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VoJL 10. No. 43 PRESS INSTITUTE TO CONVENE HERE NEXT WEDNESDAY Karl Hiokel, W. W. Ball, and Louis Jaffe Are Visitors from out of the State GOVERNOR TO SPEAK ALSO Karl Bickel, general manager of the United Press; Louis Jaffe, editor of the Norfolk Virginian- Pilot; and W. W. Ball, editor of the Charleston News and Cour ier, will be the speakers from outside of North Carolina at the ninth annual Newspaper Insti tute here next week. With “1933 in the News” as his topic, Mr. Bickel will be on the program' at the Thursday morning ses sion at the Carolina Inn. Mr. Jaffe will talk at the dinner Thursday evening at Duke Uni versity and Mr. Ball at the Fri day morning session at the Inn. The Institute will open with a meeting at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening. After a welcome by President Graham and a re sponse by John A. Park, presi dent of tin* North Carolina Press Association, Governor Ehring haus will deliver an address on “Looking Ahead in North Caro lina.” There will be music by I«imar Stringfield and his or chestra. Problems of newspaper pub lishers and editors will be dis cussed at group meetings Thurs day afternoon. R. E. Price of Rutherfordton will preside over the weekly group, and Hiden Ramsey of Asheville over the daily group. The whole company will go over to Duke University Thurs day afternoon and will attend an organ recital in the new chapel. This will be followed by a dinner at the Union with President Few as toastmaster. Mr. Jaffe and Mr. Hickman, head of the Duke school of religion, will speak. The Duke orchestra will play, and the Glee Club will sing. At some time during the evening there will be a program of bell tunes from the carillon tower. Mr. Ball’s talk on “Candles in Our Windows” will be the fea ture of the final session Friday morning. Found in Palestine William F. Albright Will lalh To morrow about His Excavations William F. Albright, director of the American School of Ori ental Research in Jerusalem and head of the Oriental Seminary at Johns Hopkins, will give a lecture on Palestinian archae ology in the Hill music hall at 8:30 tomorrow (Saturday) eve ning. It will be illustrated with lantern slides. Mr. Albright has spent ten years directing excavations in Palestine. His work at Beth Zur, ’Ain Shems, and Tell Beit Mirsim has resulted in impor tant contributions to the knowl edge of the Bronze and Iron ages. His researches at Tell Beit Mirsim, the site of Kiriath-Se pher mentioned in the 15th chap ter of the Book of Joshua, will be the basis for his lecture here. This town was occupied and de stroyed at least ten times, from a period as far back as the Bronze Age, about 2,300 B.C. Dye and wine factories, house hold utensils, children’s toys, and women’s compact boxes are among the objects which the ex cavator has uncovered in the an cient southern city. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff Archibald Henderson brought me a section of delicious venison steak after his deer hunt a few i weeks ago in the eastern North 1 Carolina swamplands. | Mr. Henderson needs more | leisure for deer-hunting and, (since I hope to remain in his good graces. I pray that he will !got a lot of money from hD (Shaw collection to be put on sale in New York Monday. My re commendation is "that the first remittance of cash be used tor ammunition. ♦ * * There is a convention that the smoking of pii>es is not quite the proper thing in a social gather ing where women art* present. Like many another convention, it is weakening in these days, but it still lingers on. 1 recall reading two or three years ago that Ambassador Charles G. Dawes caused something of a sensation by pulling his famous underslung pipe from his pocket and lighting up at a formal par ty in London. I When the supper came to an end at the Bullitts’ Tuesday eve ning 1 eyed Dr. Bullitt carefully !to see if he would produce his 1 pipe. Getting no encouragement 'from him, I wandered into the 'study at the rear and there to Imy great delight found Rev. Al i fred S. Lawrence puifini%at his ■little black brier. This ecclesias tical authority was all 1 needed, 'and at once I joined him in clouding the atmosphere with billows of smoke. Presently I spied Dr. Bullitt engaged in the same pastime; he had not been I obeying a convention, after all I —he had merely been a little less (Continued on last, page) Dr. Abernethy Resigns I Quits Post as University Physician and Will Engage in Practice . I I)r. Eric A. Abernethy has re -signed as University physician. (Since he returned from the World War, in which he was wounded, he has been in poor health and has undergone sev eral operations. With his son, Dr. William B. Abernethy, he will engage in private practice in Chapel Hill. Dr. Abernethy was a student here in the class of 1899 and won 'his degree at the Columbia Uni versity medical school. He left his practice in Chapel Hill in May, 1917, and entered the Unit ed States Army medical corps as a first lieutenant. Promotions 'elevated him to the rank of lieu tenant colonel. He was-wound ed in Belgium in July, 1918. The next month he was placed in command of the sanitary train of the 78th division and went through hard service at the front in the St. Mihiel arid iMeuse-Argonne campaigns. Up on his return home he was ap pointed University physician. Not only his competence in his profession but his friendliness and attractive personality have 'endeared him to the people of Chapel Hill. President Graham has an nounced that Dr. Foy Roberson of Durham will be, temporarily, director of the Infirmary. Dr. ! Isaac H. Manning, Dr. Charles IS. Mangum, and Dr. William jdeß. MacNider will serve as an infirmary committee and will recommend a successor to Dr. Abernethy. Lanes Have a New Daughter A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lane Saturday. She is named Rena Jaequelin. CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933 Too Much Legalism in Virginia On strictly technical grounds the Virginia Director of Motor Vehicles, T. McCall Frazier, has a good answer to the complaints of North Carolina motorists against being held up on New Year’s Day because their cars did not bear the new 1933 license tags. He says that the North Carolina authorities had not given him any notice that “days of grace” were allowed for the affixing of new tags after De cember 31 and that his high way policemen were following the usual custom in holding up cars with the old year’s tag. But this, it seems to me, is le galism carried to an absurd de gree, and it becomes the more ab surd in the light of the fact that Virginia itself allows its auto mobile owners not merely a few days’ margin, as does this s'ate, but three months. Virginia own ers may use their 1932 tags un til April 1. All the states, at least in this part of the country, allow their residents a period of grace after December 31 for the change of tags, and this is com mon knowledge. Any function ary ought to know better than to order the arrest on New Year’s day of people who are go ing back home from visits up on which they set out two or three days before when their 1932 licenses were still in effect. Lin wood Pullen, who had been visiting relatives in Harrison burg, was stopped by a state highway policeman on New Year’s Day as In* was approach ing Lynchburg on the way back to his home in Chapel Hill. His [wife and his sister were with him. He was taken to Justice of the Peace T. P. Turpin, at the crossroads settlement, Big Island, and the J. P. told him he must pay a fine of $lO plus $4.40 in costs, a total of $14.40. Mr. Pullen explained that five days of grace were allowed by North Carolina for the change of tags and offered to send a tel egram to the authorities to veri fy his statement. “There is no use doing that,” the J. P. replied. The policeman took Mr. Pul len into Lynchburg, served him Mr. Olive Departs Baptist Pastor Resigns to Accept a Call from North Wilkesboro Rev. Eugene Olive has resign ed from the pastorate of the Baptist church here to accept a call from North Wilkesboro. He announced his resignation at the morning services Sunday and made his farewell address at the Wednesday evening prayer meet ing. At the close of the meeting the congregation adopted a reso lution urging the pastor to re consider his decision and re questing the North Wilkesboro Baptists to release him from his engagement. During his ministry here Mr. Olive has won the admiration and affection not only of his own church people but of the entire community. His spirit of toler ance, his engaging manners, and his unfailing helpfulness in all movements pertaining to the welfare of the village have made him one of the most beloved citi zens of Chapel Hill. A committee headed .by W. O. Sparrow as chairman is charged with the duty of selecting his successor. J. Minor Gwynn, Jr. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. Minor Gwynn December 29. He is named for his father. with a summons to appear before the justice of the peace on the following Sunday, and impound ed his car in a garage. Mr. Pul len hail to pay $12.30 to bring himself and his companions home by bus. They got here around midnight after having gone without supper because they had no money to pay for food. The incident was chronicled in the newspapers,, and Mr. Pullen received a telegram from the policeman telling him he could come and get his car. He went to Lynchburg, met the police man, got his car, and then drove out to Big Island, about 10 miles from the city, to see the justice of the peace. “The J. P. told me he had dis missed myjcase and that when 1 left him New Year’s Day 1 was free as far as he was concerned.” says Mr. Pullen, “but, if this was so, why was l served with a sum mons by the policeman com manding me to appear the next Sunday 7 The J. P. said that when he had said it was no use for me to send a wire to the North Caro lina authorities he had meant that there was no telegraph of fice in Big Island. Os course 1 could have sent a telegram from Lynchburg, but I was given clearly to understand that it would do no good for me to get a confirmation of my statement. The J. P. did not tell me there was a telephone in Big Island or even suggest my telephoning. “The policeman treated me po litely enough, and lent me 30 cents to make up the $12.30 I needed for bus fare. I did not blame him for holding me up if he had orders from above to that effect. But it does seem that, after what I told them, and when 1 was ready to- stand the ex pense of the message, they might have been willing to find out whether or not l was com plying with the North Caro lina law. The upshot of the ar rest is that I lost half a day’s work and am out about S2O, counting the cost of the second trip.” Winter Blossoms Spring Comes in Gaily and Drives out Old Man Winter Laughing the calendar to scorn, Spring comes in gaily and drives Old Man Winter out of the village—for a little while, anyway. The bushes of winter honey uckle, otherwise known as sweet breath of spring, break out in fragrant blooms, and the bees buzz around in them. The buds of the pyrus japonica, red and white, burst open. The winter jasmine, nourish ed by the long warm rains of a little while ago, spreads its rich yellow blossoms in the hedges and along the, stone walls. The white hyacinths and the white narcissus are opening in shelter ed places. The earliest of the spiraeas is beginning to flower; rather timidly now, but before long, if warm weather continues, it will make snowy banks all over the village. Sprinklings of violets are seen here and there, and the tiny green spears of daffodils and the broader blades of iris are push ing out of the earth. In the woods the hepatica buds are ris ing, and a little more friendly sunshine will bring their laven der blooms open. And the elm buds are turning purple-pink against the sky. Looking Back on the Orgy What I am speaking of is the orgy of over-eating in the Christmas holidays. As i look back upon my own and my neighbors’ performances at the table during this Christ mas season, again I reflect, as at the end of many a year gone by: why is it that there is such a vast volume of public wailing and warning about excessive drink and so little, relatively, about excessive food? Fur no person with ordinary powers of observation can fail to see that a far greater number of people have suffered from too much meat and starches and sugar than have ever suffered from too much strong drink. The torpid livers, the noxious gases pressing upon the heart, the poisoned blood-flow, the dys pepsia, the corruptions and can kers, the pains and the untimely deaths that have resulted from immoderate eating what a frightful record they make! And yet they have never been made a moral issue to excite the nation. Nobody has proposed govern mental control of eating as a Noble Experiment. No President has appointed a commission to study and report upon the curse of greediness. With the approach of Christ mas millions of housewives, all over the country, began to pre pare for the debauch. There was a great slaughter of turkeys and chickens and geese and duck; the markets were raided for nobody knows how many thousands of tons of beef and mutton and ham and all manner of fruits and vegetables; cakes and pud dings were cooked, and rich sauces were concocted, with (Continued on next page) The Beards Are Here Historians Are at the* Carolina Inn for a Stay of about Two Months It was a beautiful sunny day when Charles A. Beard came to the historians’ meeting at Christ mas time'here two or three years ago, and he remembered the warmth, the flowers abloom and the twittering birds when he and Mrs. Beard were discussing where they would spend this winter. “Chapel Hill looks good to me.” he said' and so they are at the Carolina Inn for a stay of about two months. They have had another good break on weather and have been strolling about the campus and in the woods in the sunshine and the balmy air. Thus they may store up such satisfaction with the Chapel Hill climate that they will bear with equan imity whatever chill and dreary days the winter weeks may bring. Mr. Beard is to deliver the Weil lectures, the dates of which will be announced soon. His topic will be “What Is National Interest?” His most celebrated book is “The Rise of American Civiliza tion,” written in collaboration with his wife, Mary R. Beard. Another of his books is Ameri can Government and Politics.” Mrs. Beard is the author of “A Short History, of the American Labor Movement” and a history of the United States. Prize for Jane Knight Jane Knight went to a fancy dress party in Durham one eve ning recently, and her Cinderel la costume, the one she wore in the play last spring, took first prize. $1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy REVALUATION OF ! PROPERTY TO BE MADE THIS YEAR Public Sentiment Supports It and Governor Says It Must Be Postponed No Longer UNIFORMITY IS DEMANDED That there will be a revalua tion. of property for taxation this year is regarded as practi cally certain. It is supported by a strong public sentiment, and Governor Ehringhaus insists that it must not be put off any longer. A revaluation was scheduled two years ago, but the General Assembly enacted a law post poning it. This legislation was due to the fear that the fixing of new assessments, which would surely be lower, would cause a falling off in the public revenues. In theory a decline in assess ments would be offset by an ad vance in tax rates, but actually county boards might fail to make an adequate upward revision of the rates. The assessors appointed for Chapel Hill shortly before the 1931 legislature met were P. L. Burch, W. 11. Ray, and George i Howe. They had made their prep arations to examine property in the township and hold public hearings when the whole project was wiped off the slate by the postponement statute. Maybe these same three men will be se lected by Gilbert Ray, county tax supervisor, to make the 1933 re valuations. “Honesty and fair dealing as well as platform pledges,” says Governor Ehringhaus in his in augural address, “demand that steps be taken at once to resume our time-tried policy of quad rennial assessments. We must have at once a revaluation of property by the usual methods or their equivalent. I mean by this that provision should be made upon the basis of the most economical possible methods and the greatest possible simplifica tion and at considerably less ex pense than heretofore. “I concede that this means, in the absence of the effectuation of large economies in local govern ments, an increased local tax (Continued on last page) Grand Opera on Screen “I'aKliacci” to Be Presented at the Carolina Theatre January 30 A sound picture version of “Pagliaeci,” the opera by Leon cavallo, will be presented Mon day, January 30, at the Carolina theatre. The regular admission {trices will prevail: 30 cents in the afternoon and 35 cents in the evening. The screen production was made by Fortune Gallo, director of the San Carlo Grand Opera Company. Fernando Bertini, the tenor, appears as Canio, and Alba No vella, lyric soprano, as Nedda. Others in the cast are Giueseppe Interrante (as Silvio), Frances co Curci (as Beppe), and Mario Valle (as Tonio). The members of the chorus of 100 and the or chestra of 64 were selected from the Metropolitan Opera Com pany, the New York Philhar monic, and the San Carlo Grand .Opera Company. Many excerpts from grand op era have been shown on the screen, but “Pagliaeci” is the first grand opera to be translated [full-length into a sound picture.
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