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THE .TAR HE E L
Tuesday, October 30, 1928
'New, Law Library Reading Room
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Emory U. Gits Sunday Mail
EMORY UNIVERSITY, Ga., Oct.
30 A special Sunday delivery of
mail to all students here will be made
in the future, as a direct result of a
campaign waged by the college paper.
, The room presents an entirely modern interior in which the Law Department has collected 'thousands of the best law cases of America and
England as well as practically every correlated book touching on law. ' ' . " '
HUMOR MAGAZINE
STRAW VOTE PUTS
HOOVER IN LEAD
Hoover Strength Double Smith's
Iii College Humor Poll of
1104 Schools.
Taking a cross section vote in 1104
American colleges the College Hiimor
magazine 'predicts' the'1 election of
Herbert Hoover in the national polls
next week on the basis of his strength
in their straw vote. '
, Analysis, of the vote shows that
Hoover had the majority of "the stu
dent votes in thirty-eight states and
the District: of Columbia. .Alfred E.
Smith carried ten states : North Caro-
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lina, Maryland, South' Carolina, Geor
gia, Florida,' Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas.. '
Law Library Is Modern -
r Aid Judged in First Rank
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Reading Room is Workshop of Law Department Where Students
-May Find Everything Pertaining to Law From Ancient Books
In Vhich Quaint,' Curious Laws Are Recorded to Literature
That Touches the Subject
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HERBERT HOOVER VICTOR
IN STRAW VOTE
Smith's strongest vote came from
Virginia, while Hoover swept aside
Smith opposition in Montana by sf
score of thirty-nine td onei
Will Rogers gn Life's pJatf orm com
mander ed one half of one percent of
the total vote! Texas Guinan was un
expectedly injected! into the vote by
the students of St.; John's Collegiate,
Annapolis, Maryland.
CAROLINA VICTOR
OVER WOLF PACK
Tar Heels Win Varsily and
Fresh Meets by Good
: V . Scores.:.
The dual cross country meet held
between the varsity and freshman
teams of N. 'C. State and Carolina
Friday afternoon on Emerson Field
was won in a double victory by the
tar Heels. The Blue .and White
scored 21 to $4 for .the varsity and
22 to 35 for thefrosh. In each in
stance the low score denotes, the win
ningteam. . -
Cox. and Barkley led the field to
the tape for the Southern Conference
champions with the .time of 21.29
over the-four mile course. Wrenn of
Carolina came in third and Redfern
efj State placed fourth closely fol
lowed, by Lo wry of Carolina who fin
ished fifth. McGinn, Johnson, Ashe,
and Truesdale of State came , in next.
Cohen, Medford, James, and . Harris
of the home team and Stovall, Simp
son, Hoyle, Alexander and Shepherd
of tho visiting team also took part
ta the meet.
To the average person a law. lib
rary is a dark dull place lined with j
row on row. of monotonous . sheep
bound books from -which a cloud of
dust must be .whiffed before a book
can be- used. This was more or less
true of the University of North Car
olina Law Library when it was hous
ed in the old Law Building (now the
Playmaker Theatre.)
The small 6,000 volume library
was a collection of broken 'sets and
incomplete sections, the whole padded
with many duplicates and much dead
material. It was f or the most part
an '"antique" library, thoroughly in
adequate for the everyday needs of
students, and faculty. But-great
changes have taken place since then,
mainly within the last. -two years.
Today after two years of planned
and thoughtful purchasing' every
usable set has been, completed,, the
sections have been expanded and the
sqope of. the, whole library has been
enlarged and its quality enriched by
new and up to date material. A cap
able judge of law ' libraries has re
cently pronounced it -a "goodt.breaM
and butter collection That means
that'the library is now equipped with
all the American and ' English case
law, the latest statutory compilations
of these countries, all the special re
ports used int law school work, a rep
resentative selection of nearly 2000
of the latest American and English
texts, 'all the leading current Ameri
can and English periodicals, and all
the encyclopedias and digests that
make these sets most useful. Hardly
an .order comes to the desk that can
not be filled. i'.-" -
Library Is Workshop
As a natural consequence of this
increase the Reading Room has been
converted - into a workshop of the
Law School where students-can find
the necessary tools for their lalbor,
and this' enlarged collection has at
tracted outside , students in allied
fields, especially members, of the fac
ulty connected .with other depart
ments. It is a great satisfaction to
the Librarians that to a nre-legal
student looking for an easy introduc
tion to law anyone of a dozen books
can. be furnished; to the chance per-
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ouii uciviug in AiasKan ur nawanan
law, both the decisions and statutes
of those territories are available; or
to a reader desiring the comment of
some Phillipine or Scotch jurist the
periodical shelves will . afford ' all he
wishes on that line. Furthermore
the Librarians are prepared to sug
gest a lengthy reading list to those
persons who prefer to mix a little
learning with their recreational read
ing. The list of books wherein lit
erature touches -law is a long one,
beginning perhaps with ; Forensic
Fables and ending on a high note
with Dicken's Bleak House; or be
ginning with Arthur Trairi's Tutt
and Mr. v Tutt and ranging on up to
the classic Galsworthy.- These legal
novels and essays comprise a section,
very recently added to the library,
that is vastly , popular with many
students and readers." '
Nof only has the Library increas
ed in utilitarian elements but also
among its 18,400 volumes can be
found many volumes so quaint and
unique that the average person with
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the traditional notion of what a law
library is like and with interest far
removed from law can browse through
the stacks and . find his - interest
piqued in many ways. ' . -
Old Laws Quaint .
Many visitors have loitered through
the stacks dipping into old volumes
whose odd binding and unmistakable
age make them alluring on first
sight. Upon . closer examination of
the contents, quaint 'and curious laws
and law-suits are found. One volume
of early Puritan laws of the Ply
mouth Colony has "And if any, per
son shall be" found smoking of tobac
co on the Lord's day- going to or com
ing from the Meetings they shall
pay two shillings (fine)." Again in
the same volume "If any Christian
(so called) be a witch, that is hath
or cpnsulteth with a familiar spirit,
he or they shall be put to death."
Along this same line an old report of
Enerlish cases, in giving the testi-!
many of a witness for a bewitched
man 'says, "They said his breath
made a Noise like the, Barking-of. a
Dog and, she, believed he was bewitch
ed for she . the witness) was be
witched by him and made to fly
and 'several times s he (defendant)
spit up "pins." V
Not all of the ' interest, however,
centers in the' contents for often on
the fly leaves are written bits of his
tory. In one old Virginia law book
is a diary evidently kept on the bat
tle field of Fredericksburg in '61. The
writer says, "Stonewall Jackson did
right not to charge the ( Yanks on
Friday night. If -we had received
their fire from behind the Bowling
Green Road we very probably would
have been repulsed: while the f ire oi
their batteries of Stafford Heights
across the river would have annihil
ated us. Then what would Lee or
Jackson have had to oppose Burn
sides' forward movement? Old Jack's
head was level."4 ,. ;""
Law Students Had Yell
In another ' old treatise the Law
Sihool ."yell" was found that t;ells of
days when school spirit ran high and
esprit de iorps depended on such ju5
venile things as masrots and law
srhool lolors and "yells." This was
the "yell" in those days as the fly
leaf tell: x'
"Blahkstone's Commentaries
My Lord Coke 1
Caolina Law School ain't no joke.
The teacher, asked the 'question
. But. the boy never spoke
Easements, property, Lucius Polk."
Even the physical make up of
many of these ancient , tomes is not
what is seen-in modern books. Some
are. too big to be handled easily;
others are so small that they are lost
on .the shelves. NOn' the title page of
the oldest books no publisher is giv
eiwnstead the person by whom the
book was printed. One reads 'Print
ed for John Walthoe." The table of
contents of ' another book is just aa
odd: "An alphabetical table of th
particular contents of thid treatise
wherein is relation to the leaf e." In
an epilogue to the oldest treatise on
wills, printed in 1611, the author
says, "Thus for thy love . (loving
country man) have I delivered unto
the view of thy judgment, the pic
ture of my conceit concerning testa
ments. As no man - hitherto . since
England was Albion has set forth a
perfect idea of any English testator,
theauthor therefore in adventuring td
breake the yse, failing ..at the foyd
and falling into the pit may seem
worthy to be 'pitied."
It is always a matter of interested
inquiry to guests how . this all came
about in so short a while.' It was
made possible in two ways by appro
priations and gifts. .The bulk of .the
increase came through purchases
made with the $20,000. allotted to the
Law Library, by the - University Ad
ministration for the years 1927-28
and 1928-29. Besides that the most
interesting old . books and unu.sual
volumes camef tfom the collections re
cently given the, library by. relatives
of Chief- Justice Richmond Pearson,
the late Chief Justice Hoke and Dean
Lucius Polk McGhee, - all of whom
were - book lovers - and collectors :of
rare old items.- Through them the
Law Library has come into posses
sion of volumes that -have long been
out of print and cannot be .purchased
at any price.
Many Gifts Received
During the last year many gifts
'were made to the library by publish
ing companies" and friends who have
watched the phenomenal growth of
the Library and desired to "put their I.
shoulder to the task" of helping to
build it ud ranidlW .Among these
rifts were the Hoke' collection of 1000
volumes mentioned above, severa
sets of" reports and encyclopedias giv
en' by two publishing companies, the
major portion of personal libraries
worth hundreds of dollars, presented
by'two members of the law faculty, a
collection of valuable reference books
by Mr. Charles .G. Rose of Fayette
ville, two dictionaries donated by the
senior law class and twenty four vol
umes of new texts and casebooks
given by the North Carolina Law Re
view. Last and greatest of these
gifts was a fund of $10,000 given by
an alumnus of the Law School now
living in New York City who desired
to withhold his name. This was giv
en as a memorial 'to late Dean Lucius
Polk McGehee and according to the
wishes' of the dohor the gift was des
ignated as the McGehee Memorial
Fund. f
The recent expansion of the Law;
Library and the increase in its use
by the' student body have necessitat
ed an addition to the Reading Room.
For this purpose the basement room
under the present Reading Room is
being converted into v anN addition to
the Library.
It is hoped that the establishment
of an adequate working law library
will not only make possible a higher
type of work by faculty and students
in the Law School, but will be of
service to the. Bar of the State. Dur
ing the past year a substantial num
ber of lawyers have come to Chapel
Hill ' to use "the Library. The Lib
rary hopes to welcome them in great
er numbers in the future and to be
come one ofHhe influences which will
promote the closest cooperation be
tween the Law School and the legal
profession. .; -
DR. j; P. JONES
Dentist ,
Over WelcomeIn
Cafeteria :
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How Gold
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- Minneapolis, Jimn.
April 50, 1928
Larus & Bro. Co.
Richmond, Va. ...
Dear Sirs: - ' :
-Two years ago last winter I went
into the Red Lake gold-fields in
Canada. It was a tough trail from
Hudson, over 140 miles of snow and
ice. There were fourteen of us on the
trajl going in, and frequently at night
when seated around a big cainp fire,
some one would ask me for a pipeful,
of Edgeworth. These Canadian boys
sure like our Edgeworth.
'In 1 our weeks' time I rah out of
Edgeworth. I was glad to. get 'most,
any old tobacco. -
One day, -however, I dropped in to
Dad Brown's tent, a 72-year-old pros
pector, and seeing a can of Edgeworth
on an improvised table, back there 150
miles from the "steel," I perked up at
once,' saying, "Dad, I'm plum out of
tobacco how's chances for a pipe
ful? "-"Help yourself," her said,- So
pulling my heavy duty pipe from my
pocket, I loaded it with Edgeworth,
packing it in so tightly that I couldn't ,"
get the least bit of a draw.
I excused myself for a moment, and
stepped outside to-remove about three
pipefuls to put in . my pouch. Dad
stepped out, saying,- "You're worse'
than any Scotchman I ever saw."
Then I confessed. I told him what
happened to my Edgeworth that I
was just, dying for a smoke and he
understood right away. He said,
"Boy, Edgeworth is mighty scarce in
these parts, but I reckon I can spare
what's left of that can. Help yourself ."
You - can just bet your last nickel
that I guarded, this Edgeworth with
extreme care until I got back to the
"steel."
Yours very truly, ..
,.: C. M. Bahr
Edgewpr.tli
- Extra . Higfi Grade
Smoking Tobacco
Send the TAR HEEL home.
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Atlantic flying fame, soar in the
skies. . See how Dix makes love to
this "brave and beautiful girl. Love
and fun and action all the way
through. See "Moran of the Ma
rines" and laugh for weeks.'
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On "Eds" and "Co-Eds"
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know and u rider-classmen soon
learn that for warmth and protec
tion, SAWYER'S Slickers are the
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Di Senate Will Revive
Graham Memorial Issue
The meeting . of the Dialectic Sen
ate tonight at 7:15 will be a very
important one, as arrangements for
choosing the two teams to represent
the Di against the Phi in the Soph
Junior debates will be made.
The following bill will be discussed:
Resolved: That the Dialectic Senate
go on record as demanding an imme
diate completion, of the Graham Mem
orial. - ' :
There is style
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No longer need the well
shod man pay the price of
out-of-date production
methods. .
Inefficiency is outmoded.
Modern methods enable
John Wards t6 lead in qual
ity, in style, yet sell for
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