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Page Two IWCfapd HU Weekly ; LOUIS GRAVES Editor 1 B ■ j 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES l * One Year— JIAO , Six MooUu : ' ■ 1.00 J Three Months . .76 ] Zaxtrrd u nutter Febnnry 2t, ! 192!, « the ponofcc* at Gb*pcJ Hill, North < Camliiu. nwtrr tiu *ct of Mirth 3, 1171. , Trying to Stop Soil Erosion 1 1 — ■ ] At the present stage of the i work of the United States Gov- ( ernment’s Soil Erosion Service | the newspaper reader is hear ing a great deal about the dam- , age wrought by erosion and not ( much about what is being done ] to halt the damage. But this , does not mean that the Service ; is chiefly engaged in calamity howling. It has got to make the public realize the disastrous con sequences of the washing-away of the soil on farms and in for ests, and while it is telling this story it is proceeding vigorously with its remedial activities. In North Carolina, as in oth er states of the Union, it has es tablished what are called demon strational erosion-control areas. These areas are so scattered that they are accessible to millions of farmers and other citizens whose property is being damag ed by the too rapid run-off of rainwater. The task of thwart ing this monster, erosion, is no eaay one—it cannot lie complet ed overnight. But it is a task that can be performed success fully, as the experts have prov ed. One great essential—and this explains the preparatory “educational” work campaign by agents of the Government—is public interest and public co operation. In China the world has a hor rible example of the tremendous damage done-by erosion, and many regions \of Europe pre sent examples of triumphs over erosion. This country had bet ter heed the warning and take the course to which expert knowledge points the w’ay, else its wealth will continue to be washed away. Breakfast Breakfast was extolled by Wil liam Lyon Phelps in a radio talk one evening last week. Hymn ing the praises of fruit and ba con and eggs and toast and coffee —particularly coffee he said: “If I could have only one meal a day, it would be breakfast.” Never in bed, but at the table. “I hate crumbs in the sheets and the night clothes, and I have never mastered the art of eating or drinking while in a horizontal position.” We have expressed our af fection for the morning meal frequently, in these columns and elsewhere, and as we listened to the illustrious teacher and writ er wt were aware of that glow of satisfaction that comes from hearing one’s own judgment con firmed by a nranoUhigh position in the world. It tickled our van ity. Sitting back in an easy chair, puffing a pipe, we fairly gloated. But a moment later we were in violent dissent, for Mr. Phelps was going on to say that, for a breakfast to be perfect, it should be eaten without the accom paniment of a newspaper. To us this notion is nothing less than horrible. We gathered that Mr. Phelps considered it neglectful, even discourteous, for a man to read a newspaper instead of engag ing in conversation with the family. The flaw in this, as we see it, lies in the assumption that a newspaper is interesting only to the head of the house, and that his wife would rattier listen to him and talk to him than read about the trial of a kidnapper, the flight over an ocean, a threatened war in Afri ca, a shipwreck, an earthquake, ! or a dispute between the Presi dent and Congress. This may have been so once upon a time, when every word from the lord and master was (or was sup posed to be) a pearl of great price und when it was almost indecent for women to be con cerned with the affairs of the world. But it is so no longer. We believe that, in most house holds of our acquaintance, the man who offered to inaugurate a newspaperless breakfast would have a rebellion on his hands. What he took for an act of self denial on his part would be re ceived as a crtiel and inhuman punishment. only the full grown, but the adolescents, who must have their sports news and movie news,‘and the youngsters, who must have their comic strips would call upon high heav en to protect them from such persecution. Owen Meredith wrote in Lu ciXe three quarters of a century ago: “We may live without friends, we may live without books, But civilized man cannot live without cooks.” Granting an exception in the case of Mr. Phelps, we say there is something else that civilized man cannot live without; and that is a newspaper at the breakfast table. Add Bradshaw to the List We suggested in last week's issue that people in the village wishing to subscribe to maga zines take out their subscrip tions through citizens of Chapel Hill instead of through roving solicitors whom nobody knows anything about and some of whom are frauds. We mention ed four agents who live here and said we would be glad to give the names of any other resident who would let us know he was> bi the business. Richard Bradshaw, 11-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bradshaw, appeared at our door Monday morning. “I want to let you know,” he said, “that I will take subscrip tions, as an agent, to any maga zine in the world.” He utter ed the word, "world,” in a con fident, possessive manner that left us in no doubt that he meant business. So add Richard Bradshaw to your list. Do not allow yourself to be persuaded or intimidated by the high-pressure salesmanship of strangers when there is a neigh bor who is ready to serve you and is eager to earn the com mission. Skating on the Streets A boy roller-skating on the street in an eastern North Caro lina town was killed by a car last night. Recently we have seen boys on skates, weaving their way jn and out among whizzing cars, on the main street of Chapel Hill. It is a danger ous practice. If there is not an ordinance against it, one should he enacted. Anyway, the police should stop it in the interest of safety. Parents of children who have skates will do well to keep them off the pavements. More Revenue Is Needed 1 In the newspapers the Mc- Donald-Lumpkin revenue meas ure has been spoken of as a sub stitute for the sales tax. Some of the levies proposed in this measure are impracticable. Such as are practicable should be made not in place of, but in addition to, the sales tax. Between 25 and 30 million dollars in taxes have' been lifted from property since, 1929, and the most important result of this has been the re duction in the appropriations for education. For the proper support of education the state [needs the sales tax revenue and [several million dollars more.' i THE CHAPEL HELL WEEKLY, CHAPEL HILL, N. C. Tenant Farmers in Arkansas This is from a United Press re port of investigations made by Mrs. Mary Connery Myers, A.A. A. legal official and former agent of the U.S. Department of Jus tice. “Mrs. Myers made an inten sive study of social conditions in five northeastern Arkansas coun ties. “She reported evicted tenant farmer families straggling along highways, wandering hopelessly in search of shelter and employ ment. She said hovels - were crowded until there was ‘stand ing room only’, because families in slightly better economic cir cumstances had shared shelter with the evicted. “Some landlord planters, Mrs. Myers charged, have turned out their tenants without warning and influenced local relief officials to refuse them aid. “She exhibited snapshots of rough-boarded shacks in muck mired fields, the gaps in their walls admitting bitter winds; evicted Negroes standing in the road, not knowing where to turn for succor; a truck piled high with bed springs, a stove, and ' ram-shackled ends of the house ' hold equipment of a poor fam : ily. “Mrs. Myers characterized the scenes as ‘like those of refugees fleeing war-time Belgium.’ “She blamed the situation on ■ violation of an acreage control • contract clause providing; ‘The • producer shall, insofar as pos- I sible, maintain on this farm the ■ normal number of tenants and ( other employes.’ ” Vermin on Prince of Church This incident is related in ' Rata, Lice, and History, by the bacteriologist, Hans Zinsser: When St. Thomas a Becket was martyred, his body was pre pared for burial in the clothes 1 he wore when he was murdered. They were an extraordinary col lection : a'large brown mantle, a white surplice, underneath that a lamb’s wool coat, another woolen coat, then another, a black cowled robe of the Bene dictine Order, a shirt, and, next the body, a hair cloth. As the body grew cold, the vermin that were living in this multiple covering started to crawl out, and according to the chronicler, “the vermin boiled over like water in a simmering cauldron, and the onlookers burst into al ternate weeping and laughter.” .. . . “If this was the state of a prince of the church,” writes the reviewer, Logan Clendening, “it is not astonishing that lousi ness was the general condition of the people of the Middle Ages.” , Belated News of the “Portland” (From the Spectator, Annapolis Royal, Nora Scotia.) A very interesting mystery of the sea is rejtorted to have been solved by the discovery of the ' wreck of the steamer Portland. ; This was a coastwise liner of the sidewheel type which (if memory serves us) left Boston November 26, 1898, in. a blinding snow storm for Portland, Maine, with passengers and crew to the number of one hundred anc fifty-seven was never after wards heard from. It was a mat ter of much speculation among maritime men at the time as to whether the steamer had been pounded to bits by the terrific seas and swamped, or perhaps was sunk in collision, but it has been discovered by Edward B. Snow, Historian of the Bostonian Society, that last summer a scal lop dragger brought up a net in which were several pieces of silver and crockery bearing the name of the steamer. Further search showed a hulk in about thirty feet of water some twelve miles north east of Cape Cod, which would indicate that the disaster happened either very soon after leaving Boston or per haps when she was heading back to port in distress. The location of the wreck being now deter-j mined, however, it is to be ex pected that particulars will be ascertained by divers neat sum mer. Beginning after New Year’s Russia will abandon bread rationing and will allow flour to be sold in shops gen erally. Next the Russians will be de manding cake. —Boston Globe. NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power conferred upon me in a certain deed of trust executed to me by George Trice and wife, Ora Trice, dated No vember 19, 1926, and registered in the office of the Register of Deeds of Or ange County in Book 79, at Page 297, to secure certain indebtedness there in described and default having been made in the payment of the said in debtedness and having been request ed to do so by the holder of the note evidencing the said indebtedness, I will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, at the Post Office Door in Chapel Hill, N. C., at twelve o’clock M. on MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1935 the following described tract of land, to-wit: Lying and being on the West side of McDade Avenue in the suburbs of A Gift to a Friend The Chapel Hill Weekly for one year, $1.50. TODAY : Chester Morris in ‘Society Doctor”; TOMORROW: “Man Who Reclaimed His Head” Jm • wm .m ~ Here It is! . 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C., and beginning at a point established by measuring Northward along said Ave nue 162 feet from its intersection with Craige Street, and running thence S. 86 deg. W. 200 feet to Arthur Barbee’s jlme; thence N. 11 deg. W. 54 feet to John Brooks’ Southwest corner; thence N. 86 deg. E. 200 feet to the West ide of McDade Avenue; thence with said Avenue S. 11 deg. E. 54 feet to COME IN AND SEE THE New Ford Car 0 . Let Us Give You A Demonstration Os Its Power and Comfort (See the Picture New Ford On Page 3) Strowd Motor Co. “Ford Products Since 1914” » , Friday, February 22, 19SS the beginning, being Lot No. 9 in the plat of the Craige land made by Jame» O. Webb, County Surveyor, June 7 and 8, 1915, recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Orange County. This sale will remain open for tea days to receive increased bids. This the 7th day of February, 1936. W. S. ROBERSON, Trustee L. J. PHIPPS, Attorney
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