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V«L 11. No. 1* Aldermen Asked To Pat Ban on Short Garments Mrs. Lawson Thinks Prohibi tion Should Apply to All Persons of School Age BOARJ) DEFERS DECISION Mrs. Robert B. Lawson ap pealed to the aldermen Wednes day evening, at the first meet ing since the election of the new members (Paul Robertson, George Heilen, and F. 0. Bow man), to enact an ordinance out lawing the wearing of “shorts” on the streets of the village. “Shorts” is a garment that leaves the legs, upper as well as lower, bare, and, as to males, leaves the body above the waist uncovered. , Mrs. Lawson said that not even at Coney Island and other beach resorts where liberality prevailed< were people allowed to go about in the streets as light ly clad as they often are here in Chapel Hill; for the good name of the community, the author ities should prohibit a practice that was an offense against de cency. Mrs. Lawson was asked whether she would make a dis tinction, as to the sort of cloth ing to be allowed, between chil dren and grown-up young men. “I think the ordinance against ‘shorts’ should apply to every body of school age,” she replied. (School age begins at 6). “If children have to have sun baths, there is plenty of space in the backyards for that. There is no reason why they should take their sun baths on the street. People who come here from other places are surprised at the way students and children go (Continued on latl page) French Play Twice Win B« Given at 8:30 ThU Evening and at 8 Tomorrow Evening The farce comedy, “Monsieur de Pourceaugnac,” in which all the actors will speak Moliere’s lines in the original French, will be presented twice—at 8:30 this (Friday) evening and at 8 to morrow (Saturday) evening in the Playmakers theatre. Tickets may be ordered from the French department by tele phone (3891)' and will be deliv ered by messenger: The price of admission is 50 cents (for students, 25 cents). The farce will be followed by a horror play in the manner of the Grand Guignol, “Fin d’Apres midi d'Automne,” by Walter Creech. In the cast of the Moliere play will be Mrs. H. R. Huse, Mrs. Leroy Smith, Mrs. Charles Looney, U. T. Holmes, J. C. Lyons, Leon Wiley, F. C. Hayes, L. L. Barrett, George Adams, Lawrence Cheek, Fred Allred, and Bob Coker. The musical ac companiments will be by Mrs . Athol Burnham and Peter Han sen. Mavericks Guests es Moores Mr. and Mrs! Maury Maverick were guests of the Harry Moores at Mrs. Abernathy's this week. The Moores gave a party for them after the debate Tuesday evening. They returned to Wash ington Wednesday. Battle Park Arete Meeting There will be a meeting of the Battle Park Association at 5 ©’dock Tuesday afternoon at the picnic grounds in the park. All members sad friends are urged to attend. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Eiitor Church Janitor Smears Oil on Wall* Suspected of Move Against Sitters? Says He “Hid It to Keep Hags Down** People going along the south sidewalk of Franklin street Tuesday morning observed that oil, black and oozy and messy, had been spread upon the stone wall in front of the Methodist churchyard for its entire length of about 100 yards. Negro nurse girls, out for the fresh air with the babies of their employers, had made it their custom to sit on the wall, and gossip and watch the world go by, while the babies toddled on the sidewalk or the church lawn. It looked very much as if the oil had been put there to keep the nurses off. Murmurings among the citi zenry were heard. What sort of Christianity was this? The Savior’s words—“suffer the lit tle children to come unto Me”— were cited. News of the anointing of the wall was brought to Clyde Eu banks, a steward of the Meth odist church. He walked across the street to inspect and re turned to the drugstore shaking his head In sorrow. " “I don’t know anything about it,” he told an inquirer. t Rift in Town’s Oldest Negro Church? Seceders Are to fat up New Building As a result of a rift in Chapel Hill’s oldest Negro church, the Rock Hill Baptist, a seceding group are preparing to build a new church on Graham avenue near Franklin street. The divjaion is deplored by many of the leading Negro citi zens here not only because of the bad feeling it has aroused but because of the serious finan cial difficulties involved in the maintenance of the two churches. “At the Mother’s Day serv ices last Sunday, which drew a larger attendance than usual,” the editor was told by a Negro not a member of either faction, “both congregations together Preparing for the Big Celebration on Roanoke Island. The President is Coming! * This photograph shows a committee selecting the site for the presentation of the pagsaat-drsms, “The Loot Colony,” on Roanoke Intend. From left to right: Paul Green, Melvin R. Daniels, W. 0. Saunders, F. H. Koch, Chauneey g. Meekins, Martin Kellogg, Jr„ D. B. Fearing, and L P. Davis. The picture Is reproduced from “The State” by permission of Carl Goercb. Now that President Roosevelt has made known hia purpose to come to the Roanoke Island celebration this summer, thus augmenting the kudo* already accumulated for the affair by the association with it of Fred erick H. Koch, W. O. Saunders, and Paul Green, the people of Dare county are jubilantly pre paring for the liveliest summer in the long history of that re mote region where the first Anglo-Saxon colony Was planted in the New World. Jubilantly, and yet somewhat CHAPEL HILL, N. G* FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1937 Jim Fowler, another steward, was asked by H. A. Whitfield in reproachful tones: “What do you folks mean by putting all the dirty oil on the wall? Why not let the Negro nurses and the children sit there all they please?” This was the first Jim had heard of the oil. He disclaimed any responsibility, but Mr. Whit field’s derisive smile said: “Oh, yeah?” The editor of the village paper went to the church office and asked the pastor, Rev. A. P- Brantley, about it. Mr. Brant ley was aghast. He had not seen the oil or been told about it. With hia caller he went out and looked at it. The church’s Negro janitor is Walter Edwards, and the edi tor suggested that maybe Wal ter, on hia own hook, had put the oil on the wall. This recalled a sign that the janitor had put up beside the wall last year and that had promptly been taken down at the pastor’s command. Mr. Brantley kept the sign in a filing case. It is reproduced here : (Continued m tost page) were not more than large enough for one church. Before this split there were already five Negro churches in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and the total Negro population is not really large enough to support more than two churches.” The differences of opinion in the church began several months ago, after Rev. John Jones had come here from Durham to be the assistant pastor upon the recommendation of the vener able Rev. L. H. Hackney, who had been pastor of the church for more than half a century. Some members of the congrega tion attached themselves to Mr. (Continued an laat page) uneasily. For how are they go ing to take care of the throng of many thousand visitors who are expected to be three when the President comes on the 18th of August, the 360th anniver sary of the birthday of Virginia Dare? ital, is a village with a small hotel and e few homes where rooms may be rented. Over at Nag's Head, on the ocean, there are accommodations for only a few desen transients, Os course a great many of the visitor* win arrive and depart os the mom Chapel Hill Chaff John Johnson, the Negro jan itor, came into my office and said: “The truck I was tailin' you about is out in the yard, Mr. Graves;. Hie one that's had twenty-two sets of license tags.” I went out, and there under the willow tree in front of the printshop was a dusty, weather beaten Ford truck that had been in steady operation since 1915. Alongside, smiling proudly, was W. M. Perkins, who lives on a farm out at White Cross, about eight miles west of Chapel Hill. His is the oddest vehicle, still running, in this part of the coun try. “I haven’t bought but twenty sets of tags for it,” he said, “be cause my brother had it two years before I got it. He bought it new from Bruce Strowd in 1915, and I bought it from him’ in 1917. “I make all the repairs my self, but there haven’t been many to make. I haven’t had to get any new parts except brake bands and every now and then a timer. “Ever since I got it I’ve been hauling an average of five cords of wood a week into Chapel Hill. And I make the Ford do my saw ing, too; just jack up a back wheel, put around it a belt that’s connected up with the saw, and start the engine going. “I’d have a self-starter, but there’s no place to put one; so I just crank her up the way I did fifteen years ago.” Mr. Perkins has a bitter an tipathy to the hand-operated gear-shift. Once he bought a passenger car with the modern gear-shift. He threw the clutch in wrong (reverse instead of forward) and narrowly escaped a collision. Then he put his car into the barn and never used it again. Clyde Eubanks attended the convention of the North Caro lina Pharmaceutical Association this week in Raleigh. day, and so will not require sleeping quarters; but even to provide them a meal or two and Darkins space will be a gigantic undertaking fur the islanders. Paul Green is writing the pageant-drama, “The Lost Col ony,” which is to have its first presentation July 4. He has been working on it for weeks, and ft will soon be ready for the re hearsals. D. B. Fearing, secretary of the Roanoke Asso ciation. haa here preparing for the eriebretten for years, and <SovL Selects 20 Square Miles Near University Lake as Place To Make Aerial Maps of Farms Mr. Cluing Likes Ui Y. Z. Chang, the Chinese scholar who was visiting profes sor here last year, writes for the South Atlantic Bulletin an art icle on “Chapel Hill as I Knew It.” Here are extracts from it: “It happens that the number of faculty members is large enough, though not too large for them to form one academic fam ily, sufficiently diversified but quite homogeneous and con genial. The faculty office# of the various departments are so ar ranged that members of related departments are thrown nat urally together and easily ac cessible. People interested in one branch of the humanities fre quently meet people interested in some other branches. When a problem of interest arise*, it is very easy to find a colleague in a different department to talk (Continued on loot gaga) Hamilton, Golf Captain Chapel Hill Youth Hu Boob Beaton In Only Two Match* Thia Yur Horace Hamilton of Chapel Hill has been elected captain of the University golf team. The duties and obligations of the post are what might be called ex post facto—or is it retroact ive?—since the golf season is about over. Here is not an assignment to duty but a recognition of excel lent performance. Playing No. 2 on the University team, Hamil ton has come out victor in all his matches this year except two. Among the meets in which he won were those with Tennessee, Wake Forest, and Boston Col lege. The University team has been defeated only once in its 11 dual meets ttys year. The Caroiina-Duke meet will take place next Wednesday on the Hope Valley course. Ham ilton is booked to play Dupree. when President Roosevelt def initely prqpised to make the Virginia Safe Day address, Mr. Fatring's organisation began to redouble its efforts to make ready for the crowd, Norfolk, Va., and Elisabeth City are cooperating with Dare county in the undertaking. The first English settlers in America landed on Roanoke Island, and here three English colonising attempts were 21 years before Capt. John Smith mm to Jamestown and 83 years before the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Reck. I sl-58 8 Year in Advance. Sea Copy rurpOM HI 10, MOM CHOCS OS Compliance with Program of Soil Conservation PHOTOGRAPHING B BEGUN The United States Depart ment of Agriculture has chosen a 20-square-mite ana juat west of Chapel HIM, around the Uni versity Lake, aa the ground for an experiment with aerial map making. The map will be used to determine whether or not farm ers have complied with all the requirements of the Federal Soil Conservation program. It is necessary to have a map of each individual farm, show ing the size of fields and Hie 1 kinds of crops planted. Last year local supervisors, who had been instructed in simplified methods of surveying, made a. trip to every farm and estimat- \ 1 ed or measured every field. It is because of the expense of such a procedure that the Govern ment is experimenting in a few areas with aerial photography. This University Lake area has already been photographed at an approximate altitude of 20,000 feet. As each photograph is 1 taken, the exact altitude is re corded; thus, when the compos ite picture of the area is made, there will be some variation be cause of variations in altitude. To insure accuracy it was neces sary to measure the distance between two points on the ground which were recognizable in each photograph.* - . Then it was possible to de termine a uniform scale for all the photographs by making adjustments in the enlargement of each. When the enlarged (Continued an latt page) Skinner Succeeds Duke Carolina Inn’s New Acting-Manager Haa Bam oa Staff Fhra Years Leigh Skinner is acting man ager of the Carolina Inn. He succeeds Haywood Duke, who haa gone to Greensboro to man age the King Cotton Hotel. Mr. Skinner has been on the staff of the Inn for the teat five years. He is a native of Raleigh and an alumnus of Emory and Columbia universities. His wife, formerly Miss Sally Milton Car ter, took her master’s degree at the University in 1985. Kirby Smith has been pro moted to assistant acting man ager. He was graduated from the University teat spring. Mr. Duke assumed his duties in Greensboro Monday. Mrs. Duke and the children, Marietta and Betsy, will stay here until June, and he will come to visit them at the week-ends. Miaa Frances Wagstaff Engaged Mr. and Mrs. Henry McGil bert Wagstaff Announce the en gagement of their daughter, Mary Frances, to Alexander Bacon Coxe, Jr., lieutenant in the United States Navy, son of Calonai and Mrs. Alexander Bacon Coxe, of El Paso, Texas. The waddififf will fair* nlawi here in June, Tennis Victories fa the Nerth The University slavers •p w* ~ me’ fw w nrm mam ” have bed another triumphant tour in the North. Among the 1 teams which they vanouished wore Navy, Army, Lehigh, New York University, Yale, and Princeton. The team is pteyfcff 'in the Southern Confersnee : tournament In Richmond, Va.» at this ~
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