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Vol. 6. No. 46 PRESIDENT CHASE REVIEWS DECADE In His Annual Report He Sur veys University’s Develop ment since 1918 STATES IMPORTANT NEEDS In his annual report submit ted to the trustees this week President Chase reviews the course of University affairs in the ten years since the World War. This decade, he says, has >een tfie University’s greatest expansion. From 1916-1917 to 1927-1928 the enrollment of students mounted from 1,028 to 2,825. The Summer School’s enrollment of 1917 was 275, in a single term; in 1928 there were two terms, with 1,752 en rolled for the first and 604 for the second. Ten years ago there were 66 faculty members above the grade of instructor; now there are 158. Since 1920 there have been added to the physical plant 8 dormitories for men and 1 for women, 2 classroom buildings, a law building, a chemistry build ing, a power house, a laundry, and a stadium. A library and j another classroom building are I under construction. Some of the old buildings have been ex tended, and others almost com pletely made over. The Uni versity put up, within the period, 20 residences for its faculty and administrative of ficers. Three new schools have been added: commerce, public wel-. fare, and engineering. The law school, the education school, and (Continued on hint j tage) Cabaret February 9 Country Club Is Preparing to Put on a Cay Party The Country Club’s cabaret party, which was about to take . place in December and had to be called off because of the influ enza epidemic, will he held at 7 o'clock Saturday evening, Feb ruary 9. No changes of importance have been made in the plans. There will *be a supper, served by the women of the Methodist church, and a program of bur lesques, songs, dances, imita tions, tricks, and magic. Mem bers of the Red-lleaded Club will be the waiters. Mendenhall’s orchestra will play from 7 to 11 o’clock; after the vaudeville the tables will be removed and there will be general dancing, Mrs. S. H. Hobbs and Mrs. H. D. Meyer are arranging the dec orations. Mr, Meyer is the gen eral chairman for the whole af fair. The old reservations are can celed, and new reservations must be made with Mrs. J. C. Lyons by Wednesday the 6th. The tickets cost $1 each. The num ber is limited, and they are is sued in order of application. This cabaret party is an event which other than club members may attend. In the issuance of tickets it is first come, first served. Bishop Darst Coming The Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Darst, Bishop of East Carolina, will be in Chapel Hill from Thursday, January 31, to Saturday, Febru ary 2. Friday evening there will _be a sendee at.. t_he Episcopal church, at which the Bishop will preach. The Rev. C. Leslie Glenn, student secretary, and the Rev. A. C. Zabriskie of the Virginia Seminary will also be here. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff I have commented before on striking likenesses. A. H. Koonce looks like Calvin Cool idge. G. Y. C. Buice looks like A1 Smith. Two or three times a week the photograph of Mr. Gillette on a packet of safety razor blades reminds me of Ed win A. Alderman. A year or so ago, when R. R. Clark of States ville and the Greensboro News, visited my office I led him to a picture of Rudyard Kipling which I had clipped from a mag azine and tacked on the wall, and bade him behold himself. It happens that I have just come across another Kipling picture, a drawing in the New York Times, and this one is more like Mr. Clark than the first. If I had the cut I would publish the drawing in the paper this week, when the newspaper men are gathered here, with the caption, “Veteran Editor Attending Press Institute.” • * * Absolutely the last bit of news before rushing uptown to get the paper on the press. As I sit at my typewriter by the window of an upstairs bedroom I look down and see Archibald Henderson passing along the lane. He has on a dark over coat, and he has books under his arm, and his face is deeply solemn. The day is cloudy, and Mr.- Henderson’s appearance would be sombre indeed—but for one circumstance. He holds in his left hand a tiny cream colored bloom. He seems to study it thoughtfully as he walks along. I am about to shove up the sash and shout a greeting to him, but there is something so fixed, so concentrated, in his contemplation of the bloom that it makes me say to myself: “I won’t call him—God knows what thought I would he inter rupting.” So I let him go his way ungreeted. ♦ * * —Many specimens of fine sta tionery have to me come from one place or another, but 1 have (Continued on hint page) Major Cain’s Portrait Will Be I’renented to KneineerinK School Monday Keening Major William Cain will pre sent his portrait to the Univer sity's school of engineering at 8 o’clock Monday evening in the auditorium of Phillips hall. It was recently painted by William Steen. When they heard a few weeks ago that the Major was sitting for his portrait, mem bers of the faculty expressed the desire that it become a per manent possession of the Uni versity; and his consent led to the plan for Monday evening’s gathering. Friends of the Major are cordially invited. G. M, Braune, dean of the school of engineering, will open the meetinge-with a few words and will draw the veil from the portrait. Some one of Major Cain’s old pupils who is on the engineering faculty will accept it on behalf of the University. Thompson Buys A. T. O. House The old A. T. O. house, which was partly burned and then moved to the back of the fra ternity’s lot at Franklin street and Pickard lane, has been bought, together with the land it stands on, by Brodie S. Thomp son. His lot has a frontage of 70 feet on Pickard lane and a depth of 140 feet He is recon structing the house and it will probably be used either as a residence or a fraternity house. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1929 Books Conveyed by Machinery In University’s New Library The University has contract ed for the installation, in its new library, of a mechanism - a series of metal baskets on an endless chain-conveyor - which will bring books from the stacks to the delivery desk. This will replace the present primitive run-and-get-it plan under which a self-help student assistant foots it from the desk back to the stack-room and fetches forth the desired volume. Any one who has asked for a book in the New York Public Library or other great mod ern library will recall his. ad miration of the mechanical de livery system. You handed in a slip to the man at the desk; he placed it in a little box; and presently the little box was shooting through a tube to an other floor - up or down, you didn’t know which. And in a minute or so the desk man slid back a panel in the wall, took your book off a sort of dumb waiter and handed it to you. The thing was done so smoothly, so silently, so rapidly, that it seemed like magic. The same function will be performed by the machinery in University library, but the ma chinery itself will be different. Imagine a chain like that of a bicycle, passing around two sprocket wheels. One sprocket wheel is in a pit below the base ment level; the other is about The Press Convention Is Now in. Full Swing Newspaper men—owners, ed itors, reporters, and advertising and circulation officials—are gathered here from all over the state for the fifth annual news paper institute of the North Carolina Press Association. The early comers listened Wednes day evening to Congressman Al bert Johnson, owner of a daily paper in Hoquiam, Washington. More came in Thursday morn ing in time for the first business session, and the peak of attend ance was reached at the barbe cue at the Country Club last night. The final session comes this (Friday) morning. John B. Harris of the Albemarle Press will talk on “Cultivation of the Circulation Field;" H. G. Con nor on "The North Carolina Press and Its Public Relation ship;” and J. Roy Parker of the Hertford County Herald on “Special Editions and Tie-Ups.” The association officers and O. J. Coffin and Morgan F. Vin ing arranged a program, and a good one too, hut, as at almost all conventions, the so-called program is only a pretext for Appropriations for the University in 10 Years ' o In his annual report President Chase presents the following table showing the state’s appropriations for the University in the last ten years. Year Improvement 1919- $ 217,083.26 1920- 349,166.61 1921- 465,416.65 $1,490,000.00 1922- 480,000.00 1923- , 650,000.00 1,650,000.00 1924- 726,000.00 1925- 712,600.00 800,000.00 1926- 800,000.00 1927- 850,000.00 1,220,000.00 1928- 880,000.00 Total $6,189,166.52 $5,160,000.00 Legion Supper Tonight Dinner Dance at Club The American Union and Ha * dl " Mr d, ”“ I ** " ven Auxiliary will have a joint .up- C “>> tomorrow per this (Friday) eveninf at the (Saturday) evening. Episcopal parish house. r/U Chapel HUI Weekly, ft.so a year. 70 feet higher, above the top most (ninth) floor of the stacks which form the rear section of the library building. At inter vals of 8 feet along the chain are attached fixtures for which the best name seems to be bas kets. Perhaps they might just as accurately be called boxes. But the name doesn’t matter; anyway, they carry the books. This chain conveyor is put to a more elegant use, but in sub stance in the principle of its operation it is the same as a chain conveyor in a rock-crush er or a concrete-mixer. Now let us suppose that Wil liam Wordsworth Smith, a pro fessor in the University, goes to the desk and hands in a slip on which he has written 476.1- T 47. The desk man puts the slip into a cylindrical box some thing like a dice-box. This is stuck into a brass tube and falls of its own weight to, say, the second floor level of the stacks. The man stationed there is in formed by the tinkling of a bell that his services are wanted; he extracts the slip from the box and goes back into the stacks and gets the book bearing the same symbols as those on the piece of paper: 476.1-T47. A few moments later he re turns with the book to the shaft through which runs the chain conveyor, lie places the book (Continued on last page) the really important purpose of the gathering—-which is to give the newspaper men a chance to get away from the daily grind and have an agreeable time loaf ing about the hotel lobby and the campus and swapping aim less and pleasant conversation with one another. —Z. V. ItooTie of tlit- Mergen thaler Linotype Company, and representatives of other »«iuip ment and supply companies to which nearly all newspaper owners owe money, are attend ing the convention. But they are behaving amiably and are not threatening to cloud the celebration by foreclosing on anybody. On the program yesterday were Wade Phillips (conserva tion in North Carolina); W. E. Page (newspaper consolida tion) ; Cleveland Baber of the Asheville Citizen (mechanics and typography); George O. Leonard of the Campbell-Ewald Company "* (agency relation ship) ; and D. Hiden Ramsay of the Asheville Times (business management). Takes Lloyd for Turkey Oscar Craig Puts Some Birdshot into Former Sheriff Oscar Craig, assistant post master here, took ex-Sheriff I j . B. Lloyd for a wild turkey one day last week and put about two dozen No. 2 shot into him at a distance of 41 paces. The two men were engaged in hunting in the woods on Bald win mountain between here and Hillsboro. Neither knew the other was anywhere around. For a while they both sat quiescent, waiting for turkeys to come. At last Mr. Lloyd, growing im patient, arose and started to walk across the mountain. He made a rustling in the under growth. Mr. Craig heard the rustling, saw the bushes move, and fired. A cry of anguish from Mr. Lloyd told him his victim was human. Many a time, when he was sheriff, Mr. Lloyd went out into the woods, full-armed, in chase of moonshiners. Mr. Craig un wittingly served as the moon shiners’ avenger. Puppeteers Tomorrow Mr v Burnett Is Coming Here With His Marionettes The Yale Puppeteers, gradu ates of the Yale theatre directed by George Pierce Baker, will give their marionette show in the Playmakers Theatre twice tomorrow (Saturday), at 3 in the afternoon and at 8:-30 in the evening. Harry Burnett, who began his work with puppets at the Uni versity of Michigan, is director of the troupe, and he is assisted by Forman Brown. The young men, with their puppets and their stage, go about the country in a Ford car. They have had remarkable success with their performances in New England the West; they are now in the South for the first time. Part of the program is the “Puppet Revue,” which permits the introduction of a great va riety of figures with the inter spersing of musical numbers. Ideas collected on a pilgrimage to study puppetry in Italy have contributed to the perfection of Mr. Burnett’s show. Tickets, priced at 50 and 75 cents, are on sale at Sutton’s drugstore. Organ Recital Sunday It Will Be (Oven in the Afternoon in the Kpiaeopal Church Nelson O. Kennedy will give an organ recital at 7 o’clock Sunday evening at the Episco pal church. The program is: Largo Handel Cantilena McKinley Sonata No. 5 Guilmant Allegro Appassinato Adagio Scherzo Reeitativo Choral and Fugue The Infant Jesus Yon Vorspiel to Lohengrin Wagnef Fire Magic Wagner Two New Homes Miss Cornelia Love is to build a home on a hill overlooking the Country Club golf links, and William Steen is to build a home on a lot at the bend of Glenburnie road just to the east of the W. C. Coker place. Mr. Barber of Goldston has the con tract for both houses and they will be put under way next week. Wigne and Masque in March The Wigue and Masque will present “Mum’s the Word,” by A1 Kahn, Monday and Tuesday, March 4 and 5. $1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy RENUMBERING OF HOUSES IS BEGUN Emissaries of Municipal Govern ment Tacking New Nume rals on Buildings JOB WILL BE DONE SOON Two men equipped with ham mers and tacks, a step-ladder, and a big box of metal numerals are now engaged in remember ing Chapel Hill’s houses. They work under the direction of a part-time member of the muni cipal engineering staff, and now and then the town manager him self, John Foushee, goes on a tour of inspection to make sure that the job is being properly done. The numbers are put on ac cording to a map which was pre pared by Mr. Foushee at the di rection of the board of aider men. It shows every block in the village divided into units, a number for each unit. There may be intervals between pres ent houses—for example, one may be numbered 120 and the next 128—but that is to allow for possible new' houses in be tween. Numbers were placed on the houses of the village three or four years ago when the post ofllce began the carrier system of mail delivery. But provi sion was not made for new building, and confusion resulted from the appearance of dupli cate numbers on the same street. This interfered seriously with the delivery of mail. Franklin street is treated as one axis and Columbia as the other. On the first block from each of these two central thoroughfares the numbers run between 100 and 200, on the sec ond from 200 to 300, and so on. For example, the stores on the main business block are num bered in the 100’s East Frank lin, those in the school block in the 100’s West Franklin. Deceptive Statistics RM«rd of Birth* in Chapel Hill I« I'lKrt'ifiously Misleading I have obtained from the health officer, Dr. 8. A. Nathan, a document entitled “Vital Statistics Report for the Town of Chapel Hill,” a record of births and deaths. Hesitant as I am to repeat the moth-eaten old saying a bout lies, damned lies, and sta tistics, I must do it here, be cause there was never a case to which the saying applied so well. For all the babies who are born in Durham, of Chapel Hill parents, are omitted from the report. So large a propor tion of Chapel Hill babies are born in Durham that the official record of births is meaningless. And as Chapel Hill’s birth score is falsely reduced, so, I sup pose, Durham’s is falsely aug mented by reason of the cir cumstance that hundreds of in fants whose homes are outside of Durham first see the light in Watts Hospital. The report says: white births, 27', colored t/irths, 25; total births, 52; white deaths, 9; col ored deaths, 14; total deaths, 23. Four deaths are recorded as having been caused by influen za, more than by any other one disease. Club’s Annual Meeting The Country Club will have ita annual business meeting next Thursday evening, January 31. It will begin at 6:30 with a sup per for the members. There is no fee for the supper.
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