Vet 14. No. 3
Drama Festival
Set for First
Week in April
Program Includes Productions
of Plays, Exhibits, and
Speeches by Notables
PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED
The thirteenth annual dra
matic Tournament and Festival
will be held April 1,2, 3, and 4.
in Chapel Hill. The program is
announced by Mrs. Irene Fuss
ier, secretary of the Carolina
Dramatic Association.
It will begin at 8:30 Wednes
day evening, April 1, with a
performance of “Swastika" by
the Charlotte Little Theatre
Work Shop. The author of the
play is Joe Adams of Charlotte.
A guest performance of the
winning play in the Negro High
School Dramatic Tournament
will be given Thursday after
noon, followed by a final contest
in the production of original
plays by several high schools
and a Federal Theatre Group
production.
Speakers at the afternoon
session will include Charles
Winter Wood, successor to Rich
ard B. Harrison, who played thj
part of De Lawd in "The Green
Pastures;" Mrs. J. M. Craw
ford, director of the Dumas
Plays of Akron, Ohio; and Lo
retto Carroll Bailey, director of
the Negro State High School
and College Drama Tourna
ments.
Thursday night's session will
include a presentation of an
original play by a community
<lub, the final contest in play
production eaxtag Little Thea
(Cntiwutd on page five)
The Equinox
When the gale blew and the
rain poured Tuesday, and the
snow fell Wednesday, no doubt
many of the citizens of Chapel
Hill said to themselves: “Equi
noctial storm.”
The 21st. of March is the day
qf the equinox, so called because
then th* day and the night are
of equal length. There is a com
moa belief that around that
time violent gales may be ex
pected. The Encyclopedia Bri
tans ica says that "this popular
idea has no foundation in fact,"
that observations for 50 years
have shown that there are no
more violent winds at the equi
nox than at other seasons.
Stringfieid on the Air
Lamar Stringfieid was guest
conductor of the United States
Navy Band Symphony Orches
tra In radio broadcasts, Tuesday
and Wednesday, of three of his
compositions: "The Legend of
John Henry," “Cripple Creek,"
and "A Negro Parade."
Rambling around in Charleston
Ambling along the street In
Charleston, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Coates became aware that they
were hungry.
"Where shall we eat this eve
ning?" one of them asked the
other. A gentle-spoken lady
happened to overhear the ques
tion and thought it waa "What
shall we see this evening?", and
said: “Therms a very interest
ing exhibit at the Gibbs Memo
rial Library."
So they went to the exhibit—
not, however, until they had
dined—and found that it fulfilled
tbe promise.
The next morning, while Mr.
was attending to some
business affair, Mrs. Coates
cruised about the old part of
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRATES
Editor
Chapel Hill Chaff
Methodology, frequently seen
in the writings and heard from
the lips of teachers, has always
struck me as a fearsome word.
It is used in connection with any
kind of subject—history, eco
non|ics, mathematics, languages.
In a University Summer Session
bulletin about a “conference on
the teaching of marriage and
the family," I find this phrase:
“the methodology of the instruc
tion in the preparation for mar
riage.”
On many a summer’s evening,
when the moon shines bright, I
meet a couple strolling through
the campus. I see hands linked
and faces turned toward one
another. I hear soft murmurs
of talk —or, perhaps I should
say, murmurs of soft talk. Here,
often, is preparation for mar
riage. An extra-curricular ac
tivity, but seemingly carried on
just as expertly as though in
struction were being imparted
by a professor. Henceforth, now
that I have read the Summer
Session bulletin, when I come
upon one. of these couples I will
say to myself: “Their method
ology seems very good."
Once a friend of mine in the
faculty, I forget who it was,
asked me some question about
my methodology in'getting out
this newspaper. A little while
later I sat down at my type
writer to beat out a piece on this
or that. What the professor had
said being fresh in my memory,
when I had typed a few words
I would wonder: “Is my meth
odology correct?” The sugges
tion that | practiced methodol
ogy wspicht self-conscious
and upset me sd that It took me
half an hour to complete my
first sentence.
• • •
Mrs. George B. Logan is a
Scotchwoman by birth and a
North Carolinian by adoption.
Her four daughters are native,
dyed-in-the-wool, enthusiastic
North Carolinians. Their hearts
{Continued en lest pngo)
U. D. C.’s Benefit Bridge Party
The U. D. C. w$ give a,bene
fit bridge party at the home of
Mrs. G. K. G. Henry at 3 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon and again at
8 o’clock in the evening. Price,
50 cents. At 5 o'clock there will
be a tea at the home of Mrs. H.
M. Wagstaff. Price, 25 cents.
Telephone Mrs. M. E. Hogan for
reservations.
Three Taylors in Charleston
Miss Marianna Taylor came
in from Smith College yesterday
for her vacation. She and her
sister, Miss Eliza, and her
brother, Edmund, are on their
way to Charleston today to at
tend a dance at the Citadel this
evening.
the city in the car. She saw a
iady pottering around in a gar
den. "I’d like to speak to her,"
thought Mrs. Coates, "but may
be I’d better not." She walked
around the block, accumulated
courage, and made an apprecia
tive remark about the joys of
gardening.
"Won't you come in?" asked
the lady, who wae Mrs. Beverly
Mikeli, and presently she was
telling Mrs. Coates that within
a few days she was going to
Chapel Hill to see Billy Hunt’s
iris garden.
These are snatches from Mrs.
Coates's report of her visit. She
says Charleston is entrancing
and she wants to go back there
as soon as possible.
CHAPEL HILL, N. G, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1930
The Crisis in Europe as Seen by Rne
The presence in the village of
Larry Rue, who has been going
about Europe, Asia, and Afrioa
as a newspaper correspondent
since the World War, was chron
icled in our issue of last week.
The editor went up to the Caro
lina Inn Sunday and said to Mr.
Rue: “You’ve been in the midst
of all the uproar over there—
revolts, wars, putsches, disarma
ment conferences; you’ve been
‘behind the scenes’ and have
talked to a lot of the men who
now bear the responsibility of
keeping the peace in Europe.
What’s your slant on the pres
ent crisis? ” And this was Mr.
Rue’s reply:
“Barring unpredictable inci
dents, I see no reason for any
loss of sleep over the present
European developments as a re
sult of the recent reoccupation
of the Rhineland by German
troops. Instead of creating a
war, this last step of a regene
rated Germany to regain the
proper rights of a free nation
may clear the international at
mosphere for a lasting
peace in Europe.
“Hitler took advantage' of the
differences among her former
enemies over the Ethiopian war
Farrar Hurt in Crash
Hitt Car Run* Into Tree icroaa the
Road from the Arboretum
P. C. Farrar of the University
faculty had his jaw and his nose
fractured and some of his teeth
knocked out at 11:30 yesterday
morning when the car he was
driving ran into a tree beside
the Raleigh road opposite tht
Arboretum.
A few moments before, he
had turned east from Franklin
street. G. J. Brooks of Siler
City was driving behind him. As
they came near the Arboretum
gate, behind Spencer ha)l, Mr.
Brooks saw the car ahead bear
ing to the left. It kept on to
tbe left, jumped the curb and
collided with a tree about 50
yafds from the east. campus
gate.
It is thought that Mr. Farrar’s
loss of control of the car must
have been due to a heart attack.
But he was not unconscious, and
when he was taken to the In
firmary by Mr. Brooks and Her
man Schnell (who came from
Grimes dormitory in response to
a call for help) he walked from
the street to the door.
Later he was taken to Watts
hospital. • He was resting com
fortably when this paper went
to press.
Snavely to Cornell
Carl G. Snavely, the Univer
sity's head football coach for the
last two years, has resigned to
become coach at Cornell. His
salary is reported to be f 8,500,
which is considerably more than
he has been receiving here.
His contract here had one
more year to run, but, according
to the custom that prevails when
a coach has the offer of a better
position, his request for a re
lease was granted.
Snavely’s departure is deeply,
regretted here, not only because
of his high competence but also
because of his gentlemanly qual
ities.
The first year he was here
(1934) the University team won
seven games, tied the one with
State College, and loct only to
Tennessee. Last year it won
all ita games.but the one with
Duke, which it loet by 25 to 0.
There are rumors that his first
assistant, Max Reed, will be
chosen as his successor.
to do something which most ob
rvers knew eventually would
done by Germany—Hitler or
no Hitler—that is, assumed the
right to provide for the defense
of undisputed German territory
containing nearly one-fourth the
population of the entire country.
“It is probably just as well that
this were done now. The dan
ger of an outbreak of war lies
in the extremes to which na
tions will resort to prevent a
prospective enemy from getting
a military or strategic advan
tage. The extreme to which
France would like to go will
be tempered greatly by the
League’s preoccupation with the
war in Italy. It must be remem
bered that the League declared
Italy the aggressor in this war
against a member nation—the
most serious crime which it is
in the power of the League to
charge against any country. Cer
tainty Germany cannot be re
garded as an aggressor for re
militarizing the Rhineland. Un
doubtedly she did violate the
treaty of Locarno, but France
herself on two occasions at least
—her sponsoring of the sepa
ratist movement in the Rhine
(Continuod on lout pa go)
Baby in Runaway Car
Taken Into Woods Near Baity Home,
It la Not Seriously Injured
Mrs. Manson Valentine went
to the H. G, Baity home Wed
nesday afternoon. She stopped
the car in the road; left the
baby inside; put the brake on;
and entered the hou|e. She had
come on a hurriqd. errand and
was to stay only a minute or so.
Mrs. Foushee, coming out,
saw the car rolling down the
dope. At first she thought
somebody was in it, but it kept
on into the woods. She ran to
it and tried to open the door but
couldn’t. Then she saw the
baby and made another fruitless
effort to get inside. The car had
gained too much momentum for
her to stop it. It ran down into
the woods, perhaps a hundred
yards, before it was halted by a
tree.
The baby, thrown forward,
had a tooth broken and a lip cut
but did not suffer serious injury.
A wrecking crew had to work
until II o'clock at night to get
the car back out of the woods.
Health Law Held Valid
In the superior court in Hills
boro this week Judge Marshall
Spears, reversing the decision of
Judge Phipps of the recorder’s
court here, upheld the constitu
tionality of the state law author
izing the State Board of Health
to make certain ratings in re
spect to conditions in restau
rants.
In the case of the State vs.
Sutton, Judge* Phipps held the
defendant guilty, under sections
17 and 20, of operating a restau
rant with a rating by the Board
of Health of less than 70, and
the defendant’s motion in arrest
of judgment was allowed on the
ground that there was an uncon
stitutional delegation of author
ity by the legislature.
Judge Spears decides that
there was no delegation of au
thority in the sense declared by
the lower court. The effect of
the decision is to remand the
defendant for sentence; but,
since the requirements of the
Board of Health have now been
met, it is understood that the
proaecutiop will pursue the case
no further, and that it will end
with a suspended sentence.
A SURPLUS OF WATER
The rainfall in Chapel
Hill Tuesday was 1.3 inches.
Water was pouring over
the dam at the University
lake, from end to end, and
buried the footbridge in the
ravine below the dam.
All over the village cel
lars have been flooded. “We
have had many calls for
pumping aid,” said J. S.
Bennett, superintendent of
the Consolidated Service
Plants, yesterday. “Owners
of mechanical stokers have
been specially anxious, be
cause if the water gets
high enough in a furnace
room it will put the motor
out of commission."
A Coin of 1813
Farmer Living near Chapel Hill Has
Half-Stiver 123 Years Old
Graham Pendergraph, a farm
er who lives west of Chapel
Hill, has a coin of British Gui
ana bearing the date 1813. The
other day he turned it over to
Dr. Charles S. Mangum to be
taken care of. Dr. Mangum has
put it in his safe deposit box
and is making inquiries of nu
mismatic experts to find out if
it is valuable.
It is of copper—or what ap
pears to be copper.
On one face, around the edge,
are the words, Georgius 111
D. G. Rex, which means George
the Third, King by the Grace of
God, with a head of George in
the center. In the center of the
other face are the words, Half
Stiver* and around the edge the
words, Colonies of Esaequebe
and Token, 1813.
Essequebo and Demarary are
sections of British Guiana. A
stiver is a coin, formerly cur
rent in Holland and the Dutch
colonies, about equivalent in
value to a British penny. Brit
ish Guiana was acquired in
1803 after having been in Dutch
possession for two centuries,
and that explains why the coins
of the country bore Dutch
names. (
Come and Sea the Daffodils!
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Mrs. Edward Mack, who is liv
ing in the Howe house at But
ton’s, out beyond the Country
Club, invites the peopld of the
village to come out and see the
daffodils during next week.
Flowers on the Campus
Flowers in bloom on the cam
pus: Japanese weeping cherries
in the quadrangle; elsewhere,
wild plums and Judas trees.
Legion Meeting This Evening
The Chapel Hill post of the
American Legion will meet at 8
o’clock this (Friday) evening in
the parish house.
A Visitor from Great Britain
Felix Greene, who is touring
America as a representative of
the British Broadcasting Corpo
ration, drove into Chapel Hill
last Friday evening, passed the
night at the Carolina Inn, and
left Saturday morning for Ten
nessee to look over the T.V.A.
layout of reservoirs, dams, and
power-houses. During the next
few weeks he will be in the
Bouth and Mexico.
This handsome and alert Eng
lishman is no stranger to the
United States. After his gradu
ation from Cambridge Univer
sity seven years ago he graveled
over the country in an automo
bile and visited all the states.
Mr. Greene’s present Mission
is to see what can be done in
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Winter Returns;
Cave* Village a
Severe Lashing
Gale Blows Fiercely, Accompa
nied by Downpour; Later
Comes a Snowstorm
MERCURY TAKES BIG DROP
Just as people in Chapel Hill
were exulting over the arrival
of spring, winter came back,
lashing the village with wind
and rain and snow.
A fierce gale blew all day
Tuesday, and the rain poured
for hours. The temperature
dropped, and Wednesday morn
ing there was a snowstorm. But
the snow fell for only a little
while, and the flakes melted
when they touched the ground.
A strange and beautiful spec
tacle was presented by the snow
against backgrounds of brilliant
yellow forsythia and flowering
fruit trees.
From a maximum of 76 Sun
day the mercury went down to
43 Monday night and to 33
Tuesday night. This is the rec
ord of the United States Weath
er Bureau station at Phillips
hall.
Herbert Pendergraft, proprie
tor of the University Service
station, said yesterday: “The
thermometer at my home
showed 32 early yesterday
morning and early this morn
ing.”
Chapel Hill was on the fringe
of a storm which waa far more
severe to thf west. Western
North Carolina waa buried un
der the heaviest snowfall in 80
years. The snow was from 12
in 20 inches deep* and in seme
places there were drifts of 20
feet. Highways were Mocked
and communications were crip
pled. »
Junior Garden Club
The Junior Garden Club hat
finished’ planting on the plot
back of the post office the 200
shrubs donated by W. C. Coker.
Two peeks of bulbs have klbo
been put into the ground. “
* Ralph Trimble drew pland ‘fbr
the plot in scale, and CdllWr
Cobb is giving the crushed stone
for the pathways in the little
park.
Gifts of benches or chairs vrill
be gratefully received by tbe
club.
Saturday, March 28 (One
week from tomorrow), is to be
Planting Day, If any one in the
village has plants or seeds to
spare, please bring them to the
plot any time on Saturday. Stay,
if you like to lend a hand with
the planting.
The Junior Garden Club ie
sponsored by the Chapel Hill
Garden Club, assisted by the
Parent-Teacher Association.
the wey of radio tie-ups between
the United States and Great
Britain. Long-distance trans
mission of sound by air has now
rsached such a state of perfect
tlon that the transatlantic ex
change of programs la destined
to play an increasingly impor
tant part in broadcasting.
Broadcasting ie a government
activity in Britain, and there ia
no advertising connected with it.
"Os course we can’t take com
mercial programs from Amer
ica" said Mr. Greene, "but you
have splendid programs which
do not carry advertising—for
example, speeches by leaders in
politics and economics and edu
cation, athletic events, ceremo
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