ViL 13. No. 2.
Athletes Coming
.Here for Indoor
Games Tomorrow
Starts to Compete in Track and
Field Events at 1:30 P.M.
and Again at 7:15 P.M.
THE GOVERNOR TO ATTEND
Despite the arrival of spring
official athletic calendar says
that winter is not ended, and the
closing event of the winter sea
son is scheduled for tomorrow
(Saturday) afternoon and eve
ning in the Tin Can.
Between 350 and 400 athletes,
more than have ever assembled
before in the South, are expected
here for the Southern Confer
ence Indoor games. The after
noon program will begin at 1:30
and the evening program at
7:30. Most of the final contests
will take place in the evening.
The provision of quarters for
the athletes is a problem, and an
appeal has been made to the
University students to take vis
, itors into their dormitory rooms
and provide sleeping accommo
dations for them somehow.
“Every student can provide him
self a worthy host by showing
special courtesies to the visit
ing athletes,” says Robert A.
Fetzer, director of athletics, in
an appeal to the student body.
“It is the rare privilege of this
institution to be the sponsor of
such an event as the Southern
Conference Indoor Games, and
it is a rare opportunity that
Carolina’s students have to wit
ness the splendid competition
that brings together 40 teams,
including ten out of twelve of
the 1934 indoor champs and
eleven of the fourteen outdoor
champs.”
The of North Caro
lina is defending the Southern
Conference title that it won last
year.
Probably no contests are look
ed forward to with greater in
terest than th# hldf-mile and
mile races in Harry Wil
liamson will perform. Other
champions will be Reichman
and Bird of Duke, Widmyer
and Evans of Maryland, Grover
Everett of Virginia, Craig of
South Carolina, and Macßae,
Drake, Waldrop, and Zori of
North Carolina.
Hampton Quartet Next Tuesday
The Hampton Negro Quartet
will present a ministrel program
at 7:30 Tuesday evening in Me
morial hall. At the same time
Rev. W. A. Cooper, preacher
and artist of 'Charlotte, will
exhibit some of his work, He
won first prize in the Negro art
division at the Century of Prog
ress Exposition in Chicago.
N. C. Symphony Will Give 5 Concerts in Durham
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The North Carolina Sym
phony Orchestra (Lamar String
field, conductor) will give five
concert* Mohday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday of next week in the
junior high school auditorium in
Durham.
There will be three perform
ances at 8:80 in the evening. A
children’s matinee will be given
at 2:80 Tuesday afternoon, and
the teachers in schools and near
the eity are invited to bring their
classes. A concert with a pro
up entirely of Amer
compositions will be given
at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Strbtgfield returned last
week from New York and Phila
delphia where be acted as guest
conductor for orchestras.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Chapel Hill Chaff
A professor of my acquaint
ance has for many years enjoy
ed jesting about his wife’s habit
of making him gifts that were
more responsive to her "own
yearnings than to his. On his
birthday he would get a fancy
t vase or a bureau scarfon
Christmas a set of aluminum
kitchen utensils; on the next
birthday an illustrated book on
the cultivation of flowers.
“You’d never- guess the latest,”
he said to me one day this week,
“so I’ll tell you; a pair of em
broidered pillow case^.”
♦ * *
J. Penrose Harland, big shot of
the Student Entertainment
Committee, tells me that De
Wolf Hopper is still on this sea
-1 son’s schedule, so I will drop the
suggestion that I was just about
i to make: that Cam Mcßae be
l
called on to substitute for the
■ celebrated comedian in reciting
i “Casey at the Bat.”
! I met the former Chapel Hill
ian, now a business man of Con
-1 cord, at the post-office one day
this week, and we fell into rem
iniscences of his appearance on
the stage in May of 1897. That
’ was the first year of the Chapel
Hill high school, and he stood
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! Bus Hearing Postponed
| Consideration of Greyhound Lines’
Is Put Og Once More
l
| Again there has been a post
; ponment of the hearing, before
. Utilities Commissioner Win
, borne, on the application of the
Atlantic Greyhound Lines to
■ operate busses between Greens-
I boro and Raleigh on highway
. No. 54 through Chapel Hill.
It was first set for January
■ 22 and then for March 5. One
i of the attorneys interested in
; the matter had to argue a case
in court March 5, and that was
. the reason for the second post
. ponement. Now the Greyhound
1 Lines’ management thinks the
. hearing will be held about the
• 29th. A notice will be publish
i ed well in advance.
* The chamber of commerce of
■ Durham is opposing the appli
r cation on the ground that the
, new line would divert passen
! gers from the busses that run
through Durham and would
thereby damage the city,
R. B. Vance in New Orleans
t Rupert B. Vance, of the In
■ stitute of Research in Social
f Science in the University, has
’ gone to New Orleans where he
1 will lecture today on “The
i Property and Tenant System
; and the Cotton Economy of the
■ South” before a meeting of the
Southern Regional Committee.
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He announced that the series of
concerts in Raleigh ended with
a performance at 10:30 Wednes
day morning at the Hugh Mor
son high school.
The orchestra appeared at
8 o’clock Thursday evening in
Roxboro.
Carter Lectures in Russian
Not only does P. D. Carter,
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Car
ter, install telephone lines for
the Russians; he haa learned
their language ao that he can
tell 'em about it Recently the
Soviet Government sent him
from Moscow to Leningrad for
a 4-day series of lectures on
telephony.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935
Lawrence Solves Problem of Pigs
By Slashing Government Red Tape
George H. Lawrence’s adven
ture with a company of pigs
Tuesday calls to mind the pre
dicament of the express agent
in Ellis Parker Butler’s celebrat
ed story, Pigs Is Pigs. But,
though the cases are similar as
to the beginning, there is a great
contrast between them as to the
end.
It will be recalled that the ex
press agent, caught in a tangle
of red tape which kept the pigs
under his charge, awoke one
morning to find himself the
master of a litter as well as the
original pair. There were more
litters, and more, until, while
letters were passed back and
forth, and reports were submit
ted, and forms were filled out,
the two pigs multiplied into
thousands. Mr. Lawrence did
not allow himself to be caught
in any such manner. He, too,
was beset by red tape; but he
slashed it, and threw the frag
ments aside, and got rid of his
pigs within less than 24 hours
after he had come into posses
sion of them.
In the Emergency Relief or
ganization this county was re
cently merged with four other
counties, and the district head
quarters was established in
Durham. This put an end to
the position of county relief ad
ministrator, which had been
held by Mr. Lawrence for the
last year. But there has to be
a supervisor in each county, and,
since he is the county welfare
officer and bas had experience
with the relief program, he has
been kept on to do the work
Thanks to the Firemen
Perry Gets Letters about Good Work
of Company at Recent Blaze
Two letters thanking the
Chapel Hill fire department for
its work at the fire in the Tank
ersley building have come to
Chief Perry.
“I express to you my sincere
appreciation for the splendid
and efficient manner in which
you extinguished the fire,”
writes Judge E. Earl Rives of
Greensboro. “I think you did
an excellent job and held the
damage down to a minimum.’*
“We want to tell you how
grateful we are,” write T. E.
Best, Jr., and W. C. Best, pro
prietors of the University Shoe
Shop. “Your men, at least some
of them, ran a great risk in try
ing to save our books and in
fighting the fire. We do not
have the vocabulary at our com
mand to tell you just how much
we appreciate the wonderful
work that you did.”
Chinese Minister Coming
Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister
to the United States, is one of
the speakers for the Human Re
lations Institute to be held here
in the first week of April. Mr.
Sze is a graduate of Cornell and
has received honorary degrees
from several American univer
sities. He has twice been
Chinese Minister to Great Brit
ain, and he was chief of the
Chinese delegation at the anus
limitation conference in Wash
ington in 1921.
Miss Roberson Howe from Tour
Miss Nellie Roberson has
come back from her tour. Trav
eling on a United Bruit Com
pany steamer from New Orleans,
she went to Cuba, the Panama
! Canal Zone, and Honduras. c * j
without having any definite title
under the N.R.A.
Since the suspension of most
of the work projects, the enter
prise known as Rural Rehabilita
tion is the most important E.R.
A. activity in this region. This
is the name for Government aid
to farmers—aid through the
provision of equipment and seeds
and cows and pigs and mules and
other things the farmers need.
Mr; Lawrence has been occupy
ing himself with making out
budgets for farm families, ac
cording to regulations passed on
to him from Washington
through Raleigh and Durham,
and about a hundred such bud
gets have been formally ap
proved.
One essential item in many of
the family budgets is a pair of
Pigs.
Mr. Lawrence got a telephone
call Tuesday morning from Ed
Walker, his foreman in Rural
Rehabilitation.
“I’m out here in Carrboro,”
said Mr. Walker. “There’s a
man from Bladen county passing
through here with a load of 23
pigs. Just what we need. Can
we buy ’em? The man is just
about to pull out. We’ve got
to say yes or no right away.”
Mr. Lawrence knew he didn’t
have any E.R.A. money to buy
the pigs with. But he knew he
needed those pigs for his farm
ers, who were fairly crying for
pigs.
“You tell him yes,” he an-
Bwoend over the telephone. hi-’M
be out there in a little while.”
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Musicology
Course leading to Degree of Master
of Arta in Music la Announced
The University’s graduate
school announces the establish
ment of a curriculum in musicol
ogy leading to the degree of
master of arts in music.
The University is the first in
stitution in the South to inaugu
rate such a course. Some of
the leading institutions in the
North, the Middle West, and the
West, following the example of
European universities, have de
veloped their graduate work in
music in this direction.
Glen Haydon, head of the mu
sic department, who is to direct
the new course, came here from
the University of California. He
received the doctorate of philos
ophy at the University of Vien
na in 1932, He is the author of
several books on music, includ
ing The Evolution of the Six-
Four Chord.
Drama Contests Next Friday
The preliminary contests of
the State Dramatic Association
will be held at 7:30 P.M. next
Friday at the Playmakers The
atre. The schools competing in
this district are Chapel Hill*
Southern Pines, and Needham
Broughton and Hugh Morson
high schools of Raleigh. The
production to be given by the
Chapel Hill high school dramatic
chib is undelr the direction of
Hiss Celeste Penny and is named,
“Not Such s Goose.” The east
for the play la aa follows: .Thel
ma Durham, Melville Jordan,
Louise Hudson, Tommie Mc-
Intosh, and Gene Breckenridge.
There is no admission charge.
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Brown Coming from Oklahoma
Buy M, Brown* who In
Oklahoma several months, will
!be back in Chapel Hitt soon.
Warm Weather
Warm weather is here. Os
course nobody knows how long
it will stay, but why borrow
trouble from the future? Gather
the daffodils while ye may; or,
if yob prefer, let 'em stand
where they are and look at ’em.
The daffodil is now the ruling
flower of Chapel Hill. The bril
liant yellow blooms, glowing in
the sunlight, are a feast for your
eyes wherever you go about the
village and the campus. They
are in gardens and yards, and
along pathways and hedges.
They grow in martial rows, in
circles and squares, and in cha
otic clusters. Sometimes you
come upon them scattered
thickly beneath the pine trees.
In sheltered spots are hya
cinths and violets. Crocuses
peep up here and there. The
winter honeysuckle is filled with
its creamy, fragrant blossoms.
The flowering apricots are in
bloom, and the buds are swelling
on the damson and the plum.
Bees are buzzing everywhere.
The trees are getting ready to
burst into leaf.
Murchison Here Tonight
To Speak on “Restriction* on World
Commerce” in Gerrard Hall
Claudius T. Murchison, for
mer professor here, now chief
of the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce in the U. S.
Department of Commerce, will
speak on “Restrictions on World
Commerce” at 8 o’clock this
(Friday) evening in Gerrard
"hall. He will tell of the means
by which the Government is try
ing to combat these restrictions
and will give an intimate and
detailed account of the procedure
followed under the present trade
agreements program.
Mr. Murchison was appointed
by President Roosevelt to his
present office last May to fill the
position left vacant by William
Thorp. He has had a leading
part in carrying on negotiations
with other nations uhdeg the
present tariff law.
A member of the University
faculty since 1921, Dr. Murchi
son was director of research in
the School of Commerce when
he received his appointment. In
1933 he refused an offer to be
come senior economist for the
AAA, although at the time he
indicated that he was in favor of
the administration’s recovery
program. j „
The Caldwells Move
T&wn Manager J. E. Caldwell
and his family have moved into
the house formerly occupied by
the Bowmans on East Franklin
street.
Writers* Conference to Be Held at Blue Ridge
A Writers! Conference will be
hel dst Blues Ridge, near Black
Mountain in western North Caro
lina, in the two weeks from Au
gust 6 to August 17, under the
,ponsorship of the University ex
tension division. Phillips Rus
sell, acting associate professor of
English in the University, will
be the director.
“It will be open to all persons
interested in writing, whether
for professional, diversional, or
cultural reasons,” says Russell
M.Gnjmman, director of the ex
tension division. “On the 1400-
aere estate at Blue Ridge ample
hotel, classroom and recreation
al facilities are promised. The
feat and expense* sire to Be kept
down to a minimum,
sl-5® a Year fas Advance. 5c a Copy
Legion Gives Up
Plan to Rebuild
The Old Church
Enterprise Too Ambitions; Post
Now Considers Erecting Sim
ple and Inexpensive “Hut”
WILL HAVE TO BUY A LOT
The Chapel Hill post of the
American Legion has abandoned
its plan to buy and reconstruct
the old Methodist church at
Rosemary and Henderson
streets. Paul Robertson, L. J.
Phipps, George Hellen, and the
other Legionnaires who launch
ed the project have decided that
it is too ambitious. It calls for
more money than the post has
any prospect of raising.
Now the idea is to buy a lot
and erect upon it a “hut” of
simple character.
The announcement was made
a few weeks ago that the old
church was to be bought for
$8,750 and that the necessary
reconstruction would cost around
$1,250. The purchase was to
be financed through a loan from
the bank, and the $1,250 was
to be made up of contributions
and possibly the proceeds from
benefit entertainments.
“A second and more careful
examination of the property has
convinced us that to make it
over into a suitable home for the
post would take a considerably
larger sum than we first esti
mated,” said George Hellen
yesterday. “From the begin
ning we would be under heavy
pressure to swing the enterprise,
and it is doubtful if we could
succeed in doing it. What we
have in mind now is to put up a
’hut’ of a modest and inexpen
sive type.”
The Chapel Hill Movie Guild
had offered to contribute to the
post the revenue from one of
she Sunday shows in March. This
offer is now suspended, but the
Guild stands ready to give aid
when Borne new plan is worked
out.
A corporation called Chapel
Hill Post No. 6, American
Legion, Incorporated, haa been
formed to carry on the building
project. The officers are :* presi
dent, Paul Robertson; vice-pres
ident, W. S. Hogan; secretary, L.
J. Phipps; treasurer, George
Hellen.
Man with Bicyclea Here Again
The man with a flock of bi
cyclea who was here last fall,
and then went on to the deeper
South, has come back. The old
Barbee house next to the Epis
copal church is again his head
quarters, and he is doing a good
business renting his bicycles.
“The conference will be in
formal in its nature. There will
be no organized courses or con
ventional classroom exercises,
but the program embraces lec
tures, round-table discussions,
criticisms, and readings. Pro
fessional and amateur writers,
publishers, and booksellers will
have the opportunity to meet
one another. The aim of the
conference is not sectional but
a special welcome is extended to
writers living in or interested in
the South, Prominent writers
from the South and other parts
of the country have said that
they will attend.”
Whoever wants to ask «;&•*■• |
tions about the conference
should write to Mr. Grwtiinsjl.