Vol. 5. No. 35
BUSS CARMAN,
EMINENT POET,
IS COMING HERE
Man Who, With Hovey, Wrote
the “Songs from Vagabondia,”
To Give a Reading
NEXT THURSDAY AT 8:30
Bliss Carman, orte of Amer*-
ica’s most celebrated poets, is
coming to Chapel Hill next week.
He will give a reading from his
poems in Gerrard Hall Thurs
day evening at 8:30 and will ac
company the reading by an in
formal, talk about' poets and
poetry. •
He is brough here by the Uni
versity lecture committee, and
there is' no admission charge.
Mr. Carman was born in Can
ada in 1861 and was educated
at the University of New Bruns
wick, at Edinburgh, and at Har
vard. He came to live in the
United States in his twentfes,
and his exceptional talent
promptly won him not only high
favor among the general read
ing public but also recognition
from the country’s most discern
ing critics.
His first book of lyrics, pub
lished in 1893, was Low Tide on
Grand Pre. In the next few
years came his co-authorship
with Richard Hovey in Songs
from Vagabondia, More Songs
from Vagabondia, and Last
Songs from Vagabondia. “A
Bohemian open-road friendliness
and daring” is the quality that,
according to one commentator,
distinguishes the style of Car
man and Hovey in these vaga
bond songs. “Theirs is the po
etry of college youth, olf together
on a vacation, roughing it some,
seeking adventures hi action or
amours, enamoured of nature’s
mystery and beauty, holding
conventions (except fraternity
conventions) a good deal in
abeyance if not in contempt, and
united in friendship that is less
amorous but more various and
enduring than love. Gay, bois
terous, youthful poetry, resound
ing with the shouts and derisive
laughter of two revolters from
mid-Victorianism and the al
buminous American imitations.”
Rush Road from South
Contractors Striving to (let It Done
By TbankHgrivinK Day
The contractors on the road be
tween here and Pittsboro are making
vigorous efforts to get the paving
laid and open for traffic in time for
the Virginia-Caroiina football game
on Thanksgiving Day. Already the
road is open ten miles this way from
Pittsboro, and concrete is nearly to
the county line, 2 1-2 miles from the
PurefOy’s creek bridge where it will
meet the pavement out from Chapel
Hill. If good weather continues the
people coming from the south to the
football game will probably be able
to pass over the road without de
touring.
Country Club Program
Coming events at the Country Club:
Hallowe’en dance tomorrow (Satur
day) evening; bachelors’ ball Novem
ber 22; card party December 3;
Christmas dance December 16; Christ
mas party December 28; cabaret sup
per January 18; business meeting and
dance January 25.
Dr. Maogum in Canada
Dr. C. S. Mangum is in Montreal,
Canada, to represent the Upiversj|y’s
medical school at the mating of the
Association of American Medical Col
leges.
lets of Self-Help Stndents
The self-help bureau of the Y. M.
C. A. announces that thej-e are more
students seeking work than ever be
fore. Two men are on doty at the
Y. M. C. A. (telephone 86) to answer
the calls of persons who desire help.
.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS -GRAVES
Editor
Chapel Hill Chaff
In his review of Gerald John
son’s book on Andrew Jackson,
Mr. Adams of the Literary Lan
tern alludes, incidentally to the
dispute as to whether Jackson
was born in South or North
Carolina, and says: “Andrew
was not born at home in any
event.” In those days it was j
unusual not to be born at home;
nowadays it is unusual to be
born there. When one of the;
children of our village becomes
illustrious when Bobby Koch
has the standing-room-only
sign out on Broadway, when a
Daggett builds the world’s
greatest bridge, or a Hogan di
rects the course of international
finance —I wonder if Who's Who
will contain the line, “born in
Chapel Hill, N. C.” If so, then
the officers of the Durham His
torical Society for the Preserva
tion of Tradition will come for
ward with the Watts Hospital
| records and prove that the great
I man was born in Durham.
There may be some of our citi
zens who take this future humil
iation lightly. It is 'a serious
matter. For the sake of Chapel
Hill’s place in history we ought
to get into immediate communi
cation with Dr. Rankin of the
Duke Foundation, procure a gen
erous attotment of the fund at
his command, and erect here a
! first-class hospital.
* ** *
Late one afternoon recently
Dr. MacNider noticed a cluster
of pecans at the top of the tree
by his gate. - They were too high
to shake down, and he went to
bed that night with the resolu
tion to have at them next day
with an extra-long pole. Early
in the mornipg he heard a furi
oqs jawing and, going to the
front door, saw a group of jay
birds in the tree. A closer in
vestigation, after the doctor had
had time to fling on enough
clothes for a deceit journey to
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To Meet State College
Carolina Goes to Halfiah Tomorrow
for Annual Football Match
The University of North Carolina
football team goes down to Raleigh
tomorrow (Saturday) for its annual
match with the State College of Ag
riculture and Engineering.
Despite the record of defeats this
season, the University‘supporters are
hopeful of a victory. The perform
ance of the team in Atlanta last
week, even though the game was lost
to Georgia Tech by 13-0, seems to
justify a considerable degree of op
timism.
“The hardest won 13-0 football
game ever played,” is the way Mor
gan Blake, former Vanllerbilt star
and now sports writer for the At
lanta Journal, describes the Carolina-
Tech encounter.
“The Yellow Jackets came out on
top,” says Mr. Blake, “but for every
one of those 13 points Tech paid in
agonized sweat of the brow. On two
occasions on the one-yard line the
Tech forwurds pulled themselves to
gether to take the ball away on downs
from the Tar Heeis when a touchdown
would have meant a tied game. Early
in the first quarter Teelr hurled back
another threat within her six-yard
line. We do f not care to ever live
over again those painful momenta.
“Eliminate those three minutes of
the game when Tech was scoring the
two touchdowns, and North Carolina
completely outpointed the Jackets. In
other words Tech won three minutes
of the contest and North Carolina
won (ffty-seven.
“North Carolina brought a team
to Atlanta this year that lived up to
all the great traditions of that uni
versity. How those Tar Heels can
fight! How they can tackle! And
how those wonderful ends refused ab
solutely to be boxed oat of And
how the whole doggone team didkeep
the thousands of Tech supporters in
a constant perspiration of apprehen
sion! Boys, you’ll have to hand it
to that courageous band of Carolin
ians. They went down with their
boots on, if ever a team did.”
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1927
Mosher Resigns from School in
Interest qf Community Harmony
E. R. Mosher has resigned
from the superintendency of the
Chapel Hill school in the inter
est'of community harmony. This
fact, which became generally
known after the meeting of the
school board last week, is stated
in the following letter from N.
W. Walker, secretary of the
board and also acting dean of
the University’s school of educa
tion :
“Dear Mr. Graves: I have
your gracious request for a short
statement of the. present school
situation in the Chapel Hill com
munity.. In my humble" judg
ment too much has been said al
ready, aiid I am not so immodest
as to believe that any word I
might say through the. columns
of your paper would receive
much attention now . The less
that is said at this time concern
ing the recent unpleasantness
and the actual causes thereof,
the better it will be for all con
cerned. But I must, I suppose,
comply with your request, how
ever much I should prefer to
be strolling through these love
ly autumn Avoods letting a lot
of old cobwebs blow out of my
mind (or be brushed out). Real
ly, Mr. Editor, the woods around
Chapel Hill are getting so won
derfully glorious just now, and
some of us would be greatly re
freshed, I’m sure, if we could
but let our spirits be touched
by this passing beauty of our
Red, Cross Asks Clothing for Flood Sufferers
With the coming cold
weather more than half a mil
lion Mississippi River flood suf
ferers, according to a bulletin
from the national headquarters
of the Red Cross, are in urgent
need of clothing.
Citizens of Chapel Hill are
asked to bring to the Peoples
Bank building, from 10 to 3
o’clock tomorrow (Saturday)
and from 10 to 3 Monday, what
ever garments they can spare, in
the following classes:
For women: coats, dresses,
underwear, stockings.
For children: coats, under
wear, girls’ dresses, boys’ suits
and shirts, socks and sweaters
of all sizes, and layettes and
baby clothes.
For men: coats, suits, shirts,
underwear, and socks.
No hats, shoes, or furs are
wanted.
Bernard’s Lecture to Launch Art Study Course
W. S. Bernard will give a lec
ture on “The Greek Influence in
Modern Art,” illustrated by lan
tern slides, in the Episcopal par
ish house Monday evening at
8:30. All will be welcome.
This is to be the first of a se
ries of meetings centering about
the study of art appreciation
and art history. Everybody in
terested in this subject is invit
ed to join. The season’s pro
gram includes talks by W. E.
Caldwell, A. C. Nash, and J. Pen
rose Harland.
A Hallowe’en Party
There’s going to be a Hallowe
’en party at the Country Club
tomorrow (Saturday) evening
beginning at IU2B o’clock. Every -
body who comes is to wear a cos
tume. Thousands of dollars have
been spent upon the prizes,
which are on the way here in a
heavily armored car guarded by
carefully selected gunmen. Sir
Oliver Lodge and other well
known spirits are expected. The
hosts are Mr. and Mrs. Leavitt.
October woods before it vanish
es.
“When the present emotional
excitement subsides sufficiently
for the recent episode to be
viewed calmly in retrospect,
maybe the Chapel Hill commun
ity will begin to realize what
has been done, and why, and
who is responsible for it. May
be, too, the community will be
in avsomewhat more charitable
mood than it seems to be at pres
ent. .When we as a community
are in a better frame of mind,
and can consider our school sit
uation and the-educational wel
fare of our children calmly,
theft it will be early enough for
a full statement of the whole
affair and its bearing upon our
future school development to be
made. I’m not dodging your re
quest. The time simply is not
opportune for the community to
consider the whole affair in all
its relationships.
“As to the recent action with
regard to the personnel of the
school administration, the fact
is simply this: At last week’s
meeting of the school board Mr.
Mosher, in the interest of com
munity harmony, presented his
resignation, and it was accepted.
Mr. Munch is in charge of the
high school department, and
Miss Marks is in charge of the
elementary department, pending
the election of the superinten
dent.”
A representative of the chap
ter will be on hand to receive
contributions. Persons who are
unable to bring clothing to the
bank may have it called for at
their homes by telephoning 249-
blue.
The statement of the needs of
the flood victims'is based upon
a personal survey of the situa
tion by Herbert Hoover and Red
Cross officials. “The suffering
will be intense unless the needs
for clothing are speedily met;”
said Mr. Hoover in Washington
this week. “If there’s a lack of
warm garments the danger from
diseases caused or augmented by
exposure will be greatly in
creased. Many of the flood suf
ferers are still in quarters of a
temporary nature, and will need
a more abundant wardrobe than
they would need under normal
conditions.”
The proposal to make the art
study club a new department of
the Community Club will be
made at today’s meeting of the
larger organization. If the un
dertaking meets with favor an
arrangement will be made to
bring an exhibition of pictures
to Chapel Hill within the next
few months.
The chairman of the art study
club is Mrs. Mary Graves Rees,
the vice chairman Mrs. N. B.
Adams, and the secretary Mrs.
Metzenthin.
Engineers Plan Joint Meeting
Thorndike Saville, secretary
of the North Carolina Section of
the American Society of Civil
Engineers, received a visit Tues
day from W. Vance Baise, A. L.
Hooper, and Harry Tucker of
the 1 North Carolina Society of
Engineers. The purpose of thp
conference waa to arrange for a
joint meeting of the two organi
zations in January.
Tha number of women students In
the University has ’reached 126.
The School Affair •
Differences of opinion about th- j
conduct of the Chapel Hill school a- j
rose soon after the fall term opened. !
After these had flared into a dispute
they were quieted by a conference of j
a committee of citizens with the school j
board. Last week they flared up a- j
gain because some of the second-grade j
children who were supposed to attend I
only in the morning came home and i
informed their parents they had been i
told to return to school in the after
noon. What' had happened was that
these children had somehow taken [
for themselves a rerpark the teacher, j
; Miss Pleasants, had addressed to the |
| regular afternoon attendants. Un
j der the optional arrangement, a
greed upon four or five weeks ago,
the children attending in the after
noon went home, tor the midday re
cess, 30' or 40 minutes earlier than
j the rest of the class and thereby
| missed certain required work in read
j ing. Miss Pleasants told them she
would give them this -reading lesson
in the afternoon so that they could
keep up with the required program
of instruction; and somehow the sin
gle-sessioners got it into their heads
that they too were expected to ruturn
| for reading drill in the afternoon.
| This caused a great stir in the homes
of the group of parents unfriendly
to the double session, and they thought
that perhaps the school administration
had reversed the compromise optional
arrangement. Whereupon some of
them began to protest vigorously.
Superintendent Mosher hadn’t given
any order for a change of schedule;
jitiul nobody was more surprised than
Miss Pleasants when she heard that
her morning-only children had sup
posed they were expected to return
after the midday meal. Such a mis
understanding by very young chil
dren is not particularly surprising,
and nobody hearing the explanation
blamed the teacher; but she was dis
turbed, naturally enough, at being
put in the light of having given an
order in defiance of the agreed-upon
program.
* * #
Among the criticisms heard along
the street, from some of the protest
ing parents, was one in which 1 could
not see, and still fail to see, any good
sense. This was to the effect that
it was not proper policy for the school
to have unsalaried teachers—that is,
teachers receiving no compensation
for their services to the children of
the community. Why not? I see no
more reason for not accepting the
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Tariff Study Balked
Costigan Tells llow Scientific Treat
ment of Problem Was Thwarted
In his talk here Tuesday evening,
at the Conference on Living Costs,
Edward B. Costigan, member of the
United States Tariff Commission,
told how the purpose for which the
body had been created—the expert
and equitable treatment of the tariff,
problem had beep thwarted by the
prostitution of the commission to
private interests. After the enact
ment of the flexible tariff law by the
Harding administration, he said, the
character of the appointments to the
commission had been such that it
could not carry through such reduc
tions in duties as were justified by
the facts about the cost production
here and abroad.
Mr. Costigan did not hesitate to
place responsibility for the thwarting
.of scientific tariff regulation upon the
present and preceding Republican ad
ministrations. He told, for example,
how an appeal to President Coolidge
had failed to prevent a commissioner
financially interested in a sugar plan
tation from voting upon a question
of a reduction in the sugar duty, and
how an act of copgress had been
necessary to disqualify the man from
voting upon this question.
Among the other speakers at the
conference were Miss Gertrude Weil,
E. J. Woodhouse, Mrs. Chase Going
Woodhouse, Miss Ethel T. Parker,
and B. P, Brown..
Labor Chief to ftpeak Here
T. A. Wilson of Winston-Salem,
president of the State Federation of
Labor, will deliver an address in room
112, Saunders Hall, at 7:30 next
Thursday evening, November 3, under
the auspices of the school of com
merce. His topic is “Industrial North
Carolina and the Wage Earner.” The
public is invited.
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321 More Students
There are 82? more students in the
University than at this time last year.
The total is 2,682.
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NEW TELEPHONE
SYSTEM IS NOW
BEING INSTALLED
It is Expected That Operation
On Dial Wan Will Begin
About December 3.
WIRES LAID UNDERGROUND
The automatic telephone sys
tem is now in process of installa
tion. An expert with three as
sistants is busy putting the in
tricate mechanism in the new
fireproof building on Rosemary
lane near Henderson street; and
Mr. Rush expects to have the
dial telephones in operation by
December 3.
The wires, that traverse the,,
university campus are being
placed underground, and there
will be no telephone wires on the
main street between Boundary
and Church streets.
The automatic dial system
will obviate the necessity of a
central, although long-distance
and information operators will
still be retained. A subscriber,-
by turning a dial on his instru
ment to four successive digits,
will set into operation electro
magnets which will automati
cally select and ring the number'
he desires; and he will have no
body to blame but himself if he
gets the wrong number. With
the increased facilities it will
have in its new home, the 5- tele
phone management will be pre
pared to discontinue party lines
and to furnish direct telephone
lines to all of its subscribers.
The Automatic Electric Com
pany of Chicago is the manufac
turer of the automatic equip
ment. Its representative here,
S. S. McAndrew, and his three ?
assistants are cosmopolites as
well as telephone engineers.
McAndrew and Fortney have
recently returned from London,
where they helped install an
automatic telephone system;
King has been in Buenos Aires
doing the same thing; and Intas
served as a telephonic mission
ary to the poor benighted heath
en in the Orient.—J. H. C.
New Insurance Agency
Messrs. Cobb and Scott Associated in
Concern to Open Nov. 1
v
The Service Insurance Agency, of
which Collier Cobb, Jr., is president
and W. deR. Scott is secretary and
treasurer, will open an office next
. Tuesday, November J, in the Macßae
building, for the writing of fire and
liability insurance. It will take part
of the space, directly across from the
post-office, recently occupied by the
Oriental Tea Shop. Mr. Scott, an
alumnus of the University, of the class
of ID2B, will be in active charge of
the office. He is now a resident of
Graham, where he has been in the
insurance business several years.
Fisher Wins Cake Race
J. V. Fisher, the owner of the rid
ing horses brought here from the
mountains, won the University stu
dents’ cross-country cake race Tues
day. Women of the village contri
buted 100 cakes as prizes for the
first 100 runners coming to the finish.
A. B. Andrews Acting President
Not being in good health at preseht,
Alfred M. Seales has asked X. B. An
drews, vice-president, to serve in his
place-as. president of the Alumni As
sociation.
Special Train to State Game
A special train, to take University
students to the Carolina-State game
tomorrow, will leave here at 8:30 A.
M. and, returning, will leave Raleigh
at 11:68 P. M.
Community Club Meeta Today
The Community Club will meet this
(Friday) afternoon’ «t 3:30 fn the
Methodist church. Mrs. Clarence
Chamblee will address the gathering.