The Chapel Hill News from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • 1

I I v- i MANY NEWCOMERS ARE TO JOIN THE SCHOOLFACULTY Lindsay Gets Board To Cut $5000 from His Tax Assessment i But This Is Conditional Upon Further Consideration by Assessors Who Will Contest" Cut as Unfair to Town Lindsay did not attend the assessors to the best of their the county meet- ability at 70 per cent of mar-ing in Hillsboro Monday when ket value Their first figure on the Chapel Hill assessors and the Lindsay property was several other here 118000 but when he protested against this they put it at $17000 to give him the benefit i Board Announces Additions to the Teaching Force Farrar Heads English Dept WILL RENOVATE BUILDING After the meeting of the school board Wednesday afternoon Acting Superintendent 'Mosher announced the engagement of several new teachers Farrar recently of the Erasmus Hall high school in Brooklyn will head the English department and will have the rank of associate professor in the University under the eoojierative arrangement with the school of education Miss Sallie Marks with the rank of assistant professor in the University will be the supervising principal of the elementary school Other newcomers are Miss Clyde Wright (2rd grade) Mis Ida Oettinger (4th grade) Miss Gladys Cox (6th grade) Miss Katherine Martin (junior high school) Mrs Inez Honey (his tory in the high school) Miss Johnsie Henry (physical educa lion) Miss Enita Darling (music supervisor) and George tawrence (bandmaster) The engagement of Miss Ellen Melick was announced severs weeks ago The board voted to have the interior of the school buildin repainted This work will be started at once so that it may be completed by the fal Monday September 12 is fix ed as the opening day Wiring the Stadium Wuftllen and lirnnrtt Work out Plan for Cummunirationa System Chapel Hill Chaff Rampant at Chapel Hill as Episcopal Church Was Being is the headline over Archibald article In last papers am he tells of the waspish attitude of one denomination toward another Times have certainly changed Late one afternoon a week or so ago when a shower had left a' gorgeous rainbow in the eastern sky Lear and Noble were standing in front of the bank sail Mr Lear pointing to the church across the street "look what the Lord thinks of us Methodists He has put that rainbow as a halo right around our Whereupon the Episcopalian replied: just to reassure you that you're in favor we need any such mark Which is about as violent an interdenominationa dispute as Chapel Hill can produce these days In the Bal timore ven inn Sun Gerald Johnson tells of the melancholy effects produced by progress upon life the moun tains of western North Carolina In consequence of the automobile road up Mount Mitchell "one encounters on that austere summit fat women in high-heel ed shoes and 'chiffon And all over the Blue Ridge isno peace for the harm less inoffensive tramper he ft lucky if he is able to march for 10 consecutive minutes without leaping at the sound of an im perious honk to flatten himself against the bank or balance precariously on the outer edge of the road while a stinking clanking automobile goes by "I would not dispense with automobiles I value the usefulness of the things Bub they do not enhance the beauty of the world I never pass up the main street of Chapel Hill and see the cars parked alohg the curbs without reflect ing how much less agreeable to the eye this part of the village is than it was a generation ago These monstrous black objects with their snouts at the edge of the walk like hogs at a trough and now and then uttering noises that are fully as unmelodious as the grunting of swine and a smell little better they are an ugly sight! Within -the last few days I have seen in the Greensboro Newt two editorial eulogies of (Continued on page four) 2nd Term Begins Next Week The registration of students in he first term who will remain or the second term of the Summer School will begin tomorrow (Saturday)' and continue through next Wednesday The registration of new students is scheduled for Thursday and instruction will begin Friday the 22nd The total registration for he first term was 1684 divided nto 647 men and 1010 women Postpones Action on Permit The town manager told the ward of aldermen at Monday meeting that Clarence application to erect a filing station next to the Pres-jyterian church had been tern-warily withdrawn The matter may come up later Conner SubsUtutes for Boyd While Boyd of- Duke University is lecturing on Southern history at Harvard next fall I Connor of the University of North Carolina will foV Curious over New Ford Many Citizens Make Advance Pay-nenta on Can Soon te Conn Here in Chapel Hill as no doubt in every other town in the country there is much curiosity about the mnv car which Henry Ford is saidMo be planning to put on the mallet Many a Ford owner who would otherwise have made a trade-in before now is still operating his wheezy old machine so that when he does exchange he may get the new model Several hundreds of dollars have been deposited with Bruce Strowd as advance payment in order to assure prompt delivery The Ffifd dealers Have no more definite information ubout the matter than anybody else They know only what they have read in the newspapers ant what they have Iteen able to pick up in the way of gossip from the officials at the branch factories The report now is that the announcement from headquarters will come out in August Mr Strowd says he hears that the new car will have six cylin ders and standard hand-ojierat etl gear shifts that the chassis will be a few inches longer than at present and that -there will be various improvements in the engine and the cooling mechaiil ism It is unknown what price changes there will be It is rumored that the coupe and sedan will cost very little if any more than models but that-there will be increases on the open cars If Chapel Hill's interest In the new Ford is ifair illustration of the interest of the American people as a whole the immedi ate sales will be vast Probably ten arsons in the village at the very least intend to buy at once Counting Chattel Hill's imputation as 2500 and the as 100000000 the United States has 40000 times as many nhabitanls as Chaim! Hill If there are 10 intending purchasers for every 2600 persons in he United States this means a sale of 400000 cars right off the at Magician Entertains Crowd Kringsberg the magician entertained a big crowd in Memorial Hall Monday evening Geese and pigeons appeared mysteriously in his and other remarkable things occurred Mr Kringsberg varied his tricks with revelations about spiritualistic hoaxes A Useful Editor Judd Ashby editor qf the Summer Tar Heel went on a trip to the sandhill region this week He brought back a basket of luscious peaches to the personnel of the printshop Two Doctors Honored Charles Gooch 'has a new son whom he has named Eric Lloyd as a mark of his esteem for Dr Eric Abernetby and Dr Lloyd Publie Welfare iastitute The eighth annual Public Welfare Institute will open here llonday Last year the enrollment was 116 end it Is expected to be greeter this year Field and Stream' Robert Ifousd played golf in Durham yesterday This evening he will make a speech at the dinner of the Conference on Elementary Education- It Hunt for Rubber Here Two Visiting Scientist Investigate Planta in Tkia Region i The doings xt two young men who came into the village at the end of last week have caused much speculation among the inhabitants The strangers -have been going out into the woods with little satchels One citizen asked them if they were survey Ing roads and another if they had something to do with the new stadium They are botanists who were fccht to North Carolina by the Ford Motor Company the Firestone Tire Company and the Edison laboratories to find -out if plants in this region could be used for the manufacture of rublier One is Abbe and the other is a Dutchman Spalteholz who has been in this country three years They have both been doing graduate work at Cornell University A milky fluid which scientists call latex is the substance from which rubber is made and so Mr Abbe and Mr Sialteholz are gathering all varieties of milk plants These they send on to the laboratories in Orange New Jersey to be analyzed From ChuKl Hill they will go to Plymouth on the coast and then to other parts of North Carolina II Totten and other mem bers of the University's botany department have Wn helping them in their search Educational Conference Experts Are Hers to Disrus Many Problems Relating to Schools The Conference on Elementary Education began yesterday and will continue through this (Friday) evening The program was arranged by Noble Jr everutive secretary of the conference At this meeting (10:00) in Gcrrurd llall with Holland Holton of Duke University presiding the topic for discussion will be Supply and The speakers are John Cook of the James Hillman and Aloble Jr of the state department of public Instruction John of Duke University I) Iryan of Wake Forest College I I) Dougherty of the Appa achian State Normal School Walker of tha school of education and II Wright of the East Carolina Teachers College Supervision will tie discussed at the afternoon session (2:80) under the chairmanship of John Lockhart by Miss Nettie Brogden Miss Margaret Gustin Miss Anne Holdford and Miss Carrie Wilson At seven o'clock this evening comes the dinner with Robert House as toastmaster Maj William A Graham will preside over the 8:30 meeting A Allen Fred Morrison and Jule Warren will speak on immediate educational objectives in this state Seek Successor for Grant A committee of alumni composed of John Umstead McLenddn Dr Charles Laugh-inghoqse Henry London and Kenneth Gant art engaged In selecting a successor of Daniel Grant as executive secretary was announce) several weeks tgo that Mr Grant had resign-ed fif order to take graduate work la ColumbU'Univfnity were present to discuss the tax assessments in the village and when all argument was settled by the agreement to make a uni form reduction of 10 per cent But he went over the next day when neither of the assessors and nobody else from Chapel Hill was there and persuaded the board to reduce the assessment on his Cameron aVenue property from $17000 to $12 000 about 30 percent This decision however was made conditional upon further consideration by the assessors: and they are going to appear before the board on the 25th one week from next Monday and protest against Mr Undsay's getting a greater reduction than was granted to other taxpayers The news of the reduction came as a complete surprise to the village for the men who attended meeting left Hillsboro with the assurance so they' that no changes in Chapel Hill assessments (other than the uniform 10 per cent cut agreed upon) would be made by the board except after consultation with the town assessors The most serious aspect of the affair is of course not the amount involved in this single case but the assault upon the whole equalization program When one taxpayer succeeds in getting his assessment changed the question naturally arises in every other taxpayer's mind: What's use of having a systematic valuation if after it is completed one Individual ean go to the commissioners and get "out from The valuations were fixed by The Gravel Travels louseholden 8m Their Walk and Hindu Takan Away by Rainstorms Some of the citizens of Chapel Hill who live on hillsides have been forced to witness the departure of Jheir gravel paths and roadways In the violent rainstorms of the last week or so And some have received grav el they want which came down from their neighbors' domains The Prestons who recently moved into their new home out in Westwood discovered after one storm that the surface of their road and' path had emi grated down to the lot They brought it back and it made the satnp journey again The latest report -is that they are thinking of waiting until the summer is gone in order not to have to repeat this recapture Brooks has a beautiful lawn in the valley below the Odums The rain washed a ton or more of gravel over his stone well and spread it on his grass A large section of the Logans' front walk went out through the gateway and aeross the sidewalk into the street This sort of thing happened all over town Roads and walks have notxeceived such severs treatment fop years of the doubt I know where I can get Mr Lindsay a sale for his property at $25000 any day he wants said Carroll one of the assessors yesterday Valuations placed upon nearby property and recent sales are instanced by the assessors as evidence that their figure of $17000 was not too high About' a year ago Wallace Patterson sold for $25000 his place on the same avenue about a hundred yards nearer the campus with a frontage of half Mr His land was in the midle of the block whereas Mr is on a corner and backs upon a third street which can lie opened at any time The Lindsay land has a frontage on Cameron avenue of 850 feet and along Patterson street of aboyt 300 feet Williams' home (the old Patterson place) on the corner across the street with an area leas than a fourth of Mr Undsay's is assessed at $7500 Clyde place across the street not on a cornet and with a smaller frontage than Mr Undsay's is assessed at $14000 The uniform 10 per cent reduction agreed upon at the hearing Monday would bring Mr assessment down to $15000 The decision of the commissioners Tuesday (unless rescinded after the assessors are heard) will lop off $3300 more The Tax Raie Uncertainty uw Will Affected by Cut is AMwiimta At the meeting of the board of aldermen Monday evening Town Manager Knox submitted a tentative rejtort upon the effect of the county action with regard to assessments upon the tax rate In Chapel Hill The decision of the commissioners to decrease all assess- ments In this township by 10 per cent brought a decrease of about $300000 In the tqjal assessments within the town of Chape! Hill Mr Knox figures that this decreases by about $4000 the total amount that citizens of Chattel Hill will hate to pay in county taxes As far as town taxes are concerned the cut In assessments causes no change The budget (that Is' the amount of expenditures for the next year) is already fixed and the tax rate depends upon the total of assessments As that total goe up -the tax rate Is proportionately diminished It waa expected that if the valuations handed in by the assessors were approved the tax rate might be reduced but the action of the county com- missionen has made this probable Anyway the cut In -the assessments by reason of its reducing the contribution of this village to the county effects a considerable net Wring to the taxpayers here JA it A i YJ IT 'v "A A visitor one day this week to the office of Bennett the chief of the electric and water department I found him and Charles Wool-len studying a map of the new Kenan stadium They were engaged in deciding where the electric wires were to run The communications service is an important part of the sta dium plans Up at the top of the west stand is to be the press box and the reporters gathered there will have to be connected not only with the outer world by telegraph but with the playing field by telephone Along the edge of the field there will be telephone instruments from which the names of players the decisions of the referee and the umpire and the number of yards gained or lost can be relayed to the reporters Of course much of all this can be seen but there are times in every match especially when the ball is near the goal when it is difficult to see from the press box just what is going on Then there is the operation of the bulletin board This board placed be hind the south goal Is to give the spectators up-to-the-minute information about the progress of the sepre what down it is and number of yards to go The man who shifts the monster figures will get his information from one of the telephones on the field Dr IL Toy Engaged The engagement of Dr Calvert Toy MUs Fielding Lewis Douthat of Danville Vir-.