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VoL 4. No. 40. FRANK GRAHAM, GOING TO GAME, IN AUTO SMASH Misses Terrell and Parker, in Car with Him, Have Bones Broken CAR CRASHES INTO HOUSE Frank Graham, approaching the Y. M. C. A. building late in the afternoon the day before Thanksgiving, came alongside Miss Margaret Terrell’s car. In it, with Miss Terrell, was her friend, Miss Coralie Parker. He asked them if they were going to the game in Charlottesville, and they said no. “Why ndt?” he asked. Un able to justify themselves with hny good reason, they said very well, then, they would go. Mr. Graham had planned, to make the trip on the train, but they sat isfied him that there was plenty of room for three in the Coupe. So, after a few minutes’ prep aration, they struck out north, to catch the train at Lynch burgh. About three miles this side of the Virginia line came to a sharp bend in the road. But they didn’t know it was there, for (as they after ward learned) the warning sign at this point had been torn down. They were rolling along at a good clip, and Miss Terrell, at the wheel, saw that if she tried to make the curve the car would turn over. She chose what seemed the better chance, and left the road. A tree stood squarely in her path. A quick turn of the wheel carried her safely past it, and then—smash!—the car ran into a house, an abandoned coun try store. Miss Terrell had a bone in her foot hrpken. Miss Parker got a cut about four inches long above her eyebrows, and bones in her hand were broken. Frank ( iraharn—for some rea son which none of the travelers can explain—came out of it without a scratch. He helped the two young women as best he could, and presently a nearby farmer’s family came to give aid. They said had heard the crash and knew just what had happened, since five other cars had left the road here with in the last month or so. A school teacher took three football fans in his car and brought them back to Durham to Watts Hospital. Miss Ter rell and Miss Parker, after re ceiving surgical treatment, sent word out to their escort, waiting in the corridor, that they wanted him to catch a train and go on to Charlottesville. “Nothing you can do here,” added Dr. Up church, “so you might as well go on.” Mr. Graham found one berth left on the special car from Durham, and reached Char lottesville Thanksgiving morn ing. Miss Terrell and Miss Parker are still in the hospital but are rapidly recovering. Dr. Toy to Address P. T. A. Dr. Calvert Toy will address the Parent Teachers Association at its meeting in the school audi torium Monday evening. His topic will be "The Preservation of the Health of the Children of School Age.” The program, which begins at half past seven o’clock, will include also songs by the high school girls’ glee dub, and piano selections by three children under the direc tion of Miss Arine Wear Smith. • - The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff A few weeks back I was proud to publish to the world the high standing of my neighbor, Ver non Kyser, as an authority on soap. This was apropos of his being retained as an expert wit ness by American manufactur ers who were defending their right to apply to their product the word Castile. The attack ers are a group of importers who bring into America a Euro pean article which alone, they say, may properly be called by that name. * * * The suit before the Federal Trade Commission is still in progress, and Mr.- Kyser con tinues his researches. From be ing a soap chemist he has per force become a soap historian. In the University library, and in the private library of his uncle Vernon Howell, he pores over musty tomes in search of evidence to fortify his convic tion that Castile is a generic term which, for centuries, has pertained to soaps made in var ious He tells me that he has found references to soap in ancient Hebrew scriptures. Some of the hooks which he con sults are in Latin, and then he goes down to get Mr. Harrer, the Latin professor, to trans late for him. The other day he found something of what he was looking for in a German pharmacopeia published half in Greek and half in Latin. This indicates that another language ; man, Mr. Bernard, will have to I be called for help. I have sug gested to Mr. Kyser that he ■ ought to write a book called I “The History of Soap.” If j cleanliness be next to godliness, this work might bring him a de j gree from some theology school. * * # One of our citizens who went to Charlottesville last week told me of an incident of the Caro lina-Virginia football meeting (Continued on page three) The Chapel Hill Alumni Will Meet to Organize ThenmelveH into an Association A Chapel Hill association 1 of University alumni is about to come into being. An organization meeting will he held in the Episcopal parish i house at half past seven o’clock next Wednesday evening, De jeernber 8. It. D. W. Connor is temporary chairman of the com mittee that has arranged the | gathering, and J. B. Linker tem porary secretary. .Other mem bers are W. S. Bernard, S. 11. < Hobbs, Jr., Frank I*. Graham, JI. G. Baity, E. 1.. Maekie, F. O. Bowman, Edward M. Knox, T. C. Taylor, and Daniel L. Grant. Both alumni and alumnae are eligible for membership in the association. There are .’{4o for mer University students' in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. I Murrhisons Prepare to Build Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Murchison are getting ready to build on their lot on Sen lac road, opposite the Bookers' on a part »>f what used to he the Battle place. Part of the clearing—that part which consisted of eating the pecans off the trees—was dope by the twins, Cameron and Nancy. Henderson Children Have Fever Barbara Henderson and Archi bald Henderson, Jr., are both down with scarlet fever. Bar bara was seized with the malady before her brother, and so is further on the road to recovery. CHAPEL HILL. N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1926 Committee Postpones Decision On Stadium Site; Will Meet ' Monday to Say the Final Word The committee *on buildings of the University’s board of adjourned its meeting here last Monday without de ciding upon the site for the new Kenan stadium. It will convene again this coming Monday and will then make the final decision. When Mr. Kenan announced the gift three weeks ago it was taken for granted that the sta dium would be placed in the ravine near the Tin Can. But then the objection was raised that this site was too close in— that, when the University ex panded toward the south, the noisy athletic celebrations would •he too near the precincts devot ed to scholarly pursuits. The members of the committee spent several hours discussing the matter and listening to ar guments pro ahd con. At the af ternoon session they concluded that they wanted a week longer to think it over. “It’s too important a question to he settled hastily,” one of them said when the meeting brokf up. “The University is growing, and we’ve got to look a long way ahead. When the .stadium is built it will he built to stay. We can’t afford not to he dead sure it’s in the right place.” Christmas Seals to be Put on Sale Wednesday The annual Christmas Seal Sale, in aid of the fight against tuberculosis, will he held in Chapel Hill next Wednesday, December 8, from ten to half past two o’clock. Mrs. Robert H. Wettach, chairman, will he assisted by Mrs. 11. 1). Carter (who will select the district chairmen) ; Mrs. W. 1). Toy, treasurer; Mrs. S. 11. Hobbs, secretary; Mrs. S. E. Leavitt, advertising; Mrs. Otto Stuhl man, canvassing of students; Mrs. A. W. Hobbs, canvassing of campus buildings; Mrs. J. M. Lear, decoration of automobiles;! Mrs. W. F. Prouty, window detv oration; and Mrs. J. (’. Bynum. Ten district chairmen, select ed from the health department of the community dub, will con duct a house-to-house canvass. The first drive will he followed by a sale in the school. Receipts from the sale in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, last year, were $582. One fourth of •this went to the state tubercu losis association; thrift* fourths was spent in anti around Chap el Hill. During 1926 $367 has been appropriated for the main (<et Quail in Georgia M. E. Hogan, cashier of the Bank of Chapel Hill, and Dr. R. It. Clark, the dentist, brought 50 quail with them when they came in from Georgia last Sun day night. They got the birds in two hunts in the soul hern part of the state. Mr. Hogan visited his brother, a cotton broker, in Macon, and took Dr. Clark along in the Franklin car to keep him com pany. On the way back they stopped at Atlanta. From there the hanker made a side trip to call on Frank Strowd in Bir mingham. The two travelers started out from Atlanta at half past six o’clock Sunday morning. They drove 472 miles to Chapel Hill in less than 18 hours, reach ing here about midnight. Send the Weekly as a Christ mas gift; $1.50 a year. Another' .reason for postpon ing the decision was that Pres ident Chase was absent. He had had to go to an important edu cational meeting of the faculty’s campus committee several days in advance of last Monday’s meeting, and the faculty com mittee approved it by a major ity vote. But both W. C. Coker and Dr. William de B. MacNider, members of this group, have ex pressed doubts as to the advis ability of having an athletic cen ter so near to where new build ings are to go up. Because of Dr. Coker’s long record of ac tivity in the care and develop ment of the campus, and the careful study he has given to this phase of University life, the trustees’ committee are giv ing much consideration to his views. The discussion of the prob lem w ithin the last two or three weeks has brought forth other suggestions for a site. One is that the stadium he built about 400 feet down the ravine from the place first proposed. Anoth er is that it be built to the south east of the cemetery over in the direction of the Country Club. And still another suggestion (Continued on page four) tenance of a public health nurse among the negroes, $320 for the expenses of patients sent to sanatoria for treatment, and $25 for the relief work of the King’s Daughters. The hoard which administers the fund is made up of Mrs. Moody Durham, Mrs. S. E. Leavitt, Mrs. S. J. Brockwell, Mrs. J. E. Lear, Mrs. W. 1). Toy, Mrs. H. D. Carter, Mrs. Clyde Eubanks, anti Mrs. J. 11. Pratt. The urgency of the need for money is emphasized by* the fact that approximately 30 per cent, of the children in North Caro lina—or around 300,000 —have been found by the state’s investi gators to lie undernourished. What vigorous effort can accom plish is illustrated by the reduc tion of the undernourished chil dren in one school, in the last -year, from 27 per cent, to 4 per cent.. In another school every child in one grade was brought up to normal weight. Mrs. Wettach and her fellow workers have set SBOO as the minimum amount to be raised this year in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Everybody is asked to help. Sanford vs. Charlotte The Sanford high school foot ball team, eastern champions, and tilt? Charlotte high school football team, western champ ions, will pluy for the State high school football championship on Emerson Field at half past two o’clock tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon. «. Thirty-eight high school teams entered the championship series this year. The final eastern game, which was played at Fay etteville on Thanksgiving Day between the Sanford anti Wil mington teams, resulted in a vic tory for Sanford by the score of 7 to 0. .The final western game, played at Salisbury last Satur day by the Charlotte and Greens boro teams, resulted in a 10-to-0 victory for Charlotte. Many supporters of high school football from Charlotte and Sanford are expected to at tend tomorrow’s game. A Clavilux Recital " Novel Form of Entertainment Will Be Given Monday Evening , A clavilux concert —a form of | entertainment never before pre sented in Chapel Hill—will be i given by Thomas Wilfred in Memorial Hall at half past eight j o’clock Monday evening under, the auspices of Phi Mu Alpha, j the national honorary music fra -1 ternity. The clavilux is an instrument upon which the artist plays not with found but with light. "A rVcital, 4 an artist at a key board”—this is a passage from one review of Mr. Wilfred’s per formance—“yet not a sound is heard; but as he touches the keys on the strange instrument in the darkened hall the huge screen comes to life and opens up vistas of fantastic forms in such graceful movements and gorge ous colors as no pen can de scribe.” Thomas Wilfred began his re ; search with t'he use of light as a fine art in 1905, hut it was not until 1922 that he played his first public recital of silent visu al compositions. His achieve ment has won for him a world wide fame. The Matin of Paris I has called the clavilux “the cul minating point in esthetics,” and | a Brussels journal says: “We ! were transported into a gorge j ous fairy world that continued I to live before the inner eye long afterward.” .... "These colors, these forms,” says Deems Tay lor, the New York World’s cri tic, “utterly unconnected with anything we have known before, | have an emotional effect start lingly like that of music; they ; set the imagination free; they | are by turn amusing, exciting,; and menacing, with flashes of quite unearthly beauty.” The price of admission to Monday’s concert is sl, with a special rate of 75 cents for stu dents. There are no reserved | seats. Comedy Tonight I’liiymakers Will I’resenl Goldsmith's "She Sloops lo Conquer" Oliver Goldsmith’s comedy, j “She Stoops to Conquer,” will lie presented by the Carolina | Playniakers this (Friday) eve ning and again tomorrow eve ning. Manager Elmore says that ' the eurlain will rise promptly at half past eight o’clock. The Playmakers are just hack 1 from an unusually successful tour with the play in eastern North Carolina. They gave nine performances, almost every one j to a imeked house. I Shepperd Strudwiek appears j j as (diaries Marlow, Jimmie King as George Hastings, Charles j Norfleet as Tony Lumpkin, and Miss Margaret Ellis as Kate Hardcastle. Other members of the cast are Miss Eral Thomp son (Mrs. Hardcastle), John Harden (Mr. Hardcastle), Miss Lenore McFadden (Constance Neville), Miss Mary Marguret Wray (the barmaid), William Brandon (the landlord), and William Atlee (Sir Charles Marlow). Tony’s tavern com panions are portrayed by Shel ton Day, Dwight Currie, A. De- Voe Austin, and Leonard la*w is; and Mr. Hardcastle’s ser vants by the same four actors and Miss Mary Margaret Wray., Mrs. Urban T. Holmes is ill with scarlet fever. Her mothlfr, Mrs. Gemmel of London, On tario, was expected to arrive in Chapel Hill last night. $1.50 a Year in Advance. sc. a Copy VILLAGE MUST HAVE A BETTER PHONE SYSTEM Present Plant about to Give Way under Steadily Increas ing Pressure ! | COMMON BATTERY COMING The time is near at hand when Chapel Hill's present telephone equipment can no longer stand the strain. Jt is now being worked to the Unfit of its capa city. A year or so ago there arose a situation which practically com ! pelted the University to take over the system; and today the University authorities find them selves faced by two alternatives: either to sell out to some indi vidual or corporation, or to in stall a new plant. The switchboard now in oper ation was designed for not more than 400 telephones. There are 422 subscribers on the list, and it has been possible to serve all of them only through the use of many duplex, or “party,” lines. More applications for connections come in every month. When the expansion of facili ties can be postponed no longer, the common battery plan will be substituted for the existing an tiquated magneto plan. Which means that the subscriber will simply lift the receiver off the hook, to call central, instead of having to turn a crank. The pro|>osed new switchboard will | have a total capacity of 1,200 I connections and will be equipped, j from the start, for 600. The !cost of the improvement, includ ing the central plant, the instru ments, and the changes in wir ing, is estimated at between $25,000 and $30,000. As long as the present plant is kept in operation, the central office will remain in the little frame building -often called a shack—on Henderson street near the post-office. When the com mon battery system is installed, central will he moved to the Pub lic Service building where the University Consolidated Service Plants has its headquarters. It is likely Unit along several blocks of Franklin street the cables will then be run in underground conduits instead of on poles. Squirrels Travel by Wire People passing along the street by the post-office recently have been entertained by the sight of the University squirrels running along the electric light and tele phone wires. When the" Play makers string their banner a eross the street the squirrels, going over to Clarence Pickard's store to ask Mr. Cheek for re freshments, use the banner us a bridge and thus avoid the neces sity of dodging automobiles. Window Decoration Prizes The Community Club’s com mittee which carried on the clean-up campaign recently has awarded two prizes for artistic window decoration. The first prize goes to the Consolidated Service Plants, the second to the Carolina Confectionery. Champion Didn’t Come Edouard Champion, the French publisher and bookseller who was to lecture here Monday evening, had an automobile acci dent and did not get any further south than Richmond. A tele gram to William M. Dey, con veying M. Champion’s regrets, said that he was not injured.
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