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VoL It, No. U Free Textbooks For Pupils at School Opening No Charge for “Basal” Books, bat Foe Most Be Paid for Supplementary Renders RENTAL AT HIGH SCHOOL Free basal textbooks for the elementary school, son, grades one through seven, have been re ceived at the office of Superin tendent Honeycutt These basal texts will be distributed Monday and Tuesday of next week with out cost to the pupils. The state does not provide supplementary readers free but charges a rental fee ranging from $1 to $1.40 per child where one of the state rental plans is used. Since Chapel Hill is not one of the school units already in this plan, it will be necessary to make a small rental charge for these supplementary read ers in history, geography, science, and literature. The superintendent hopes that this fee will not exceed $1 a year, but the amount will not be fixed un til he has had more time to study the needs at the elemen tary school. No fee will be col lected until a careful survey and check-up has been made, and collection may not be made be fore the beginning of the second semester. At the high school the plan used heretofore will be con tinued ; that is, every pupil will purchase his own books or rent them, as he prefers. The student must, of course, determine which plan he will use and either rent all texts -r purchase all texts. As heretofore, the rental fee will be $4 for the year, payable I in two equal instalments in Sep tember and February, or all at once if the student prefers. At least $2 is required upon delivery of the students’ book supply next week. After the first thrse days a plan may be (Continued on loot page) The State’s Advertising Caapaign Is Kelly’* Topic in Talk to Ckapel Rill Rotary Club The advertising campaign now being carried on by the state of North Carolina was the topic of a talk by Paul Kelly, official of the state department of conservation end develop ment, before the Chapel Hill Rotary Club Wednesday even ing. He said that thus far inquir ies had been received, in re sponse to advertisements, from more than 2,000 individuals and organizations in 46 states and 11 foreign countries. “The main objective,” said Mr. Kelly, “is to bring to North Carolina tourists and home seekers, and new industries.” •-The tourist industry is now one of the largest in the nation. Virginia estimates it is getting $80,000,000 a year from tour ists. 4th Public Health School to Open Here on 20th About 4$ graduate students in public health will be coming to Chapel HBl on the 20th to be gin a three-months course in the division of public health of the University medical school, and they will need living guar* ters. Householders who have rooms to let for this period are asked to notify Mias Ruby Roes at the public health office in the medical building (telephone 7791). This 'Wifl be the fourth ses sion of the Regional Training School for Interstate Sanitary The Chapel Hill Weekly LOOM GRAVES Edmund Taylor, on Holiday in Paris, Arrested by French as a German Spy Edmund Taylor and his sis ter, Miss Marianna, both tour ing Europe, had met in Paris. With Dr. Isaac Manning, Jr., and two other friends they were awaiting the bus that was to take them to Chartres and its famous cathedral. It was a bright summer’s day, and they were in a happy holiday mood. “I’m beginning to get hun gry,” said Edmund. “We’d bet ter take along some food and drink.”, His companions, better ac quainted with Paris than he, di rected him to a shop a block or two away. Emerging from it a few minutes later, with bread and cheese and a bottle of wine, he was setting off in haste for the bus station when be felt a hand on his arm. He turned to face a stranger who spoke po litely but firmly, in French. “M’sieu*,” the man said, ‘Tar don me, but I must detain you a minute.” ~ . “What is it you want?” asked the American youth, “I’m in a big hurry to join my friends at the bus station.” Now, Edmund had /been in A Social Revolution Impends;* Pete Ivey’s Idea A revolution in social proce dure in the University is about to be perpetrated. It was cooked up in the fertile brain of Pete Ivey, director of the Graham Memorial. When he communi cated his iconoclastic plan to University faculty members and other citizens whom it affected, they gave their instantaneous approval. w In past* Septembers, at the President's and Deans’ reception for the freshmen, there has been a long receiving line of hand shakers—so long that sometimes it has appeared that the receiv ers outnumbered the received. At the reception this next Mon day evening the receiving line will be limited to the President and the Deans and their wives. The trouble with the old plan was that the freshmen were held up too long as they went hand shaking down the line. One man would prolong his conversation and stop the whole parade. The purpose of the reception is for the freshmen to get ac quainted with people here. To that end, the faculty members, the clergymen, and others, whose greetings of the freshmen necessarily used to be rather stereotyped, will now mix with the throng on the floor, go about Dates'for New Co-Eds There will be a dance at the Graham Memorial Friday eve ning, the 17th (one week from today), for the new co-eds. Pete Ivey promises that dates will be provided for all of ’em. / Xiarenee Pickard’s New House Clarence Pickard is putting up a dwelling back of his home on East Rosemary lane. District No. 2. Established with the aid of the United States Government as a center for the training of public health officers in the Southeastern states, the school is under the direction of Dr. M. J. Rosenau. A newcomer in the faculty of the public health division this fall will bo Dr. Harold W. Brown % He has been in the Unit ed States PubHe Health Service. This last year he has been sta tioned in Savannah and has been engaged in researches re lating to malaria. CHAPEL HILL, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1937 . Germany most of the time since his arrival in Europe. German was the only foreign language with which he had become fa miliar, so he was speaking in it Tall and flaxen-haired, he might well be taken for a German. The stranger turned back (me side of his coat and disclosed the badge of a police officer. He led his captive back into the store and proceeded to question him. “Do you speak English?” asked Edmund. The answer was yes, and after that the conver sation was easier. “Can you identify yourself?” asked the officer. “Oh, yes, I have my pass port.” Edmund reached into his inside coat pocket. His passport wasn’t there. It was the only time since his travels began that he had left the document in his lodgings. There was more than a hint of suspicion in the officer’s smile. “Is there any other way you can identify yourself?” “I have some American mon ey,” said Edmitffd. (.Continued on but page) among the newcomers, and have some real conversation with them. A faculty member who has served in the line for many years was asked yesterday what be thought of the change in plan. “Mr. Ivey deserves a medal,” he replied. The freshmen will enter through the main door of thsr building, and everybody else is asked to enter through the north door (facing the main street of the village). Tea at the Carolina Inn Mr. Skinner Heeds the Plea of the South Africana Here for Meeting The desk clerk at the Carolina Inn was mildly surprised one afternoon recently when several men strolled into the lobby and inquired if it was tea time. The young man explained that it was not the custom to serve after noon tea at the Inn. The strang ers acted as if they were not sure they had heard aright. When the clerk finally con vinced them that no tea was forthcoming, their crestfallen air was a pathetic thing to see. Plunged into deepest gloom, they wandered about the room as if dazed. They seemed never to have heard of anything quite so preposterous or unendurable as an afternoon barren of tea. The men who longed for tea Were some of the South Africa delegates to the conference be ing held at the Inn this month. It was their first day in Chapel Hill. Most of them were Eng lishmen, and for an Englishman to miss his afternoon tea is a more serious thing than for an American to miss his supper. They appealed to Mr. Skinner, manager of the Inn, and their plea was not in vain. Afternoon tea la now being served every day at the Inn. , 1 mmrnmumm a ■■■ New Members of the Faculty Richard Jente is the new head of the University’s German de partment; a graduate of Yale, Mr. Jente took hi* Ph.D. de gree at Heidelberg; he hasheen professor of German at George Washington University for 15 years. Reinhold Baer and Na than Jacobson are in Hie mathe matics department; both come from the Institute of Advanced tftudy at Princeton. * / Chapel HOI Chaff When I was asking him about life at the University of Texas, William J. Battle, here on a visit this week, told me that his office was on the 27th floor of the library building that the University put up not long ago. The building has a considerable sprtad’on the-grotthd; hut’the part in which Mr. Battle is quar tered is a tower. It was planned for library stacks, and then the authorities decided to use some of it for offices. “How do you like being so high up?” I asked. “Well enough,” said Mr. Bat tle, “but I haven’t yet solved the problem of air. If I open the windows I get too much air— the wind blows my papers all about; if I keep the windows closed, the room gets stuffy.” I recalled that I had had the same difficulty once when I worked in a, high building in New York. The best solution I could find was to open the win dows a very little at the bottom and a very little at the top. *** * • * Often, after I have met a citi zen of note, I look him up in Who’B Who, either to learn about him something I don’t know or to recall something I have for gotten. I proceeded with such a quest after leaving Mr. Battle and found that the year of his birth was the same as that of Dr. Mangum’s, 1870. Dr. Man gum is the older by four months. |Mr. Battle took his A.B. degree jhere five months before he was eighteen years old and was an Instructor in Latin in the yq&r *IBB9-90. He won his Ph.D. de gree at Harvard when he was twenty-three. After five years at the University of Chicago, he (Continued on kut page) Young Musicians Drill Daily Practice Period In Both El ementary and High Schools Superintendent A. W. Honey cutt has announced that the sixth period every day at the high school and a daily period at the elementary school, will be used for band rehearsals. The two bands will have a joint re hearsal at least twice a week. David Bennett, band director, is meeting the musicians at the high school at 4 o’clock every afternoon this week. He said yesterday that there was still room for more beginners in each band. He invites all musicians to see him before school opens and make arrangements to ob tain instruments. There will be no charge for in struction, but every member is expected to own or rent his in strument, with the possible ex* ception of the tuba and the bass drum. The bands will play for foot ball games, chapel exercises, parades, and public gatherings. Special attention will be given to ensembles, such as brass quartets and woodwind en sembles. The Chapel Hill band will probably enter the state mu sic contest at Greensboro next spring. The bands will be made up of both boys and fcirls. Mr. Ben nett says that any student who wants to learn how to play an instrument is invited to join the band. School Enrollment Up • ' Superintendent Honeycutt says he expects the enrollment at the high school and the ele mentary school to be 775, about 5 per pent greater than last year’s. * I Architects Are to Compete on Plans for Medical Building: Jury of Three to Make Award Curb Market Tomorrow The Orange County Curb Market will open at 8 o’clock tomorrow (Saturday) morning in the former McCauley store in Carrboro (a few steps be yond the railroad as you go out from Chapel Hill). Many farm women are to bring their products in from the country and have them on sale. There will be fresh vegetables and fruits, chickens and eggs, sausages, preserves, jellies, and perhaps some canned things. A premium will be given to the first customer who makes purchases of a dollar or more. Drawings will be made at 9 o’clock, at 10, and at 11, and prizes will be given to the hold ers of the lucky numbers. “We hope that many house holders in Chapel Hill will at tend the opening of the market,” said Miss Grace Holcombe, the county’s home demonstration agent, yesterday; “we feel sure they will be well rewarded.” Buzzard Stops Train Ent*r* Engine Cub, Thrown agsiaat Gadget, Bring* Flyer to Halt Mrs. O. M. Royster, known to her old friends as Miss Patty Royster because she used to be Idisa Putty Mallett, is visiting tiie MacNiders. When she came in from Florida she told of a strange incident of her journey. The Seaboard train was roll ing along at high speed over the flatlands of Georgia. All of a sudden there was a jolt that nearly threw the passengers from their seats; then a series of lesser jolts; and then the train came to a stop. At once everybody thought that the engineer must have stopped it to avoid a collision with an automobile or maybe a horse-and-buggy or a cow. Pas sengers piled out to investigate. A turkey buzzard had flown into the engine cab, and, plung ing violently against the array of gadgets beside Hie astonished engineer, had put into opera tion one of them that stopped the train. Driveway forfkhool Busses A driveway to run back of the high school building from Mc- Cauley to West University drive, is under constructs. Here the school busses can dis charge and take on their pas sengers away from street traf fic. Miss Zimmermaim la Bureau Miss Erika Zimmermann Is to be one of R. W. Madry’s as sistants in the University news bureau this year. The Pre-College Retreat Will Begin Today About a hundred picked mem* bars of this sail’s freshman class have been invited by the Y. M. C. A. to come here earlier than their classmates to take part in the sixth annual Pre-College Re treat program. The program, bringing together men who have been leaders in Hi-Y activities during their high school careers, is designed to acquaint the group with University lift be* fore the actual orientation of the entire freshman class gets un der way Monday. The program will begin at 6:SO (his (Friday) evening with a banquet at the Carolina Inn and will continue through Sun SIAO a Year ia Adraacs. IcaCspg Procedure Will Be According to Regulations Laid Down by Amerieaa Institute CONSTRUCTION MAY NOT START BEFORE SPRING The University trustees have decided to hold an architects’ competition, according to the regulations of the American In stitute of Architects, to deter mine who shall make the plans for the new medical building that is to be erected on the wooded plateau across from the high school near the junction of the Raleigh and Pittsboro high ways. Recently the United States Government, through the P. W. A., mgftp a grant of $185,000 to supplement the appropriation of the legislature, so that the cost of the building will be around $400,000. People who do not know about the conduct of an architects* competition do not realize how elaborate the procedure is.* First, an architect eminent in his profession must be retained as an advisor (or maybe the word is supervisor). He holds consultations with University committees and prepares a de scription for the guidance of competitors. After this comes j the appointment of a jury of award to be composed of three architects of high standing who will not be residents of North Carolina. Plans are submitted anonymously—a precaution to prevent any suspicion of favorit ism. The site of the building may have an important relation to the design, and no doubt all competitors will go over the ground carefully before they proceed to prepare plans. * All P. W. A. projects are sub ject to conditions laid down by the authorities ih Washington, and the state f. W. A. director (Continued on but page) The School Schedule Start* Today witk Registration of Childroa Entering First Grade Today (Friday); First-grade children will register from 10 to 12 o’clock. All other new stu dents, except county seventh grade pupils,- will report to the High school betwefen 2 ami 4 o’clock for registration. Tomorrow (Saturday): The elementary teachers will meet at 10 A. M. ’ Monday, September 18: Ele mentary school students will re port at 8:80 A. M. At the high school tip faculty will meet at 8:15 A. ft!.; the students will re port at 9 and will assemble in the auditorium for opening ex ercises, announcements, and in struction. day. Scholarship, religion, spiritual development, friend ship, social activities, and cam pus citizenship are among the topics to 1* discussed by faculty and student leaders for rim benefit of the new men. % Speakers will include Presi dent Graham, Dean House, Dean Bradshaw, H. D. Meyer, Rev. Donald Stewart, Harry F. Comer, Pete Ivey, J, Mac Smith, editor of the Daily Tar He 4; Scott Hunter, president of the Y; and Bob MagUl, presi dent of rim student body. Gene Bricklemyer, vice-presi dent of tlm Y, is chairman of the
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