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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
LOCAL RULE FAILS,
ROOSEVELT HOLDS
Indifference Costing Taxpay-
ers Millions, Governor Says
in inaugural Speech.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y, January IA warn
ing against concentration Of power In
government and a plea for reform In
local government now archaic In de-
sign" predominated the second inaugu-
raj address of Franklin D. Roosevelt at
his induction into Office today.
The governors comment on too alb
solute Capitalization Of power came
with an illustration of an incident
which he declared was representative
Of "the dangerous tendency to forget
a fundamental of American democracy,
which rests on the right of q locality
to manage its local affairs-the tend
ency to encourage concentration OF
power at the top Of a governmental
structure alien to our system and more
closely akin to a dictatorship or the
central committee on Conlmunistic
regime"
Prompted by Letter From Editor.
governor said "tearfully" informed him
that all local government had broken
down prompted the governor to discuss
the matter in his address. The editor
begged the governor, the executive said,
to "usurp and assume the functions of
the officials duly elected by the COM
munities," and said the alternative
would be establishment of martial law.
The governor asked his audience to
note in this plea the unconscious will
ingness to accept tsar or an absolute
dictator in the governors chair at
Albany"
Now, my friend was right about one
thing" the governor said. Local gov
eminent as whole is open to severe
criticism, and this applies to the cities,
to the towns, to the counties and to the
multiplicity of other local agencies.
Indifference Blamed.
But why" he asked, ARE our local
governments archaic in design, un-
suited for the purpose for which they
are established, unsatisfactory in their
functioning and prohigate in the spend
ing of the taxpayers contributions?
The answer is not hard to find. It is
because the individual citizen Is indif-
ferent to his local problems"
The governor declared it would be
appalling to compute the millions OF
dollars which taxpayers have paid for
the price of their indifference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, January IA 77-year old
man. addressing a. members of an ex-
elusive club, thanked them for choosing
him as president, raised a glass of water
and said
"A toast, gentlemen: To the ladies;
let us not ioin them"
Solemnly the A members raised their
glasses and drank.
Thus did the membership of the ALI
mony Club at the county jail bid fare
well TO 1880 and welcome 1881. with the
venerable william Hudson Donald pre-
siding. His election was unanimous.
Il accept. gentlemen, he said. with
pleasure. ] appreciate the honor.
have lived n years, but never before
have I been elected to such an office
will administer our affairs gentlemen,
with the highest integrity"
Mcdonald the memlm said. was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
MEN LIVED IN WEST
10000 YEARS AGO
Knives and Mammoth Bones In
dictate Butcher Shop" in
Arizona Area.
Rn the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, January IA
butcher shop" more than 10000 years
old has been discovered in Arizona, 1t
was reported today.
The discovery indicates that men lived
in America at least that long ago, Dr..
Harold j. Cook Of the Cook Museum Of
Natural History. Agate, Nebr., ex-
planned before the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement Of Science.
Bones Of the huge elephant-like man.
moth that had been hacked with flint
knives by the ancient butchers, and
some of the knives themselves, have
been found in Yuma County, AriZ.. by
Perry and Harold Anderson, DR.. Cook
said.
Poverty will be abolished in the fu-
ture $50 that plumbers as well as pro-
fessional men will discuss art and Aris-
totle," it was predicted today by Prof.
william F. Ogburn, sociologist of the
University of Chicago.
Divorces and separations will increase,
he foresaw, because families will be held
together largely by affection, which is
often fickle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
KING GEORGE ANSWERS
NEW YEAR GREETINGS
Expresses Hope for Satisfactory
Results From Important Con-
ferences and Calls for Unity.

BY the Associated Press.
SANDRINGHAM, England, January
king George today, answering New
Year greetings of the lord mayor, ad-
dressed the following message to citizens
of London.
pray assure Londoners that I re-
ciprocate their warm greetings. I am
touched by their kindly illusions in their
message to my complete restoration to
health, for which am thankful to God.
While I am hopeful for satisfactory
results from the recent important con-
ferences, the most sanguine minds
cannot fail to realize the difficulties
and anxieties which confront us at home
and overseas.
IAN the more we must stand united
with the people, resolutely determined to
find and follow the sure road which
leads the empire to lasting peace and
prosperity"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
SPEEDING TO PUT ON NEW
TAGS FAILS AS EXCUSE
Motorist Fined After Telling Court
He Sought to Avoid Arrest
for 1880 Plates.

While trying to avoid breaking one
law, John F. Powell of nearby Mary
land was arrested for infraction of
another.
Powell, who was arrested for speeding
when only few minutes Of 1880 re-
manned, declared in Police Court today
he was rushing home to put on his 1881
automobile tags as it was against the
law to use the old license plates after
midnight.
That is the best excuse of the day."
said Judge Isaac r. Hit, and l have
had some good ones, too. Your con-
scientiousneSs will cost you exactly So"
Powell was arrested on Connecticut
avenue by Policeman L. S. Graham
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
BANK WILL REOPEN

VINTON, Va, January (P.-The
Peoples Bank of Vinton, which closed
temporarily on December 20, will re-
open tomorrow morning, it was an
nounced today.
Bank examiners, bankers and others
ton of everybody concerned, arrange
ments we're made for the reopening.
The bank is capitalized at 100000. 1t
has more than half a million dollars
in deposits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
ITO THE LADIES'" IS TOAST DRUNK
WITH PROVISO BY ALIMONY CLUB
President at Jail New Year Celebration Added Let Us
Not Join Them"

elected president not only as a tribute
20 his advanced age, but also because
he went through seven courts before he
was finally jailed for failure to pay ALI
mony He was committed last Septem-
Der % for six months. In March he
will have a chance for freedom If he
can pay the $648 he is in Arrears. At
present, however, the prospects of get
ting that much money look bit slim,
he said
II can't pay" he said. MY only in
come is from renting rooms in the home
my first wife gave me more than 80
years ago. That means about $40 a
week. I'm supposed to pay Sis a week
alimony ! used to be an engineer, but
how to pay SIS a week and clear up
$648 arrears out of $40 week Is getting
into mathematics too high for me.
1--WE learned something anyway-ITl
never get married again"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
TRAIN HITS DEPOT,
WHICH BURNS DOWN
None Hurt as Engine and Baggage
Car Are Overturned
in Illinois.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 1.-Oh1cials of
the Wabash Railroad said today their
Chicago-St. Louis passenger train was
derailed at Bement, Ill, at 2:30 am.
today. overturning the engine and a
baggage car into the depot. No one
was hurt.
The engine probably struck a broken
rail, officials said, and ran into the
depot, which caught fire and was de-
stroyed. None of the ears bahind the
baggage car left the tracks. Engineer
George Hitchcock ard his fireman
Jumped from their cab to safety. A
spare engine took the train on toward
st. Louis with little delay, it was said.
and traffic on the line was rerouted
through the yards.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
Argentina Banker Dies.

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, jan
uary GP).-Luis Zuberbuhler, former
president of the Banco Nacion and rep
resentative of Argentina at the 1920
n-American Financial Congress in
Washington, died today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
LONDON NAVAL TREATY
PUT IN EFFECT IN U. S.
Proclamation Is Issued by Hoover
as Gesture for Peace Through
out New Year.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AS a gesture for peace throughout
the New Year, President Hoover today
proclaimed the London naval treaty in
effect for the United States.
The proclamation cited the effective
ness of the flve-power pact and called
attention to its provisions linking the
British Empire, Japan, Italy, France
and United States in bonds of good
will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
ARIZONA FIGHT URGED

State Commission Favors Fund for
Anti-Dam Litigation.
PHOENIX, Ariz., January / P).-
The Arizona Colorado River Commits
sion has recommended that K. Berry
Peterson attorney general, be given
$3.50 600 to prosecute Arizona's suit in
the United States Supreme Court
Dam.
The commissioners, whose terms ex-
pire January S, made the recommended
ton in their final report to Gov. John
c Phillips.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
PLANE DASH SAVES LIFE
Infantile Paralysis Serum Rushed
to Boy in Canada.

SPOKANE, Wash, January 1 (P).-
The life of Hugo Wood, 10-year-old
son of K r. Wood, Grand Forks, Brit
ish Columbia, rancher, was believed to-
dav to have been saved by an interna-
tional dash by an airplane which bore
infantile paralysis serum from drug
store here to Grand Forks.
The plane made the 145-mile flight
in l hour Is minutes, arriving two
hours after Hugo's illness was
diagnosed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
WILL BECOME GOVERNOR
seligman to Take Oath Before Sis.
ter Not Seen in 40 Years.

SANTA FE. N. Mex, January up.
Arthur Seligman was to be inaugu-
rated Governor of New Mexico today in
the presence Of sister he had not seen
IN 40 years.
She Is Mrs. Eva Seligman Cohen Of
Philadelphia, who came to Santa Fe
yesterday for the first time since she
80 her brother as young student here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01

Radio Programs ON Page C-S
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WEATHER.

NWs .. WUuJLUE Bu1UHu EVEUGA8tsT
Fair and colder with lowest tempera-
ture about 20 degrees tonight; tomorrow
fair with rising temperature.
Temperatures-Hi Highest, 80, at $3.50
pm. yesterday; lowest. ~, at Tam. today.
Full report on page 5.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-20
Tennis Prospects Good
High Ranking Players on University
Team; Northern Tour in May

The University's tennis team
is to have a fine tour in the
North this spring Matches are
scheduled in May with George
town, Princeton, New York Uni
versity, the Army, Yale, Brown,
and Harvard.
Never before has there been
here such a competent group of
players as the University has
this year Bryan Grant of At
lanta, sophomore, is the
Southern singles champion and
is ranked No. 10 on the nation
al list. Wilmer Hines Of Col
umbia, S. c., another sopho-
more, is national junior cham
pion, and is No. 81 on the ma
tional list. Other members Of
the squad are Ed Yeomans, Ed
ward X. Graham (captain) ,
Hinkey Hendlin, Lenoir Wright,
Lucas Abels, and Philip Liskin.
Liskin and Hendlin won the
state Intercollegiate doubles title
last spring.
On the basis Of past perform
ances, it is not improbable that
the University Of North Caro-
lima will win national honors in
tennis this year. There is no
other institution in the country
with a pair who have made a
record equal to that of Grant
and Hines. Many Of the top
notchers of 1930-Sutter and
BayOn Of Tulane, Cram of Van
derbilt, and Feuer of Florida
have been graduated and so are
no longer in the field.
The champions of the East
are almost sure to be found
among the seven teams that
Carolina will meet in the north,
and so the May tour will show
how high Carolina stands.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-20

When l got to Morganton l
found that my old friend, DR..
James K. Hall, the psychiatrist,
had come from Richmond, Va,
and was having a rest in the
home of his wife's family, the
Ervins. Somehow our talk turn
ed to law, crime, and punish
ment. ''In my profession" said
DR.. Hall, 1--WE had to go inside
North Carolina prisons fire.
quently and have learned some
thing about them. People who
have only read about them, or
seen them from the outside,
have no conception of how fear
full they are-how darkt and
damp and ill-kept and filthy
When certain acquaintance of
mine was elected to the superior
court bench | told him that
thought every Judge, before he
began the duties of his office
ought to have to spend two or
three days in Jail so that he
would understand what he was
doing when he imposed a sen
tence. He seemed surprised al
my suggestion and did not carry
it out. But still think it would
be a good novitiate for every
Judge
=
In Asheville Mrs. Drew Pat
terson, when we were talking
about her brother, DR.. Eber
Alexander of Knoxville, told me
that he had moved out of the city
and was dwelling on suburban
Continued on last page)
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-20
Bynum to Go on Tour
To Make Geographical Explorations
with Clark University Party

Jeff Bynum, of the Univer-
sity's geology faculty, was in
town Tuesday and told his
friends of his plan to go on a
geographical exploration tour
early next month. He is on
leave from the University this
year and is studying at Clark
University in Worcester, Mass
Mrs. Bynum and the children
did not accompany him on his
brief visit to Chapel Hill; he
left them in Worcester.
He will sail from New York
with score or so Of other stu
dents from Clark, and the party
will go to Cuba and then to nor
thern South America. They will
penetrate into the depths of
Panama, and on the return trip
they will make a brief stay in
Porto Rico. The tour will last
six or eight weeks.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-20
Steenes Go Next Friday
Portrait Painter and His Family Are
Quitting Chapel Hill

William Steene, the portrait
painter; Mrs. Steene, and their
two daughters will leave Chapel
Hill next Friday, March 27.
Their house on North street, at
the entrance to Tenney Circle,
has been sold to Mrs. Athol G..
Burnham, and she will come
from New York and take posses
sion some time in April.
Mr. and Mrs. Steene will go
from here to Columbus, Miss
issippi, to visit friends, and the
girls will be under tutors in At
lanta for while. The family
will spend the summer in Con-
necticut. In the fall they will
move into an apartment in one
of the studio buildings on West
9th street, New York City.
After he came here Mr.. Steene
added to his~already well estab-
lished reputation as an artist by
executing portraits of many peo-
pie in Chapel Hill and other
North Carolina communities.
Among those who sat for him
were Robert w. Winston, Harry
w. Chase, w. c. Coker, E. G..
Branson, Archibald Henderson,
Roland McClamroch, Mrs. Nc
Clamroch, the late Mrs. Joseph
Hyde Pratt, Watts Hill, and
Mrs. Hill. Mrs. Clark Howell
of Atlanta came to his studio
here for her sittings, and he did
portraits of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Robertson and their daughters.
Recently he has been at work on
a posthumOus portrait of Gus
tave NJ. Braune.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-20
"POtter's Field"
New Play of Paul Green's Will BE
Produced Next October

Paul Green's play, "Potter )
Field" will be produced in New
York next October by Harry
Moses, co-producer of the pres
ent success, Grand Hotel" It's
name is derived from the phrase
in the Bible describing the land
that was bought with the money
Judas received for betraying
Christ.
The play tells of single
night in a Negro boarding house
and portrays the life of the
Negro at the lowest level of his
existence.
Mr.. Moses, the producer, was
here several days ago, and he is
coming from New York again
tomorrow to rejoin his wife who
has been visiting the Greens.
with him will come Boris
Aaronson, the designer, who will
get ideas for the sets to be used
in the production. Mr.. Aaron
son, native of Russia, is per-
haps the foremost young stage
designer in America today.
Articles about his work appeared
recently in issues of Theatre
Arts and the Theatre Guild
M0gdzine.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-20
Senator Bailey Likes the Article
On Bird Life by Odum and Coker

AS a means of release from
the more serious aspects and en-
gagements of life, an acquaint-
ance with the birds is of the
greatest value. Out of my own
experience | would recommend
to anyone to cultivate their ac-
quaintance and to learn about
their habits. | may say that
my interest in birds dates from
my earliest youth and seems to
be native to me. My father was
very fond of them. have made
no effort to acquire special in
formation about them, but it
has come about that, if one calls,
| will hear and identify him.
| am glad these young men
are developing this interest
They will find it a source of rea|
satisfaction as long as they live
Yours very truly,
j. w. Bailey
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-20
Fuller May Sue
Is considering Action against Mem
phs, Tenn, Police Officers

Henry r. Fuller, who came
back to Chapel Hill a few days
ago, may bring a damage suit
against the police officers of
Memphis, Tennessee, who threw
him into jail for no other reason
than that he asked where the
Communist headquarters were.
Competent lawyers have advised
him that he has good cause for
action, on the score of false ar
rest and Imprisonment, and the
American Civil Liberties Union
has offered to provide counsel
and bear the cost of the suit
Mr.. Fuller is a textbook re-
preventative Of the HoughtOn-
Miflin Company, and the Off
cials of the company have as
sured him of their vigorous sup
port. Persons at various South
ern institutions where he has
sold textbooks are said to have
written to Houghton Mifflin and
declared that he ought to bring
suit in interest Of individual
rights.
Mr.. Fuller had his painful
experience in Memphis on
Washington's Birthday. He was
looking for a college professor
who he had heard had been ar
rested for supposed Communis-
tic activities. He thought the
police might be able to give him
information as to the mans
whereabouts, and so he went
into the police station and in
quired. The police put him in a
filthy cell and kept him there
two nights and a day. They
held him incommunicado SO that
he could not notify friends of his
predicament.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-20
Chapel Hill Chaf

Not many people in Chapel
Hill carry canes; or, as we more
often used to call them, walk
ing sticks. At the moment the
only cane-carriers | call to mind
are Walter D. Toy, Eugene c,
Branson, Joseph Hyde Pratt, H.
Nj. Wagstaff, and myself. And
sometimes Dougald Macmillan,
although l am told that he does
not take his cane when he goes
across the campus to and from
his duties, but only when .ie is
out for. a pleasure stroll.
One of the younger professors
told me not long ago that he
used to carry cane before he
came here, but that he found it
was not the custom in Chapel
Hill and gave up the habit be-
cause he did not want to be con-
spicuous.
Foreigners often remark up
on the standardization of life in
America, of how everybody
seems to want to look and act
Just like everybody else. And
this attitude toward canes IS a
good example of it. Sometimes,
when | go forth with a cane, |
observe that it causes quite a
stir among my acquaintance.
One Of them will ask seriously
if | am i'll or lame. Another will
ha-ha in derision and make Jokes
about my premature decrepl-
tude. Plainly they regard it as
sign of oddness, bordering on
eccentricity.
remember story by Booth
Harrington about a young man
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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-20
TRABIJE HAS GONE
TO MINNESOTA ON
RESEARCH TASK
His Studies Will Have to Do
With Sterilization of EN-
plOyment in Northwest
HE HAS A YEARS LEAVE

A years leave Of absence has
been granted to NJ. r. Trabue,
director of the University's s
bureau of educational research,
and he and his family have gone
10 Minneapolis. 1t may be that
the leave will be extended to
September, 1882. ~
The Trabue home is unoccu-
pied. NJ. f. Hogan is the agent
for it.
Mr.. Trabue's new mission is
10 serve as executive secretary
Of the committee on individual
diagnosis and training in the
Institute for Unemployment
Research in the University of
Minnesota. The Institute grew
out of the Tri-City Labor
Sterilization Committee, estab-
iished last fall by the govern
ments and civic clubs of Min
neapolis, st. Paul, and Duluth
and the Employment Stabiliza-
ton Institute organized last
spring at the University of Min
nesOta.
Funds for the research and
demonstration work in which
Mr.. Trabue and other experts
VIII engage have been provided
by the Rockefeller and Carnegie
foundations.
N. w. Walker, dean of the
school of education, said yester-
day;
millions of dollars are spent
every year in research that i'm
proves machinery and technical
processes so as to make human
labor unnecessary, thereby
throwing thousands of persons
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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-20
CASTLE GUARDED
BY IRON GRILLS;
|. ROCKS FETTERED
Gimghouls' Home Out at Piney
Prospect Is Made Safe from
MarauderS
4 PYRAMIDS ARE CHAINED

Wrought iron grills over
windows and transoms, massive
double-thick doors, and heavy
locks and bolts now protect the
Gimghouls' castle out at Piney
Prospect from marauders.
And the huge boulders that
constitute the pyramids thanking
the roadways into the grounds
are chained to each other to
prevent their being rolled out of
position.
The strengthening of the de-
fenses of the castle was carried
through under the direction of
T. Felix Hickerson, who is
charged with the superintend-
ence of the building and grounds.
and he told me about it in the
course of a visit there the 9TH
er day. The marauders, he ex-
planned, were not burglars or
thieves, but apparently were
students who liked the adven-
ture of forcing their way into
the castle.
when the house was built"
he said, I'VE thought the Or
dinary precautions, locks on the
doors and latches on the win
dows, would suffice. But we
found that persons were climb
ing up the outside walls, break
ing in the door that opens from
the tower upon the roof, and
then coming downstairs. When
they got ready to leave they
would unbolt the main door,
walk out, and leave the door
open.
'They were none too careful
about their treatment of the
Continued on last page)
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-20
Edgar Lee Masters Visit

Edgar Lee Masters, author of
The Spoon Rirer Anthology
and, recently Of biography Of
Abraham Lincoln, was in Chapel
Hill few hours Saturday. He
came from Greensboro with Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Douglas, dined
at the Inn with them and their
daughter, Miss Virginia Doug
las. Among those who met him
were Mr.. and Mrs. Booker, Mr..
and Mrs. Cameron, Paul Green,
r. d. w. Connor, and Oscar Cof-
fin.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-20
Legion Meeting Tonight

The Chapel Hill post of the
American Legion will meet at 8
o'clock this (Friday) evening in
the high school building in Hills
borO. The post is obtaining
from the War Department some
army rifles, and Legionnaires
may obtain them at $3.50 each,
plus express. The rifles are to
be used only for military pur-
poses such as drills and parades
There will be discussion of the
rifles at this evenings meeting
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-03-20
New Alumni Directors

The Alumni Association of
the University met in Raleigh
last week. Kemp P. Lewis, who
succeeded to the presidency up
on the death of Felix Harvey,
presided. Three new directors
were elected: James r. Patton of
Durham, C. S. Carr of Norfolk,
and Harlee Bellamy of Whining
ton. Watts Hill was reelected
treasurer.