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VoLIS. No. » Overflow Crowd Hears Speech of . James Roosevelt Heat la Hard on President’s Son: Perspiration Showers Down on His Manuscript HE TALKS OF NEW DEAL The Hill Music hall wasn’t big •enough to hold the crowd that came to hear James Roosevelt speak night before last. The audience filled the aisles and overflowed upon the stage, and hundreds of people sat in chairs set up on the lawn outside the open doors of the auditorium. Even then almost as many peo ple went away as stayed to hear the President’s son. The sugges tion was made that the affair be moved to Memorial hall, but the Playmakers were having a dress rehearsal there. When Mr. Roosevelt walked onto the platform everybody in the hall arose and applauded him. Jonathan Daniels intro duced him in a speech that lasted less than 20 seconds. In his address Mr. Roosevelt defended expanding government activities as a policy made nec essary by the great changes in the industrial and economic life of the nation, and he reviewed some of the achievements of the present administration. He said that the labor movement in this country was 30 years behind the times and predicted that “until collective bargaining becomes accepted in practice by Ameri can industry as it has now be latedly become accepted in law by the courts, there is bound $o be labor unfest” Chapel Hill gave Mr. Roose (Continued on loot page) Her Passport Stolen Mitts McMullen Held in Half While Cablegrams Are Exchanged The purse of Miss Mildred Mc- Mullan, daughter of Assistant Attorney General Harry McMul lan, was stolen as she and her mother were about to leave Ven ice for Paris. Her passport was in it. Nobody is permitted to go » from Italy to France without a passport, and so the mother and daughter had to get off at Milan and stay there until a new one could be obtained. An appeal was made to the American consul This was fol lowed by an interchange of cable grams across the Atlantic. Nat urally a message of distress was sent first of all to Pater Familias in Raleigh. He did what he could to hasten action by the proper authorities in Washington. The red tape was untangled and the new passport was issued to the travelers after they had been, for four days, poised for a dash across the border. They missed engagements they had made with friends in Paris. “‘Marooned in Milano’ is the title for our situation,” Mrs. Mc- Mullan wrote to a friend in Chape] HiU. “It’s a lovely city, and in a different frame of mind we could enjoy its beauty.” Leaving Venice, Miss McMul lan had leaned out of the win dow ft*, say goodbye to a friend. When she turned back, her purse, which she had left on the seat beside her, was gone. “A police officer was called; he talked to the man who occupied a seat in ousfcompartment; but no results.” Sandy Graham Is Commander Sandy Graham has been elect ed commander of the Chapel Hill post of the American tegion. v * The Chapel HOI Weekly LOUIS GRAVES mat* Rat Man Cornea Here, Makes Ready To Poison Rats at Town’ll Old Dump Rat Man George B. Lay—he says that’s what they call him since he’s been going about the state exterminating rats was in Chapel Hill this week to con sult with Dr. W. P. Richardson, health officer, and John L. Cald well, town manager, about kill ing rats in, on, and around the old town dump north of the vil lage near the Hillsboro road. Mr. Lay is a biologist with the United States Department of agriculture station in Raleigh. Now that the town has an in cinerator it will not use the dump any more. On the first cloudy day Mr. Lay is going to spread Red Squill bait over the pile of refuse. He mixes hamburger aiulthe Red Squill powder with water, to make e sort of paste; then he makes another paste with fish substituted for the hamburger. Rats have varying tastes; to some hamburger is more appe Slayers of Songbirds Are Slain by Henninger Mockingbirds, tanagers, brown thrashers, cardinals, robins, and wood thrushes build their nests and raise their young in the wooded ravine back of the J. A. Warrens’ home on Hillsboro street. People in the neighborhood were dismayed a few days ago when the word went out that the birds were being killed. At dusk almost every evening cries of distress were heard in the ravine, and some of the bird lovers noticed that fledglings and young birds newly out of the nest vtefe disappearing. An investigation was made, and screech owls were discovered to be the villains. The next eve ning, when the shrieking of the birds indicated that the twi light slaughter had begun, J. S. Henninger, went down to the spring with his gun. Within 16 minutes he had killed six screech owls and had seen two get away. When asked yesterday about his owl hunt Mr. Henninger was reticent. He said that he was afraid screech owls might be protected by law and that if they were he didn’t want his in fraction reported. Moody Durham was found in Eubanks drug store and was asked to pass on the legality of owl killing. “Come on,” he said, “let’s go over to the hardware store and look in the state game regulations.” At the hardware store a care ful reading of the game laws dis closed that the only birds in North Carolina unprotected by Art Talk at 4 Sunday A gallery lecture will be given at 4 o’clock day after tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon in the Per son Hall Art Gallery in connec tion with the special summer ex hibition. The public is invited. The exhibit now on view is a collection of wood engravings by members of the British Soci ety of Wood Engravers—eighty original prints by twenty en gravers. The work of several of the artist* represented in the collection, among them Clare Leigbton and C. W. Taylor, is al ready familiar to the American public through their illustrations for fine books. Also on view in Perison hall is a group of seventeen color* facsimile reproductions of mod ern paintings, recently given to the University by the Carnegie Corporation. The gallery is open on week days from 10 to 1 and from 2 to 5, and on Sundays from 2 to 6 P.M. CHAPEL HILL, N. C* FRIDAY, JULY If, 1937 tizing; to others, fish. Somebody may ask: why wait for a cloudy day? The question was put to the Rat Man when he was here on his inspection trip. The answer is that the sun dries up the bait before the rats get to it. After it is dry it fails to interest them. A reason why the rats should be exterminated is that there is always a chance that they may cause disease. It is rat fleas that carry the typhus germ. For the last year or so Mr. Lay’s chief assignment has been to go around the state to aid municipal and health authorities in the extermination of rats. His largest rat-killing project thus far was the one at Charlotte. The W.P.A. chipped in, and the total cost ran to around $12,000. Mr. Lay baited the city, placing Red Squill on private as well as public premises; and on a second visit he re-baited it. law are crows, English sparrows, starlings, buzzards, sharp-shin ned hawks, Cooper’s hawks, great-horned owls, jays, and blackbirds. This obviously placed the screech owl on the protected list, and somebody remarked that it looked as if Mr. Hen ninger were in for it. “Not at all,” Mr. Durham said. “It is an unwritten part of laws like this that a man can kill a protected bird or animal that is caught destroying valuable wild life or poultry or other property. Bears and foxes and some hawks, as well aa owls, are pro-' tected in this state, but no game ward,en would arrest a man for killing one of these birds or ani mals as it carried off his chick ens or lambs or young pigs. That’s the way it is with Mr. Henninger and those screech owls. He did a good thing when he cleaned ’em out." The Conference on Marriage Was a Success The University's third annual con ference on the conservation of mar riage and the family, held here last week, brought from all over the coun try authorities on the subject. The conference is the only project of its kind in the world and ia the outgrowth of pioneer work done by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest R. Groves. In discussing the conference yester day Mr. Groves said that the ad dresses by Elinor H. Snethen of the Pittsburgh Child Guidance Center were perhaps the most significant part of the program. Mrs. Snethen cited many actual incidents to illustrate the difficulties experienced by children as they seek to attain emotional matur ity. She said that often the child’s own parents did most toward warping and twisting his emotional outlook. Two other speakers, Dr. M. A. Griffin of Asheville, and Dr. Fritz Moellenhoff of the University of Cin cinnati College of Medicine, gave illus trations of how the evil results of thia early emotional maladjustment later cause unhappiness and discon tent in marriage. Mr. Groves praised the paper pre- EXAMINATION SCHEDULE, Tuesday, July 20 8:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.—Classes scheduled at 8:00 A.M. 10:30 AH. to 12:30 P.M—-Classes scheduled at 9:00 A.M. 2:00P.M. to 4:00 P.M.—Classes scheduled at 2:00 P.M. or 3:00 PH. which do not have forenoon meet ings also. 4:30 P.M. to 6:30 P.M.-Cfi*ses scheduled at 10:00 AH. Wednesday, July 21 8:00 A.M. to 10 :00 AH—-Classes scheduled at 11:00 A.M. 10:30 A.M, to 12:30 P.M.—Classes scheduled at 12:00 U. 2:30 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.-—Classes scheduled at 4;QO PH. 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 i plan. Two-hour class# a will have their examinations at the time sched uled for the first liour the class meets. Special examinations will not be provided for except in case of conflict or for oth ir cogent reasons considered good and sufficient. Instructors will please note the examination hours for their classes and will kindly call attention to the schedule. Chapel HOI Chaff Some of the neighbors drop ped in one evening this week, and we sat in the garden and chatted idly about this and that. Among those present was T. F. Hickerson, the civil engineering professor. The new dormitory for women is being erected in the grove in front of his house, and somebody in the company said: “Now that you’re so close by, Felix, it looks as if the University ought to ap point you Adviser to Women.” “If I did get the job,” said Mr. Hickerson, “the first thing I’d do would be to advise ’em to go away.” • • • Senator Bailey in an article about North Carolina in The State: “I. suggest that North Carolina is the best located sec tion of earth on the globe. Gen erally it is in the parallel of lati tude that is the most fruitful of all. The 35th-36th parallels of latitude are the centers of the world’s population. We are not too cold. We are not too hot.” 1 have been disposed to applaud various things that Senator Bai ley has been saying of late, but when the temperature is around 96, and I am panting for breath as I bend over the typewriter, and my representative in the Senate calmly informs me that I am not too hot—well, this is not ingratiating. • • * Day before yesterday was the anniversary of two important events, the Fall of the Bastille and the birth of Dr. Charles S. Mangum. But one of these events slightly antedated the other. The explosive episode in Buis happened in 1789; Dr. Mangum was born in 1870, which makes Jiim 67 years old. He moves about as if the 6 might be a 2. Geo. Lawrences Have New Son A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. George H. Lawrence yester day morning in Duke hospital. He is named Arthur Peter. Rented by Dr. W. Raney Stanford of Durham, who spoke on “Medical As pects of Marriage Incompatibility.” Addresses on dietic deficiencies were given by Miss Eileen Brown of the Virginia Medical College- In his introductory talk at the open ing of the conference Mr. Groves ex pressed pleasure that so many schools and universities were beginning to offer courses in marriage and the fam ily, and that magazines and news papers have begun to carry articles telling of and supporting such courses. At the same time Mr. Groves issued a warning. “This new activity,” he said, “ia a sign to us that the pioneer period in thia field ia finished, and that there is a danger of the move ment’s being exploited. Great eare must be used in the selection of teach ers, and none except those who are well qualified should be allowed to enter the work.” * Mr. Grove* says that the University will soon offer courses to train people to teach the subject. Only 100 persons will be allowed to pttond the next marriage conference here, and the hooks will be closed aa soon aa that many have registered... Federal and State Governments Make Contribution of $35,500 For Social Sccarity in Orange The County’ Budget The county’s budget for the year 1937-38 (covering operat ing expenses and debt service, but not schools) comes to a total of $109,000 as compared with $90,000 last year. The $19,000 increase is due almost entirely to the new social security pro gram. Embarking upon this was not a matter of choice for the county; it was compulsory un der the new social security legis lation. Elsewhere in this paper is the official budget statement, pub lished according to law. The ex planation of the decrease in the general fund jtera is that relief expenditures included in the gen eral fund budget last year have now been transferred to the wel fare budget, and to these have been added the new expenditures that go under the head of social security. Thus there appears as a new classification the welfare fund, amounting to $27,000. 9 Scotties in Litter Dr. Nathan Own* Aristocratic Papa Barn at Mrs. Tack’s Nine sturdy, rollicking Scotty pups in one litter. Now eight weeks old, they are at Mrs. Tack’s, three miles from here on the Hillsboro road. They belong to Dr. S. A. Nathan, county commissioner and veter inarian. \ Mrs. Tack has not been able to walk for three months. The pups were born in a box beside her bed, and she watched over them night and day until they outgrew their box and had to be put out in the yard. “This beats the record of the McClamroch litter of eight, my first venture in raising Scotties,” she says. The newcomers are of aristo cratic lineage. Their mother is Nathan Scottish Rite, whose mother was Henrietta’s Chum my (one of Mrs. Logan’s dogs) and whose father was Chapel Hill’s pride , (another Logan dog); their father is Happy Thought Doc, whose mother was Jean and whose father was Hap py Thought Mac. Mrs. Tack is hoping to be agio soon to sit outdoors for a few minutes every day. A Debussy Program A Debussy program has been arranged for the concert at 8:30 Sunday evening in the Kenan stadium. In case of bad weather the concert will be held in the Hill Music hall. The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra will play “The After noon of a Faun” and “Moon light;” the Boston Symphony Orchestra, “Sarabands;” Albert Wolff's Concert Orchestra of Paris, “Clouds” and two num bers from Petit Suits; the Peris Conservatory Orchestra, “Eve ning in Grenade;” and Pieto Coppola’s Symphony Orchestra, “The Happy Isle.” There will be three songs: a duet from “Pelleaa et Melisande” by Charles Panzers and Yvonne Brothler (with orchestra) and two solos by Maggie Teyte with piano accompaniment fay Alfred Coriot). . Pictures of Old Houses A collection of photographs of early North Carolina houses, token fey Miss Frances B. Johnston, has been pre sented to the University library by John Sprout Hill. The photographs I represent North Carolina architecture sl-60a Year ia Advance. BeaGspy County’s $27,990 Makes Total of $62£00 for Support of PuMk Welfare Program CONFORMS TO STATE LAW From the federal and state governments this year Orange county will receive $35,500 for public welfare. The county’s own contribution will be $27,000, bringing the total to $62,500. The federal-state contributions and the county contributions for the several divisions of the new social security program are: old age assistance, $19,800 (county, $6,600); aid to dependent chil dren $7,700 (county, $3,850); aid to the blind, $1,175 (county, $375); child welfare service, $4,190 (county $340); adminis tration, $2,654 (county, $7,346). For some relief activities there is no federal-state contri bution, and these the county must continue to support. So, in the budget are allotments of $4,000 for the county home, $2,- 000 for poor relief, S2OO for pauper burials, $2,000 for hos pitalization, and S2OO for miscel laneous. It is expected that when the new social security program is perfected the comity will be able to curtail, or dis pense with, some of the old forms of relief. The county stands one third of the cost of old age assistance, and the federal and state gov ernments a third each. Os the cost of aid to dependent children, the county pays a half and the federal and state governments a fourth each. Grover Beard Flies Is Piloted over Costs Rica by Man Who Used to Bo Tull’s AM Hero “I may beat this note home,” is the postscript to a letter written by Grover Beard just before he was to start on an air plane flight over Costa Rica. So, if you see the dean of the phar macy school at about the same time that you read this, don’t be surprised. He writes from San Jos4: “The trip up to thia mountain capital from Port Liman, Cotta Rica, where our steamer is tak ing on a cargo of bananas, is made by a narrow gauge train that follows a tortuous, tiring course. A part of us decided against returning the same way and accordingly made arrange ments with the Aerovias Nacio* nales for a plane and pilot to take us back. “It develops that the pilot will be Pete Crawford, who worked for the late Mr. Tull for about two years as a flying in* structor. When he discovered that I was from Chapel Hill he flooded me with questions about people there. The story of how he happens to be here Is quite interesting. Certainly ha seems to possess the esteem and admira tion of Costa Ricans for his skill and courage as an aviator. “He promises to fly us does enough to see Irazu Volcano, md I am hoping that I will feel to wards him as the natives do hi a few hours from now. Since the day la crystal clear in spite of the rainy season it should be ln teresting to look eastward 86 miles and see the Atlantic, to look westward 60 miles distant and fed Balboan, then to peer portward at a smofcing inferno 12,000 feet high. Pets wants to be remember©d by hhrfriend* there in 0. H.”
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