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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-12-13
Presbyterians Had Bazaar

A bazaar, for the benefit of
churchwomen's charities, was
held in the Presbyterian church
social rooms Tuesday afternoon
and evening. All sorts of things
were on sale-ivories, curios
from the East, embroideries,
table-1inen, breads, cakes, and
candies. Buyers were numer-
Gus and eager, with the. result
that a considerable sum was
realized for the charities.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-12-13
George Lawrence Engaged

Announcement has been made
of the engagement TO George
Lawrence, brother of Rev. Al
fred S. Lawrence, to Miss Addie
Grace Waterman, sister of Mrs.
Claudius Murchison. The first
news of the engagement came a
few days ago when Mrs. Law
son gave party in honor of the
event.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-12-13
Club Bridge Tourney

Members of the Country Club
who want to take part in a
bridge tournament should turn
up at the house next Saturday
afternoon at three o'clock. Part
nerships must be arranged in
advance. The tournament will
begin next Saturday and end
Saturday after next.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-12-13
J. A. Clark Gets a Farm

W. S. Robertson has sold to
j. A. Clark, who works in the
cotton mill in Carrboro, a farm
of 38 acres on the Hillsboro road
this side of Calvander. Mr..
Clark will live on his new pro-
perty and will come in each day
in an automobile to his work in
Carrboro.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-12-13
YOUNG ALLPORT
PURSUED TRAIN
Liked the Looks of Charlotte
Special and Took Out
After It.
A NEGRO MAN FOUND HIM

EOWarQ Airport, IOuE years
old, likes trains. He states his
fondness for engines and cars
openly and often. For & year
or two, from his home ON Pitts
boro street, he has been entranc-
ed once or twice a day by the
sight of a locomotive pulling a
freight car along the railroad
track to the University campus
This was only freight traffic.
But Saturday came the Char
lotte high school special, with
its new spick-and-span passen.
ger coaches, and parked itself
almost at Edwards door. Here
was joy beyond words.
The Charlotte people piled
out of the train and were off
to Emerson field to see their
football team play Sanford. But
Edward was not the least in
terested in them. He stood and
stared at the train. Now and
then he started towards it and
had to be restrained by one of
his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allport had tc
go to Durham in the afternoon,
and they left Edward in the
care of Martha, the cUlored
maid. Martha looked after him
Well--eXcept for about two or
three minutes when her atten-
tion was distracted by some
household duties These two or
three minutes carle at the lime
when the Charlotte train was
just ab at to pull or for home
after the gArne Edward, un-
watched, made a bee line for
the last coach. The train drew
away. He followed, up the
track toward Carrboro.
When Martha's thoughts
turned to him again he was gone
lost. She looked about the
house and yard, under the ia
bles, in the closets, everywhere.
AS the search proceeded with
out results she grew panicky.
Finally she ran over to the next
door neighbor, Mrs. Harris, and
told her of the boys disappear-
ance.
The neighborhood was
aroused. There was frantic tel
ephoning and sending o. mes
sages. Immediately it VAS sus-
pected that the boy had got
aboard the train. Mrs. Harris
Continued on Page d
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-12-13
mind is: is the 100000 enough I?
DR.. FOy Robertson

DR.. FOy Robertson
Il agree with you most hear
tily in practically all you have to
say concerning the need of an
athletic stadium at the Univer-
sity," says DR.. Foy Roberson.
Friends and alumni have shown
their interest in the University's
athletics to a marked degree;
and it is only just and right that
they be comfortably taken care
of after they have travelled many
miles to witness athletic con-
tests. | do not mean to re-
fleet discredit, in the least, on
those who have these matters in
charge; because l know that
they have done exceedingly well
with the very poor equipment
they have. However, the fact
remains that of the $4,000 peo-
pie who witnessed the game on
Thanksgiving Day, practically
not more than 5000 or 1900
were comfortably situated; this
is certainly not gratifying to
either those who have these
matters in charge, or to those
who suffer"
Burton Craige
Your editorial on facilities
for the game at Chapel Hill is
timely and should be promptly
heeded," writes Burton Craige.
Indeed, if a gloomy wet day like
Thursday brings an overflow
crowd, the necessity for enlarg-
ed facilities is now upon us. It
will never do to dampen this en-
thusiasm which has, in the max
ing, a great national event.
Your plan is workable and
should bring about every need
ed facility. | hope the plan for
a larger stadium will be worked
out successfully"
w. Stamps Howard
From ". Stamps How toward d Il 0f (
Tarboro comes a letter which
says: "If the University expects
to hold the high position already
obtained in athletics, she must
have immediately a new gym
nasium and an athletic field that
will seat thirty thousand people
and which can be easily enlarged
to double this capacity
Mr.. Howard says that the
States appropriations will nat
urally have to go for other
things than for athletics, and
therefore that the money for
the stadium will have to be rails
ed independently.
He says that a million ought
to be in sight-and that a
million and a half would be in
finitely better launch the
project, and adds: "I believe.
Continued on Page q
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-12-13
Mr.. Fountain Buys Lot

r. T. Fountain of Rocky
Mount has bought the old Par
tin place at the corner of old
Hillsboro road and north stree1.
The Partin house will be recon
structed, and it is said a new
house will be built beside it for
Mr.. Fountains mother-in law,
Mrs. Rankin.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-12-13
Chapel Hill ChaG

When was walking in front
of Fosters store a day or so
ago, l was startled to see a Santa
Claus in full costume leaning
out of the second-story window
smoking cigarette. He was in
the Foister Toyland and was
evidently taking a little time off
from his duties. There was
something incongruous about a
cigarette in Santa's mouth. A
pipe would have seemed natural
enough.
Towns within a radius of so
or Is miles from Chapel Hill
were used as sleeping stations
by the people who attended the
football game on Thanksgiving
Day. / had one friend who came
all the way from New York to
spend a few days here, and who
went to Greensboro to sleep
Thursday night and came back
here early next morning. One
alumnus who stayed overnight
in a nearby village was asked
how the hotel conditions were
Fine" he said, eve had plenty
of hot and cold running cock
reaches"
Mr.. Dickson, writing recently
in the Greensboro News, said
that Chapel Hill, had revealed
itself as the town with more
parking space for it's size than
any other in the world. This is
good observation. There seem
ed to be no trouble whatever
thanks partly, of course, to the
student traffic directors-about
finding a place for cars. The
class athletic field, the space ir
the new dormitory quadrangle
the grove in front Of the Battle
place, and other allotted areas
together with the streets, took
care of all the cars with ease.
The football heroes of past
days always seem to me to be
embarrassed when they are
trotted out, on important occa
| ssiiealss ssiiealss to be displayed t othe
crowd and to have their pictures
taken. They are hauled this
way and that by a photographer
who wants to get them into gooo
position. Not one person out Of
so in the grandstand knows who
they are; in fact, most of the
spectators were probably mo-
born when these men performed
at Chapel Hill on the gridiron
Squealing young flappers stare
at them and call them "cute.
They look relieved when they art
allowed to resume their seats.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-12-13
New Concrete Sidewalk

A new Concrete sidewalk has
been built in front of the block
of Kluttz store buildings and in
front of Jack Sparrow's place.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-12-13
Secretary of State Everett
And Other Prominent Alumni
Say Big Stadium Is Needed
Emphasize Unverity Need for Enclosure That Will
commodate Great Crowds at Athletic Events. Friends
of Institution Eager to Cooperate in Putting
Project Through ~.t

With Secretary of State Ever
EFT the first to send in his ap-
proval, a number, of prominent
University alumni have written
to the Chapel Hill Weekly
about its editorial of last week
suggesting the erection of a
large enclosure to accommo-
date big crowds at athletic.
events.
They endorse the scheme
and emphasize the certainty
OF the need in the near future.
They do not go into details as
to a plan, but, simply make the
point that the structure has got
to come, and that preparations
for it ought to begin at once.
Whether Emerson Field or
some other site will be used is
one of the questions that will
have to be decided. 1t goes
without saying that, wherever
the new stadium is placed, full
credit will be given to the gen
erosity of Isaac Emerson, the
former Chapel Hill citizen, who
made the University a gift Of
the present concrete stands. He
started the ball rolling.
Alumni who have written to
.he Weekly about the need Of a
big stadium are Dr.. Foy Rober-
son of Durham, Burton Cralge
lef Winston-Salem, Chas. Whed-
bee of Hertford, MaXcy l.. John
of Laurinburg, and W. Stamps
Howard, of TarborO. General
Julian S. Carr was just on the
point of leaving Durham when
he got his last weeks copy of
the paper. He wrote that he did
not have time then to discuss
the matter at length but wanted
to hasten to register his COM
plete sympathy with the idea.
w. N. Everett writes: Il
have just read your editorial
about the need of a far greater
stadium than we now have in
Chapel Hill in order to accom-
modate the eVer-groWing crowds
that come to athletic contests
there. The editorial meets my
entire approval. You mention a
financial plan that has been
tried successfully elsewhere bas-
ed upon the sale of shares, each
share carrying with it the right
to seats for several years to
come; and the suggestion is
made that it might be feasible
to get 1000 persons to subscribe
500 each, under this plan, and
to begin with the 100000 thus
raised. l don't think we would
have any trouble at all in put
ting the 100000 proposition
over. The only question in my
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1923-12-13
Mems Club Tonight

The Mems Club of Chapel
Hill will have it's final supper
of the year at six o'clock tonight
Thursday in the school restau-
rant.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-09
VIENNA

People had the pleasure of seeing
the movies when Knighthood Was
in Flower last Saturday night.
Amy Lord passed the week end
with her mother at Pennington.
George Lord is shingling his house.
DIR. and Mrs. Meserve were callers
at Laura. Sanhorn's last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Weber
and family passed the week end in
Portland.
Norris Duley is Working in Massa-
chusetts.
Mrs. Esther Bachelor was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs Horace Fletch-
er last week.
Helen Dunn was at home for over
the weekend from her school at
Pennington.
The village schoolhouse is we'll I'M
der way of repairing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-09
RESPECT THE FLAG

When the stars Stripe up and
hat Somebody he
may biaspheme in
drunken public
will much attention
while old soldiers
breeze. people will think showing Off " -
When Old mes and
ashamed Of it, either!
For of all the and symbols the world
other full
OF red white and blue bunting five thousand
1t the
erty It is the century plant of human hope in bloom.
Your flag stands humanity. all
of OF haven't arrived yet at that goa
the cingng Fighting the
feeling the
sight of that flag. i
flags a glorious II
flag fathers the
chdrens children unborn the
of
flag yourself neighbors.
throat chokes
az the
Republic
worhe emotion Reverence it would
ture of the Deity.
The band playing anthem-"The
Banner They Old
up--and others with
offered the country
of all coors and that they
that flag the symbol of liberty
to II. ALVIN NJ OWSLEY.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-09
United States Public Lands

United States government during
the last year has turned over to
private citizens of this country L.
904.S2 acres Of public lands through
issuance of patents giving them
complete ownership. according to
figures compiled by the general land
office of the Interior department.
The total equals the acreage en-
braced in the states of Connecticut.
Delaware and Maryland. Titles were
given to 0,G32,63 acres under the
homestead law, which means that
constructive home- building will re-
suit. Since 1920 over 1O,443,647
acres of public land have been
thrown open, in which ex-service
men of the World war have had
preference in filing entries.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Smith, British
Columbia, who Is visiting England,
has been proclaimed Canada's most
famous woman politician.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-09
Quake Prediction
Is Officials Hone

Washington. Nov. "a. P.)--
Earthquake records cannot be used
directly in predicting earthquakest
the Weather Bureau announces, but
studyAOf collection of these rec
ords throws a great deal of light on
the nature Of earthquakes gen.
orally. and 1t is hoped that at some
future time this information may
lead to successful methods OF
prediction.
The Hawaiian volcanic observatory
Of the Weather Bureau utilizes
these records and, has been in.
strumental in the saving of life and
property, When violent. earth
quake that appears to have oc-
Cured In the Pacific Ocean is re-
co rded the observatory officials send
out warnings by cable and other
wise to the regions likely to be Of.
fected. Such earthquakes frequently
are attended by so-called tidal
waves and there usually is an in
terTal of many hours between the
occurrence of the quake and the ar
rival of the destructive oceanic
wave at any given point.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-09
Bureau Of Soils
Winter Work Plan

Washington, Nov. s. IA. P)--Soil
surveys Of the Salinas Valley and
Roseville areas in California;
Calhoun, Lee and Randolph counties
Mn Georgia; Craven, Green, Nash
and Wilson counties in North
Carolina, and Hidalgo, Milan and
Nacogdoches counties in Texas, will
be included In this winters work
of the bureau OF soils of the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
More than One-third of continental
United States has been covered by
detailed surveys and reconnaissance
surveys. There are large areas of
mountain lands and of deserts, where
there is no immediate prospect of
irrigation or of grazing, and for
which there will likely be no need
OF soil surveys. The work of the
soil survey Is an important one to
the development of American agri-
culture as 1t places in the hands Of
the people detailed knowledge of the
soils OF the country. 1t 10 the
classification, making an inventory
Of. and recording the facts con-
corning the country's soils.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-09
Good Homes Mean
Successful Farming

st. Louis, Nov. = CA. P.)-The
quality of life enjoyed by the farm
er's family is the best criterion for
judging the success or failure of
American farming. DR.. Kenyon L.
Butterfield of Amherst, Mass, presi-
dent of the American Country Life
association, said in an address here
tonight before the organization
convention.
The farm home is the chief test
of successful farming, the heart and
center of satisfying country lite, the
speaker said. and to perpetuate the
industry it is necessary to conserve
and develop American rural home
life.
I'VE need first of all a few great
centers of interest in the rural home
problem" DIR. Butterfield continued.
schools of rural home life must
form the nucleus of the educational
work. But these schools must con-
ceive their function in it's brcadest
aspect and they must understand
the needs and atmosphere of the
| rural home. They will have to con-
slider the community relationships OF
the rural home.
"I'or long time to come reliance
must be placed upon the more popu-
lar method OF discussing methods
and stimulating interest, such as the
extension service of the agricultural
college. 1 should like to see all our
| farmers organizations make the
! farm home and it's full meaning to
| the nation q big part of their pro-
! gram. / hope that government
agencies, educational and admins
| trative. will stress the significance OF
aid to the farm home. I should like
! to see education for the farm home
made a dominant part of the work
! of schools and colleges that have
any responsibility whatever in rural
! affairs
"Of course it is hopeless to main
! tain a satisfying country life if. eco
! nomically, farming is a losing ven
ture. A satisfying country life
| means that there are people who
| like to farm. In common with all
| other men farmers resent injustice
and they want fair share of the
| product of their toll. But more than
that they like the farm community,
the open spaces, the wonderful
family life"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-09
1914 Mail Now
Waiting in Germany

Berlin, Oct. Il "a. +. by MaiD-
There will soon be delivered in
Germany consignment of letters
posted nine years ago in one of the
South Sea Islands. Most of the
men who wrote these communica-
tons are dead, and many of the
addresses will be hard to find, so
much have conditions changed in
Germany in the last decade. In view
of all the circumstances, stamp
collectors are hopeful of getting
some interesting specimens.
When the German Pacific cruiser
squadron under Admiral Won Spec,
which kept the shipping world
guessing for the first four months
of the great war, put into Ponape,
one of the Caroline Islands, in
August of 1914. the sailors filled the
local post office with letters to
friends and relatives back in the
fatherland, Then they sailed away
to what was ultimately their last
fight: they went down before the
English off the Falkland Islands in
December.
The letters never left Ponape. The
Japanese got hold of them ultimately,
and not long ago turned them over
to the German postal authorities.
Each communication bears a special
stamp reading: Mail of the Pacific
cruiser squadron of August, 1914"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-09
Believed Old Roman Relic

A mysterious cross at Rich
borough, England, the mystery"
port Of the great war, which has
held its secret inviolate for 1000
years. is at last to be investigated
by the Society OF Antiquaries of Lon
don. Permission has been secured
to carry on excavation work, which
Will be started Immediately. The
task will occupy at least five years,
and cost probably $4,000. Nobody
knows the meaning of the cross.
Some believe 1t to have been the
foundation of a Roman pharos or
lighthouse, like the specimens in ex-
istence at Dover, Boulogne and Alex
andria. Recently some marble cas-
ing has been discovered, and 1t is
conJectured that this may have
formed part of big building that
stood on the ridge. Other finds in
clude silver coins. In the Third and
Fourth centuries ,Richborough was
one of line of, important forts
stretching from Brancaster to Por-
chester as protection against Saxon
marauders. The Second legion was
stationed there, and the fort was
probably the last British station oc-
cupied by the Romans before their
departure in the early years of the
Fifth century.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-09
Germany Leads In
Spud Production

Washington, Nov. "a. P.)--No-
body knows just how many potatoes
are grown In the world yearly, but
the Department of Agriculture esti-
mates more than 100000 900 bushels
were harvested last year, exclusive
of Russia and the many small
patches grown in gardens for home
use the world over.
Northwestern Europe is the worlds
greatest potato producing region be-
cause of favorable soil and climatic
conditions and its people utilize the
potato to greater extent in their
diet. in the manufacture of alcohol
and as feed for livestock than in
other sections-of the world. Germany
is the worlds largest producer OF
potatoes, producing 1,494,1S1 900
bushels last year. The United
States produced 451.1S5.0OO bushels
last year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-09
How They Get Oil i'm Mesopotamia

All economic considerations in
connection with the large oil terri
tory between the Black sea and the
Persian gulf relate TO the future
only. for the present condition of
the oil fields. as we'll as the methods
of their exploitation, have remained
unchanged through thousands of
years, writes Edward ]. Bing in The
New Republic.
The oil wells of Mesopotamia are
merely so many simple, shallow pits.
The exploitation" is carried out by
the inhabitants of the adjacent viii
lagos. the oil being used only in their
households. You could call it
"home industry" While the crude
oil is transported on donkey and
camel back. it is removed from the
wells by villagers who descend into
the pit. generally six to eight feet
deep. and dip goatslSin sacks. buck
cts or cups into the Oil. Some &C
tually use palm leaves and even the
hollow hand.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-09
MT. VERNON

Mrs, Carrie Hammond went to Au-
burn Wednesday to visit her niece,
Miss Amy Bean, who is attending
the Auburn school OF commerce
From there she will go to Augusta to
attend = meeting OF the Eastern Star.
Rose St Pierre has gone to Farm
ingtoh where she viii! be employed by
Doyen Brothers for two weeks.
Calvin Weber and son Max were
In Livermore Falls on business Tues
day.
u. Grant Butler and Norris Dolioff
have returned from hunting trip to
EuStiS,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-09
Oxford Life Not All Work

I1Ie at OXFORD Is not all work.
Indeed, the hardest part of an OK
ford mans work Is done in the vaca-
tons and term time (Which alto
gether is little less than 25 weeks
In the year, is very largely given to
living the Oxford life, From this
life the American Rhodes Scholar
gets a great deal that he could never
get from boobs.
For him. even more than for Eng
lishmen, II Is we'll worth while. In
the first place, it Is q very beautiful
life, though the surface of it is, like
the face of glacier. overstrewn
with a miscellaneous drift of aca-
demtc stupidity and youthful folly
which, at the irst glance. more or
less conceal the beauty that hes be-
meath It. But at its heart Oxford
life is worthy OF it's setting and,
worthy OF the great words with
which Matthew Arnold has pra sei
its bean'v and sweetness.-Frank
Aydclotte. in Scribncr's.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-09
Much like Ordinary Boy

The best OF berries ngureS as d
triumphant tempter in the bioS-
raphies of statesmen. Years ago at
Elton there was q spacious garden
near the school, celebrated for the
size and favor of its strawberries,
and the proprietor made so many
complaints of loss that Mr.. Austen
Leigh was deputed by the head
master to catch the offenders. He
kept watch, and swooped down up
on one offender as he emerged from
the garden. There was tussle in
ditch, then the boy broke away,
crawled to the middle of the road,
sat down, and solemnly addressed
Mr.. Leigh as you BEAST"
The result was the appearance be-
fore the head master q few hours
later of Lord Randolph Churchill.
One cannot imagine such an escap-
ade in the youth OF Mr.. Gladstone.
but there Is a note of Lord Morley's
at Biarritz in 1901: "Mr. G. did not
appear at table today, suffering from
a surfeit of wild strawberries the
day before. "-Manchester Guardian.