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Page Two The chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oat Year •* ■■■ ■ l -— Lj ‘ L “ LJLa -“ tan. »< u» pu»L>dio» >t cteaai BUI N«n» Camih. amatr UaUtof Hint t 1W r _ Two Men Who WUI Throw Light On the Question of a Bond issue for Rural Highways A. H. Gmham has resigned an chair man and W. Vance Baise has resigned as chief engineer of the State High way Commission. Within the next few days these two men will appear at a hearing to be held by the legis lative committee that is considering the measure, proposed by Governor Scott, calling for an election on the question of issuing bonds for $200,- 000,000 for the construction of rural highways. Mr. Graham has already declared that his views on State high way policy differ from those of Gov ernor Scott. The nature and the ex tent of the difference will be revealed to the public when the hearing takes place. Now that they have resigned, Mr. Graham and Br. Baise are tied by no strings that will keep them from being completely frank in ex pressing their opinions as to what the State ought to do about its highways. Their opinions will be valuable, for they are thoroughly informed on highway finances and have had ex perience with the way construction They know that, with a handsome balance on hand to begin with, with revenues far in excess of expenditures, and with federal grants, the State will have, without borrowing, many millions of dollars to spend on road construction in the next few years. They know, too, that there is bound to be a great deal of waste if the State, augmenting this money with —a Tant amount of-bond issue, money, embarks immediately upon a compre hensive rural highway building pro gram. My prediction is that the com mittee, after it has heard Mr. Graham and Mr. Baise, and other men well in formed on the highway problem, will be reluctant to turn in a report in favor of holding a bond issue election. Bad Rabbits and Good Rabbits Every now and then I see a rabbit running about our yard. Families of rabbits are born and brought up in the tangle of grass and weeds and undergrowth on an adjacent vacant lot, and both the parents and the chil dren scamper over the neighborhood. A few years ago the rabbits were in disfavor in our• household because they nipped off the Heavenly Blue morning glory plantß. The only way to protect the plants would have been to trap or shoot the rabbits. But we didn't want to do that, partly out of a friendly feeling toward them and partly because rabbits, as well as morning glories, make pretty spots in the scenery. We enjoyed seeing them run about. We decided we would rather do without the morning glories than make a hostile move against the rabbits. There were many other flow ers that the rabbits were willing to let alone; and, as it turned out, they didn’t make a clean sweep of the morning glory plants. Some of the plants grew up and produced blossoms. What got me started on rabbits was an editorial about tularemia that I read a few minutes ago in the Vine yard Gazette. About all I had known about tularemia was that it was a disease sometimes contracted from rabbits. The Gazette article told me something more about it. Also, it sent me to the dictionary where I learned that the disease is named for Tulare county in California because that is where the diseased rabbits were first found. Twelve years ago sportsmen in Massachusetts—or, as the Gazette more fittingly calls them, gunners— asked the State Department 'of Con servation to give permits for the im portation of western rabbits. (The Gazette says western, not Californian, so maybe the breed has spread over the western states from Tulare coun ty.) The State Board of Health pro tested, but the gunners had their way. Rabbits brought from tha west ware rdeased on Cape Cod and, as latq as June 1946, on Martha’s Vine yard (the island home of the Vineyard Gazette). Between 1910 (when the dieeeae was discovered) and 1937 thsre were only four eases of tulare mia in all New England and only one in Massachusetts. Between 1937 ( when the western rabbits were brought in) and 1946 there were ten cases in Mas sachusetts, half of them on Capa Cod. **Aad now we find that tha disease is established on the Vineyard,” says. Parley’s History Is Recalled by Bryant: * j A Treasured Textbook in Old-Time Schools Matthews, N. C., Feb. 2, 1949 Dear Louis: -- - - ~ * Horner Winston started something when he wrote to your paper about “Peter Parley’s Universal History” and raised the question of who wrote it. People of my age all through this section, including Anson, Union, Meck lenburg, and Gaston counties. North Carolina, and Lancaster and York, South Carolina, were schooled in that book.<, Prof. Leitntr Shirley, who taught the old-field school in this community, the lower end of Providence township, Mecklenburg, and prepared the Kell, Bryant and other boys for the University, and the Ardrey and Bell hoys for old Trinity, drilled his pupils in Peter Parley’s history. I thought, of course, that some man named Peter Parley wrote it until Horner Winston went to work on it After I read what he said after digging into catalogues and encyclopedias I was convinced that Nathaniel Hawthorne actually did the writing for it But, now I have a letter from Dr. John W. McConnell, of Davidson College, adding confusion to confusion. He writes from Florida: “I enjoyed your ‘Peter Parley’ story. ‘Peter Parley,’ of course, is a nickname—it is 'Peter the Talker.’ One of the Universal histories is in our old home at McConnellsville, in York county, South Carolina. There is a smaller Child’s Parley History. You should remember it from the woodcut of the Indian tomahawking a New England woman. “I do not think they are Hawthorne’s work, but I am far away from aource material to prove a point. Were I in Davidson I could establish the facts.” The letter of Dr. McConnell is one of several that I received as the result of a story I wrote recently for the Charlotte Observer. Mr. Leon Cor bett, a lawyer of Burgaw, wants to know if I can locate a copy of the book so he can read it and have his sons read it. One letter I had was from a man who said he had three nephews named Horace Greeley, Peter Parley, and Anthony Wayne. Mr. C. M. Graham of Columbia, S. C., sends me a North Carolina arith metic by the Rev. 8. Lander, A.M., principal of the Lineolnton Female Seminary, published 86 years ago, a book I never heard of before. It was published by Sterling, Campbell und Albright, of Greensboro and was “En tered according to Act of Congiess, in the year 1863, by Rev. S. Lander, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the Confederate States, for the District of Cape Fear, North Carolina.” Why not ask some of the wise men of the University to dig into the rec ords of the Library and find out who did write the history? Prof. Shirley was a remarkable teacher. For fifteen years he taught our rural school, “Carolina Academy,” and sent many North apfi£uuth Carolina boys and girls off to college. He was a real blessing to apMga territory in the two States. He lived in South Carolina but every djj*®|*walked three miles into North Carolina to conduct his school. Most mBKm time he was the only teacher employed. He took children for theirflpMF and carried ambitious ones through Greek and Latin. His top-gjipiji jpupils did well wherever they went. There were no school buses in those days to save steps or hot lunches to save cold stomachs. We walked, and learned a lot on the way to and from school. It was a bad day for this community when Prof. Shirley departed from us to establish a school near his home in South Carolina. I hope you can throw out some more suggestions about Peter Parley. I have found that people are interested in such old things. I agree with James Street about television. It is bound to upset many apple carts. I hope that wrestling matches, such as t saw at my daughter’s in New York Christmas, can be barred from it; to me they were disgusting. The last prizefight that I saw over television —that of Joe Louis and Jersey Joe —was tame compared to the wrestling matches. When you can sit in a comfortable chair or recline on a lounge and witness athletic contests, I see no reason why one should pay admission fees. 1 have watched the, ywpiw ts piettffes from the stezeoptfcon vieprs by Prof. Joe Holmes to ‘the latest in television, and I cannot sacape the thought that a lot of junk will be left along the way when television sets can be had at moderate cost. Your friend, H. E. C. Bt4ant Note by L. G.: Peter Parley was the pseudonym of S&muel Griswold Good rich, son of a Congregational minister in Connecticut. The Encyclopedia Britannica’s sketch of him says that of the many books of geography, history, and science that were published in his name “he was the sole composer of comparatively few.” Horner Winston, in the letter that appeared in the W’eekly a year or so ago, said that there had been published speculations as to whether Hawthorne wrote part of Peter Parley’s history. The bio graphies of Hawthorne say that in the 1830’s, before “The Scarlet Letter” established his fame and at the time the Peter Parley books were coming out, he was doing hack work to eke out a meagre living. It is of record that some of the earliest work of Hawthorne's was published in Goodrich’s maga zine, “The Token” (along with the work of Longfellow, N. P. Willis, Lydia Maria Child, and other well known writers of the period). So, he and Goodrich must have been well acquainted, and it may be that his hack work included aid to Goodrich in the writing of Parley’s Universal History. I do not know if there is any “internal evidence” —that is, anything about the style of writing— U> indicate that Hawthorne had a hand in the job. I will ask some University professor familiar with American literature if there has been any research on this subject. the Gazette, “undoubtedly through the importation of rabbits from areas known to have been infected.” Tularemia is a serious matter and I don’t want to be flippant about it, but I am tempted (from my memory of Martha’s Vineyard, which I saw for the first time last summer) to say that the island ought to have some sort of drawback just to remind the people there that they don’t live in a paradise. On my visit 1 failed to ob serve any such reminders. I don’t know whether there has been any tularemia in or around Chapel Hill, but I know the rabbits that run around our place are not western rab bits. They are the same breed of rab bits that I have been seeing all my life. It has never entered my mind that any harm could come from them (except when they attacked morning glories or other plsnt life). The owner of the vseant lot next to us, where the rabbits live, is an old Mfi-Mile Trip to See “Pinafore” Mr. and Mrs. George Stephens; their daughter Eleanor, and their friend Miss Mery Campbell made a 500-mil# trip from Asheville to Chapel Hill and back at tha last week-end to see the Gilbert & Sullivan opera, “Pinafore,” produced by the University music department and the Carolina Playmakers. They came Sat urday and went home Sunday. “A fine show—-well worth the trip,” said Mr. Stephens as they set out from the Init on their 280-mile ride to Asheville. the chapel hill weekly ! friend of ours who in recent years has been going to California a good deal becaue she has a son who has ! settled there and has made a big name for himself. The son is Kay Kyser. ! He makes frequent trips to his native | state of North Carolina. I am sure j that Mrs. Kyser and her son Kay will not bring any California rabbits with them to turn loose on their prop erty ii) Chapel Hill. A special reason for Kay not to do it is that he has become a leader of the Better Health for North Carolina movement. It cer tainly wouldn’t do for him to be build ing up his fellow Tar Heels’ health with one hand and planting tularemia among them with the other. So, al together, we feel pretty safe with our rabbits. If by any chance tularemia infected rabbits should migrate to Chapel Hill, I am going to ask Kay to bring his orchestra here and play to them and lure them away as the rats of Hamelin town were lured away by the Pied Piper. A.A.U.W. to Meet Thursday The American Association of Uni versity Women will meet at 8 P. M. next Thursday in the staff room of the University library. Miss Emma Mc- Cloy Layman, associate professor of psychology at the Woman’s College in Greensboro, will speak on “Mental Hygiene for the Adult Woman.” Mem bers who have not contributed to the Fellowship Fund are requested to bring their contributions to the meet ing or send them to Mrs. Bruce Strowd, fund chairman. NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the author ity contained in Chapter 494, Public Laws of One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-three, and the acts amenda tory thereof, and the duly adopted Resolution, the undersigned will on the 19th day of FEBRUARY, 1949, at 12:00 o’clock Noon, at the Courthouse Door in Hillsboro, North Carolina offer for sale at public auction to the last and highest bidder, for cash, the following described property in Or ange County, North Carolina, to-wit: Tract No. 1: The Piney Mountain School site in Chapel Hill Township, adjoining the lands of Hatcher and others: BEGINNING at a point in the middle of the road which ends about 75 feet Southeast of the Piney Mountain School building, and run ning thence in a Westerly direction 400 feet to dogwood and pile of rocks; thence South 210 feet to stake with pile of rocks; thence East 414 feet to iron pipe in new road; thence North with the road 196 feet to the place of beginning, containing 2 acres, more or less. Tract No. 2: The Sunnyside School site situate in Bingham Township, ad joining the lands of E. W. Ivey and others, and containing one and one half acres, more or less. There is located on Tract No. 1 two one-room frame buildings, and on Tract No. 2 a one-room frame building. The said buildings will be offered for sale separate from the land. A deposit of ten per cent will be required from the last and highest bidder at the sale, and the said sale will remain open ten days for in creased or upset bids. All bids offered at this sale will be subject to con firmation by the Boarfl. This the 17th day of January, 1949. Board of Education of Orange County. TRUSTEE NOTICE OF SALE NORTH CAROLINA ORANGE COUNTY UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of ihe power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed by James Lawrence Neville and Audrey D. Neville, his wife, dated July 24, 1942 and recorded in Book of Mortgages 97, at page 125, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Orange County, North Carolina, default having been Mad* ia tht payment of the indebted- MN thereby rteurtd and said deed of trust being by the terms thereof sub ject to foreclosure, the undersigned trustee will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the courthouse door in Hillsboro, North Carolina, on the 4th day of March, 1949 at 12 o’clock Noon, the property conveyed in said deed of trust, the same lying and being in the County of Orange, and State aforesaid, more particularly described as follows: (1) BEGINNING at a point 70 feet from the intersection of Lloyd Street and a branch running Northwest, said point being on the North side of Lloyd Street; thence along and with lx>t No. 3 in a Northwestern direc tion, North 26 degrees 30’ West 138 feet to a point at the branch; thence along with land of Willie Roberts, North 6 degrees East 95 feet to a point in Temppie Flocks’ land; thence along with Temppie Flocks’ land 20 feet to a point; thence along with Lot No. I, South 25 degrees 30’ East 225 feet to the North side of Lloyd Street; thence along the North side of Lloyd Street, South 64 degrees 30’ West 50 feet to the point of beginning. Same being Lot No. 2 as shown on map of ; property of Mutual Building and Loan Association of Durham, made May 25, 1940 by J. Ralph Weaver, R. S. (2) For description, reference is made to Deed of L. J. Phipps, Comm., and M. A. Abernathy to Audrey Neville and Lawrence Neville dated June 27, 1941 and recorded in Deed Book 116, at page 354, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Orange County, N. C. THIS SALE will remain open for ten days ho receive increase bids as required by law. DATED this 31st day of January, 1949. J. J. Henderson, Trustee. M. Hugh Thompson, Attorney. HAND SMOCKING All size dresses, blouses, etc., expertly finished. Also limited alterations. Can 5291 L * THE YARN SHOP' Chapel Hill’s first and only complete knit and crochet shop. Knitting Bags Instructions Materials MISS GRACE CORDON, Prop. (Located Upstairs Over Andrews-Henninger Store) "* : " II .-1... » Ml ■ g '".linn Isl ' Chas. 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