Vol. 11. Nau 33.
W. D. TOY DIES
AFTER 48 YEARS
WITH UNIVERSITY
Oldest Member of Faculty Suc
cumbs to Complications
of Arthritis
COMMUNITY MOURNS LOSS
Walter Dallam Toy, resident
of Chapel Hill and member of
the University faculty since
1885, died Tuesday night at
eight o'clock and was buried yes
terday afternoon at 3:30. His
death, little more than a month
before his 79th birthday, was
due to complications resulting
from arthritis.
The funeral, at 3:30, was at
the Episcopal church with Rev.
Alfred S. Lawrence conducting
the services. Burial followed in
the local cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Dr.
W. deß. MacNider, Robert B.
House, Louis Graves, Archibald
Henderson, W. C. Coker, R. E.
Coker, George C. Taylor and
George R. Coffman.
Honorary pallbearers were-
President Frank P. Graham, I)r.
J. B. Bullitt, Kent Brown, A. S.
Wheeler, M. C. S. Noble, Dr. I.
H. Manning, A. C. Mclntosh, H.
V. Wilson, Clyde Eubanks, Dr.
C. S. Mangum, J. M. Booker, If.
M Wagstaff, C. T. Woollen, T.
J. Wilson, Jr., E. W. Knight,
George McKie, W. S. Bernard,
R. I). W. Connor, M. E. Hogan,
Dr. Leonard Fields, Dr. Rainey
Stanford, Dr. Foy Roberson.
Mr. Toy was born at Norfolk,
Va, November 13, 1854. His
parents were Thomas Dallam
and Amelia Anne Rogers Toy.
Educated at the University of
Virginia, where he took his mas
ter’s degree, he studied at Ber
lin and Leipzig before coming
here in 1885 to head what was
then the French and German de
partment of the University. Fif
teen years later he became head
of the German department and
continued so down the years.
Although the oldest member
of the faculty in years and ser
vice, he met classes until last
week. For 43 years he was sec
retary to the faculty, but re
linquished that post last fall, to
the great regret of colleagues
who listened to his whimsically
humorous minutes of the last
meeting which made all of them
taking part therein appear to
best advantage.
Frank Graham, who as a
freshman became a friend of
bis in the fall of 1905, says of
Dr. Toy:
“The University has lost a
precious part of its own life. Ia
48 years his spirit has been
woven into the inner texture dfj
the institution that can never
let him die. A teacher, an em
inent scholar, and a -gracious
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.
They’re in Ibsen Now
When 'Mme. Borgny Hammer,
famous Norwegian actress, ap
pears in Ibsen’s "Ghosts” this
afternoon and “The Master
Builder” tonight at Memorial
hall she will be supported by two
former members of the Caro
lina Playmakers. Miss Marion
Tatum Os Raleigh and Robert
Proctor, both last year's gradu
ates, are members of the troupe.
The Maples Are Turning
The campus maples on Camer
on avenue-are putting on their
annual show in scarlet, which
the drought threatens to cut
shorter than usual.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
THE TAX ELECTION
This issue of the Weekly
had to go to press before
the result of yesterday’s
school tax election was
known.
Co-Eds at Commons
Mary Frances Parker Hestess Uni
versity Dining Hail
Miss Mary Frances Parker,
last year’s president of the Uni
versity Woman’s Association,
has been employed by the man
agement of Swain hall as host
ess for the regular term. This
plan was thought advisable be
cause of the large number of
commuting girls in school who
have to have lunch in town.
Swain hall has been open for
women during summer school,
and for the past two sessions
there has been a hostess.
The presence of a hostess cre
ates a more tolerant attitude for
co-eds in th<* dining hall and sup
plies the feminine touch that
might not otherwise prevail.
Already the influence of the
hostess on some of the freshmen
and sophomores has been felt in
that girls may now enter the hall
without attracting yells and cat
calls from all over the place, as
was the- case during the last two
years or more.
Miss Parker is always on
hand to welcome any girls that
may enter into the hall and to
make them feel at home, or show
them to„their tables. Several
girls have been coming to Swain
this year for meals. They may
sit at the tables reserved for
them or at tables with boys, just
as they choose. —C’.B.
W. B. Neal at Home
W. B. Neal, one of the town’s
most popular citizens in spite
of the fact that he operates the
one bakery, is back at home af
ter a prolonged stay in Phila
delphia ,where he has been un
dergoing medical treatment. Mr.
Neal is able to sit up for a short
while each day and seems con
siderably improved.
Mrs. Wootten’s Exhibit
The Academy of Arts in Rich
mond, Va., is putting on an ex
hibit of Mrs. Bayard Wootten’s
Carolina folk camera studies in
the three weeks from Monday,
October 15, to Saturday, Novem
ber 4. The Academy is to give
a reception for Mrs. Wootten on
the opening day.
Lively Old Boys
Mrs. T. E. Best’s father, W.
T. Stallings of Clayton, with his
'twin, J. A., is visiting her this
week. The brothers are 85 years
>df age, having celebrated their
birthday Jointly at Clayton last
week when the’Bests wertt downi
They are quite active.
D. A. R. Meeting
The regular monthly meeting
of the Davie -Poplar Chapter,
D. A. R., will be held at 3:30
Tuesday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. R. B. Lawson.
.
Visits Father in Mexico
Jonathan Worth Daniels, at
Raleigh, has arrived in Mexico
City to visit his father, the am
bassador, for a month.
James B. 'BttlHU, 3rd
Dr. and Mrs. James B. Bullitt
have aißraadaan. He was born
in PhikateftiliiA October <8 and
he iJs named Tames 18. BulUtt,
Bid. |
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1933
Poteat’s Address
Raleigh Minister Speaks Here in
Opposition to Repeal
“If we can’t prove liqUor is
positively not dangerous ail the
time, the only thing to do is to
withdraw it from human use,”
declared Rev. E. McNeill Po
teat of Raleigh in an address
here in the Baptist church Sun
day afternon. Poteat spoke on
the “Philosophy that underlies
prohibition” before a fair-sized
audience of townspeople.
Quoting from an article in
the Elks magazine by Dr. Can
nady stating that only fanatics,
romanticists and politicians be
lieved in prohibition, the speak
er denied that he is in any of
these categories, but declared
that the repealists are.
"We nearly all agree on pro
hibition and what should be pro
hibited,” he said, “but disagree
on the extent of prohibition. We
are bound to believe in the prin
ciple of prohibition whether we
acknowledge it or not, for we
hold out our hands and obey
other traffic signals which are
merely prohibitions.”
Alternatives of tin- wets he
/
held to be ridiculous. An article
was cited which stated that a
sober nation was promised with
repeal of the 18th Amendment,
yet 150,000,000 gallons is re
ported ready for consumption
after repeal. Mr. Poteat stated
that in the peak year of 1911
only 110,000,000 gallons was
consumed.
“The Capitalists (1 think I
can refer to them without being
run from town) with a lust for
gold want repeal so that the
poor people will pay the taxes
of the rich and so that the peo
ple will be so stupefied that they
can’t revolt.”
In referring to the beer situa
tion in North Carolina as a re-,
futation of the revenue that the
wets claim will be received, he
stated that the first beer com
mittee report in the legislature
promised $1,200,000 dollars per
year revenue on beer and that
according to A. J. Maxwell, the
compromise amount of $500,000
dollars will not be reached this
year.
Mr. Poteat was introduced by
Dr. Frank P. Graham, president
of the Greater University. In
introducing the speaker Graham
said, “The University has always
found in him a true friend.” The
meeting was presided over by
Dr. Binkley, pastor of the
church.—-C.B.
A Get-Together
A get-together meeting of the
women of the Methodist church
that got a hundred and ten to
gether for a supper and its ac
cessories of speech, general and
specific, was held in the church
social rooms Tuesday night. Mrs.
A. M. Gates of the Duke faculty
colony made an address on
“Sharing.”
Kiwants Scholarships
The Chapel Hill Kiwenis Club;
which recently voted'to give two
scholarship loans in the Univer
sity for the fall quarter has
awarded them to Paul Bender
graph and Elizabeth Rainey,
both at this village.
University Graduate'Club
Henry Farr, of Bsunswick,
Ga., has been inducted into of
fice as .president at the Gradu
ate Club at 'Hie University of
North Carolina.
Water Holds Out
So For That Matter Do the Heavens—
It's Powerfully Dry
In spite of the drought visi
tors to University Lake find that
while there is no water running
over the dam, and the stuff that
comes to the citizenship through
the pipes has a flavor that
smacks of tide out, there’s plen
ty of it such as it is.
When it is realized that for
the entire month of September
only .77 of an inch of rain fell
here it can be seen that the Uni
versity authorities did not begin
too soon or go too far with the
provision of an adequate reser
voir.
There was precipitation on
but three days. September 12
.66 of an inch fell. There had
been a barely preceptible drizzle
on the sth and 6th.
Gardens have suffered horrib
ly, especially late tomatoes, Tur
nip greens contrive to make out
somehow. Chrysanthemums, just
emerging for their annual ap
pearance, are finding great dif
ficulty in sustaining themselves.
Cosmos bloom feebly on attenu
ated stalks. Zinnias, sturdiest
of all flowers, droop disconsolate
h' Mint-beds resemble pipe
cleaners, and even the Johnson
grass has curled up and quit.
There’s greensward out at
Kenan stadium; but that is be
cause the athletic association op
erates a sprinkler system for the
protection of the gridiron turf.
Hurt in 40-Foot Fall
Scaffold Hreaks under Two Painters,
One a Former Student
(’. R. Brown, student in the
University last year, and P. G.
Baldwin were still in Watts
hospital in Durham last night
as a result of injuries sustained
Monday shortly after noon when
the ladder-scaffold from which
they were painting the rear of
Phillips hall split and dropped
them about thirty-one feet to
the rocks and hard ground be
neath.
In the fall from about the
middle sash of the third floor —
about 124 three-inch tiers of
brick from the ground—Bald
win sustained a broken right
ankle and internal and external
bruises about the chest. Brown
fractured both arms, suffered a
diagonal fracture of the right
thigh and a fractured skull.
Maxwell, who was one of the
first to reach the injured then,
says that neither lost conscious
ness except momentarily. Brown
told Maxwell, who picked him
up, to he careful of his legs and
arms.
Baldwin is married and lives
in Chapel Hill.
This is the second accident of
'this nature in the last month.
Just before school opened, Wes
ley L. McKeithan, self-help stu
dent from Fayetteville, fell
from an upper story of Spencer
hctll and fractured his back. He
is still in the infirmary but is re
ported to be on the way to re
covery.—C.B.
Freshmen’s First Game
The University’s freshman
football team will open its seas
on at 3 o’clock this (Friday) af
ternoon on Emerson field. The
Tar Babies’ starting line up will
probably be: ends, Buck and
McCam; tackles, Trimpey and
Killings; guards, Mclver and
Oberne; center, Folger; quarter
back, Dunham; halfbacks, Da
shieil and Caoner; fullback.
Hutchens
AN
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The edilor of the Weekly
acknowledges with grati
:ude the services of 0. J.
Coffin and his journalism
;lass in getting out this
issue of the Weekly.
Chapel Hill Chaff
Mrs. Paul Green and Mrs. W.
A. Olsen go out bicycling early
in the mornings.
The football squad was out
for early practice the other day
(on freshman field) and as the
women went along the Raleigh
road the players cheered them,
and some players “thumbed”
them-—and asked: “Raleigh?
Raleigh?” The usual hitch-hik
er’s salute and greeting. One
morning later they rode out to
Carrboro and the population
there observed them with keen
interest. Truck drivers yelled:
“Are you riding or walking?”
and other such jibes.—L.G.
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Dean Dudley D. Carroll, Mrs.
Carroll and Elliott, Eleanor and
Donald Carroll spent Sunday at
Mizpah, Stokes county, attend
ing to the business of a family
reunion. Dean Carroll made a
speech. Dee Dee, Jr., stayed at
home and played touch football.
He does not particularly care
for his father’s speeches, and he
tried the - fafnily reunion last
year and did not think the food
outweighed the remarks of old
er female relatives who ap
praised his growth of the pre
ceding twelvemonth.
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Mrs. Elliott of Ridge Lane,
who in addition to helping with
the nurture and admonitio'h of
the Carrolls, to whom she is
mother and grandmother, culti
vates one of the best flower
gardens in these parts, is not
doing so well with her efforts at
brightening her corner of the
Gimghoul section this fall. In
—and it might also be said out
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Mrs. Vining Better
Notes from Mrs. Morgan Vin
ing and her mother, Mrs. Gray,
to friends here say that the
former’s condition is encourag
ing. Mrs. Vining was to have
been taken to her mother’s
home in Philadelphia this week.
Recovery will take some time.
Halliburton Visits Pah lows
' f
Richard Halliburton, author of
The Royal Road to Romance and
other chronicles of gay adven
ture, was here with the Pah
lows Wednesday, on his way to
lecture in Greensboro. He is
coming back to Chapel Hill again
this fail.
Cain-Cummings Marriage
Mrs. Marvin Hendrix Stacy
announces the marriage of her
niece, Miss Edna Cummings, to
Frederick Caldwell Cain, last
Saturday in Memphis, Tenn.
‘Mr. and Mrs. Cain will live in
Canton, Miss.
Scarred by Crash
Lawrence McClellan • is back
at Eubanks’s drug store bearing
a long scar on his nook, result
ing from a recent motor collision
in Durham.
Koch Smokes While Marching
Frederick H. Koch upheld the
Bohemian tradition of the atsge
by smoking his pipe while he
marched in the faculty proces
sion to Memorial hall yesterday.
$1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
BIG DAY WHEN
CAROLINA MEETS
GEORGIA ELEVEN
Evenly-Matched Teams Fight
It Out in Kenan Stadium
Tomorrow
VILLAGE ALL AGOG
MM—.—
There will be a hard-fought
football game here tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30 in Kenan Sta
dium when Carolina meets the
powerful Georgia eleven, foe
since 1895, who was battled to
a 6-6 tie last year. The two
teams usually are evenly match
ed. Seven men who started last
year’s game for either side are
back, indicating that the relative
strength is again about equal.
Both teams are coached by
lormer Notre Dame men, pupils
of the great Rockne, Chuck Col
lins for Carolina and Harry
Mehre for Georgia. Both teams
use the wide-open and driving
liockne attack with certain va
cations taught by their respec
tive coaches.
Chapel Hi Ilians, busy with
preparations during the week,
will turn out for the occasion!
I he students will be there, yell
ing themselves hoarse. The pro
fessors and some of their wives
will be there. The professors’
children will he there, and at
least one young hopeful will get
| tangled up in the drums or big
bass tuba or some other musical
insti ument. And there will be
a stray dog or two trespassing
on the gridiron to draw a laugh
from the spectators and to an
noy a football player with his
heart in the game. And'there
will be people from all over this
state and from other states as
well.
In addition to the size of the
crowd, heavy advance ticket
sales indicating widespread in
terest in the game, there will be
two additional features at to
morrow afternoon’s gathering.
Iwo new battle songs, written
by Kay Kyser, former cheer
leader here, will be used for the
first time. Their titles are
‘‘Split It for the Team” and
“Tar Heels Join Hands.”
Several days ago R. A. Fetzer,
director of athletics, announced
that a general admission section
has been set off at the west end
of each side of the regular
stands, accommodating approxi
mately 2,600 people. This is
the first game at which there
has been such a section. Admis
sion for these seats will be ex
actly one-half the price of re
served seats, or SI.OO plus ten
cents federal tax.
-Preparations have been made
which will facilitate the easy
handling of the crowd. Holders
of reserved tickets on the north
side erf “the stadium will be ad
mitted through the main or
No. 2 gate as usual. But Caro
lina students and those holding
reserved tickets for the south
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Half-Price Football
Two regular sections of Ken
an stadium are being reserved
for general admission specta
tors at tomorrow’s game with
Georgia. General admission
tickets are to be sold at $1 plus
10 cents federal tax, which is
exactly half this,game’s usual
price. These tickets will be a
valiable at .gate No. 6 on the
south side of the stadium, .
Season tickets are Doing of
fered at almost (half the regular
price of single admissions-