VoL 11. No. 34.
GEORGIA TECH IS
* COMING HERE TO
PLAY TOMORROW
It Will Be “Homecoming Day;”
The Village and the Cam
pus Will Be Decorated
TECH ALUMNI TO GATHER
The Georgia Tech and the
University of North Carolina
football teams will meet tomor
row (Saturday) afternoon in
the Kenan stadium. The game
is to be made the occasion of a
Homecoming Day, and the Uni
versity authorities, the alumni
association, the students, and
the townspeople are preparing
a warm welcome for the crowd.
The campus and the village
will be dressed in holiday attire.
Flags and bunting will decorate
fraternity houses, University
buildings, and stores. The Gra
ham Memorial student center
will be thrown open for the vis
iting alumni and the relatives
and friends of students, and the
fraternities will hold open-house
celebrations. A prize, a console
model radio, will be awarded to
the fraternity with the most
beautiful decorations.
The Georgia Tech alumni in
this part of the country have
designated this as their Home
coming Game. They are to as
semble for luncheon in the
Carolina Inn.
Students from several of the
women’s colleges in the state
will attend, and a girls’ cheer
ing section has been organized.
Reservations have been made
for a party of 300 from the
North Carolina College for Wo
men and for a party of 75 from
St. Mary’s.
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Experimental Plays
Dramas Written by Students Will B<*
Produced on 7th of November
Eight plays written by stu
dents will be presented experi
mentally by the Carolina Play
makers on the 7th of November.
Tryouts for parts in the plays
were conducted this week.
With one exception, the au
thors are making their first
contributions to the Haymakers.
Robert Barnett of Shanghai,
China, has offered “No Dawn
ing,” with Chapel Hill for the
setting. Carl G. Thompson, Jr.,
Southern Pines, has written “O
Woman,” a modern comedy of
an ancient tragedy. Other plays
include “Sing Your Own Song,”
by Nat Farnsworth, Pueblo,
Colo; “Shadows of Industry,” by
Vermont C. Royster, Raleigh;
“Hell’s Dreams,” by Fredrica
Fredrick, Chapel Hill; “Showing
at Eight,” by Leonard Rappart,
Asheville; “November Night,”
by Margaret McCauley, Balti
more, Md.; and “Little Things,”
by Margaret Siceloff, Asheville.
Smithey Sees Snake Holding 3 Mice Captive
On the way to his former
home in the mountains last Sat
urday, S. B. Smithey saw a
huge hlacksnake, with a mouse
in its mouth, on the edge of the
highway near North Wilkes
boro. He stopped the car so
that he and his companion, the
Reverend Mr. Moore, could get
a better look.
“At first, from the car, we
saw only one mouse.” said Mr.
Smithey upon his return to
Chapel Hill Monday, “but when
we drew nearer we found that
two more mice were imprison
-ed in two loops in the body of
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Chapel Em Chaff
Jess Mebane tells me of a re
markable achievement by Ralph
Faison, Jr., of Greensboro at the
World’s Fair in Chicago.
Young Faison, who is about
14 years old, went to the Fair
on a tour arranged for a com
pany of boys by the Y.M.C.A.
Naturally, the boys spent more
money than they intended, on
sideshows and other allure
ments, and long before it was
time to start home they found
themselves busted on the Mid
way. Faison was seized by an
idea.
He had gone barefooted all
his life, even in cold weather,
despite the protests of his pa
rents. The consequence was
that the bottoms of his feet
were hard and scaly, and as
tough as leather. As he looked
about him, at the Fair, he ob
served that everybody else,
young and old, was wearing
shoes. Why not capitalize on
his unusual feet?
With the help of his com
panions he prepared a sign that
read as follows:
“Burning cigarette and cigar
stumps put out with bare feet!
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Air Show Sunday
Tull Expect** Many Planes to Come;
Stunting on the I’rogra.n
Montrose Tull, chief of the
University Flying Service, is to
have an air show here Sunday.
“ThiJ| has been arranged in
connection with the homecom
ing week-end,” said Mr. Tull yes
terday. “Several airplanes from
out of town are expected to par
ticipate.
“The show will be opened by
a formation flight over town.
There will be stunting at in
tervals throughout the day, and
possibly a parachute jump.
“A chance for a free ride will
be open to all spectators arriv
ing before two-thirty, at which
time the contest will close. Drop
a piece of paper bearing your
name into a box which will be
placed in front of the hangar.
At two-thirty one name will be
drawn, and the lucky person
will get an airplane ride over
Chapel Hill and vicinity free of
charge.
“Later on in the afternoon a
guinea will be released from an
airplane flying over the airport.
The one who catches the guinea
will get a free ride over Chapel
Hill and the University Lake.”
The Children’s Library
The children’s library at the
school begins another year with
the prospect of ever-increasing
activity. It was kept open all
the summer, and the circulation
broke all records for the holiday
season. The members should
send their dues ($2) to R. H.
Wettach, treasurer, or to Miss
Evans, the librarian.
the big snake. The snake was
not coiled; it was stretched out
straight except for these two
loops. One of the mice squeal
ed ; we noticed the loop tighten
on it, and it squealed no more.
Evidently these two mice were
being saved to serve as food
after the one in the mouth was
disposed of.
“When we stopped we had
had a notion to kill the snake,
but it so aroused our admira
tion, by its enterprise and re
sourcefulness, that we decided
to let it alone.”
CHAPEL HILL, N. C- FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1933
I have never been able to see
any good reason why political
leaders in , North Carolina
should hot speak out on the ques
tion of the repeal of the 18th
Amendment. The public has a
right to know how the men
elected to public office stand on
the issues of the day, and no
body will deny that ' repeal is
now one of the most important
issues. It strikes me that every
office-holder and member of the
legislature ought to be willing
to say in plain words, what he
thinks of repeal and whether or
not he is going to vote for it on
election dav.
4 v
Senator Reynolds has not
hesitated to declare himself for
repeal. Attorney General Brum
mitt has not hesitated to declare
himself against it. According
to the News and Observer, two
state officials, Matt Allen and
Dewey Dorsett, in declining an
invitation to the anti-repeal rally
in Raleigh last Sunday, said flat
ly that, their reason for declining
was that they w%re in favor of
repeal. This frankness was re
freshing—and exceptional. Most
of the officials who were invited
and did not want to attend gave
excuses and carefully refrained
from saying they were not in
sympathy with tin 1 purpose of
the meeting. Senator Bailey
came out for repeal this week.
A man who is in politics, and
hopes to stay in politics, natur
ally desires not to antagonize
any large element of voters.
That, I presume, is why so many
of mW prominent politicians
have not taken a definite stand
on repeal. They want to re
main in favor with both the
wets and the drys. They may
Studcntm Injured in Automobile Crumb
The stillness of the night was
broken by a loud crash; the
craph was followed by a vicious
ripping and cracking; then,
again, the stillness of the night.
In those few moments two
automobiles had collided; one of
them had torn down a stout
fence and plunged over an em
bankment; one young man, the
driver, had had his skull crush
ed in; another had broken one
of the vertebrae in his back;
and two others had been less
seriously injured.
The time, about 2 o’clock last
Saturday morning. The place,
the hill on the Raleigh road, on
the east edge of the village near
the Gimghoul colony.
William J. Coleman (driver),
Jesse Baldwin, and German E.
Radford, students, and Manning
Pritchard, druggist, were in
Pritchard’s car, a Buick roads
ter. Bound for Durham by the
Hope Valley route, they were go
ing down the hill. Coming up
the hill was a Franklin sedan
driven by Mrs. Bud Temple;
she was returning home from
Planning Newspaper Institute
Oscar Coffin, R. M. Grumman,
and R. W. Madry, representing
the University, will meet a com
hiittee of the North Carolina
Press Association Saturday, No
vember 4, in Raleigh, to make
arrangements for the annual
Newspaper Institute to be held
here in January.
James M. Bell Is Better
James M. Bell, head of the
chemistry department in the
University, who was taken ill
suddenly two weeks ago, is im
proving.
Comments
Consider this “good politics,”
but I suspect they are wrong.
Sitting on the fence may be the
best policy, for a while; but
there comes a time—and I be
lieve now is such a time —when
the people demand frankness
from the men whom they have
placed in positions of leadership.
The simple truth is that no man
in public life has any valid ex
cuse whatever for not saying
whether he is for or against re
peal.
• • •
An editorial in the News and
Observer Monday morning al
most moved me to pinch myself
to see if I really was awake.
For, what I read was an apo
logy for the. gambling devices
on the Midway at the State Fair
and the suggestion, not in so
many words but by inference,
that I was straight-laced in ob
jecting to thorn.
The funny thing about this is
that the News and Observer has
always been such a pious sheet
zealous for Prohibition, for
strict Sabbath observance laws,
for anti - race - track - gambling
laws—while I have always de
precated the effort to regulate
people’s morals and habits by
law or any other sort of com
munity pressure. It gave me
a considerable shock to see my
self in the role of a reformer,
a kill-joy, and the Raleigh pa
per in the role of a tolerant,
easy-going fellow who wanted
all comers to enjoy themselves
in their own way.
Alluding to my article of last
week about the Midway, the
News and Observer said:
“There is no doubt that there
were wheels of chance at the
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Durham with some women
friends.
“Blinded by the lights” is one
explanation. Anyway, the
roadster sideswiped the Temple
car, and, completely out of con
trol, crashed into the fence on
the right side. The fact that
the fence was demolished for
25 or 30 yards, the posts being
broken off indicates that the
roadster must have been going
at high speed. It turned over
three or four time's and came
to rest at the bottom of the gul
ley near the White-field home.
The noise of the collision had
been heard all over the east end
of the village, and presently
there were several persons on
the scene. The police and phy
sicians were summoned.
Coleman, Baldwin, and Prit
chard were taken to Watts hos
pital in Durham, and Radford,
the least seriously injured, had
his cuts and bruises treated at
the Infirmary. Coleman, whose
skull was crushed, may lose an
eye. Baldwin, one of whose ver
tebrae was broken, will be in a
plaster cast for weeks.
Phi Beta Kappa Initiates
Ten students have been in
itiated into Phi Beta Kappa, the
honorary scholastic fraternity.
They are John Knox Barrow,
Zebulon; Edwin Douglas Cart
land, Greensboro; Dennis Bry
an Fox, Randleman; Joseph
Samuel Gentry, Doughton; De-
Witt Allen Green, New York
City; William Thomas Minor,
Jr., Charlotte; Charles Stephen
Templeton, China Grove; Ray
Elam Weathqrs, Shelby; Mar
shall Cornet Bell, Murphy; and
Frank Wyman Grant, Cleveland,
Ohio.
MUSIC AND PLAYS
N. C. Symphony Orches
tra at 8:30 this (Friday)
evening in Page auditori
um, Duke University.
At the Carolina theatre:
today (Friday), “The Mad
Game,” with Spencer
Tracy; tomorrow, Maurice
Chevalier in “The Way to
Love.”
At Memorial hall at 3:30
Sunday afternoon: The Se
dalia Singers.
At the Hill Music hall at
8:30 Sunday evening:
Ralph Deane Shure in an
organ recital.
Next week, Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday:
“The House of Connelly”
at the Haymakers theatre.
Armistice Day Parade
15th Anniversary of End of World
War to He Celebrated Here
There is to be a big parade, in
Chapel Hill on the morning of
November 11, the 15th anniver
sary of the day when the Armis
tice ended the World War.
L. J. Phipps, commander of
the local post of the American
Legion, is directing the arrange
ments.
The parade will form on West
Franklin street, and tin* route of
march will probably be down
the street through the business
section, around the corner at
the President’s House, along the
Raleigh road, into the campus
at the east gate, and up Camer
on avenue to Memorial hall. The
Armistice Day exercises in the
hall will begin at 10:30.
Judge Phipps will ask the
University band to lead the
parade, and the Boys’ Band, too,
w ill __ take part. Among the
marchers will be the women of
the Legion Auxiliary, and the
Boy Scouts. The United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, the
Red Cross, and other organiza
tions are expected to be repre
sented by gaily decorated floats.
A joint supper of the Legion
and the Auxiliary will end the
day’s celebration.
Freshmen to Play Tonight
The University f r e s h m a n
football team will play the State
College freshmen this (Friday)
evening in the Memorial Sta
dium in Greensboro.
President’s Parents Here
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Gra
ham of Charlotte came from
Charlotte Wednesday to visit
their son, President Frank
Graham.
N. C. Symphony Opens Its Season Tonight
StrinKfield t« Conduct Orrhewtra;
Powell on the Program
The North Carolina Sym
phony Orchestra will open its
season with a concert at 8:30
this (Friday) evening in Page
auditorium, Duke University.
Lamar Stringfield will be the
conductor. There are 65 musi
cians in the orchestra.
A feature of the program will
be “Rhapsodie Negre,” for piano
and orchestra, with the compos
er, John Powell, at the piano.
Other compositions on the pro
gram are “Marriage of Figaro”
(Mozart), “New World sym
phony” (Dvorak), and “Marche
Salve” (Tschaikowsky).
Mr. Powell is celebrated not
only as a pianist but as a com
poser of works distinctly Amer
ican. Os hi/4 “Rhapsodie Negre”
the Scotch Pianist, Donald F.
Tovey, has said: “It is no pot
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REGISTRATION FOR
REPEAL ELECTION
TOMORROW ONLY
Robertson Will Be at School
To Register All Citizens
Not Already on Books
CONTEST GROWS LIVELY
Tomorrow, October 28, is the
only day for registration for the
election to be held Tuesday, No
vember 7, on the question of the
repeal of the 18th Amendment.
Paul Robertson, the registrar,
will be at the school building all
day.
All day means from 12 o’clock
Friday night to 12 o’clock Satur
day night. The attorney gen
eral has so ruled.
Citizens who have registered
in Chape! Hill for any previous
general election do not have to
register for this one. The re
gistration tomorrow is for the
citizens whose names are not al
ready on the books.
The distinction between a gen
eral election and a special elec
tion should be borne in mind.
Having registered for a special
election—such as, for example,
the one on the school tax last
month—does not qualify a per
son to vote November 7; but he
is qualified if he registered for
the Roosevelt-Hoover election
of 1932 or for any election for a
United States senator, a repre
sentative in Congress, or a mem
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Garden Club Meeting
Ribbons, Blue and Rod, to Bo Awardod
for Displays of Flowers
The Garden Club will meet at
4:30 Monday afternoon in the
Sunday school room of the
Presbyterian church. N. W.
Walker will talk on gardening
in the fall, bulbs, and the care
of perrennials and shrubs.
Blue and red ribbons will be
awarded in the following class
es: 1. Best collection of chry
santhemums (i. e. great number
of varieties); 2. Best single
specimen of chrysanthemums;
3. Best arrangement of chry
santhemums alone; 4. Best ar
rangement of chrysanthemums
in combination with other
flowers; 5. Best collection of
roses; 6. Best single specimen
of rose; 7. Best arrangement
of flowers other than those spec
ified ; 8. Beat collection of flow
ers other than those specified.
Please deliver all exhibits be
tween 2 and 3 o’clock.
pourri of ‘nigger’ melodies, but
a large and highly organized
symphomic poem, finished in
every detail of its form. It be
gins with a mighty sigh, wafted
from the heart of Africa itself,
and its final orgy is presented
as the tragic ruin of the beauty
that began in romantic pathos.
‘Rhapsodie Negre’ will be soon
est understood by those who,
whether from personal know
ledge of the composer, or from
capacity to recognize emotional
values in music, manage to un
derstand from the outset that
this is not only an eminently
romantic but also a thoroughly
tragic piece.”
Tickets for the concert may
be obtained from Mrs. H. R.
Totten or at the office of the
University’s music department.
They rpnge in price from 50 cts.
to |1.50.