North Carolina Newspapers

Yol. 10. No. 49. RATTLESNAKE IS LUNCHEON TIDBIT AT MRS. KLUTTZ’ Flesh of Diamondbaek. Sent to W. C. Coker from Florida, Wins Favor of Guests IT IS WHITE AND TENDER The truth is, if I must con fess it, that I did not expect to be called upon, actually, to eat rattlesnake meat. When I told in last week’s paper that W. C. Coker was to got a can of this delicacy from Florida, and that he would arrange to have it served by Mrs. Kluttz, and that he was going to invite me to par-1 take of it, —when I wrote all this I thought that probably the can would never come and that the matter would probably never be mentioned again. So I got a shock when Mrs.i Kluttz called me on the tele- ] phone yesterday morning and said: “The rattlesnake has come. We’ll expect you for luncheon at one o’clock.” “What what’s that?” I j asked, in a stammering tone oC voice. “Yes, it’s here. It’s in a; pretty orange-colored can. Lis ten what it says. Here’s the la bel : ‘Genuine Diamondbaek Rat tlesnake with Supreme Sauce.’ You said you wanted to taste it, and now’s your chance.” I hadn’t said so at all. I ap peal to the record. The exact words in last week’s chronicle were as follows: “‘l’ll let you know when it gets here,’ said Mr. Coker, ‘and maybe you’d like to come around and have a taste of it.’ Maybe; and maybe not. I have not quite decided. 1 have a long-standing prejudice to overcome before I try such a i . I would probably have found some excuse not to attend the luncheon had it not been for a call I had received last Saturday. Charles Neat' 3 * instructor in French in the University, drop ped in at the printshop. “I’ve been reading your piece about rattlesnakes as food,” he said, “and I thought you might (Continued on last page) Stage Seats, If Needed Preparation* to Accommodate Over flow Crowd at Kreisler Concert Harold S. Dyer, head of the University music department, said yesterday that he had re ceived word from Fritz Kreisler authorizing him to provide seats on the stage, for the concert Monday evening, if the main floor and balcony were not ade quate to accommodate the crowd. “The sale of tickets thus far indicates that the house will be sold out,” said Mr. Dyer. “All the balcony seats have been tak en, and the applications for the main floor seats continue to come in. But we are going to find a place, somehow, for everybody who wants to hear Kreisler, and so we are prepared to place chairs upon the stage.” Applications for tickets should be made at the music depart ment office. (The Kreisler program ap pears on another page.) A George Washington Dance A George Washington dance will be given from 9 to 12 o’clock this (Friday) evening at the Country Club. There will be en tertainment features. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff One of the consequences of the depression is that horse- and mule-drawn vehicles are much more in evidence than they were a few years ago. The other day a farmer in a buggy, driving a mule, came along the broad paved highway south of the campus and drew up behind the University library. J. W. Long, a student, was passing by and the man appealed to him for help. “I live down at Bynum.” he said, “and my boy is writing a composition about Edison. He asked me to come by here and get a book out of the library for him. Can you tell me how to go about it?” Mr. Long escorted him to the, card index and then to the desk.; He got the book he wanted, re turned to his buggy, and drove off. * * * Speaking of libraries, I am re minded of a plan of mine. The University has a library. I am going to give one to the people of Chapel Hill. It will be in the middle of the village, perhaps on the main street where a store building now stands. Its floor will be not more than a foot or so above the level of the ground. Over the 1 main door will be a sign read-j ing: “Smoking is permitted in this building.” (But there may be a small room to one side re served for non-smokers). The library will be open from one o’clock in the afternoon until midnight, Sundays included. There will be a large central reading room with well-uphol stered chairs and sofas and with an abundance of conveniently j placed, lamps. I am going to build and endow j this library when I learn that j some hitherto unsuspected uncle or aunt or cousin has bequeathed to me a mountain range full of gold or a flock of oil wells. The Joneses Sail Today After Visit Here, They Are Leaving On Pennland for Europe Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mum ford Jones, after a visit in Chap el Hill, have gone to New York and will sail for Europe today on the steamship Pennland. Upon their arrival here from California they were greeted warmly by their old friends. They strolled and rode about the village and the campus. And a reception was given for them Monday evening by Mrs. Jose phine Jones at the Chi Omega house. Both of them were in fine health and spirits. Mr. Jones, to whom was awarded last year a fellowship under the Guggenheim fund, is on leave of absence from the University of Michigan. He was in Pasadena for several months, and now he is to pursue hi 3 studies in England and on the Continent. He will return to America in September. Speakers at Forum Tonight Fred Rippy, professor of his tory in Duke University, and Hubert C. Herring, director of the Committee on Cultural Re lations with Latin America, will speak at 8 o’clock this (Friday) evening in Gerrard hall. They come here under the auspices of the University students’ organ ization that is conducting a series of meetings for the dis cussion of public questions. The topic will be “America, an Inter dependent World.” CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933 University Faculty Soon to Know How Much Their Pay Will Be Cut The members of the Univer sity faculty are still in doubt as to what the legislature will do to their pay, but they will know within the next two or three % days. The joint appropriations committee of the two houses is expected to make its report Mon day. A final appeal for a revision upward of the grant of $390,000 recommended by the state bud get commission was made at a meeting of" the committee day before yesterday. Josephus Daniels, represent ing the board of trustees of the consolidated University, devoted part of his talk to answering the argument that "the per student cost of University education was too high in comparison with that of normal schools. He spoke of the character of University training and said that the work and needs of the University were no more to be compared with those of lesser institutions than the state capitol with county courthouses. Want to Keep Tamblyn Students Petition That He He Kept As Presbyterian Pastor Here University students who have attended the Presbyterian church in the last few months want Rev. Ronald Tamblyn re tained as the pastor, and they are presenting to the authori ties of the church a petition that he be kept in Chapel Hill. It was made known recently that Mr. Tamblyn had gone to Lawrence, Kansas, on a two weeks visit, and that he was be ing considered for a call there. “During Mr. Tamblyn’s resi dence here,” says the students’ petition, “he has shown himself to be capable, tactful, and de voted, and a thorough leader and scholar in both religious and in tellectual life. As we under stand that he is now being con sidered by another church, we re spectfully request that you con sider him at the earliest oppor tunity. We deeply believe in him and feel that we, the Uni versity, and the state, as well as your church and the local com munity, are in need of him.” Norman Thomas will speak here next Friday evening, March 3. The Proposed 21st Amendment The proposed 21st amendment to the Constitution of the United States is as follows: Sec. 1. The Eighteenth Ar ticle of amendment to the Con stitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Sec. 2. The transportation or importation into any state, terri tory, or possession of the United State for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in viola tion of the laws thereof, is here by prohibited. Sec. 3. This article shall be The University Concert Band, under the direction of T. S. Mc- Corkle, will play at 8:30 next Wednesday evening in the Hill Music hall. Everybody is invit ed, and there is no admission charge. Here is the program: Suite (John Sebastian Bach) ; Prelude, Polonaise, Sarabande, Menuet, Chorale, Gavotte. Andante from “Italian Sym phony” (Mendelssohn). Charles W. Tillett, speaking on behalf of the branch in Chap el Hill, analyzed the recommen dation of the budget commission and urged that the $390,000 be raised at least to $596,000. The faculty members are now receiving only 80 per cent of the basic rate, and an additional cut of 15 per cent is contemplat ed. Mr. Tillett declared that they had now only a barely liv ing stipend and suggested that the salary schedule be based up on a 15 per cent reduction rather than the proposed 35 per cent. He called the committee’s at tention to the fact that the bud get commission had arbitrarily set the enrollment of students at 1,750, whereas it is actually 2,645, and had figured its ap propriation on the 1,750 basis. In the course of his remarks, he opposed vigorously the pro posal to abandon the medical school here. He said that the school trained most of the physi cians for the rural districts of the state. “Robin Hood” March 2 DeKoven’s Famous Comic Opera to Be Presented in Memorial Hall “Robin Hood,” the celebrated comic opera by Reginald DeKov en, will be presented by the Bos ton Light Opera Company at 8:30 next Thursday evening in Memorial hall. This is one of the offerings in the University entertainment se ries. For persons who do not have season tickets the admis sion price is sl. Since its first presentation in Chicago 33 years ago, “Robin Hood” has enjoyed a vast popu larity. Often called America’s finest comic opera, it has been produced all over the English speaking world. One of the well known songs in it is “Brown Oc tober Ale.” Among the singers in the cast here next week will be Raymond Simonds as Robin Hood, Melvin Crowell as Little John, Robert Henry as Friar Tuck, Genarro D’Alessandro as Scarlet, Marion Aubens as Alan-a-Dale, Norma Erdman as Maid Marian, Hud son Carmody as the Sheriff, Yvonne Desßosiers as Anna belle, and Eugene Conley as Sir Guy. There will lx* a large chor us. inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conven tions in the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress. The resolution adopted by Congress provides that this amendment “shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by conventions in three-fourths of the several states.” The Band Concert Romance and Rondo (Wieni awski). Oriental Dance (Lubomirsky). Serenade Rococo (Meyer-Hel mund). An dante Cantibile from “Fifth Symphony” (Tschaikow skyL Advertise in the Weekly rooms and apartments for rent or V)anted, articles to buy or sell, lost and found, etc. A Survey of Signboards Community Club Committee Reports On Highway Advertisements There are 551 signboards on the main highways between the town limits of Chapel Hill and the Orange county lines, accord ing to a survey made by Mrs. Felix A. Grisette, chairman, and members of the civics depart ment of the Community Club. "Numerically the Hillsboro road, with its total of 233 signs, is the worst offender.” says Mrs. Grisette, “but actually the road to Durham, with its 69 signs, presents a more cluttered ap pearance. Although the Hills boro road total is increased be cause of a number of barns plas tered with long-past circus dates, fair signs, and ragged tobacco legends, there are only four large billboards on it as against the sixteen large and medium sized boards on the Durham road. "One fact the survey brought out is that most of the signs (522 out of the 551) advertise national products whose manu facturers cannot in most cases claim that their taxes help main tain the roads they despoil,” says Mrs. Grisette. “Os these signs, a possible 31 (including 19 large and 8 small billboards, two enormous replicas of coffee pots, and two pyramids) may have paid a trifling sum to the owners of the land, but the usual procedure is to send a truck with a crew who put up the signs whenever they come to a partic ularly nice tree or meadow. “The objectives of the civics department include the immedi ate planting of ivy and shrubs around the firehouse. Dr. Coker and Dr. Totten will help with ad vice and shrubs. In addition to the filling station contest, there will be a campaign to induce owners of property along the ap proaches to Chapel Hill to per mit the removal of snipe signs from their property. Most of those who have already been ap proached have shown a willing ness to cooperate.” Rotary Hears Rozzelle Chapel HHl’h Former Methodiftt I’as tor Add rennet* the Club Rev. C. Excell Rozzelle of Le noir, former pastor of the Methodist church here, was the speaker at the Rotary club Wed nesday evening. The meeting was a celebration of the 26th anniversary of Rotary Inter national. Dr. Eric A. Abernethy, the first president of the club here, was toastmaster. T. S. McCorkle is now president. “In the face of the steadily incre wing interdependency of one nation upon another,” said Mr. Rozzelle, “the reactionary spirit of self-sufficiency and se clusion that is abroad in the land today must give way to an in ternational spirit of understand ing and brotherhood.” He said that Rotary, with clubs in 67 nations, was playing a prominent part in promoting international good-will. Singers at Club Meeting The nurse who conducts the health work among the Negroes of the village will bring a group of her singers, both men and women, to the meeting of the Community Club at 3:30 this (Friday) afternoon in the Epis copal parish house. The pro gram is sponsored by the club’s health department. $1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy SEADROMES WILL BRING WEEK-END TRIPS TO EUROPE Grant Tells How Floating Is lands Will Make Crossings Fast, Safe. Comfortable BY WAY OF THE AZORES Captain Hugh Duncan Grant, meteorological expert, formerly of the British Navy, fascinated a large audience Monday eve ning in Gerrard hall by describ ing the seadromes floating islands, to serve as landings for airplanes—which are to be plac ed in the Atlantic ocean. The route is to be by the Azores islands. Along this route, which is far to the south of the transatlantic steamship lanes, there is little fog, the temperature is mild, and severe storms are infrequent. There are to be three sea dromes between America and the Azores and two between the Azores and Europe. Immedi ate plans are under way for the construction of them by associ ated American and European companies. According to pres ent plans, says Captain Grant, the first should be in posil r ' v n within 18 months, and by tfiat time the others should be well on their way toward completion. The inventor of the seadrome is Edward R. Armstrong, con sulting engineer to the Du Pont Corporation, and the Du Fonts are the financial backers of the enterprise. For all that they had read and heard of the wonders of avia tion, Captain Grant made his hearers gasp when he pictured the speed and comfort of future travel between America and Europe. “A week-end trip to Europe is a prospect by no means fanci ful,” he said, “for Europe will be easily accessible from New York, Boston, or Washington, in 24 hours. Even a person who lives in California will be able to get to Europe in around 40 hours. “And there will be no appreci (Continued on next page) Membership Campaign Farm Produce Will Be Accepted in Payment of legion Due* The Chapel Hill post of the American Legion is conducting a campaign for members, called the commander’s and adjutant’s membership drive. It closes next Tuesday, February 28. All former commanders are led by Commander Owen Robertson, and all former adjutants are led by Adjutant L. J. Phipps. The dues for 1933 have been reduced to $2.50, and any kind of farm produce will be accepted, at its market value, in payment of dues. Veterans in the southern part of the county who would like to barter farm produce on this basis should see Paul Robertson in Chapel Hill, and veterans in the northern part of the county should see H. G. Coleman in Hillsboro. The Stamp Club’s Meeting The Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 (Saturday) evening in room 215 of the Graham Mem orial. Students, faculty mem bers, and all other citizens inter ested in stamps are invited. Colonel Pratt will have charge of the program.