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VoL 2S, No. 4S Englishwoman Makes a Talk On Education Leader in the Development of British Schools Is Heard by Gathering in Peabody Hall Lady Simon of Wythenshawe, England, eminent educator, writer, and lecturer, spoke yes terday morning in Peabody hall on “The Reconstruction of Eng lish Education after the War.” Her stay in Chapel Hill was a short one. She was met in Ra leigh and brought to the Caro lina Inn Wednesday night by Edgar W. Knight, professor of education. After her talk yester day she was taken to Raleigh by Clyde Erwin, State superin tendent of public instruction, and spent the rest of the day observing, and absorbing infor mation about, the Raleigh schools. Lady Simon, whose husband, Sir John Simon, was a member of the British cabinet in the First World War and is now president of the British Broad casting Corporation, has been for many years a leader in the development of Great Britain’s school system. She reported to the gathering in Peabody hall the increased emphasis on the education of teachers in England and the ex tension of secondary education to all the people of the country. A new scale of salaries for teach ers has been negotiated, and dif ferences between the salaries of elementary and those ondary teachers have l>efl moved. Candidates * for teflMP educational institutions in Eng land are now carefully selected. The government’s doubling of scholarships has enabled every child to get secondary education suited to his or her ability, age, and aptitudes, and no fees are any longer to be charged in schools supported by public funds. The new education act provides better provision for the medical treatment of school children, special schools for handicapped children, and an extension of the mid-day meals in schools. Lady Simon said that the full achievement of the purposes of the new law, which was enacted in 1944, may take many years. England is not able to go ahead rapidly with the building of new schools because building mate rials and labor are rationed by the government. Altrusa Club to Have An Anniversary Party The fir»t anniversary of the found ing of the Aitruaa Club of Chapel Hill will be celebrated at the club’s dinner meeting at 6:16 next Thursday eve ning at the Carolina Inn. The special committee in charge of the humorous program for the occasion consists of Mrs. Mabel Brittain (chairman), Dr. Mabel Goudge, Mrs. B. L. Smith, and Miss Katherine Carmichael. At the meeting laat week the club voted to give $26 to the grants-in-aid fund of the International Association es Altrusa Clubs, whereby women from Latin-American countries are sided in pursuing their education in this country. The grants-in-aid pro gram was presented by Mrs. Edith Brocker, chairman of the Aitruaa in formation committee. Mias Maude Lee, president, reported on the dis trict conference in Atlanta which she had attended as a delegate from Chapel Hill. - Senior Y-Teena Meet Officers will be installed at a meet ing of the Senior Y-T*«m at 7:80 ■ext Monday night in the Episcopal parish hog so. The Chapel Hill Weekly Lonis Graves Editor Map Showing Short-Cut to Airport CHAPEL 111 Hill II <# s| / ( Y AIRPORT \t ' 0 EASTERN AIR LINES « J RALEIGH^^ J. W. Goodwin, station man ager of Eastern Airlines, had this map made at the request of the Weekly. It shows how Chapel Hiilians going to the Kaleigh-Durham airport can save 8 miles by using Illustrated Talks by H. G. Baity on Brazil The first of three illustrated talks on Brazil by Herman G. Baity, pro fessor of sanitary engineering in the University school of public health, will be given at 8 o’clock next Thurs day evening intheaudi^^M£d|* Kodoohrome movies and slides will be used for the pictures. The dates of the second and third lectures will be announced later. The topic of the second will be “The Interior and Upper Amazon Coun try,” and of the third “Cities of East ern and Southern Brazil.” Mr. Baity has been on two expedi tions to the Amazon country, under the sponsorship of the governments of both Brazil and the United States, to lay out sanitary systems. Testing Problems in Public Service Miss Dorothy C. Adkins, professor of psychology in the University, will speak on “Testing Problems in the Public Service” at the meeting of the local chapter of the American Society for Public Administration at 8 o’clock Monday evening in room 208, Cald well hall. After her talk a short busi ness meeting will be held for the election of officers. Formerly chief of the test development unit of the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Miss Adkins has been a frequent contribu tor to professional journals. Her book, “Construction and Analysis of Achievement Tests,” published by the Government last year, has been used as the basis for training programs for persons doing examining work in the U. S. Civil Service Commission add the War Department. Faculty Club Hears Shotto Claude Shotto, the University YMCA secretary, who went to Ger many this last summer as s repre sentative of the Friends Service Com mittee, reviewed his experiences for the Faculty Club at its meeting this week. His talk aroused such interact that many of the members stayed after thu regular meeting period to ask him questions. Much of what Mr. Shotts told them they had never heard before. One thing he told them was a repetition of what many other visitors to Germany have said: that is, that what the German people de sire, above all else, is that the Ameri cans will not “pull out” and leave the Russians in control of Germany. Extra Performsacc Sunday Evening An extra (fifth) performance of “I Remember Mama,” Jhe Playraakers’ first fall production, will be given at 8:30 Sunday evening in the Play raakers theatre. Tickets may be pur chased at the box office, or at the Swain hall business office, or at Led better-Piciwrd’s- CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1948 the Nelson short-cut instead of the route through Durham. And not onjy do they save distance; they avoid the crowded traffic of the city. The distance byway of Durham is 24.6 miles, byway of Nelson 16.7 miles. The stretch of 4.2 miles from Nelson to the airport is not pav ed, but it is well drained and is regularly maintained. Only in very bad weather—when there is snow, for example, or when water is frozen on the ground— is it not a good way to go. Most of the time it provides safe and comfortable passage. This is something to bear iq. mind: When you go from here to the airport turn to the left at the Nelson, junction (that is, toward Durham), and when you’ve gone about 76 yards turn to the right into the dirt road. You will see a sign there, “Ra leigh-Durham Airport.” At a fork about a mile and a half fur ther on is another turn to the right, and there, too, is an air port direction sign. The Story of a Heartbroken Dog Hy lit lay Hrunk Many visitors to the Twin Village laundry in Carrboro have asked about the picture of a little girl and a' big brown dog which hangs on the wall tiehind the counter. The girl, Gayle, daughter of the owner* of the laun dry, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Humphreys, died last December of a tetanus in fection. Rex was Gayle’s constant compan ion, from the time he was given to her a a a puppy 10 years ago, when she was a year old, till her death. Like Mary’s lamb, he followed her to school and came back home with her in the afternoon. There used to be a large ditch in front of the Humphreys home, and when Gayle would play in the street or in the yard Rex would always stand between her and the ditch to keep her from falling in. One time when a mad dog charged in Gayle’s direction, Rex fought it off until men in the neighborhood came to the rescue. Rex was famous in Carrboro for guarding not only his mistress but her possessions as well. He jumped around delightedly when she rode her tricycle, but, when other children Reminding and Stimulating the Voters R. O. Forrest, chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Orange county, accompanied by J. I>. Eskridge, the secretary; came over to Chapel Hill Tuesday to hold a meeting of Democrats in the pre cincts at this (southern) end of the county. Precinct committees were ap pointed to “get out the vote”—which means persuading persons who have not registered to do so and then seeing to it that persons qualified to vote go to the polls on November 2. Ttte Chapel Hill committees are (for the Chapel Hill Chaff I used to publish now and then a little piece entitled “The Exiles," about people who had formerly lived in Chapel Hill. An exile is defined in the diction ary as a “person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.” No exile that I wrote about was expelled from Chapel Hill, unless you call it being ex pelled when a man couldn’t get as high pay here as he could get somewhere else. The word exile implies an unwilling departure and a preference for one’s for mer to one’s present home; so, my application of the word to a person who has left Chapel Hill is what you might call jump ing to a conclusion, siftce the persons who have left the vil lage did so of their own free will and most of them, so far as I know, are well content with their present abodes. Os course some people think they are exiles (that is, unwill ing absentees) when they are really not. They enjoy cherish ing sentimental memories, but if they were forced to a choice they would not go back to the old place. When I was a reporter in New York forty-odd years ago 1 was often assigned to re port the annual dinner meet ings of state societies. Tears would come into the speakers’ eyes, and their voices would tremble, as they recalled the scenes of their youth in dear old North Carolina or Alabama or Indiana or Missouri or what ever state it was, and presently ( they had all their listener* sunk in the same depths of nostalgic emotion. Os the men and women who attended these gatherings, not one in a thousand ever went back home to live. You could not have dragged them away from New York with anything short of extradition warrants and handcuffs. While the majority of former Chapel Hiilians are no doubt sat (Continuod on pagi 8) tried to climb on it, he would pull them off. In latci* years, when she rode a blue bicycle, he frolicked |long by her side. After her death Rex passed most of his time lying quietly in the yard or on the porch. The only time he would show any sign of animation was when a pig-tailed youngster would pedal by on a blue bicycle. On that rare occasion he would start up and run barking after the rapidly disap pearing figure, only to return more disheartened than before. Gayle, known to her family and friends simply as “Gay,” looked after Rex as well as he looked after her. Once when he had such a bad case of mange that the veterinarian advised the family to have him de stroyed, Gay cried so hard he was spared. The infection cleared up and he was soon well again. When Gayle was gone Rex would eat barely enough to keep him alive. Some days he would take no food at all. He wasted away until the Hum phreys family agreed it would be kinder to put him to sleep than to leave him to a lingering death. north precinct) J. W. Umstead, Clyde Carter, Mist Sarah Umstead, W. M. Cochrane, and Mrs. Roland McClam roch, and (for the south precinct) L. J. Phipps, Mrs. R. H. Marks, R. C. Andrews, P. W. Wager, and Mrs. W. A. White. The Carrboro committee' is composed of Mrs. L. R. Sturdivant, Dwight Ray, and Winslow Williams. Mrs. Cotton Convalescing Mrs. Lyman Cotton is in Raleigh convalescing from an operation on her foot. Chapel Hill-Carrboro Committee Will Confer with State Highway Chairman Graham This Afternoon Tomorrow Last Day Os Registration Tomorrow, Saturday, October 23, will be the last day for the registration of voters. Places in Chapel Hill: north precinct^Town Hall; south pre cinct, school Hours: 9 A.M. to sundown. The registrar for the north precinct is Miss Betsy Brunk, for the south precinct Rev. J. R. Green. A person who has registered for the primary election, or who registered for the primary last May, is on the books and does not have to register again. (Ex ception : persons who moved from one precinct to the other on or before July 2 must regis ter in the precinct in which they now live. If they moved after July 2 they vote in the precinct where they were previously registered.) Saturday the 30th, one week from tomorrow, will be challenge day. The Young Democrats Are to Meet Tuesday The Young Democratic Club of Or ange county will have a barbecue rally at 5 o’clock this coming Tuesday afternoon at the Hillsboro high school. Senator William B. Umstead, | Senator-nominee J. M. Broughton, and Congressman Carl Durham will be the principal speakers. One objective of the Young Demo crats is to get out a larger-than usual vote .in Orange for State Sena tor James Webb. Alamance is the other county in the senate district. The fact that the Republicans are waging an uimsually vigorous cam paign in Alamance this year makes the Democrats eager to have a big counterbalancing majority in Orange. Ira Ward is president of the Or ange County Democratic Club. Carolina Favored’in Game Tomorrow Despite its heavy injuries Carolina is favored to defeat Louisiana State in the game tomorrow in Kenan stad ium. The kick-off will be at 2 o’clock. A sell-out crowd of over 40,000 is expected. The latest addition to the Carolina casualty list is Bill Flamisch, whp sustained a rib injury in practice early this week. It is doubtful that he will play tomorrow. The three regulars who are definitely out this week are blocking back Don Hartig, hurt Georgia game; wingback Fred Sherman, hurt at Wake Forest, and tackle Ted Hazelwood, who acci dentally shot himself Monday. Coach Snavely will probably use Len Sza faryn on both .offense and defense while Hazelwood is out. County Committee Orgsnizee The citizens’ committee (James Webb, chairrufn), whieh is to make a survey of Orange county problems with a view to recommending im provements, had an organization meeting in the court house in Hills boro Monday. Subcommittees are already at work. Mrs. John Gillin has been appointed a member of the com mittee to succeed Mrs. M. R. Evans, resigned. Three Service League Projecte The Junior Service league of Chapel HUI will meet at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon in the Episcopal parish house. The program committee will present for discussion the fol lowing three projects for the year: (1) a dental clinic for school children, and possibly adults; (2) playgrounds for town childran, specially for those in congested areas; (3) an adult ed ucation program for the Negro rec reation center. Everybody interested in the work of the Service League is invited to the meeting. Jaycees^Tharsday Meeting The newly formed Chapel Hill Jun ior Chamber of Commerce met last (Thursday) night at the Town had for the election of officers. $2 * Year is Advance. Be a C*fj One Subject to Be Dtaenwed Is the Need of a Better Highway from Chapel Hill to Durham ' The joint committee which was created by the boards of aldermen of Chapel Hill and Carrboro to study the subject of highways in and near the two towns has an appointment to meet Chairman A. H. Graham of the State Highway Commis sion in Raleigh this (Friday) afternoon. The reason for not having this meeting soon after the appoint ment of the committee last June was that the State engineers; who had been making surveys for new highway links near Chapel Hill and Carrboro, had not then plotted the proposed routes. Now Chairman Graham, the engineers, and the commit teemen can gather around a big table, have maps spread before them, and see just how the situation stands. L. J. Phipps is chairman of the joint committee. Carr boro’s chief representative is Winslow Williams, town manager. The other members are F. O. Bow man, R. J. M. Hobbs, and J. M. Webb of Chapel Hill and Dwight Ray of Carrboro. About one thing there is no difference of opinion: the need for a better highway between Chapel Hill and Durham. The present highway is not wide enough; it has bad curves, which are not bahked; and its three bridges are dangerously narrow. Altogether, it is obsolete. Since it was built 27 year* ago the traffic on it ha* vastly increased. Either a new highway must be built or the present one must be improved to such an extent that it will be virtually new. Besides discussing the Chapel Hill-Durham highway the com mittee and the State highway representatives will discuss pro posals for bypass roads that will take through traffic around, instead of through, Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Floridian Active as Bulb Grower at 83 Irl Summerlin’s sister, Mr*. Mil dred Bailey of Atlanta, and hi* father, William W. Summerlin of Lake Placid, Florida, have gone back to their homes after a week’s visit here. The Floridian, who is 83 years old, used to live ii. Tallapoosa, Georgia, near the Alabama line. He was the first automobile owner in his sec tion of the state. When he got the cat (about forty years ago) he was preparing to run for the legislature. “You’d better not go around elec tioneering in that thing,” said a friend. “You'll scare all the horsea and mulsa in the county, and nobody will vota for you.” He disregarded the advice. Instead of antagonizing the voters, he thrilled and delighted them by taking them for rides in his car* He was sleeved by a hugs majority. His keen mind, racy reminiscences, and all-around liveliness mark him as a remarkable character. He started in business as a grower of Easter lily bulbs when he was just a year abort of 80, With an old Negro man, a tenant on his farm, aa his only helper, he now sells tens of thousands of bulbs every year by mail order. Ex plaining why he couldn’t stay hero longer than a week, be said: “This is right in the middle of the bulb growing season, and I’ve got to get back on the job.” Red Croat Chapter to Meet Miss Ruth Kernodle, assistant dL rector of volunteer services in th* ana, will speak to a meeting as tft* I Chapel Hffi chapter of the American Rod Cross at 7:80 Wednesday eve ning in room 11), Alumni building.
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