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Page Two TkeChpdMfwMy LOUIS GRAVES Editor gCBSCmiPTIOK KATES Oh Ymr *}-*• Sx ll«i3fci l-w latent m mam4~r.Um mttut Fekruarr 21. 1«J, m tke |Mta«a at Ckard HUX, Ncrtfc Ciraiaa*. aa4tr «W act *f Mmk I, 1*79, Advertising the Stoic When we first heard of the proposal that $250,000 be appro priated for advertising the state, and when it was under consid eration in the legislature, we didn’t like it. We supposed it would be a familiar sort of bally hoo campaign, with a lot of newspaper and magazine dis plays extolling the high moun tains, the smooth beaches, the abundance of duck and quail for hunters, the splendid roads and golf courses and trout streams, and other so-called "attractions” of North Carolina. It turned out that we were wrong. No such stereotyped and vapid course is to be followed. *‘No superlatives,” announces Joshua Horne of Rocky Mount, chairman of the committee that directs the advertising program, and we learn that the emphasis is being laid upon training North Carolinians to do things which will make the state inviting to investors and settlers and make it an ag«flable tour ists. M short, instead ofglViafe voic4to boasts about its scenery andyroads and recreational op pcMxnities and what not, North Carolina is setting out to educate ana improve itself in ways that wiliMeserve and win the good will And that kind of education is something worth spending money for. The proper note is sounded in the opening manifesto, “An Im portant Message to North Caro linians,” issued by the Govern or’s HosAtality Committee. "Let 1/ put our house in or der,” runs this message. "Every citizen of the state and every community must cooperate if North Carolina is to reap the maximum results -and the in creased prosperity that will come from our advertising. Let our communities put on bright, clean faces. Let us beautify our highways. Let every North Carolinian greet strangers with the spirit of hospitality for which North Carolina is justly famous. Let our Police Forces and other Peace Officers exert every effort to be 'friendly, cour teous, and obliging to the stran ger within our gates. Let each and every one of us assume our new responsibility in North Carolina’s March of Progress.” One of the country’s large ad vertising agencies, Eastman, Scott and Company of Atlanta, Ga., which has a score or more offices scattered over the coun try, has been retained to carry on the' advertising work under the direction of the state’s com mittee. Mr. MacArthur, the alert and enthusiastic staff mem ber to whom the North Carolina assignment has been given, was in Chapel Hill this week, and after a talk with him we were convinced that his agency and the committee were on the right track. We believe that their plan gives promise of real bene fits to the state. t One particularly wise decision is that none of the appropriation shall be spent on advertising in newspapers and periodicals in side the state. At its recent meeting the North Carolina Press Association adopted a res olution pledging cooperation with the state authorities, and when you see in a North Carolina pa per an advertisement of the state of North Carolina, the space fu given, not sold, by the newspaper. Attacking the Gray Sqoirrel Lawrence Flinn sends us a London Timet editorial which | damns the gray squirrel as a scourge and calls upon all loyal Englishmen to help exterminate | it in the British Isles. The Times says that the Min ister of Agriculture and the Sec j retary of State for Scotland have united with Parliament in de claring the gray squirrel a pub lic enemy and causing its impor tation or protection to be unlaw ful. The editorial terms the ani mal "a tree-rat as catholic in its appetite as the land-rat” and says that “it kills trees by ring ing the bark and eating off the shoots and buds, encourages the insect pests by rating the eggs ami nestlings «f the small insec tivorous birds, drives out the indigenous red squirrel, plunders gardens and orchards, and de stroys property out of all pro portion to the value of its pelt to furriers.” “There are creatures,” says the Times, "which man, speak ing generally, has an instinct to destroy. The gray squirrel is far too engaging to be one of them. But it is mischievous. It does more harm to other crea- robs man of more of the fruits of his labour than the rabbit, the wild deer, even more than the little owl. To be kind to the gray squirrel is to be cruel to much else; and it is a plain duty to harden the heart. For organized attack the best period the end of the shoot ing and the beginning of the breeding season; but individual effort can do much meanwhile.” This bitter arraignment of the gray squirrel is perhaps surpris ing to people here where this animal is considered an asset to the campus and the village. Cer tainly the Chapel Hill squirrels have done no such injury to trees and birds and gardens and or chards as the English squirrels are accused of doing. It might seem then that the actions of the gray squirrel in England are an anomaly. But they are not. They are the rule. The gray squirrel is not native to the English countryside; it was introduced there by man, and those species of wild ani mals and birds that have been transplanted by man have been notorious for becoming pests in their new environment, even though they were desirable on their native heath. The European starling and the English sparrow, not gen erally considered pests in Europe and England where they long ago assumed their proper and nor mal place in the scale of nature, have been detested by American bird-lovers and gardeners and orchardists »nd farmers almost ever since they were introduced into this country. A few years after an English colonist had in troduced the rabbit to Australia it became a scourge that threat ened to denude the continent. Thousands of miles of close weave wire fences, great rabbit drives, and ihe expenditure of millions of dollars were neces sary to bring the plague under control. The mongoose, killer of cobras, is held in high esteem in India, but when carried to other parts of the globe it has been merely a giant, bloodthirsty weasel with an appalling capacity for the slaughter of poultry and game. Its importation into this country is prohibited by federal law. Great Britain’s Parliament and Minister of Agriculture and the Secretary of State for Scotland are in a like manner now for bidding* the gray squirrel en trance into England. But their action is a bit late, for the gray squirrel has already established itself in the English woods and coverts. Barring squirrels is one thing, banishing them is another. THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY, CHAPEL HILL, N. C. Death of John Soel Hazen Mrs. A. E. Ruark was called to San Diego, Calif ornia, by the illness of her brother, John Suel Hazen, and he died July 16. He was buried with Masonic honors in the military cemetery in San Diego. About 1888 he was the first weather forecaster at Cape Hatteras- Mrs. Ruark will re main in San Diego a few days with her sister, Miss Helen Hazen. Qualifications of Lawmakers {By H. L. Mencken in the Baltimore Evening Sun) Nearly all the states have set up boards of examiners to in quire into the qualifications of doctors, lawyers, osteopaths, chiropractors, beauticians, plumbers, electricians, barbers and other such practitioners of the more occult arts and myster ies, and it is usually a serious offense for anyone not qualified to enter into practice. But any idiot is assumed to be fit to make laws. No. one asks him what he knowg of the subject No one asks him, even, if he can read and write. In Maryland the only condition is that he must not be a clergyman. The idea seems to be that clergymen as a class are dangerous characters. Maybe they are, but certainly they are not more dangerous than mor ons. There are blue days when I toy .with the notion that it might be a good plan to abolish legis latures altogether, and hand over the making of laws to the judges, who are experts in the matter, and, taking one with another, men of reasonable honesty. They make a great deal of our law, in fact, even today, and most of it, it seems to me, is pretty good. To be sure, it is denounced by radicals, but it is not often that the ideas of radicals have any validity. Certainly any sane man would rather live under laws made by the Nine Old Villains of Capitol Hill than under laws made by such fellows as the Hon. H. F. Ashurst, LL.D., of Arizona, one of the chief tor pedoes of the New Deal in the United States Senate, who was lately confessing shamelessly, and even proudly, that principles meant nothing to him. "Audacious” Highway Billboards (Manchester Guardian) The disfigurement of rural scenery by advertisement board ings is a problem that troubles the United States acutely be cause the evil over there is great er and more audacious than with us. The societies concerned with the preservation of American scenery have been heartened in their struggle by a pronounce ment of the Massachusetts Su preme Court a few months ago which said: "Grandeur and beauty of scenery contribute highly im portant factors to the public wel fare of the State. It is in our opinion within the reasonable scope of the police power to pre serve from destruction the scenic beauty bestowed on the Commonwealth by Nature, in conjunction with promotion of safety of travel and the protec tion of travelers from the intru sion of unwelcome advertising.” With this encouragement from high places the Connecticut Gen eral Assembly has promoted a bill for the regulation of out door advertising, part of which aims at prohibiting altogether poster and billboard advertising in a rural area, leaving town and village advertisements to be re gulated by license and tax. A rural area Is defined aa a space where there are less than ten buildings owned or occupied as residences or places of business within a half-mile stretch of highway. When the bill becomes law the cartoonists' joke depicting the Connecticut citizen taking a step ladder with him on his country walks so that he might look over the hoardings at the scenery will have lost some of its point. Doc Weaver Opera a Market C. H. Weaver, known to peo ple here for many years as Doc Weaver, has opened the Chapel Hill Market on Columbia street near the Bus Station. He sells melons and other fruits, green vegetables, and soft drinks, can dy and cigarettes. Mr. Weaver used to run a dairy north of the village, and afterward he worked in New York. A prophet says the world will come to an end Monday after noon, September 20, 1937. Mon day is always an awfully busy day with us, but we shall try to arrange to take time out and attend this event. — Washington Post. The national inventors’ cong ress, we see, has on display a tearless onionslicer. Now won’t the tree people accommodate us with a weepingless willow?— Christopher BiUopp in Balti more Evening Sun. FURNITURE FOR SALE Furniture and furnishings for five-rooms at a bargain. Apply Graham Court, Apt. D-l. Phone 6941. GARAGE FOR RENT Garage for rent: 2 blocks from Arboretum. Telephone 7391. THE GREAT NEW DRAMA OF MEN IN WHITE - - - AND THE WOMEN WHO MAKE / AND BREAK THEM! - |3H FRANCHOT TONE “BETWEEN TWO WOMEN” I —Also— - Musical Novelty—News ' ' • A HONEYMOON SfflP OF HORROR! f ''■ % & f v if f 6. • • # cl^ft I « WARNER BAXTER MB' WALLACE BEERY p| K SLAVE A SHIP” “Land of the Magyar,” a moat interesting Travellogue of Hungary, —'Tuesday— —Wednesday— —Thursday— —Friday— —Saturday ERNEST TRUEX DONALD WOODB ERROL FLYNN WENDY BARRIE BRUCE CABOT in , in ANITA LOUISE in in “Everybody "The Case of the in “Wine* over “Legion of Dance” Stuttering Bis bop” “Green light” Honolulu” Terror” - * ■■■ '■' ■"■ THIS PICTURE IS A BUBE-CURE FOR THE BLUBS! Niklkliß BL 1 i k ft ' k I -\ijH COMING SUNDAY, AUGUST Ist HEMSTITCHING MACHINE For sale: hemstitching ma chine. Write Mrs. Laura Bry ant, Chapel HOl. RANGE FOR SALE Electric range in good condi tion. See H. C. Holloway, Post Office. LOST, A PERSIAN KITTY Orange Persian Kitty. Phone 8591. Mrs. F. J. Barnes, 208 Vance St. Fresh Country Produce The Chapel Hill Market Columbia Street—Near Bus Station Butter Chickens Eggs Vegetables and Fruits of All Kinds . ♦ Watermelons Cantaloupes Peaches * Truck Brings in Fresh Supply Daily C. H. Weaver, Proprietor Friday, July 23, 1937 LOST, GLASSES Pair of pink-rimmed glasses in black case; name and address of owner inside of case. Reward. Miss Charlotte Crews, 7 Steele. BOSTON PUPS, SCOTTIES, CAIRNS, CHIHUAHUAS Boston Pups, Scotties, Cairns, Chihuahuas, Canaries, Parakeets, Plants. K. Tack, Box 121, R.F.D. 2, Chapel Hill (On Hillsboro road, 3 miles from Strowd’s garage).
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