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Activities of
Scout Week to
Start Sunday
First fivent, Court of Honor;
People of Community Invited
to All Gatherings in Week
Next week will be Boy Scout
Week all over the country. The
people of the community are in
vited to attend the gatherings
and to see the demonstrations
that make up the week’s pro
gram. | [
The proceedings will begin
with a Court of Honor and spe
cial anniversary service to be
conducted at 8 o’clock Sunday
evening at the Congregational-
Christian church by James A.
Westbrook and Rev. Bernard V.
Hunger, assisted by Charles
Wolf and Robert Linker, the two
Chapel Hill Boy Scouts who have
most recently received the
Eagle A>ward.
Mr. Munger, who served three
years as Protestant chaplain of
»the Chicago area Boy - Scout
camps, will speak on “The Dis
cipline Which Leads to Free
dom.’’
Another public meeting will
be held at 8 P.M. Monday in the
Town Hall. The program will in
clude a movie titled “The Scout
Trail to Citizenship” and brief
reports on the expansion of
Scout activities here. Those
making reports will be Leigh
Skinner, chairman of the Cub
Scout committee of the Episco
pal church; Justice Haswell,
chairman of the Baptist church
Scout committee; William S.
Roth, who will report on activi
ties of tbe University’s chapter
of Alpha P&! Omega, Scouting
fraternity; and Douglas Kelley,
assistant executive of the Occo
neechee Council, who will tell
how people can help the Scout
movement here.
The chairman will be Mr.
Munger, who is a member of the
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I Red Cross Fund Will
Be Raised in March
The annual fund campaign of the
Red Cross in Orange county is sched-|
uled for the week March 1-8. Col.
Carlyle Shepard, chairman of the j
local chapter, announces that Arthur
Roe, chemistry professor in the Uni-1
versity, will be general chairman of
the campaign. * |
At a recent meeting of the fund
campaign committee Col. Shepard
gave a picture of Red Cross activity
thmaghout the nation. The Red Cross
has to be prepared to render aid to
million war veterans and their
families. It must be able to give home
service to the aged and the sick and
to meet any conceivable emergency.
Leslie M. Boyd said that in the
last year 60,000 service men in North
Carolina were aided by the Red Cross.
An important function of home serv
ice agents of the Red Cross is prepar
ing, for veterans and their families,
applications for government aid that
is due them under the law.
Miss Mabel Brittain told of Red
Cross activities in Orange county.
- She said: “Volunteer workers are now
transporting children crippled by
polio to and from treatment areas.
We have 1,264 veterans in the county,
and every one looks to the Red Cross
for help in time of need. Os the total
amount collected in our March cam
paign, 71.8 per cent will be kept for
use in this county.”
Choral Club Wants More Singers
The Chapel Hill Choral Club will be
gin rehearsals at 7:30 P.M. Monday at
Hill hall for its presentation of Bach’s
M B Minor Mass” at the University
jh Commencement in June. Mrs. G. A.
* Harrer, president of the club, has is
susd an invitation to all singers to
cone and take part and become mem
bers. A large chorus is needed, and
there are no tryouts, auditions, or
dues. Just show up for the rehearsal.
Everybody who can sing is eligible.
The charm is directed hy Paul Young.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LoakHGjraves
Ban on Freshman end Sophomore
Cars Is Suggested by Trustees
At its meeting here last week the subcommittee of the visiting
committee of the board of trustees suggested to Chancellor House
that a good step toward a solution of the difficult automobile-park
ing problem would be to prohibit freshmen and sophomores from
having automobiles in Chapel Hill. The subcommittee asked Mr.
House to consider this and he said he would.
At some other institutions have been forbidden to
have cars, and the opinion has been expressed, by persons in
the University and outside, that there should be restrictions here.
It is realized by everybody of course that there would have to be
exceptions to any prohibitory rule; for example, for physically
handicapped persons and for those living far from the campus.
(There are some students who live in other towns and more who
live in the nearby country or in suburbs Ar enough out to make
automobile transportation a practical necessity.)
Some of the trustees here last week said, in effect: Suppose the
freshman-and-sophomore restriction be inaugurated as an ex
periment. The University authorities might decide, later, to extend
the restriction, or they might find a better approach to the con
trol of student cars.
An official of the University who has been giving special at
tention to the campus traffic problem for the last two years said
to the editor of this newspaper one day last week: “I am con
vinced that we are not going to have any improvement except
by a decrease in the number of cars.”
A committee composed of University officials and faculty mem :
bers, students, and town officials and police officers has been
diligently studying all phases of the problem. Some time ago, on
the recommendation of this committee, the University establish
ed limited parking zones in the campus. Only those cars bearing a
certain kind of ticket pasted on the windshield are allowed to
park in these zones. The limited zones are marked by large signs
at the entrances.
Editor of Asheville Citizen Writes about
Experience with Pay Telephone at the Inn
To the Editor:
Your piece about the Carolina Inn
pay telephones deserves one footnote.
Until I read it I had supposed I was
the only man in the United States
who had ever beat a pay telephone
out of a nickel. But this distinction
is now circumscribed and therefore
exalted. In other wards, my experi
ence is the exception to the rule—and
in Chapel HilL
Recently I was registered at the Inn
for some business on the way to Ra
leigh. In the course of this visit I
made two telephone calls from the
pay station on the left as you face
the battery of booths. The first, as
1 recollect, was to Stew Sechriest at
the journalism department. The
second was to Lambert Davis. In both
instances I sat with nickel poised and
heart a tremble at these lowland pay
stations where you get your party and
then pay your nickel. The first time
I dialed the number I got a voice
at the other end of the line, prepared
to drop the nickel, and then —perhaps
for fear the voice would go away—
simply desisted. The second call went
the same way— much conversation
gratis. It was with a guilty feeling,
though with mission accomplished,
that I left the booth and related my
experience to the Inn desk clerk.
Apparently he sensed that I had a
telephone complaint, for his air as I
approached him from the booth was
quite resigned. When he found that
I was complaining that, or wondering
why, I had not had to pav, he inhaled
sharply and announced what he had
received a million complaints from
guests who had deposited their nickels
A Warning to Bicycle Riders
It is unlawful to ride unlighted
bicycles in the street after dark. Police
Chief William T. Sloan has asked us
to remind people of this. “It is not
only against the law, but extremely
dangerous to ride an unlighted bicycle
at night,” Chief Sloan said yesterday.
“We have been warning people about
this, and some arrests will have to
be made it the practice continues.”
Rotariaas Hear about Scouts
Apropos of Boy Scout Week, the
Rotary Club heard, at its meeting
this week, reports on Scout achieve
ments. Speakers were patrol leaders
Charles Bartlett, Jr., R. B. Fitch, Jr.,
Sam Emory, Jr., and Carl McPherson.
A movie of the Scout Jamboree in
Paris last year was shown.
Methodist Women to Hear Missionary
The Methodist Women’s Society of
.Christian Service will meet at 8:30
j P.M. Monday in the east parlor of
| the church. The speaker will be Rev.
I Lin wood Blackburn, missionary to
, Portuguese East Africa who is now
! on furlough.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TODAY, FEBRUARY 4,1 M»
only to hear the fateful click of an
interrupted conversation but that this
was the first time the grasping thing
had ever worked for free. O pioneer!
Anyway, I left my nickels with him
and departed in good conscience. I
should not be surprised to find them
mounted some day with a suitable
inscription over the qtouthpiece of
the benignant trtephsaufaMHHMM
that the thihg only
sity’s hospitality to •MMMIpMHk
Buncombe—or at least to those who
travel from afar and despise the
whole institution of pay telephones?
At any rate, there is your exception
to the rule.
I agree with you that, God knows,
Chapel Hill is citified enough already.
Don Shoemaker.
Tree-Planting along Streets Is Going Ahead
't The members of the Chapel itill-Carrboro Junior Chamber of Commerce
have been planting trees along the streets of Chapel Hill and Carrboro,
and their splendid work is not done yet. They are planning to be on the
job again tomorrow. If bad weather intorferes then, they will take ad
vantage of the fair weather that comes along.
The tree-planting was launched by a citizens’ committee headed by E. C.
Smith. F. J. leClair, the University horticultural expert, is supervising the
operation. Young trees that he has grown on the Mason farm, maples and
willow-leaf oaks, are hauled into town on trucks provided by the Town and
the Farmers Dairy Cooperative. Kenneth Putnam leads the squad of Jay
cees who dig the trees up at the farm and set them out along the streets.
Willow-leaf oaks have been set out on East Franklin street between the
Lawson home and Ab’g bookshop, and maples on Columbia street near
Franklin. Twelve maples have been set out along the street in front of the
Pacific Mills in Carrboro. The town government will take care of planting
about 16 trees on the business block of East Franklin street.
Paper Collection Tomorrow and Sunday
Every household is urgently requested to put out waste paper sad
coat hangera for the collection to bo made by kigb school atudonto
from 1:30 to 5 P.M. Sunday for the benefit of the towp recreation
center. A similar collection will be made tomorrow (Saturday) in
the business district. Trucks lent by merchants will bo usod both
days. Since this will probably be the last collection for a long time,
everybody is urged to make a thorough clean-up of cellars, closets,
and attics.
Sewing Group Needs Help
Women who can sew are needed by
the Quaker Women's Sewing Group
to help make children’s garments
from 167 yards of cloth recently re
ceived. Members of the group plan to
make between 4 ind 6 hundred little
girls’ slips, panties and gowns for
distribution abroad by the American
Friends Service Committee. Those
willing to help are asked to call Mrs.
D. D. Carroll at 6401. The sewing
may be done at home.
Presbyterian Communion Service
'Rev. Charles M. Jones, pastor of
the Prebyterian church, announces
that Communion will be given only
at the 9:46 service this coming Sun
day morning. The 11 o’clock service
witi be given over to the regular wor
ship program.
University Wins
In
ackland Case
Just as the Weekly waa
about to go to press the editor
got a telephone call from
Washington saying that the
U. S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia, unani
mously reversing the lower
court, had ordered that the
Ackland Memorial Art Mu
seum be placed at the Univer
sity of North Carolina. The
lower court, disregarding the
recommendation of the trus
tees of the Ackland will that
the museum be placed here,
had designated Rollins Col
lage in Florida as the site.
The appeals court decision
handed down yesterday was
written by Judge Wilbur K.
Miller. Judges Edgerton and
Clark concurred. The Univer
sity’s legal representative,
from the beginning, was the
firm of the late O. Max Gard
ner. Fred Morrison, former
Chapel Hill school superin
tendent, is a member of the
firm.
Char Chaff
The bambofe flanking the flag
stone path leading to our door,
laden with ice from the sleet
storm of Monday night, bent so
low over the path Tuesday morn
ing that it scraped the atones. It
made such a dense maas that it
completely blocked travel be
tween the rock wall gate and the
house door. At least that's what
we thought until two doughty
neighbors, Roland McClamroch
thought that a terrier or a
spaniel would have a hard time
making the passage. Mr. Warren
is 6-feet-3 and weighs over 200,
and Mr. McClamroch, while no
giant perpendicularly, has gain
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Legion Raises sll4 for Polio Fond
The American Legion raised sll4
for the March of Dimes last Saturday
evening at its benefit square dance
at the Legion Hut. Paul Robertson,
chairman of the dance committee, said
yesterday he wanted to thank Hyden
G. Clark, H. W. Meacham, and Robert
Harris, who played for the dance free
of charge, and all members of his
committee “who helped to make it the
success it was.”
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Pssquier Trio to Play Tuesday
The famous Pasquier Trio, composed
of brothers, Jean Pasquier, violin;
Pierre Pssquier, viola, and Etienne
Pasquier, violoncello, will give a con
cert at 8:80 P.M. Tneaday iq, Hill hall
under the auspice# of the University’s
music department. Ticket# ($1 each)
are on tale at 108 HiU hall.
The University Will Not
Have Saturday Classes;
Faculty Report Accepted
By Trustees' Committee
The University will not change its schedule to provide fbr class
room work on Saturday.
This is assured by the action of a subcommittee of the trustees’
visiting committee in accepting a faculty report opposing the
change to a 6-day schedule. Victor S. Bryant of Durham is chair
man of the visiting committee and is also chairman of the sub
committee which met here last Friday. The other trustees at
the meeting were John W. Clark of Franklinville and Greensboro,
H. B. Marrow of Smithfield, J. A. Pritchett of Windsor, Clarence
Stone of Stoneville, Collier Cobb of Chapel Hill, and Kenneth
Tanner of Rutherfordton.
The suggestion for a 6-day schedule was made with the thought
that it might prevent the wholesale exodus of students at the
week-end. At its meeting last June the board of trustees asked
the University administration to consider the matter. Chan
cellor House appointed a 5-man committee, headed by Edwin C.
Markham of the chemistry department, to make a study of the
proposal. The committee not only made an exhaustive canvass
of faculty opinion by a written questionnaire and by personal
interviews but also obtained information from institutions which
now have Saturday classes. It studied reports of detailed investi
gations, at several institutions, into the relative educational ad
vantages of the quarter and the semester systems.
'-The committee’s report adverse to the proposed change to a
6-day schedule was presented to the trustees’ committee at the
meeting here last Friday. The members of the committee read
it carefully, discussed it with Mr. Markham and among them
selves, and then voted unanimously to accept it. This means,
without doubt, that it will be accepted by the full board of
trustees.
There is more to the week-end exodus of students than is known
to the casual observer who sees them streaming out of the village
Merchants Will Have
Banquet Next Friday
Vie Huggins, president of the Mer
chants Association, has announced
that the association’s annual Ladies’
Night banquet will be held at 7 P.M.
Carolina Inn.
employees, and
invited. Tickets are
on sale at E. T. Heame’s store, Pee-
Mangum, Varsity, Rose’s, Johnson-
Strowd-Ward, Carolina Produce, and
R. H. Marks’ store.
Thompson Greenwood, assistant
secretary of the North Carolina Mer
chants Association, will speak briefly.
Norman Cordon will lead the ban
queteers in song, with Mrs. R. H.
Marks at the piano. Andy Griffithl
wili give a comedy skit. Another skit,
will be given by the Junior Chamber '
of Commerce under the direction of
Herbert Wentworth. There will be
favors for all the guests and drawings
for door prizes. Following the ban
quet a square dance will be held.
At the banquet Mrs. Mildred
Cartee, newly elected association sec
retory-treasurer, will be officially in
stalled as the first full-time officer.
Hillman Award Presented to Graham
The Sidney Hillman Foundation’s
first annual award of SI,OOO was
presented to President Frank P. Gra
ham of the University at a dinner
gathering of 200 persona last Satur
day evening at the Mayflower hotel
in Washington. The scroll accompany
ing the check said that the award
was “for meritorious service to Frank
Porter Graham, educator, public
servant, and social pioneer. . . . Labor,
management, and the public have
found in him a just and conscientious
mediator. ... In time of peace and
in war time he has served his coun
try well.” Mrs. Graham accompanied
him to Washington to attend the
dinner. Among those present were
Vice - President Barkley, Senator
Broughton, and John R. Steelman as
representative of President Truman.
Aitrusa Club to Meet Thursday
Mrs. Clyde Milner, associate pro
fessor of psychology at Guilford
College, will address the Altntoa Club
on “Vocational Guidance” at a dinner
meeting at 6:15 P. M. next Thursday
at the Carolina Inn. The program Will
be directed by Miss Mildred Mooney
han, chairman of vocational guidance.
Mrs. Edith Brocker, the club’s infor
mation chairman, directed last week’s
program, which consisted of brief talks
by the members themselves. The Dur
ham Aitrusa Club is to entertain the
Chapel Hill dub March 3 in Durham
at, a dinner meeting, at which the
speaker will be Mrs. Edith Nelson of
Richmond, Va., district governor.
$2 a Tear in Advance. Sc a Copy
’on Friday and Saturday. Many of
them are not going away just for a
holiday. For example: Mr. Marrow
told, at last week’s meeting, of two
students of his acquaintance, both
members of Phi Beta Kappa (whiqh
proves they aro serious students),
who come home to Johnston county at
week-ends so that they can have a
quiet and restful plaqs to study,
Hooting to «a important factor to
the problem. Many students live
three-in-a-room, some four-in-a-room,
some in Quonset huts. More comfort
able living, to the simple physical
sense, is what many go home for.
Besides having more comfortable
quarters, they have meals with their
families. This is, not only agreeable,
but it saves them money. Transpor
tation is not apt to be a big expense.
Some of the week-enders have their
own cars; some go with parents or
other relatives who come for them,
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Wildlife Club Makes
Obie Davis President
Obie Davis was elected president
of the Orange County Wildlife Club
at a meeting Wednesday night at
the Town Hall. He succeeds Kenneth
Putnam. John Cates was elected vice
president and Joseph Phillips sec
retary-treasurer.
Committee members are as follows:
Dr. Ed Hedgpeth, Charles Milner,
and R. L. Free, program committee;
W. 8. Hogan, Kenneth Putnam, and
Brody Clark, project committee; C. E.
Vashaw, Brody Clark, and Clarence
Farrell, committee to confer with
University officials on fishing at Uni
versity lake; A. W. Hobbs, Arthur
V. Jensen, Robert Fink, and C. E.
Vashaw, committee to confer with the
Wildlife Commission in regard to
the establishment of game refuges in
this area.
The slub approved a resolution to
be sent to the Wildlife Resources
Commission urging that open sessons
on quail, turkey, rabbitt, and squirrel
begin and end simultaneously. A
movie depicting tbs evils of stream
pollution was shown at the meeting.
Cub Scout Sponsors Needed
The Laymen’s League of the Epis
copal church invites all parenta of
boys between the ages of 9 and 18
who are interested in having them
become Cub Scouts to meet at 8:00
P.M. Tuesday in the parish housa.
Douglas tielley of Durham will spoak
and show movies on scouting. The
league hopes to sponsor a troop at
the Episcopal church. Three meetings
of parents and sponsors with a scout
executive are necessary to tbe estab
lishment of a troop. The first toast
ing was held last Tuesday; the second
will be next week, and the third on
February !$•