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Crops Good in
Orange County,
Says Matheson
“Corn Is Bright Spot;” Prices
at Opening of Ga. and S. C.
Markets Cheer Farmers
VERY POOR COTTON CROP
Except in the case of cotton,
' says Don Matheson, county farm
agent, the farmers of Orange
will have good crops this year.
“Corn is the bright spot,” he
says. “Taking the county as a
whole, we have the best * dorn
orop I’ve seen in five years.
"It is not possible! now to
make any accurate forecast of
the revenue from tobacco. We
can only guess and hope, 'ur
farmers are expecting good
prices because of the prices paid
on the Georgia and South Caro
lina markets and because of the
general increase in the consump
tion of cigarette tobacco. They
will be very disappointed if they
don’t make more money than
they did last year.
“The crop acreage this year
is not larger than last year. We
have approximately 1,000 farms
signed under the Federal Soil
Conservation program. Each of
these farms on which tobacco or
cotton is raised has taken some
voluntary reduction from the
base. In consequence of the
drought the poundage will prob
ably be a little less than last
year, but from early curings the
quality seems to b« just as good
if not better. Tobacco fanners
are tremendously hasy harvest
ing their crop, and it seems to
be ripening up in a hurry,
* "Because -of the * required
plantings of soil-building crops
the county will have a great
abundance of soy beans, lespe
deza, and other forage crops. In
dications are that we will be
able to sell a* surplus of hay
• above home needs this year.
"Cotton is very poor through
out the county. The stand is
ragged, and it is all late. We
will make about a half crop.”
This Paper to Suspend
For Two Weeks
I am going to suspend pub
lication of the Weekly for the
first two weeks of September.
It will appear next week (Aug
ust 28); it will not appear on
either September 4 or Sep
tember 11; and it will appear
again Friday, September 18.
L. G.
Union Services
The Union Services in the
Methodist Church at 11 o’clock
Sunday morning will be conduct
ed by the Y. M. C. A. with Mr.
Comer in charge.
Program for Stadium Concert Sunday Evening
Here is the program of the
concert to be given at 7:80 day
after tomorrow (Sunday) eve
ning in the Kenan stadium:
Coriolanus Overture (Beetho
ven) ; Concert Gebau Orchestra,
Mengelberg conducting. *
Prologue to “I Pagii&cci"
(Leoncavallo); Lawrence Tib
foett.
Una Furtiva Lagrima frqm
"The Elixir of Love” (Donizet
ti) ; Beniamino Gigli.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
(Dukas); New York Philhar
monic, Toscanini conducting.
The Post and Spring Dream,
two songs from ‘The Winter
Journey” (Schubert); Richard
Tauber.
How Lovely Are Thy Dwell-
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The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Music in the Stadium
“Celeste Aida —”
As darkness fell and the stars
came out, the mellow notes of
the voice of the great Caruso
floated upon the soft summer air
in the kenan stadium.
.. forma divina, nustieo ser
to ...
As the song proceeded, an en
trancement fell upon the listen
ers. At the end there was a
hush for a few moments, and
then, as though a magic spell
had been lifted, came a burst of
applause.
Aida was the first opera I ever
heard, and in it Caruso, who had
arrived from Europe a little
while before, was singing to an
American audience for the first
time. That was back about the
year 1904. Now, of course per
sons with trained ears could tell
the difference, hut to me Caru
so’s voice, coming from the
phonograph through the care-
Chorus to Sing Tuesday
Final Event in Serien of Concert* in
the Hill Minnie Hall
The University Summer Ses
sion Chorus will give the last
concert of the summer series at
-8 o'clock Tuesday evening in the
Hill Music hall, under the direc
tioh of Clyde Keutzcr. The
chorus will be assisted by Mrs.
Camilla J. Schinhan, soprano,
and Jan Philip Schinhan, accom
panist.
The program will be as fol
lows :
Surely He Hath Borne Our
Griefs—Antonio Lotti
Robin Goodfellow—G. A. Mac
farren
Zueignung—Richard Strauss
Die Nacht—Richard Strauss
A Dream—Edvard Grieg
Mrs. Schinhan
The Kings and the Star—Peter
Cornelius
Sherman Smith, baritone
solo
Sing We and Chant It—Thomas
Morley
The Chorus
"Je dis que rien ne m’epouvante
. . .”—Bizet. Micaeia’s aria
i from the opera "Carmen”
Mrs. Schinhan
The Road to Romany—Adapted
from Brahms Hungarian
Dance No. 6
FireHliftH —Russian Folk Song
The Chorus
The Bird of the Wilderness—Ed
ward Horsman
The Last Hour—A. Walter Kra
mer
My Laddie—W. A. Thayer
Mrs. Schinhan
To Thee We Sing—Konstantin
Schvedov
Hospodi Pomilui—G. V. Lvov
sky
The Chorus
quiem” (Brahms); Berlin Sing
ing Academy, Georg Schumann
conducting.
Choral Prelude, “Christ Lay in
the Bands of Death” (Bach);
Philadelphia Symphony, Stokow
ski conducting.
Sing We and Chant It (Mor
ley) and Jus) as the Tide Was
Flowing (Williams); the-Eng
lish Singers.
Festivals (Debussy); Phila
delphia Symphony, Stokowski
Elegfe (Massenet); Rosa Pon
setMk
Meditation from “Thais”
(Msssenat); Mischa Elman.
Rakoczy March from J “The
Damnation of Faust” (Berlioz);
Philadelphia Symphony, Stokow
ski conducting. , *'■
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1936 v
fully adjusted amplifiers last
Saturday evening, was just as
sweet as it was thirty-two years
ago in the Metropolitan Opera
House.
And as it was with Caruso, so
with Tibbett, and Martinelli, and
Ponselle, the Metropolitan Opera
chorus, the violin and piano
solos, and the orchestras. The
program opened with the “Eury
anthe’’ Overture, and among the
other numbers were a Johann
Strauss waltz, Kreisler’s "Ca
price Viennois,” the Toreador
Song from "Carmen,” and the
"Marriage of Figaro” Overture.
The magnificent success of the
first stadium concert was due in
no small part to the efforts of
the sound engineers and electri
cians who toiled many hours to
perfect the amplifying mechan
ism. Throughout, they had the
enthusiastic cooperation of mem
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Toms to Join Faculty
Coming Here to Be Assistant Profes
sor in Department of Music
John E. Toms is coming to the
University as assistant profes
sor'of music. He replaces H.
Grady Miller, who resigned last
spring.
He was bom in Michigan, and
both his parents were musicians.
A lyric tenor, he has had a va
ried experience as soloist, teach
er, and director of choral music.
He is a graduate of Oberlin and
has a master’s degree from the
University of Mfchigan.
After studying voice under
Herbert Haroun and Arthur
Hackett, Mr. Toms began his
choral training under Karl Gehr
kens and sang for three years fn
the Oberlin A Capella Choir un
der the direction of Olaf Ander
son. He has trained choral or
ganizations at Penn College and
Central College in lowa and at
Mary Hardin Baylor College in
Texas.
Here he will direct the glee
clubs and will have charge of vo
cal work in the music depart
ment.
Meat Inspection
New Activity of Health Department
Will Begin September 1
The inspection of meat by the
health department will begin
Tuesday, September 1.
Whenever a carcass is brought
to Chapel Hill, from the nearby
country or anywhere else In
North Carolina, the proprietor
of the market or restaurant re
ceiving it is to notify Dr. Chris
man, the department’s veteri
narian. An effort will be made to
arrange for deliveries on certain
days of. the week, but until the
schedule is fixed Dr. Chrisman
will make prompt elimination*
wheel summoned. /
Meat coming from outside of
the state doe* not figure in this
program; it is inspected by the
United States department of ag
riculture.
SUMMER SCHOOL EXAMINATION SCHEDULE
Friday, August 28
8:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.—Class*** scheduled at 8:00 A.M.
10:80 A.M. to 12:30 P.M.—-Class*** scheduled at 9:00 A.M.
2:00 P.M. to 4:OOP.MA-Cla*st>M scheduled at 2:00 P.M. or 3:00
P.M. which do not have forenoon meet
ings also.
4:30 P.M. to 6:30 P.M.—Classen scheduled at 10:00 A.M.
Saturday A usmsi 29
8:00 A.M. to 10:00 scheduled at 11:00 A.M.
10:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M.—CksseH scheduled at 12:00 M.
2:00P.M. to 4:ooP.M.—Classes scheduled at 4:00 P.M.
4:30 P.M. to 6:30 P.M.—Classes not otherwise arranged for
above, or which cannot, because of con
flicts, be held according to the above
pirn.
Two-hour claasee will have their examinations gt the time
scheduled for the first hour the classjneets.
Special exs|Binatk)ns will not be provided for except in case of
conflict or for other cogent reasons considered good and sufficient*
Chapel Hill Chaff
I have been told that "rush
ers” for one of the two sororities
here in the University are in
structed by the high command
to be particularly watchful about
the manner in which possible
neophytes manage their lettuce.
If a young woman under consid
eration for membership is seen
to cut lettuce with a knife, no
further advances are to be made
toward her; she is definitely
out. I can’t swear this is true,
but sq I’ve been told.
Among the new books is
Co-Ediquette (E. P. Dutton and
Co.; 252 pp.; $2) . The authdr is
Elizabeth Eldridge, who, as field
representative of a national sor
ority, has visited 43 co-educat
ional institutions and has there
by become acquainted with
thousands of co-eds reflecting a
wide variety of social, intellect
ual, financial, and climatic back
grounds.
Writes a reviewer in the New
York Herald Tribune: "The Sat
urday ,night date, how to avoid
not having one and how to deal
with it when landed, is the true
leit-motif of the work. What
clothes to take to. college—
mighty sensible advice—how to
meet the situation of not getting
tr sorority bid and what happens
before and after you do, the
code of borrowing and of dorm
itory manners, dealings with
a housemother, the honor sys
tem—indeed, everything needed
for getting on is here attended
to with lucidity and dispatch.”
I am not disposed to pay $2
for a book that, in the main, is
so far outside of my interests,
but I am going to be on the
Ipekout for somebody .jwho haft
read Co-Ediquette and will tell
me what it says, if anything,
about lettuce-eating as an eligi
bility tost.
Miss Glass Is Principal
Shi* In Now lirginninK Her 20th Year
in the Chapel Hill School
Miss I,ettie Glass has been ap
pointed principal of the Chapel
Hill elementary school. Hence
forth she will be the chief of
ficer at the old school building,
for Superintendent G. Minor
Gwynn is to have his headquar
ters at the new high school.
The duties will not be new to
Miss Glass, for she has fre
quently served as acting princi
pal. This will be her 20th year
in the Chapel Hill school, and
she has won a high place in the
regard of the community.
The school budget this year
provides for one additional
teacher in the elementary school.
Physical education is to be re
stored to the curriculum. Miss
Anna Mae Smith, a newcomer,
will specialize on that and will
also do some teaching In other
subjects.
Instruction in music is to be
continued, and art, which was
taught last year in three grades,
is to be extended.
State Charges Merchants Here
With Violation of Labor Law;
Excessive Honrs Are Alleged
The Sin of Dancing
The argument about dancing'
at Wake Forest College is still
being carried on spiritedly in the
columns of the Biblical Recor
der, the Baptist church organ
in North Carolina. It began a
few weeks ago when the trus
tees decided to sanction dances
on the college grounds for one
year, as an experiment. After
the trustees’ decision was de
nounced by the Biblical Recor
der it was defended in a state
ment issued by four well-known
members of the faculty: N. Y.
Gulley, dean emeritus of the
law' school ; J. H. Gorrell, pro
fessor for 42 years and a sup
ply preacher in many pulpits, J.
W. Lynch, 71-year-old professor
of religion; and Walter R. Cul
lom, who has taught religion at
Wake Forest for 40 years.
The Biblical Recorder said the
four professors had "surrender
ed.” Mrs. Robert E. Royall of
Wake Forest asks she editor:
"To what have they surren
dered?” And the editor replies:
"They have surrendered to a low
ideal.”
In her letter to the editor Mrs.
Royall says:
“I have known these wise, cul
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Pays Bill 40 Years Old
An elderly woman who lives
out in the country a few miles
from Chapel Hill came to town
last Saturday and sought out
Dr. B. B. Lloyd.
"Here's a bill f cam® acroaa
when I was looking through
some old papers yesterday,” she
said, "and I want to pay it.”
It was a bill from Dr. A. B.
Roberson for delivering her
baby, a hoy, 40 years ago, about
a year before Dr. Roberson died.
The baby grew and flourished
and has had several babies of his
own.
The amount was $13.05. The
sl3 was for the services of the
physician, and the 5 cents was
for a dose of medicine from his
drugstore. In those days Clyde
Eubanks was Dr. Roberson’s as
sistant in the store.
Dr. Lloyd communicated with
Mrs. Charles T. Woollen, daugh
ter of Dr. Roberson, and Mrs.
Woollen proposed that the bill
be canceled. But the woman in
sisted on paying it, and the mon
ey was sent to Mrs. Roberson,
the widow of the physician.
"Now the baby's mine,” said
the woman as she took leave of
Dr. Lloyd.
Carl Durham Tells of Splendid Crops in East
“Hie crops are splendid down
in the eastern part of the state,”
said Carl Durham on his return
from Beaufort this week. “I've
never seen finer corn; and, de
spite the long spring drought,
there is a great deal of good to
bacco.”
With his wife and children,
he was at Beaufort several
days. They did not fish much,
because the water was too
rough, but they swam, and loaf
ed happily on the hotel
and did a little boating close to
shore.
The people down there are
a cheerful mood,” he said. “At
the same time that they have
big crops, they are getting high
prices; the result, of course, of
the general scarcity in the na
tion as a whole. The potato
growers have already marketed
sl4Ol Yssr ii Advance. SeiCapf
Warrants Served on J. L Sot
ton, Bruce Whitmire, and
Manager of Pender’s
TRIAL IS SET FOR AUG. 31
A representative of the state -
department of labor came to
Chapel Hill this week and pre
ferred charges against three
merchants—J. L./Sutton, Bruce
Whitmire, and the manager of
Pender’s grocery store—for vio
lation of the laws relating to the
employment of women and chil
dren.
Two warrants were served on
Mr. Sutton: one for working wo
men more than 55 hours a week,
more than 10 hours in a day, and
more than 6 hours continuously
without an interval of at least
half an hour, and the other for
not having posted regulations
stating the provisions of the law
on hours of labor.
One warrant was served on
Mr. Whitmire for working wo
men more than ten hours on one
day (Saturday).
One warrant was served on
the manager of Pender’s for em
ploying a hoy under 16 years old
without a certificate issued by
the county welfare officer as
provided in the child labor law.
After the warrant was served
the required certificate, based
on declarations from one of the
boy’s parents and from a physi
cian, was issued.
The cases came before Judge
Phipps in the recorder’s court
Tuesday, with H. A. Whitfield
appearing aa attorney for Mr.
Sutton, C.*P. Hinshaw for Mr.
Whitmire, and J. A. Giles for the
manager of Pender’s. Mr. Cox,
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The School Tax Rate
Is 35 Cents,
The Chapel Hill school board
met Monday evening and Axed
the 1936 school tax rate at 35
cents, the same aa last year’s.
It is made up of: supplement,
18*4 cents (authorized by a
special election three years ago);
tax collecting and
cents; and debt service, 14 Vi
cents.
If the budget for the town
government remains as it is now,
the total town rate, school in
cluded, will be $1.65. The county
haa fixed its rate at 88 cents, so
that the combined town and
county rate is apt to be $2.58.
The delay in fixing the town rate
is due to the uncertainty about
placing the cost of garbage col
lection in the town budget.
their product at figures far
higher than in ipcqnt years, and
corn is selling around a dollar
and ten centa a bushel.
“I did not get into she north
eastern counties, but 1 was told
that the crop* there were just as
good as in the New Bern-Kin
ston-Beaufort region that I vis
ited.
“The cooperative marketing
system, under which corn and
other products are sold through
the county agents or fanners*
exchanges, hat been a great
boon to the farmers. They do
not have to Haul their croi» to
tills or that town, and be uncer
tain about buyers, and suffer the
disadvantage of selling in small
quantities. They take * their
products to a central point; it is
shipped in carload lots, and they
receive prompt payment based
on the market price.”