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Vol. 5. No. DIAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM DELAYED A LITTLE WHILE While Bennett Collects Data About Kinds of Service Subscribers Want RATE QUESTION STUDIED Despite heroic efforts to get the automatic telephones into use on the date first announced for the opening, December- 3, Chapel Hill will have to wait a week or two longer for the opera tion of the new system. The installation is about done, and, if it were only a question of the physical connections, there would be no delay. But the company has not been able to get complete information from subscribers,about the character of service desired, and the State Corporation Commission has not determined upon the increase in rates in time for advance infor mation to be given to the pub lic. J. S. Bennett sent out reply postcards Saturday asking each subscriber what kind of tele phone was wanted: private or party line, desk or wall type of instrument. The answers are coming in rapidly and Mr. Ben nett expects to know within a day or two just what kind of in stallation to make in every home, office, and place of business. The determination qf the in crease in rates involves many complicated questions. One fac tor entering into the problem is the amount of the new invest ment ; another is the cost of op eration ; another is the increase in gross revenue that may be reasonably anticipated from the steady augmentation in the num ber of subscribers. Operation of the automatic telephones is impossible until a directory is available, and the directory cannot be printed, of course, until The company pre pares a complete list of subscrib ers and assigns them their num bers. if anybody doesn’t know the number of the person he wants to call, he can ask cem tral; but in order to work the 'dial, under the automatic plan, he has got to know the number. The new central office build ing on Rosemary lane, behind the Presbyterian church, is fin ished and the intricate electrical mechanism is ready to buzz. Tar Heel’s Big Issue 5,000 Copies of 16-I’age Paper Pul Out by the Students The Thanksgiving Day num ber of the Tar Heel, the Univer sity of North Carolina students' newspaper, devoted to the foot ball game and the new Kenan stadium, was the largest issue of a newspaper ever put out here. It contained 16 pages, in cluding a 4-page illustrated rota gravure section, and 5,000 copies were printed. Judd Ashby, Jo Bobbitt, and W. W. Neal were the directors of the project. The illustrated section was printed in Raleigh, the other 12 pages in the Orange Printshop here. Turning out the augments ed Tar Heel besides the Chapel Hill Weekly, the printshop was a scene of feverish activity this —' Alumni Hold Assembly An assembly of alumni of the University of North Carolina was held at the Carolina Inn Wednesday. It was attended by officers of many of the'classes and of local associations. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff Mrs. Mary Phillips Verner of Columbia, South Carolina, lived in Chapel Hill half a century ago - when her father, Charles Phillips, was a professor in the University. “The article in last week’s issue about trees,” she writes, “reminds me of a story my mother told me of an order that went forth, from some where, that the trees on .the main street were to be cut down or be closely trimmed. When the executioners reached the elms in front of our house—now the Presbyterian Manse, I think, —and the Mallett family lived opposite where Mr. Howell now lives —Mrs. Mallett and my mother went out and positively forbade the cutting of their beautiful trees, and so the men left their jobs unfinished. Next week the Hillsboro Recorder re ported that the cutting of the trees in Chapel Hill had been ‘stopped by two irate females who drove the workmen off.’ At any rate, they saved the trees. I am thankful many men and women of this generation have the same feeling about the trees in Chapel Hill.” * * * When Archibald Henderson was in Nashville a few days ago to lecture on Bernard Shaw he was interviewed about relativity by T. H. Alexander, the column ist of the Tennessean. Mr. Hen derson has been described as one of the few men who understand the Einstein theory. “For an hour Dr. Henderson talked fas cinatingly of the Einstein the ory,” writes Mr. Alexander, “which, he says, is really a the ory of co-relativity.” So now all is perfectly clear. Planting the Stadium Speed with Which the Job is Done Appears Almost Magic In and around the Kenan sta dium during the ten-day interval between the Davidson and Vir ginia games, engineering and ar chitecture gave way to botany. At almost any hour of the day W. C. Coker, the community’s master outdoor floral decorator, would be seen strolling across the field, or along the top of the stands, with his eye upon the activities of scores of workmen who laid strips of turf over bare stretches, dug pits and ditches, and set out trees and shrubs. The hillside slopes at the ends of the concrete stands were turfed, and dotted with dog woods and pines. Rows of cedars were planted along the high wire fences, at both ends of the great enclosure. Against the field house appeared dark ever greens, forming a fine color har mony with the stucco walls and the red-tile roof. Giant and box privet was set up to serve as borders for the gravel paths. Day after day trucks' brought in the turf, shrubs, and trees from the surrounding country. The speed with which the plant ing was done seemed almost magical. Crowd Greets IMaymakers A letter from Hubert Heffner tells that the Morningside Play house in New York, where the Carolina Playmakers appeared last week, was packed to the doors at all three perfomAncea. Road from South Opened The last completed section of the new paved road from the south, coming into Chapel Hill from Pittsboro was opened In time for the heavy travel to the Virgmia-Carolina football game. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1927 HILL PURCHASE IS PROTECTION • TO UNIVERSITY At Auction Sale Trustee Buys Block of Four Stores Ad joining the Campus ’OTHER PROPERTIES SOLD e At the auction sale held by the | receivers of the Chapel Hill In jsurance and Realty Company Tuesday, John Sprunt Hill bought for $63,650 the block of four main street stores abutting on the Methodist churchyard and the campus. As far as the record goes he was bidding sim ply as an individual, but actually the purchase was made as a measure of protection to the Uni versity, It is possible that some day the University may be in a posi tion to acquire this land. Mr. Hill, a trustee and a member of the trustees’ building commit tee, wants the property to re- I main, in the meantime, in proper | hands. About ten years ago the real ty company bought this block of stores for $22,000. At Tuesday’s sale the Peo ples Bank building went to Lueco Lloyd for $23,000 and the Chap el Hill Hardware store to L. P, McLendon for $22,500. A. H. London of Pittsboro appeared for awhile to be the highest bid der on the house occupied by Mrs. M. W. Daniel, but later W, E. Thompson of Efland took precedence with an offer of $7,- 300, the conditions of the sala providing that the receivers might take a raised bid at any time. Os the three lots between the Daniel home and the main street, each with a frontage of 25 feet, Moody Durham bought two for $12,000, or at the rate of $240 a foot, and the third (western (Conlinued on page four ) Legion Chief Here Edward E. Spafford Comes over from Raleigh with General Cox Edward E. Spafford, national commander of the American legion, was in Chapel Hill for about an hour Tuesday after noon. He had come to Raleigh on his way back to New York from a tour of the South, and General Albert Cox brought him over here from the capital. Post Commander J. O. Har mon, Robert B. House, Addison Hibbard, A. H. Patterson, John M. Booker and others met him at the South building. Thence he was taken through the cam pus, to the Kenan stadium, and to the Country Club. Mr. Har mon introduced General Cox and General Cox introduced the guest, both with admirable brev ity, and then Mr. Spafford made a talk of about ten minutes. He laid particular emphasis upon the obligation of the Legion to disabled veterans and their fam ilies. What he said and his man ner of address made a deep im pression upon the gathering. A barbecue was served under the direction of Chapel Hill’s prince royal in the art of bar becuing, Charles E. Gooch. Mr. Chase Lands December 9 President Chase’s plan to get to Chapel Hill for Christmas has been changed. He will sail from France December 7, and arrive at New Orleans December 29. Mrs. Pratt Operated op Mrs. J. H. Pratt underwent an operation in Watts Hospital, Durham, this week. CAROLINA 14, VIRGINIA 13 New Street Lights Lamps, Mounted on Posts, Borrowed by the Town from the University Ten new lights, mounted on posts spaced 100 feet apart, have been installed on the north side of the main street between the post office and the comer of Co lumbia street. They were bor rowed from the University and are identical with those on the campus. The octagon-shaped lamp-frames rest upon slender, | fluted columns. of the frames contains one 250-watt electric bulb. 1 The sidewalk on the north side of the street is being paved from curb to building line; so the | lamp posts were set up at this time in order to prevent the ne l cessity of tearing up the con i crete later on. Mr. Knox, the j town manager, says he hopes to have lights on the south side some time soon. Heretofore the street has been I illuminated by lights swung over the middle of the roadway. The use of these center lights will be continued until both sides have the new lamps. Fine Exhibit in Raleigh Picture* to be Displayed in Sir Wal ter Hotel, Dec. 1 to 10 The faculty and students of the University and other people in Chapel Hill are invited to at tend the art exhibit in Raleigh during the first ten days of De cember. In order to make at tendance as easy as possible, the Community Club is arranging for automobile transportation, All who are able to give rides, and all who want rides, are ask ed to communicate with Mrs. Metzenthin. Chapel Hill’s spe cial day will be designated at the club meeting on Friday of next week. For the hanging of the pic tures a wall has been construct ed in the dining room of the Sir Walter hotel. The pictures come from the Grand Central galler ies in New York. They repre sent the work of America’s most famous artists and are valued at $300,000. A gift of SSOO from Mrs. Pe ter Arrington of Warrenton made the exhibit possible. The other half of the required amount of SI,OOO is to be pro vided by patrons and patron esses who are sufficiently inter ested in the cause of art to con tribute $lO each. S- Monk Buys Ford, Comes to Game Monk McDonald, formed Car olina quarterback, and three fel low medical students bought a Ford car for $45 in Philadelphia Tuesday morning and rattled southward at a high speed for the Virginia-Carolina game, ar riving here Wednesday night. Carolina Wins Cross Country The University of North Car olina won the Southern Confer ence cross country race in Chap el Hill last Saturday. Galen El liott and three of his team-mates were the first four to cross the finish line. Country Club Festivities The Country Club had a dance Wednesday evening, with Mrß. Linker and Mrs. John Couch as hostesses. There was a turkey supper Thursday evening. The Bennetts Have a Daughter A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bennett in Watts Hospital last week. She is nam ed Katherine Collins. Tar Heels, Continuing Their Late-Season Come- Back, Conquer the Foe from Charlottesville By the Narrow Margin of One Point o The University of North Carolina won the annual Thanks giving Day football game from the University of Virginia, in the new Kenan stadium, 14 to 13. The victors were in the lead throughout most of the game, but in the last few minutes of play Virginia, by brilliant forward-passing and runs around the end, scored two touchdowns. * Carolina won its 14th and final point by a Virginia line man’s getting offside in the scrimmage immediately following the second touchdown. To this, or to the failure of Captain Cardwell to kick goal after Virginia’s touchdown, may be attributed the precious one-point margin. Carolina’s first touchdown came through a long forward pass from Ward to .Sapp in the‘first quarter. The ball was snapped from Schwartz to Young. He transferred it to Ward, and Ward hurled it in a long sweeping curve to the northwest corner of the field, where Sapp snatched it from the air and raced over the line. Which, of course, drove the crowd wild with joy. In thfe third quarter, after Ward had run a punt back yards, he threw a pass to Young. It looked for a moment as if it were going over the fleet halfback’s head, but he made a long reach upward, caught the ball, and went on over for Carolina’s second touchdown. From then on until after the middle of the last quarter, Carolina \yas easily superior. Hundreds of people began drifting out of the field, thinking it was all over. Then Virginia made a sensational come-back. With less that 10 minutes to play, Turner of Virginia caught a pass from Close and before he was down he had netted a gain of 33 yards and the ball was on Carolina’s 28-yard line. A long end run, after a feint at passing, brought the ball within 4 yards of the goal. On the second play Hutter went over with it. Soon after the next kick-off Schwartz intercepted a Virginia pass, and now, with not more than three or four minutes left, it seemed certain that the Tar Heels were well out of danger. Gresham made a brilliant run of 20 yards and transferred the play to Virginia territory. But presently the ball went over on downs. Then, after one Virginia pass had been knocked down, another from Close to Turner brought a gain of 46 yards. Vir ginia was moved back from Carolina’s 3- to 8-yard line on a penalty. There Close made a feint at passing, and then dashed around Carolina’s right end for a tyuchdown. This time the goal was kicked—but the whistle blew and Virginia had lost the game. As a spectacle and as sport, the«j contest could not have been better. The weather was mild and fair. The stands were filled, and four thous and onlookers standing behind the rear parapet and sitting on the slopes at the ends of the stands, brought the total attendance to 28,000. Four bands marched and played, one after the other: those of the two univer sities, the high school band from Lenoir, and the stalwart buglers and drummers of the Charlotte Drum Corps with their scarlet coats, white breeches, and glistening steel helmets and black boots. The Cheerios went through evolutions on the field before the match and between the halves. In their -white uniforms against the green turf, they spelled KENAN, and afterward U. VA. and IJ. N. C., amid cheers from the throng. Before the play began there were dedication exercises, in which the sta dium was presented on behalf of Wil liam R. Kenan, Jr., and accepted for the State and the University by Gov ernor, McLean. Most of the crowd British:American Meet Britons and North Carolinians Discuss the Question of Pacifism Two Britons and one North Carolinian took the affirmative, and two North Cardlinians and one Briton the negative, of the query, “Resolved, that the only effective attitude toward war is an uncompromising pacifism,’’ in a debate in Memorial Hall Tues day evening. The visitors rep resented the universities of Edinburgh, Reading, and Lon don. A vote of the audience on the question was taken before and after the debate. The first vote stood 180 to 106 against uncom promising pacifism, and the sec ond 128 to 95. There were sev eral hundred persons in the hall who did not vote one way or the other. The Scot who joined with the two University of North Caro lina debaters in opposing a peace-at-any-price attitude con>- plimented R. B. House, the chairman of the meeting, for in troducing Hie visitors as Britons and not as Englishmen. , $1.58 a Year in Advance. se. a Copy had to take this ceremony on faith, since the speakers’ voices could be heard by only the relatively few spec tators who were in hearing distance of the guest box. Persons in the south stand who were equipped with field glasses aimed them across the field and informed their neighbors that this or that celebrity was speak ing. In view of the record of the two teams, the outcome can hardly be con sidered other than satisfactory to Tar Heel supporters, for Virginia had had a succession of victories (except in the Tennessee game, in which it enter ed a team made up mostly of sub stitutes), while Carolina had had a disastrous season until it started its come-back with the Davidson match. But the fact that Carolina gained, and held through most of the game, such a long lead over Virginia, left the crowd rather disappointed, at the end, with the result. When Carolina has "had time to think it over, however, and recall what a slim chance it was thought to have three weeks ago, it will decide it came out of the fray very well. In the fundamentals of the game, —getting down under kicks, breaking through the line when on defense, breaking up interference, and tackling in the field, —the Carolina players ex celled their opponents during most of the contest. Taking the game as a whole, their victory was deserved. But Virginians showed a courage and re sourcefulness which won them the ad miration of all beholders. They never shewed the least sign of discourage ment, and at the end were going stronger than ever before. As the spectators poured out of the gates, many of them were heard to say that the sending in of a substi tute Carolina backfield toward the end of the last quarter was respon sible for Virginia's touchdowns. But that is mere guessing. Virginia made its touchdowns by brilliant playing. Carolina was effective in two branches of the game in which it had been weak during the season: punting, and -kicking goal after touchdown. Most of FerreH’s and Ward’s punts had good distance. Young came up to expectations in being a great ground-gainer, and was ably seconded by Ward, Foard and Gresham. Farris played a remarkably fins game at guard. Furehes, at quar ter during most of the match, ran his plays with good judgment. Schwartz and Fresson did fins work op the de fensive. . r'l • e e : 'L'.'t
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