m 17, No, 7
Alumni Coming
Next Week for
Annual Meeting
Program to Begin at 1 O’clock
Thursday with Luncheon for
Officers of Ten Classes
EHRINGHAUS TO PRESIDE
The annual General Assembly
of the University Alumni Asso
ciation will meet next Thursday,
February 23, at the Carolina
Inn, with ■J. C. B. Ehringhaus,
president of the Association,
presiding.
The program will begin at 1
o’clock with a luncheon for of
ficers of classes scheduled to
have reunions next Commence
ment. These classes are ’B9, ’97,
'9B, ’OO, ’l4, ’l6, ’l7, 18, 19, and
’3B.
There will be a winter foot
ball scrimmage at 4 o’clock on
Fetzer field, staged especially
for the alumni by Coach Wolf.
The board of directors of the
Association will meet at 6:30 at
the Inn, and the General As
sembly dinner and business
meeting will be held at 7 o’clock.
John Sprunt Hill will speak on
“ ‘Friends of the Library’ and
the Alumni Association,” and
President Graham will speak cm
“The University’s Case Before
the Legislature." Reports of the
alumni officers and the nominat
ing committee will be made.
While local alumni dub of
ficers and class officers are par
ticularly invited to be present,
any alumnus of the University
is entitled to attefid the meeting.
The charge for the dinner will
be sl.
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to displaythe charts which he
used in his appeal to the joint
appropriations committee of the
legislature. These show in simple
and graphic fashion how the
University’s budget has gone
down while the number of stu
dents has gone up and while
services have been expanded and
improved. They also show a
comparison of faculty salaries
and students’ fees here and at
other institutions.
Talk on Drug Addiction
Prominent Chemist to Speak Under
Auspices of Research Society
L. F. Small of the U. S. Public
Health Service, will lecture on
“Some Aspects of the Narcotic
Addiction Problem” at 8:15
Tuesday evening in Phillips hall,
under the auspices of the So
ciety of Sigma Xi. Everybody is
invited. * _
Mr. Small was educated at
Dartmouth and Harvard. For
the last ten years he has been
an associate professor at the
University of Virginia and di
rector of chemical research for
the committee on drug addiction
of the National Research Coun
cil.
At 6:30, before Mr. Small’s
lecture, Sigma Xi will have a
dinner at the Carolina Inn. AII
members who-wish to attend
should notify English Bagby not
later than tomorrow (Satur
day). Fee, |1 g plate.
Vernon Howell’s Hyacinth
One sunny day a year or so
before he died Vernon Howell
came over the wall into my yard
with a bulb in his hand. “Plant
this,” he said, “and you’ll have
something pretty.” It was plant
ed near the front door where,
with a southern exposure, it
would get the full heat of the
sun. Every year since, a hya
cinth has bloomed there. It came
into bloom again yesterday.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Home-Owners ol East End Don’t Want
New “Boulevard” by Their Homes with
Noisy, Speeding, Dangerous Traffic
The people at the east end of
the village have become alarmed,
in the last few days, lest the
State Highway Commission
route the new Chapel Hili-to-
Durham “boulevard” by their
homes. (The “boulevard” is not
a certainty yet, merely a pro
posal that has substantial sup
port).
Their alarm grows out of
visits from a man understood to
be connected with the Commis
sion, who has called upon sev
eral of them and proposed that
they sign documents permitting
their yards to be sliced off to
provide a wider right of way.
Speeding, roaring, dangerous
traffic, in much greater volume
than now passes between here
and Durham, will annoy, plague,
harass, and stink up the eastern
residential quarter if the new
highway enters the village from
that direction. Not only residents
of the quarter but other people
who do not want to see one of
Keller, Who Fought in Spain, Says Republic
Still Has Good Chance If Embargo Is Lifted
Fred Keller, a young Ameri
can who came back from Spain
recently after fighting a year
and a half for the Republic
against Franco, was in Chapel
Hill as a guest of the Olsens’
from last Friday till day before
yesterday.
Simply, without any tricks of
narrative to give dramatic ef
fect, he told about his expe
rience with the Loyalist forces.
He said fhattthe observers from
foreign military staffs, including
that of the United States, were
amazed at what a splendid army
the Republic had built up after
almost the entire officer person
nel joined*, the Insurgents.
“The Spanish Republican’s in
fantry is as good as any infantry
in the world,” he said. “All they
need is material. If we had had
anything like an even break in
material we would have put
down the insurrection long ago.
Airplanes, tanks, artillery, ma
chine guns—the Insurgents had
them all in great quantities. For
long periods all the war material
we had was what we were able
to capture, and sometimes we
fitted ourselves out well in that
way. But occasional captures
could not equal a steady supply
such as the Insurgents had from
Methodist Parsonage Sold
The Methodist parsonage has
been sold to Mrs. Marguerite M.
Judson, mother of a student in
the University. She will come
here in August. The Methodists
have bought the Frink house on
Pitteboro street for their new
parsonage.
Lent, the period of fasting
which begins next Wednesday,
is commonly spoken of as hav
ing a length of 40 days, but it
really lasts 46 days. The Sun
days are counted out, on the
ground that Sunday is always a
feast day, and this reduces the
fasting period to 40 days. The
season commemorates Christ’s
40-day fast and is preparatory
to Easter.
The observation of Lent has
gone through many changes. In
the early days of the Christian
church the fasting was -not so
prolonged as it came to le later.
In the time of Irenaeus (2nd
century) the fast was short but
CHAPEL HILL, N. G, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1939
the most beautiful sections of
Chapel Hill marred, will vigor
ously oppose the plan.
It has been the hope of many
citizens that the new broad
highway will enter the village
through North Columbia street
by the new town hall. So placed,
skirting an unsettled area north
of the village, it would come by
the bus station into the heart of
the business district and would
not interfere with quiet tree
shaded streets and yards.
Dr. William deß. MacNider,
dean of the University medical
school, and E. T. Browne, pro
fessor of mathematics, are
among those who are pretesting
against a plan that will increase
the volume and speed of traffic
through the east end. The pro
testers had a meeting last night
in Bingham hall, and they in
tend to take a petition to Raleigh
and present it to the highway
commission.
Germany and Italy.”
Mr. Keller’s joining a band of
volunteers and going to the war
in Spain might suggest that Be
is a soldier of fortune, primarily
interested in adventure and ex
citement. But a few minutes’
talk with him dispels such a no
tion. He is a passionate devotee
of a cause, and now he is going
about the country, with barely
enough money -to pay his ex
penses, to try to arouse Ameri-,
can public aentiment for lifting*
the embargo against Republican
Spain.
“Nominally the embargo is
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Diners Cheer as Sawyer Razzes Leading Cits;
Three Clubs Have Gay Party at Carolina Inn
Bonner Sawyer, former citi
zen of Chapel Hill now practic
ing law in Hillsboro, was a star
performer in the amusement
program at the annual banquet
dance of the Kiwanis and Ro
tary clubs of Chapel Hill and
the Lions of Hillsboro Tuesday
evening at the Carolina Inn.
With John Crews of Hillsboro (in
blackface) as a partner in a
dialogue, Mr. Sawyer razze,d
some of the leading club mem
bers to a fare-ye-well, while the
diners laughed and applauded.
.It was one of the gayeßt and
most spirited parties the vil
lage has seen in a long time.
Mutt Richardson, who used to
live here, came from Lexington
as a guest and led the choral
singing. There was a singing
contest between two quartets:
House, Fambrough, Earl Pea
cock and Sawyer against Moore,
Haydon, Madry, and Armstrong.
Lent—How It H«i Been Observed in Verious Eras
severe, devout Christians eating
nothing for 40 hours between
the afternoon of Good Friday
and the morning of Easter. In
Rome, in one era, the fasting pe
riod was three weeks. It was ex
tended to 40 days in the 7th cen
tury.
In the Middle Ages meat, eggs,
and mflk were forbidden in Lent
by statute law as well as by
church law, and in the Anglican
church this rule was enforced
(says the Encyclopaedia Britan
nica) until the reign of William
the Third at the end of the 17th
century.
The confusion of the Reform*
ation led to a relaxation of the
Chapel Hill Chaff
The snowball fight of 45 years
ago, of which H. E. C. Bryant
writes, brings back to my mem
ory some of the cold winters of
the 1890’s. Os course the greater
protection nowadays having
furnace-heated houses and going
about in closed automobiles
makes us suffer much less from
the cold than we used to, and,
even if there had been no change
in temperature, we would be
likely to declare that winters
were not so severe now as they
used to be. But, though I do not
have the record at hand, I feel
sure it must be a fact that our
winters have become milder.
Meteorologists say that there
are cycles in weather, and Chapel
Hill has had evidence of it.
We always had unseasonably
warm spells, *and I can remem
ber the daffodils’ blooming in
February in the yard of my
home (where the Inn now
stands). But I can also remem
ber winters when there was ice
skating for several days in suc
cession. Faculty members who
had come here from the North,
like Karl P. Harrington, and
who often yearned for the
frozen ponds and streams of
their native country, enjoyed
the sport immensely, but it was
not they alone who performed
well on ice. Some of our own
natives learned, right here at
home, to be skilful skaters. One
of these whom I remember see
ing often in action was Lewis
Utley. He could cut figure B’s,
whirl around on one foot, and do
other impressive tricks.
The pond out at King’s null,
at the foot of Laurel Hill, was
* favorite skating «plate. And
skaters went to Morgan’s creek
near Purefoy’s mill and to Bo
lin’s creek (which we used to
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A booby prize was awarded to
each quartet, and Mrs. Allison
W. Honeycutt, at the piano,
made high score.
Rev. Olin T. Binkley, former
Baptist pastor here, made the
principal speech of the evening,
and another speaker was Presi
dent Graham. E. J*. Woodhouae
gave a toast to the ladies. Rob
ert B. House played his harp.
Allison W. Honeycutt was toast
master. Jere King and his or
chestra played for the dancing.
Among the guests were Irving
Morgan of Farmville, Rotary
district governor; Jasper Hicks
of Henderson, Kiwanis lieuten
ant governor; and Mr, Lano of
Sanford, Lions district governor.
The arrangements committee
was composed of Y. Z. Cannon
(chairman), A. W. Honeyeutt,
Arthur Branch, Roy Armstrong,
and L. J. Phipps of Chapel Hill
and Dr. Moore of Hillsboro.
fast, and so the obligation to
keep Lent was reasserted by a
series of proclamations and sta
tutes. There was relaxation again
after the English Revolution of
1688, and Lenten laws fell ob
solete. But the more earnest of
the Anglican clergy encouraged
strict observance, and the cus
tom of women’s wearing mourn
ing in Lent, which had been
practiced by Queen Elisabeth
and her court, survived well into
the 19th century.
In American communities the
observation at Lent takes the
form, mainly, of refraining from
worldly pleasures such as danc
ing, card-playing, and theetre-
Teachers Get Small Pay Raise;
Plea for Larger Grant May Be
Taken to Floor of Legislature
Auto Tag Deadline
About 200 Chapel Hillians
who own automobiles have failed
to get their 1939 town licenses.
Any citizen who does not
have a tag is violating the law
and is subject to a fine. The
price of tags is 31, and they can
be obtained at the town hall.
By authority of the board of
aldermen, the town manager has
fixed Wednesday, March 1, as
the deadline. Automobile owners
who have not got their town
tags by then will be cited to
scourt.
Trash and Garbage Ordinance
The aldermen have enacted an
ordinance requiring that the im
mediate surroundings of every
store, factory, and other com
mercial establishment must be
kept clear of trash and rubbish.
Every merchant and house
holder must provide suitable re
ceptacles for garbage; these re
ceptacles must bo water-tight
and fly-proof and shall be of 30
gallons’ capacity or less.
Mrs. Fuller on Screen
Film mt Carolina Tuesday Will Show
Her in Archery Performance
Mrs. Williamson W. Fuller,
who has lived in Chapel Hill
since her husband came here to
study law, will appear in the
Sportoscope film, “Bowstrings,”
next Tuesday at the Carolina
theatre.
She will be seen in an archery
performance. Her father, an ex
pert with the bow and arrow,
taught her his art when she was
a little girl, and in time she her
self became an expert. In Pine
hurst where she grew up and
where this film was made, she
used to give instruction in arch
ery.
Mrs. Fuller does not carry her
bow and arrow along the street
here, but sometimes she has
with her something even more
ornamental—a pretty daughter
now about nineteen months old.
Indicators of Good Weather
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Tinker of
Fryeburg, Maine, have come
from St. Augustine, Florida, for
a month’s stay. This is their
third annual visit to Chapel Hill,
and their arrival has made hap
pier their friends at the Inn,
particularly the Muschamps, an
other Maine couple. The Mus
champ-Tinker combination goes
up and down the Atlantic sea
board, chasing the good weather
as one season follows another.
They are expert weather-pick
ers, so Chapel Hill must be in
for a string of genial sunny
days.
going. There is no uniform rule
for such abstention. Church
people are more or less self
denying according as they are
more or less pious or more or
less attached to old customs.
Manager E. C. Smith of the
Carolina theatre says that Lent
seems to bring no change in at
tendance at the movies here in
Chapel Hill, but that, from what
theatre managers tell him, it
does have its effect in other
places. One woman who Is ac
tive in social affairs in the vil
lage says that, as a bridge host
ess, she will have one table of
bridge In Lent, but not mom
than one. ,
$1.50 a Year in Advance. 5c a Copy
R. E. Coiner Writes of Danger
to the State if Teaching
Is Not Fairly Rewarded
SCHOOLS BEAR BURDEN
OF BUDGET-BALANCING
The public school teachers at
North Carolina made a short
step forward day before yester
day in their effort to obtain bet
ter pay. The joint appropria
tions committee of the legisla
ture revised its former figure to
the extent of recommending an
average raise of about $1 a
month.
It is expected that the idea of
the teachers for a larger ap
propriation will be taken to the
floor of the legislature.
R. E. Coker, chairman of the
Chapel Hill school board, has
written to Chapel Hill’s repre
sentatives in the senate and the
house, John W. Umstead and
Roland P. McClamroch, a letter
in which he emphasizes the im
portance of fair pay for teach
ers from the point of view not
only of the teachers themselves
but of the whole state.
“I am instructed by the board
of trustees of the Chapel Hill
school district,” he writes, “to
inform you of our deep concern
over the recent action of the
Joint Appropriations Committee
which, as we understand, prom
ises failure both with respect to
restoration of the basic salary
scale for teachers and with re
spect to specific provision for
the regularly due increments.
No one, we are sure, can deny
that the basie salary scale, even
without the present reduction,
is all too low.
“We recognize the difficulties
which that committee and the
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Band Concert Feb. 22
Student M nekton* Are to Play Next
Wednesday Evening in Hill Hell
The University Concert Band
will give its annual winter con
cert in the Hill Music hall at 8:30
next Wednesday evening, Febru
ary 22. This is the only concert
the band will play in Chapel Hill
until the outdoor lawn concerts
in May. Plans are under way
for the annual eastern and west
ern tours early in the next quar
ter. Sinee the football season the
eighty musicians have been re
hearsing for the concert season.
They will begin their Wednes
day evening program with a
Mexican inarch. Next will come
the short "Ptolude and Fugue in
D minor” by Bach, and that will
be followed by the spirited over
ture to Mozart’s “The Marriage
of Figaro.” The Grieg A Minor
Piano Concerto will be played by
Dale Sandifur as soloist, ac
companied hy the band. Tschai
kowsky will be represented by
the “Pathetlque” Symphony.
Two recently published mod
ern compositions—variations on
the theme “Pop! Goes the Wea
sel” by Caflliet and “Rhapsody
in Rhumba” by Bennett to
gether with ProkofiefTs march
from “Love of the Three Or
anges,” comprise the remainder
of the program.
There will be no charge for
admission.
A Talk am Neutrality
The international relatione depart
ment of the Community Clnb wffi
meet at 8:80 Tuesday afternoon In
the* parish house. W. L. Wlleen of
the Duke University political sdtoee
department, an authority on political
law, will talk shoot Neu
trality and International Law.*