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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19

ed of the people" Their efforts
gave to all men knowledge and
power that before was monopo-
lized by a few. AS a result the
King James version OF the Bible
in English and Luther's version
in German have been the great
conserving forces in their re-
spective languages. The common
man can now understand this
language and political speakers
often owe their influence over
their hearers to their facility in
using Bible language and illus
trations. Many a great preach
er today finds his greatest power
in being able to clothe profound
thoughts in simple words. not
only understood, but easily un-
derstood, by ordinary people.
Now let US take up the eccen-
tricities of the medical profess
sion. This is profitable because
we all Of us have contacts with
doctors and they have probably
mystified more people than have
the members of any other pro-
fession. Their linguistic habits
are very strong and they DO like
to impress and mystity. They
write their prescriptions in
Latin 50 that most patients do
mot know what they are taking
or what the medicine is expected
to accomplish. Therefore many
turn TO patent medicines; the
contents of which are equally
unknown. Few doctors know
Greek and most medical terms
are of Greek origin. Their
meanings are learned with much
labouI 1t seems pity TO ac-
Lquire so much erudition in vain
50 they are tempted to use these
Greek words whenever possible.
For example, most people know
what the Latin prefXeS, Super
and sub, mean, but do not know
the Greek equivalents. hype, and
hypo. so doctors use Hupfr and
hypO with Latin roots appar-
emily because it sounds more
impressive and is less likely to
be understood by those not ini-
tiatcd into the mysteries Of the
profession. In fact ! suspect
them of being quite hyper-
stitious about Greek words and
hypercilious in the use Of them.
And here | am going to boast
Continued on neat pdgeJ
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19

to have any doubt about the
merits of the recipient. | want
to have his achievements and
his virtues set forth in strong
language, without reservations
or hesitations. Not only does
Mr.. Henderson give an adequate
array of facts to justify the
award, but he enhances the value
of the facts by the polish of his
phrases and the gusto of his de-
livery. He is a master at this
job, and | rejoice IN the conf
dence that it will be allotted to
him. at successive Commence
ments, for many years to come.
We noticed that our hammock.
which hangs under the mulberry
tree at the far end of the yard,
was becoming frayed at one end.
We didn't understand why until,
from across the flower bed, we
saw catbird pulling the cords
to pieces to get material for ITS
nest. This put us in a quandary.
| We liked to accommodate the
catbird but we also wanted to
keep the hammock in service.
Obviously it would be tireSome
to unhang the hammock and take
it with us whenever we were
not using it,
The Managing Director solved
the problem. She got 4 bunch
of loose strings and bits OF rib
bon and placed them on a stool
under the mulberry: and now
the catbird accepts the SuggeS-
ton, uses this new supply, and
leaves the hammock alone.
On the very day we became
aware Of the attack on the ham
mock, came upon an editorial
in the Raleigh Times about the
growing sense Of security eX-
hibited by wild creatures IN
proximity to human beings.
1T is continuing charm to
the obserVant to find in wild lite
acceptance of the new doctrine
of nae IN urbe. Birds and the
smaller animals formerl y de
manded the country and lis soll-
tudes to Justify their hopes OF
living. But as the country was
more and more thoroughly hunt
ed and the city became more and
more absorbed with It's own al
fairs, it happened that the shy
creatures, feathered and furred,
had it borne in on them at length
that the proximity of hated man
was in reality their best secur-
ity.
"The case is proved in every
public square by the squirrels
and birds, who are as tame, al
most, as kittens. In and about
| homes with trees and shrubbery
MANY varieties of birds have
come to new confidence, and
rabbits may be seen hopping
carelessly over lawns. 1t is an
adjustment satisfactory both to
the creatures, who do not every
moment have to be flirting with
death, and to people who ares
given an opportunity to observe
nature in some of its most at
tractive phases"
When we sit out in our yard
the chipmunks play around close
to our feet and become more
friendly day by day. Their in
timacy is encouraged by offers
of bits of bread. Occasionally
a pair Of them engage in a wrest-
ling bout, as if specially for our
amusement, on broad flagstone
beside the hammock. Nearly
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
By Rer. George ". Ian

By Rer. George ". Loy
In all sciences accurate and
definite terminology is essential.
Therefore each science will have
a language of its own. Such
technical language is perfectly
familiar to those engaged in that
particular science. but is often
entirely meaningless to the or
dinary educated man, and even
TO many scientists whose work
is in other lines. Highly tech
nical papers read at meeting
Of specialists in many different
fields of research may puzzle
many Of those to whom they are
read, if intended for the infOr-
nation Of a limited number.
Such papers probably serve their
purpose. but, if language, spok-
en- or written, is designed for
popular comprehension, in order
tnat the common man may be
Informed. it should be such that
the ordinary man may easily,
correctly and intellipently grasp
is meaning. am therefore
making plea for the use of
popular language in all scientific
speech or writing addressed to
the general populace.
Being somewhat interested in
many lines Of science and hay
ing 4 fair knowledge Of Greek
Latin and English, | do not con-
sider it arrogant for me to claim
that, when a book which is in
tended for popular use is be
yOnd my comprehension, it has
failed Of its purpose. And find
many such books.
There are many reasons for
tnlS inappropriate use of highly
technical and unusual words and
phrases. For himself and his
colleagues in a given field the
specialist naturally prefers the
terms that are in common use
in his speciality, since confusion
and misunderstanding will be
avoided. Thus habit j. formed
which can only be overcome,
when writing for popular read
ers, by deliberately keeping in
mind the probable verbal ca
pacity Of such readers.
Most Of Us like to appear wise,
even though we may know we
are not. If | can use language
which | appear to understand
and my hearer certainly does not
understand, then he may con-
dude that really know more
than he does. 1t is in this way
that !, perhaps sinfully, get a
good deal Of fun out of life
When talking with some learned
specialist, if | can get in some
very unusual technical term in
his own line of study, or men
1ion some rather little known
fact in it, my knowledge of the
subject may be completely ex-
hausted, but / often succeed in
50 impressing him that the flood
gates of his eloquence are
opened wide and he will talk to
me as to a man and a brother.
Further, besides ones desire
10 impress others, there is often
times a deliberate intention to
mystify. If one can be induced
to feel that subject is so mys-
teriOus that he cannot be ex-
pected to comprehend it, then he
will be the more likely to sub
NIT to the guidance and control
Of the one who has been initiated
into those mysteries.
In giving some examples OF
this indulgence in the incompre-
hensible, | shall begin with my
own profession. In one sense
religion deals with mysteries at
least partly beyond our COM
L
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-06-19
MIR. Lays Essay on
Scientific Language

"A paper read before the
North Carolina Academy Of Sci
ence at its recent meeting ia
Roleigh.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
BaltzeII Will Pronounce
Sentence on May 23;
Three Freed.

The five members of Indiana S
100000 bootleg ring who were
found guilty of conspiracy to VIC
late the dry laws by jury in fed
eral court Wednesday night will be
sentenced May %, Judge Robert C..
Baltzell announced today.
After celebrating an hour and
forty minutes the jury declared
guilty Earl j. Allen, "brains" of the
gang; Leon c. Brooks, former pro-
hibition agent; Clarence R. Girls
well, Andrew G. Johnson, garage
operator, and Sterling Stringer,
charged with being one Of the liquor
truck drivers.
Three were acquitted. They are
Claude Gallagher, Frankfort pool
room operator; John G. Martindale,
Clermont used car dealer; and
Glenn B. Walsh.
Presenting but three character
witnesses, defense attorneys rested
the cases without challenging any
of the testimony through material
witnesses or by placing the de-
PENDANTS on the stand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
PROBE WEDDING
ACROSS BORDER
Michigan Attorney-G General
Sits Marriage Status.

By United Press
LANSING, Mich, May 14.-De-
troitS famous international we'd
ding, in which the alien bride
stretched her fingers across the Ca
nadian-American boundary line to
receive the ring, was under investi-
cation today by the attorney-gen-
eral.
The bridegroom, Reginald Crudde,
naturalized American, was barred
from marriage in Canada because
his Mexican divorce from his first
wife was not recognized by Cana
dian law.
The bride, Miss Emily Hunt of
Scotland, could not enter Detroit
to be married here because the
Scottish immigration quota already
was filled.
So the couple met in the middle
of the Ambassador bridge, 200 feet
above the waters of the Detroit
river, Monday night. Judge Watts
and Crudde stood in the United
States and Miss Hunt in Canada.
The bride extended her finger
into American territory, Crudde
slipped on the ring, and Judge
Watts pronounced the words of
union.
1t was expected that in a few days
the bride could enter the United
States as an American citizen by
marriage.
But the legislature took a differ
emit view
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14


ID OBERT DOLLAR started, as
N the stories say, from the bot
tom Of the ladder" This rung was
a job as cooks helper in Canad-
ian lumber camp at the age of IL,
after he came from his birthplace
at Falkirk, Scotland.
He learned to "figger" by candle
light, using nail and a chip of
bark. He and his brother saved
enough from wages of $25 month
to buy farm, then timber land in
Michigan at $1.25 an acre, then a
sawmill.
A breakdown from overwork sent
him to California, where he started
numbering again. He found he
couldn't get his timber to market,
so he bought a tiny coaster, the
NewSboy, and piled up and down the
coast from San Francisco to his
timber mill in Mendocino county.
TN 1901 he took his first lumber
Il cargo to China. Since a
Scotchman, like nature, ahbors a
vacuum, he brought her back loaded
with silk, spice, tea, and rice. 1t
was the first episode of one of the
worlds great shipping epics.
Today the Dollar banner floats
from the mastheads of fifty ships,
nine of them the first and finest
round-the- world liners. AS with
the British empire, the sun never
sets on the Dollar fleet.
Cap Dollar wants to live to be
100 and then to die in his sleep.
when I come to die at 100," he
said, Il hope I'll have very hard
day at the Office, come home and
read my Bible, then go to sleep and
wake up in the next world"
At 88 he is reported improving
after a long illness. a third wish
also he has achieved. He has seen
his pond" the Pacific, come into
its belated own, commercially.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
HUNT WOMAN BANDIT
Suspect Jealousy Cause of
HoIdup in Home.

Antics of a masked feminine
bandit in a south side home
Wednesday night, continued to be-
wilder police today.
When Mrs. Carl Cracraft, 1888
Kentucky avenue, answered rap
at her rear door, she stared amazed
into the muzzle of an automatic in
a woman's hand. The woman was
masked.
Holding Cracraft and his wife
at bay with the gun, the bandit took
81 from Mrs. Cracraft, told the
family to get out of town, trampled
a photograph of Cracraft on the
floor, and ordered Mrs. Cracraft to
produce her husbands clothing,
which, the gunwoman said, she
would cut into small pieces.
She left before carrying out the
threat. Cracraft said he suspected
a former sweetheart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
ALFONSO'S FORTUNE
TO BE CONFISCATED

that those guilty of negligence have
been punished.
The new republic celebrated the
anniversary of the first month of
its existence by moving to confs-
cate the private fortune and prop
critics of former King Alfonso XIII
as one result of the anti-religious
attacks on churches, converts and
other institutions.
It is estimated that Alfonso'S es-
tates and other properties would ex-
coed $10,000,000 in value.
The most valuable is the royal
palace at Santander, in the north,
which was a personal gift to Alfonso
by the citizens of Santander. The
other royal palaces are the prop
erty of the crown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
FEAR NEW STRIFE
IN KENTUCKY AREA

declared. "The Governor is against
us. The money power is against us.
We have got to live. Somebody will
have to help us or we will help our
selves, and we mean just that"
After Hightower's scathing state
ment of living conditions here,
Colonel Carroll announced the
transfer of his base Of operations
from Evarts-seat of nearly all the
trouble-to the county seat here.
Harlan is the western apex of a
triangle formed by Evarts and Ca
wood, where 125 troops have been
n anticipation OF fur
Their trouble.
Although saying the situation re
mains fairly quiet Colonel Carroll
admitted numerous additional re-
quests had been received for ma
tional guardsmen to replace armed
guards at the mines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
STUDENTS FIGHT
DANCING BAN
Rebels Also Demand Card
Playing Be Allowed.
By United Press

~ CHited Press
TIFFIN, o., May 14.-Demands
for abolition Of the ban against
dancing and card playing at Heidel-
berg college were to be presented
officials today as students continued
in revolt against the administra-
ton Of Charles E. Miller, president.
Unrest over religious restriction,
which fared up with the stoning of
President Miller's Offices last week,
smoldered on the campus when it
was learned that the 70-year-old
executive would neither lift the bans
on social life nor re-employ DR..
Newell Sawyer, popular English
Faculty members and
trustees have backed the president.
While the athletic field ticket Of
flee was destroyed in an incendiary
fire, spokesman Of the student body
denied that it was fired by students.
They attributed the blaze to town
"hoodlums."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
2 KILLED, 3 HURT AS
STOLEN CAR CRASHES
COX Pursuit Of Joy Rider, Binds

Cops Pursuit of Joy Riders Ends
as Auto Plunges off Road.
By United Press
ARLINGTON, Mass, May 14.-An
automobile apparently stolen for a
JOY ride" was pursued by Airing
ton police early today and plunged
over an embankment, killing two
occupants and injuring three others
critically.
The dead were John Scott, %,
WATERFOWL, and Mrs. Helen Flynn,
IL, Someryille, a recent bride.
John Griggs saw the machine
being removed from his garage and
notified police who followed the
auto.
Police thought they had lost the
automobile until they heard the
screams Of the injured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14

Rifles were leveled onlook-
erS grew tensely silent death
was only a few seconds away.
And in this remarkable Times
NEA Service picture, taken just
before a military firing squad
executed three convicted murder
ers at Guatemala City, Guate-
mala, you see how the condemned
men met their fate.
Note two of the victims, their
legs bound together. waving a
hat and a handkerchief in def
ance of death.
The arms of the other were
thrown out to greet the impend-
ing hail OF bullets.
In the background is a crowd
which witnessed the public
execution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
DEATH HALTS
BRAVE BATTLE
BY EDUCATOR
Loses Courageous Effort to
Sign Baylor Diplomas
Before End Comes.
FIGHTER UNTIL END
Dr.. Samuel Palmer Brooks
President of Texas School
for 70 Years.
BV United Press

By United Press
WACO, Tex, May 14.-Dr. Samuel
Palmer Brooks, 81, president for
twenty-nine years of Baylor uni
versity, died today after losing in
courageous fight to sign 428 di-
plomas for spring graduates before
death stilled his hand.
The veteran educator passed away
at lis a. m, leaving 1853 of the di-
plomas still unsigned.
Even after physicians had told
him that death was near and that
any exertion would shorten his life,
Brooks had fought on in an effort
to leave his signature on all the
428 diplomas as the mark Of "a last
task" completed for his students,
but he failed.
Death was caused by internal
cancer. He had been in a coma
since Wednesday.
His wife; a daughter, Mrs. Aurelia
Brooks; his son, Sims, prominent
Waco attorney, and his boyhood
Schoolmate, Pat M. Neff, former
Governor of Texas, were with him
when he died.
DR.. Brooks was stricken several
months ago.
Makes Valiant Fight
Slowly the illness increased until
more than a week ago physicians
declared positively the educator
could not live more than two weeks
longer.
It was after that he made the
valiant fight to sign the diplomas
for the students to be graduated
next week.
To the end DR.. Brooks displayed
the same indomitable spirit which
had inspired his boyhood studies by
a. kerosenee lamp, his work as a rail-
road section hand, his studies at
Baylor and Yale, and his years as
president Of the oldest institution of
higher education on Texas soil.
Rounds Out Active Life
When on May 2 his doctors told
him he had but few weeks to live,
he set about Systematically round
ing out his active life. The 249
diplomas he wished to leave as a
last "memento" to the students and
the school.
my only regret" he said, ais that
shall never be able to stand be-.
fore another student body. Garry
on"
In the days that followed the
physicians announcement there was
no hope, DR.. Brooks alternated be-
tween working at the diplomas and
sitting alone with his wife, holding
her hand and recalling the years
they had spent together.
Toward the end he called in Nef,
who had been his roommate at
Baylor, and they talked of college
days.
Funeral Set for Friday
Neff was in the flower banked
hospital room when death struck.
Dean w. S. Allen, acting presi-
dent of Baylor since DR.. Brooks
was incapacitated, was the only
other person present except men,
berS Of the family.
Funeral services will be held Fri
day afternoon in Waco hall, $2O00,-
900 auditorium presented to DR..
Brooks as the gift of the citizens
Of Waco to Baylor university.
DR.. George w. Truett of Dallas,
and DR.. J. M. Dawson of Waco,
will offlciate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
rans-Pacific trader has been

'sendin EN- out His ships, more than any other
factor, opened the sumbering Orient to American
trade, which grew 300 per cent in third of century
They changed Dollar from cooks helper into multi
millionaire, from obscure mill owner into the best
known American east of Suez
Dollar belonged to that vanishing of tough
minded American capitalists, who in the 80s and COS
emerged from plains, mines, forests, and seaboards
with the fortunes they had wrung from nature by
their hands.
He is deeply religious in his individual, PreSby-
terrain way. He hates unions because they have stood
in his way His great antagonist another picturesque
figure, Andrew Furuseth head of the Seamen's union
who him when President Wilson signed the
the La Toilette seanens act at the end of twenty
one-year fight He never has smoked nor drunk He
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
TOURNEY
STARTS SATURDAY

resort and side trips to places of
historic interest in the east.
First four Of the preliminaries to
be staged at a dozen play centers
will be pulled off Saturday, starting
at 10 o'clock in the morning. If you
live closer to one of these four play
grounds than to any other in the
city, you're eligible for the matches
Saturday.
Openers will be played at Spades,
Rhodius, Garfield and Willard parks.
Be there a little before 10 o'clock,
ready to go. The prize certainly is
worth the effort. Don't miss your
opportunity for this great trip.
Every boy and girl between 6 and
Is years of age is eligible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
By United Press

BIZ United Press
MADRID, May 14-Perfect tran
guilty now exists throughout Spain,
Niceto Alcala Zamora, president of
the council of ministers, said today
in announcing general elections
June 81 or %. Many monks and
nuns have remained in their con-
vents, he said.
Alcala zamora expressed the
opinion that the recent disturbances
originated among the monarchists,
whereupon extremists seized the op-
portunity to spread disorders.
That must not be taken as i'm
The president laInented that the
government had been taken by sur
prise in Madrid, but he pointed out
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14

By United Press
HARLAN, KY, May 14-National
guardsmen patroled the southeast
ern Kentucky coal fields from their
new base here today under an ulti-
matum from 1000 unemployed
union miners that if they did not
soon get help they were going to
help themselves"
Governor Elem D. Sampson was
accused Of breaking faith with the
unemployed miners and Colonel
Daniel M. Carroll, in command of
the 400 troops sent here to quell
disorders such as have taken five
lives, was charged with siding with
the mine owners, in a statement
issued by William M. Hightower,
president Of the Evarts local Of the
United Mine Workers of America,
in behalf of the LOCO men.
"Our backs are to the wall" he
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14

One more day of practice and
then marble shooters in four city
districts will line up for the open
ing preliminary matches in the CITY,
wide play for the mibs title.
Winner of The Indianapolis Times
city tournament will win a prize
that any boy or girl would be glad
to land-a trip to Ocean City, N. j.,
to compete in the national tourna-
ment the week Of June 81.
All expenses will be paid, cha
peron will look after the lads well
fare, therell be a week Of great
entertainment at the Jersey ocean
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-14
STATE HELD BOUND
TO REWED DIVORCED
Clergy May Properly Decline Is
Assertion of Yale Dean.

CLERGY May Properly Decline Is
Assertion of Yale Dean.
BIZ United Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn, May IA
Divorce is a civil function ard re-
marriage Of divorced persons should
be performed by civil, not clerical,
authorities, in the opinion of DR..
Charles r. Brown. dean-emeritus
of Yale divinity school and one of
Americas outstanding religious
authorities.
Ministers may properly decline"
to remarry those divorced, DR..
Brown said in a Shaffer Foundation
lecture on the teachings of Jesus.
Those divorced, he said, are sspa-
rated by the state and should be
remarked, II they must, by the
state.
He described "companionate mar
riage" as a 10y ride advocated by
shallow minded people"