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

i w'immm I Hill Weekly PREPARE TO RUN ELECTRIC WIRES BENEATHfiROUND Bennett and Graham Casting Murderous Looks' at Poles on Campus and Street WORK OUT CONDUIT PLAN I BUILDING PLANS AREJNTANGLE Allocation of Funds by Trustees Committee Is Held Illegal by Brum mitt RE-ALLOCATION REQUIRED The latest story about the absent-minded professor an ancient theme for comes I from the Peabody building the headquarters of the school of education A few months ago A Jordan had the extension telephone removed from his desk and thereafter he would go into Dean office to answer calls loiter he gave orders for the instrument to be restored A week or so ago the stenographer pressed the button to let him know he was wanted and to her surprise he came into First second grade children whose parents want them to go back to school in the afternoon may have a continuous session ending at 12:50 and then be free for the rest of the day Those whose parents prefer the double session may coma home for food and res: at 12 and go back to school at 1 :30 for an afternoon period of about an hour and a half- The third graders remain under the double session plan This compromise arrangement seems to settle the dispute that seething for It wa agreed Mr Walker's office to do his had the village talking Supiosing something four or five days was wrong with the connection pon Wednesday afternoon Lt a she thought no more of it A 'joint meeting of the school board After Disfiag ia aid around Greece Mr Harlaad Comes Back Here Back from the Aegean basin where he spent many months digging into the vitals of ancient and long-buried cities Penrose Harland is preparing to give courses in which he will tell University students of his excavations Mr Harland left the faculty here in 1923 and now he returns as associate professor of archaeology He went to Europe after having been appointed to a fellowship under the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation his special mission being to investigate the civilizations of the bronze age the prehistoric period sometimes kown as the Homeric age in and around Greece His wife accompanied him on the tour First they visited England where Mr Harland had interesting interviews with some of the celebrated British excavators Their southward travels took them to museums in Paris Florence Rome and Naples on to Sicily and thence to Greece In Athens Mrs Harland entered he American school of Archaeology where her husband had ireviously studied while he went forth to make undo? ground explorations in Nemea between Corinth and Mycenae Here in the course of his digging into a prehistoric settlement he came upon some pottery of a date not later than 4 000 Before tbf! JJOuple came-back to America they went to Egypt where they saw among other notables of that country King'Tut-ankh amen The Harlands have rooms in the Braune home out on Glen burnie road recipients of the letter interpreted this to mean that the school was taken the control of the people of Chapel Hill acting through their school board At Monday meeting Mr Mosher said he did not mean that at all but simply that the affiliation with the University made it possible for this school to become better than an ordinary village school and he instanced training schools (in Chicago New York and other places) which were so highly re garded that parents paid large fees for the privilege of having their children attend The contract Mween village and University he' said did nut take any measure of control away from the school board The' procedure at the meeting was not marked by calm on either side There were spirited interchanges as to whether this Mrson or that knew how to understand the English language and at times several citizens male and female were talking at the same time Now and then a moment of comedy relieved the tenseness As when Dr Bullitt in the course of a few remarks said that he had come to the meeting under the impression that it had been railed for the discussion of a bond issue But being a physician he was even better prepared to talk about babies than about bonds and he gave it as his opinion that as far as the health of infants was concerned tingle short session was the best solution Dr MacNider toward the end of the evening when half the crowd had disappeared and the atmosphere had become a bit less heated expressed the same opinion but he said that he thought the difficulty could be disposed of by cool and friendly consultation and he offered a motion that six citizens be ap-nted by the chairman toberson to confer with the xflird This motion was carried aWd Mr Rolicrson named Dr lacNider Carl Durham 'Jack Andrews Bernard It Wilson and Hogan and it (Continued on page eight) day or so later this happened I and a group of six parents ap-again: Then somebody asked pointed by Roberson afc the him if his telephone was out of gathering in the school audi-order to which query he replied! torium Monday evening that he had no telephone Sten-j Chapel Hill has not been so ographers and clerks assured stirred for a long time as it was him he had had one at his elbow bv this school offuir tk for week but protected vig- Lubl" begTl The iorously that it had not been session plan of last year was there for months They led him changed to the double-session gently back into his office and plan Some of the fathers and showed it to him The explana-1 mothers of children in the low-tion seems to be that he has been I eat grades entered a protest say engaged in writing a book on jg that the two trips a day wfere psychology and so has had no at-1 not conducive to the good hedth tention to spare for the physical Lf infants and were impraitl cable in many cases because of Sometimes I begin to suspect I tran8l)rtation difficulties Hie that an aesthetic influence per- understood that vades this community Yester- waB a nieetinu at day I looked out of the printshop an door and saw one of the Service Lla 8 discuss the problem electricians at work with reached fever a morning glory stuck in his hat- eat Mosher band W- superintendent instead of cal Hpg such a meeting sent out a A shout of laughter arose circular letter evincing a deter from the crowd which had flock- mination many parents thought ed to Vance street when Mr to stick to the double-session Ford caught fire one without giving them a hearing evening last week Grum- (This letter will be found on1 (Continued oh jmge two) page 3) fluK llfnofa vvi liVMnr The passage which aroused Uub Meets Next Friday particular resentment was the romnunity Orcanizatiun Annnunrro I 0 which Mr MoBher said First Gathering of Season (that by virtue of the recent af filiation with the University the The Community Club will hold public Mhao now ceased to lie the at an ordinary North Carolina vil-330 Friday afternoon Sep-Iatre Kho(i operate(1 on 8maU tember 30 This and all subse- town standards and liecame the quent meetings will take place training school of the Univer-in the assembly room on the Uy wh(KJ of education Many second floor of the Methodist Active preparations are under way for the removal of all telephone and electric light poles from the University campus and from the main street in the middle part of the village Bennett superintendent of the electric and water division of the University Consolidated Sendee Plants and Graham the electrical expert are seen going up and down the village every day directing a menacing gaze upon the poles and now and again studying lawns paths and roadways with a view to the laying of underground cables Since the lighting and the telephones are under one control no argument or negotiation is necessary to bring the two kinds of wires together They will be attached to the same poles and will run in the same sub-surface conduits Considerable ingenuity has been required for the devising of a plan which will give telephone connections to all University and village buildings without the use of the main street as an artery for wires A trunk line is to run along Rosemary lane and from the poles there wires will be strung across lgck-yarda to tfuTstructures on the north side of the business block The Methodist church the Onch Cafe and the other establishments on the south side will also be reached from the roar through connections from the underground condufts in the car tpus There will lie two kinds of sul -surface Carriers for electric current Electric light wires wil! In enclosed simply in a flexible insulating material that can lie laid directly against the soil while the telephone wires will run in little troughs of creosoted wo id Of course' therij will have to be poles on the main street as long as the lights hang over the centre of the roadway but it is thought likely that before very long this overhead illumination will give place to lamps mounted upon posts of ornamental design A considerable part of the quipment for the automatic telephones has already arrived The new system is expected to le in operation toward the end of December I The building plans carefully worked out by the building committee last spring have been thrown into confusion by the opinion of Attorney General Brummitt to the effect that the allocation of funds wasnot legal Now a re-allocation will hye to be made and the committee will meet here in Chapel Hill soon probably-next week to attack the problem It looks as if they will have to reverse their decision not to put up a dormitory out of the moneys appropriated by the last legislature Actual construction is not halted because of Mr Brum-mitt's edict because the projects at present under way are not in question But the work of the architects and engineers is materially affected because they were going ahead with their plans in conformity with the scheme perfected by the committee Now they must suspend some of their preparations until they know just what structures are to be finally approved queattoYrbrVhether or not new dormitory should lie erected was discussed with liveliness last spring The building committee's decision for a classroom building and against a dormitory was confirmed first by the executive committee and then by the full board Josephus Daniels insisted upon a dormitory but he was overruled Kvcrylsidy thought his contention had been disposed of for goul and all but the course which he urged as proper policy is now declared by the attorney general to lie obligatory One of the most important changes from the building committee's plan will lie the cutting off of aliout 697000 from the a-mount designated for expenditure upon the grounds There is urgent need for grading surface and subsurface drainage heating and electrical extensions paths planting and the repair and construction of roads The schedule recommended by the advisory budget commission included only 615000 for all this work The appropriations act did not fix that sum for the improvement of grounds but it named the same projects which Continued on page eight They Saw George Denny ITay Mr and Mrs II McFadden at home again after a visit to 'lew York? tell of having seen George Denny act in "In Bosom" at the Province-town Theatre In the audience he same evening were Miss 1 2aro Mae Green Krumpel-mann and Miss Anne Ruth Med-' calf The Wallfia la Here Rare Flowrr IlMrovrrrd un ('uaat by Coker and Itrought to Cniveraitjr 4 A Flower lovers in Chaiel Hil will be interested in the an nouncement which has jus come from office that the smallest flowerfni plant in the world has arrived in Chapel Hill to take up its residence The plajit Wallfia by name with neither roots stems branches or leaves well differentiated was found in a fresh water lake at Head am Roanoke Island This is the first time that this particular species has lieen rented in North Carolina and it is altogether probable that a new species has been found Another Important item of the collection is the American lotus of the yellow-flowered species and of the same genus as the Oriental pink lotus re ferred to so frequently in the Bible While this is peculiar to eastern America it has never before been planted in Chapel Hill An effort will be made to sprout several plants in the greenhouse down behind Peabody hall The Venus Flytrap plant which Mr Coker found in South Carolina and which created interest all over the country is doing well in the Arboretum Both plant and flowers are larger than usual and are the finest Mr Coker has seen anywhere Hdnt of Greensboro has Drought several thousand bulbs of great variety to the Hill where they will be grown for study purposes In the assort-went are many tulips and irises Alarm System Gives Burglar Slim Chance the village of many newcomers This newspaper feels the first gathering of the bound to warn all the burglars fall season is always an excep- among its subscribers that they tionally important-one for it af- had better steer clear of the infords the old and the new resi- terior of the Bank of Chapel Hill dents an opportunity to become in the night-time because the acquainted with one another and vault has been equipped with to join in making preparations Ears Nerves and a Ixiud Voice for the activities Every The Ears are super-sensitive member of the club is asked to sound-wave instruments which bring to next meeting one will absolutely spoil the most or more of the women who have careful evening come to Chapel Hill as strangers The mechanism is caller! the to the end that they may cease McClintock Grade A Sound Wave to be strangers as soon as pos- Burglar Alarm System The aUe sound-wave protection is con- The club is open to all the trolled by finely-tuned instru women residents of the village menta which cause an instant The annual fee is $1 and no ad- alarm at the slightest noise made ditional fees are charged for de- upon the vault structure or partmental memberships The within the vault Not only that treasurer will be on hand on the but the vault door is equipped 30th to attend to the financial with -thermostatic contacts phase of enrollment which start the alarm when any Plans for the various depart- one them is reached by a-mental activities will be dis- r9und 150 degrees of heat The cussed I tap of the tool or the play of the flaihe of a cutting torch upon To Put on Plays wall or door will start a noise Four one-act plays of negro that will arouse the whole at the gong to prevent its ringing An electric multiple-wire cable constitutes the connection between the vault and the outside gong If you attempt to cut this cable you inevitably trip the alarm thereby bringing the police on the run to attack you with clubs and revolvers Once the timer has made the electrical protection complete for the night from then on till morning no one not even the expert who installs the 1 system can get into the vault without setting off the alarm "Experience shows" says the man who puts the apparatus in "that in' the case of an attempted burglary the sounding of the alarm drives the burglars away bo quickly that they even stop to pick up their tools hats or overcoats" Among the places where the McClintock burglar alarm has been installed is Henry great River Rouge plant This is probably why nobody has been able to sneak in and steal Information about the characteristics of the new car One of the experts is to be at the Bank of Chapel Hill next Tuesday to demonstrate how the system op crates The Self-Helpers The opening of the University brings the usual large number of needy students in quest of the odd job Merchants and townspeople are besieged by freshmen seeking work A druggist on the main street says fifty boys ofTered their services Monday Another thought that one half of the first-year class was in his place of business inquiring for "something to Leonard who is in charge of the self-help bureau of the A estimates that 60 per cent of the entire i student body will attempt to earn part or all of their ex penses this year Miss Winston a Med Student Miss Betty Winston has come homo from Orleans and will study medicine In the Training School Has Opened The Orange County Training chool Chapel Hill's negro insti-ution opened Monday IcDade who was a University anitor fpr many years and is cnown to thousands of alumni' as Bill McDade made the weL coming address life by PauICreen taken from neighborhood Shriich have bH A gong together published in books and maga- with control instruments ring- ne will be produced at the ing mechanism and ringing bat- Prpvincetown Theatre in New tery is installed on the outside York some time this season I of the building in a heavy steel A gift to friend Thi Cbakl housing as completely protected Box Weekly A gear's euhecriptio by electricity as tbs vault itself I that it is not possible to pet AU kinds of printing ions prompt-lg nt the Orange Printshop on Ssoo mnrglenSfChepelHaL Cameron MacRae and -Dick Gibson of Concord an hen Vnsv 1 JH m- A v-y -a.