talk ing the place Of the teacher in the class room.
 Possibly that did not sound like good news to everybody within ear- shot
 The speaker continued by saying that German had already invent ed a school teaching talking and film machine which cost no more than $25O installed; and he incidentally admitted that the General Electric the Western Electric, and the sister electrical concerns imbued with the ambition to upset everything some would claim-are working on the same idea.
 Some Of the teachers, if such plans succeeded, would turn into mere manipulators and supervisors of machines; and as usual, there would be fewer of them necessary to teach the assembled pupils The out look might be said to be dark for the teachers as well as the pupils.
 Without making any forecasts, but merely by way of indulging in specu- lation, consider the possibilities of such development. The pupils would be taught by a machine in darkened room for at least half or three-quarters of the time. The talking films would be supervised by state boards Of education and the topics discussed by the film teachers and illustrated in the films would be in conformity with the demands of the states educational policies. In addition there would be radio in each room and at stated periods the pupils would listen 10 instruction over the radio from some central H0int GpcratHl ny the state board or education. The entire school system would be a mechanical marvel fewer teachers on the spot and vast ly more machinery.
 Such a development is possible The age has already been so fully |
 freighted with mechanical marvels that it is no tigment Of the imagina- ton to suppose that canned teach ing may develop.
 What the effect would be upon children is another matter. Or per haps the effect would not be sub- stantialy different than the effect of the machine age upon people gener- ally.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
THE ISLAND WITHIN!

There are ladies left in this world of bustling business women.
 One such was entering a street car the other day when the conductor shouted in her ear. 'Step lively.
 She gave him a proud look.
 "I have no wish to tarry, sir" she said and entered with dignity.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
DILEMMA.

By Lois B. Frey Shall I loose my hair To the suns gold light Or brush and bind it Sleek and tight? Shal l dance 10 music Fast and sweet Or lanquld. sit
 With quiet crossed feet Shall my first tea frock Be crisp and white Or q silken serpent
 Black as night? Shall my laughter he AS a bird that flies Or gathered close
 In my dreaming eyes? If one should say
 l love 10 me, Shall I wait for another, Or two, or three?
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09

At the top of the editorial page Of the Waterbury Republican each day there is snugly fastened cheerful Good Morning" We wonder in an idle moment, whether the greeting is especially set up every day, or whether it is kept in type; and if the latter is the case what kind of language the editor would use if a thoughtless printer some day would forget to include the greeting.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09

There seems to be no end to gov ernment pap. The snarl over mail contracts by ocean steamship com- panies gives the impression the price charged helps to boost the post office deficit At that, it may be no worse than the price charged by the railroads.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09

A good many towns in New Eng land are celebrating anniversaries. mostly of 15o or 900 years. And most of them are small in comparison, with New Britain which got a late start and passed them 10 ifs present troublesome size. The bigger We get the bigger our problems
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09
SHIPS CREW ESCAPES

London, Sept, 9.-lP-Exchanee Telegraph dispatches today from Copenhagen said 40 passengers and 30 of the crew of the Swedish steam CT Heimdall-its entire complement -reached the shore safely in the ships boats after it struck a rock Sunday night. off Ostnaa northeast of Stockholm.
New Britain herald., 1929-09-09

The post office is coming through with several more styles of special stamps. Collectors are duly grateful, and the general public has no ob- jection at all to a change of view on the envelopes of the circulars re- ceived.