VdL 13. No. 50
“Mild Epidemic' 1
Canses Meetings
, To Be Deferred
Many Cases of Illness Prompt
University to Take Pre
cautionary Measure
INFIRMARY IS ADEQUATE
Beeause of the many cases of
illness among the students, the
University authorities and rep
resentatives of the student body
decided Tuesday afternoon to
postpone the Parents’ Day cele
bration scheduled for Wednes
day the 12th, the Student-Fac
ulty Day scheduled for yester
day, the mid-winter dances
scheduled for today and tomor
row, and the athletic events
scheduled for the week-end in
the Tin Can.
The condition that prevails
here now is by no means a seri
ous epidemic and does not jus
tify alarm. The purpose of the
postponements is to reduce the
exposure of students to colds
and other infections which are
apt to be spread by congrega
tions.
The exceptionally bad weather
over a period of several weeks—
cold, snow, slush—has caused
an abnormal volume of illness,
but there have been very few
cases of a serious nature.
Sixty-four patients were in
the Infirmary night before last.
During most of the last two or
three weeks the number has
ranged from 45 to 60. Some
extra beds were put in last
month, and at no time have the
accommodations been insufficient
to meet the demands upon them.
Dr. W. Reece Berryhill, Uni
versity physician, said yester
day that the departure of stu
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The Birthday Fund
The net proceeds from the
celebration of the President’s
Birthday in Chapel Hill, on the
evening of January 30, amount
ed to Mayor John M.
Foushee, chairman of the com
mittee in charge, announced yes
terday.
Thirty per cent goes to the
national committee, and 70 per
cent, or $78.73, is retained here
for the prevention of infantile
paralysis. Therp is a balance of
$69.02 left frohi last year, so
that the Chapel Hill fund now
on hand comes to $147.75.
“A letter from Dr. 0. L. Mil
ler, ehairman of North Caro
lina Commission for Crippled
Children," says Mr. Foushee,
"encourages us to hope that our
fund will be swelled by an allot
ment from the Government un
der the Security Act.”
Mr. Foushee expressed his
gratitude to the Coca Cola, the
Pepsi Cola, and the Nehi com
panies for their donation of re
freshments at the birthday
party.
Clyde Eubanks, Chapel Hill's
champion weather observer,
peered upward through the glass
front of his drugstore. “Going
to get warmer," he said. Curi
ous as to the source of his in
formation, I came close to him
and tilted my head alongside
his. Through the narrow open
ing between the wall and the
awning I saw the weather vane
on the Methodist church steeple.
"You see," he explained, “the
wind is from the south."
That was in the forenoon
Tuesday, and the weather did
become wanner in the next few
hours, adding to the slush on
, ' •
. Frederick H. Koch has begun
his boondoggling. That is to
say, he lias launched the Federal
Theatre Projects in North Caro
lina, South Carolina, and Vir
ginia.
Perhaps you don’t know what
boondoggling means. It is the
word for federal relief enter
prises that, on the face, seem to
involve the expenditure of money
on non-essentials.- The word
first came to the public atten
tion When it was used by a wit
ness, at an investigation into re
lief projects in New York City,
to describe such activities as the
drawing of pictures, the per
formance of plays, the playing of
tunes on musical instruments,
singing, lecturing, elocution, and
the telling of bed-time stories.
The foes of the New Deal
seized upon the word boondog
gling as an opportunity for de
nunciation and derision. The
champions of the New Deal, far
from offering apologies or ex
cuses, came back with a spirited
defense of boondoggling. "Yes,”
they said, "we engage in boon
doggling, and we intend to keep
it up. Mechanics and laborers
The Orgatron
New faHtrnment to Be Played at the
Baptist Church Sunday
Chapel Hill people will have on
Sunday their first opportunity
to hear the new electrophonic
musical instrument known com
mercially as the Orgatron. It
will be played at the morning
and evening services in the Bap
tist church.
This is a reed instrument that
prowls pjpe-organ
quality and quantity by means
ot-.electric amplification which
takes the place of pipes and
other elaborate mechanisms of
the ordinary pipe-organ. It is
for use in homes, churches, and
auditoriums where the use of a
pipe-organ is not practical.
The Jesse Bowen Piano Com
pany of Winston-Salem are dis
tributors throughout this section
for the Orgatron, and it is
through them that the demon
stration has been arranged. Mr.
Bowen will be at the console both
morning and evening and will be
glad to answer any questions
and give information about the
instrument.
Members of the congregation
who have heard it are very en
thusiastic and its purchase by
the church is contemplated. The
public, and especially the stu
dents and members of the fac
ulty of the University depart
ment of music, are invited.
Bridge Benefit Called Off
The U. D. C. bridge-and-tea
benefit, scheduled for today, has
been indefinitely postponed.
Notify the Weekly at once of
any change in your address.
Weather Gossip
the street. At nightfall the mer
cury again dropped below the
freezing point, and the next
morning, walking down the gen
tle slope into my yard, I slipped
and sat down, painfully, on the
ice. I said to myself scornfully:
“Clyde Eubanks and his south
wind!”
Os course, literally, Mr. Eu
banks was right. It has indeed
been warmer since he interpret
ed the vane on the steeple. „ A
little warmer, but not much.
The village is still chill and
bleak. r 7
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H. R. Totten, the ; botanist,
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The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Biller
Koch Has Begun His Boondoggling .
CHAPEL HILL, N. G, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1936
and farmers are not the only
people who are suffering from
the depression. Unemployed
actors and musicians get just as
hungry as anybody e4se. A sing
er, no less than a steam-fitter
or a carpenter, needs bread and
clothes for his children. Wan
dering about in a vain search for
a job, thinly clad and without
a penny in his pocket, an illus
trator of stories or a decorator
of Christmas cards feels the
cruel blasts of winter as keenly
as a brickmason or a plumber.”
Harry Hopkins, the Govern
ment’s chief administrator of
relief, was one who defied in lan
guage of this sort the critics of
boondoggling.
When the editor of an anti-
New Deal newspaper ridiculed
the Government for providing
shaves for laboring men on re
lief, Charles Michaelson, the
Democrats’ boss press agent, re
plied : "Does it occur to this com
fortable gentleman that barbers
need employment as urgently as
any other class of workers?”
This defense of boondoggling
was difficult to answer. In fact,
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Carroll Breaks Wrist
French Instructor Slides Once Too
Often on Country Club Fairway
A gay company of young peo
ple went sledding out on the golf
links of the Country Club Tues
day night. The moon shone
down on the snow, and the No.
1 fairway made an excellent
slide. It was great sport.
Around midnight, when the
merrymakers were about to star*
lmom fqpnd that sb‘*|
was missing. They knew it
must be somewhere down the
slope.
"I’ll go get it,” said John Car
roll, instructor in French. He
stretched himself on a Flexible
Flyer, gave a shove, and was off.
He was going at high speed
when his right arm struck the
standard that marks the 250-
yard distance from the tee.
They took him to the Infirm
ary, and his arm was bound up
in splints. Next morning an
x-ray photograph showed that
two bones in the wrist were
broken.
The Alumni Gathering
Dinner Given in Honor of Mr. and
Mra. John Sprunt Hill
Mr. and Mrs. John Sprunt Hill,
who gave the Carolina Inn to the
University, were guests of honor
at a dinner given there last eve
ning. This was the main fea
ture of the program of the an
nual assembly of the Alumni
Association.
The occasion marked the in
auguration of the Inn as official
alumni headquarters.
Rev. Howard E. Rondthaler,
president of the association, de
livered an address in which he
spoke of Mr. and Mrs. Hill’s
great services to the University.
After the dinner a business
session was held. Candidates
for the presidency and other of
fices were named by nominating
committees; the balloting will be
conducted by mail. Two mem
bers of the association’s board
of directors were elected.
There was an open forum dis
cussion of various matters of in
terest to the. alumni.
P. T. A. Meeting Tuesday
- Parent-Teacher Associa
tion will celebrate Founders'
Day with a meeting at 4
Tuesday afternoon. M. R. Tra
bue w»H speak on “The Child, A
Prospective Citizen.”
Chapel Hill Chaff
Always I am complaining
about the dullness of most of the
stuff that comes over the radio.
Well, it gave me plenty of ex
citement last Sunday evening.
Our two Scotties, Angus and
Wully, who had been ranging in
the snow for hours, lay on a rag
rug, exhausted and fast asleep.
Major Bowes’ Amateur Night
program was coming in. There
was piano-playing and singing
and dancing—and then an imi
tator said:
"You will now hear a friendly
dog.”
Came a gentle questing sound,
a sort of pleased whine, as of
an affectionate dog being petted.
Wully (the younger of our
Scotties, just past puppyhood)
pricked up his ears, arose, and
walked over to the radio. He
cocked his head this way and
that, and, as he listened intently,
stared at the radio box. He was
deeply puzzled at hearing a dog
so close and not seeing one. We
looked on, fascinated.
The imitator’s natural human
voice broken in:
"Here comes a strange dog.”
A growl, faint but menacing
—then more audible—and then
all at once a furious snapping
and snarling. All from the ra
dio, for Wully didn’t make a
sound.
Angus had hardly stirred dur
ing the mild part of the imita
tion, and we had forgotten he
was present. Now, suddenly,
without any warning, he came
hurtling through the air, a black
catapult snarling with rage. He
j lit upon the unoffending Wully
and began to bite and claw at
Lhira. For a moment or two, we
were too flabbergasted to move,
and then we pulled them apart.
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Swarthout’s Triumph
Opera Star’s Singing and Charming
Manners Captivate Students
Never has a singer, musician,
play-actor, or any other enter
tainer had a greater triumph in
Chapel Hill than Gladys Swarth
out had Wednesday evening in
Memorial hall.
This star of the opera, the
screen, and the radio, can sing
divinely, but that is only part
of her appeal. She is young and
beautiful and has the most en
gaging manners.
She charmed all her audience,
but particularly the students.
They clamored for encores, and
smilingly she consented. At the
end of the performance the stu
dents, eager to have a closer ac
quaintance, made a rush for
ward, clambered to the stage,
and surrounded her. In great
good humor, she exchanged ban
ter with them.
When she managed to make
her way through the crush and
get out of the building, they
crowded around her car and es
corted her to the Inn.
Etchings in the Library
Etchings by John Taylor
Arms were put on exhibit Wed
nesday in the main lobby of the
University library and will re
main there about ten days long
er. Mostly architectural, the col
lection embraces pictures of
European cathedrals and vil?
lages.
Farrar to Read His Own Play
For the Playmaker reading at
8 ;30 Sunday evenihg Preston C.
Farrar will read his own play,
‘The Romantics.” It is a satire
upon some fantastic notions
about the past once held by cer
tain romantic peopla
Snow Again, and Biting Cold;
Population’ of Chapel Hill Is
Fed Up with Rotten Weather
School Closed
The Chapel Hill school was
closed 7 yesterday and will be
closed today.
The decision to suspend
work for the two days was
reached at a conference of J.
Minor Gwynn, principal, with
members of the board of trus
tees.
Tuesday and Wednesday
there had been a partial sus
pension, the pupils being dis
missed at 1 o’clock. Since
there was no improvement in
the weather, many of the pu
pils had colds, and those living
in the country found it dif
ficult to attend (some found
it impossible), the authorities
decided that it would be bet
ter to have no classes at all
Thursday and Friday. They
expect that the school wiU re
open Monday.
Probably the lost time will
be made up by extra days at
the end of the spring term.
Sandy’s Son Wins Prize
Logans Delighted by News of Award
at County Fair in Florida
In the records of the Ameri
can Kennel Club Mrs. George B.
Logan’s high-bred Scotch terrier
is registered under the name of
Chapel Hill Pride. Here he is
known as Sandy Logan.
Mrs. Logan and her four
daughters were lifted to a high
peak of excitement and delight
this week by a letter Jtrom a
friend in Tampa. It brought the
news that Sandy’s two-year-old
son, a resident of that city, had
won the first prize in the Scotch
terrier class at the Pinellis
County Fair.
Sandy has many distinguished
sons and daughters scattered
about the Southern states.
Chapel Hill’s Honor Students
Three University students
from Chapel Hill made the grade
A in all their courses in the win
ter quarter: Nell Booker, Julia
Peebles, and Donald K. McKee.
Other Chapel Hill students on
the honor roll are C. W. Coker,
R. E. Coker, Jr., Lydia Daniels,
R. S. Dicks, Archibald Hender
son, Jr., Catherine Hodges, June
C. Hogan, Margaret L. Howard,
W. P. Hudson, Margaret Jordan,
Margaret McGirt, C. S. Mcln
tosh, Rachael B. McLain, Gilmer
Mebane, J. F. Munch, C. E.
Prouty, Mary L. Scales, P. C.
Schinhan, Eileen M. Smith, C. S.
Snavely, V. S. Sparrow, Verna
L. Stover, Elizabeth Wright, and
Erika Zimmermann,
State Employees 111
M. C. S. Noble, Jr., is one of
the many officials and employees
of the state government who
have been put out of commission
by colds and flu. The latest news
is that he is recovering.
“Several hundred state em
ployees are ‘out with the flu',”
writes Robert M. Thompson in
the “Under the Dome” column
in the News and Observer. “The
majority are members of the
field and maintenance forces of
the state highway and public
works commission and of the
staffs of various institutions,
but close to 100 are out in Ral
eigh alone.
"Estimate* showed that yes
terday 80 .were out in the rev
enue department, almost as
f IAO a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
Severe Cold Continues after
Village la Covered with
a Deep White Blanket
TRAFFIC IS OBSTRUCTED
Reflecting upon the far more
unfortunate situation of some
body else is a time-honored
method of making your own
burden of trouble seem lighter,
but what Chapel Hill people
read every day in the news
papers about the terrific cold in
the Middle West—the waist
deep snow, the bitter gales, the
sub-zero temperatures, railroad
trains halted and motorists ma
rooned—does not seem to make
them any better satisfied with
their own comparatively mild
weather.
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It may be mild compared with
the weather of Minnesota and
Wisconsin, but not with the sort
of weather that Chapel Hill has
been accustomed to, and that’s
the comparison that counts.
Chapel Hill feels cruelly imposed
upon; martyred, in fact. And it
is highly articulate in its dis
tress. The favorite words in the
village vocabulary are fed-up,
beastly, rotten, and bellyful.
The sixth snow of the winter,
and the heaviest one thus far,
began falling on Thursday after
noon of last week, and kept on
falling through the night, to the
accompaniment of a fierce wind,
and Friday morning it was
about a foot deep. Great drifts
piled up against houses on the
windward side, and in many
places completely covered long
stretches of rock walls.
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The Eatons
Rev. and Mrs. Edward Dwight
Eaton and their daughter, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hincks of Bridgeport,
Connecticut, are at Mrs. F. P.
Venable’s on Rosemary lane, for
the winter quarter.
Mr. Eaton, who is 85 years
old, is a distinguished Congre
gational clergyman. He was
president of Beloit College, Be
loit, Wisconsin, from 1886 to
1917. There are three Beloiters
in the Univera V faculty: Ray
mond Adams of the English de
partment; M. T. Van Hecke,
dean of the law school, and Al
vin Wheeler, professor of chem
istry.
The Eatons have displayed
an eager interest in the life of
the University community. They
have attended many public occa
sions at Duke University and in
Chapel Hill, and on one day re
cently they visited an 8:30 A. M.
lecture on economics and an eve
ning seminar in sociology.
many from the highway build
ing and from one to half a dozen
out in almost every other de
partment. Among those ill were
Secretary of State Stacey W.
Wade, Commissioner of Agricul
ture W. A. Graham, Director of
Conservation R. Bruce Etber
fdge, Industrial Commissioner T.
A. Wilson, Assistant Revenue
Commissioner M. C. 8. Noble,
Jr., and Charles Powell, secre
tary to the Governor. There
were numerous other executives
who said they were ‘on the verge’
of falling out themselves. Even
the Governor was sniffling.
“Our maintenance staff, which
right now has more work than it
could handle at best, has been
crippled by the *tuff,” said Chief
Engineer W. Vance Baise.”