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The Carbon County news., 1925-12-24
CHRISTMAS-A TIME OF JOY

Christmas Eve When the wonderous Santa
Claus comes to the children What visions of dolls,
games, books candies and all sorts of goodies;
drums, trumpets, whistles of all sorts of squeaks
and discordant blasts, and the wonderful Christ
mas tree with its brilliant lights, gay colors and
mysterious packages, some of which may contain
the long -wished-for skates or the story books 1t
is all enchantment, all the color of the rose the
rainbow that spans their young lives Not all the
agony in the manger, all the wonder of the story
of the Star of Bethlehem, of the following and
guiding of the wise men to the owly cradle of the
coming King not all the sad beauty of the old, old
story can fully satisfy the juvenile heart like
these. But are we not children of larger growth
In spite of the solemnty of the OCCASION in spite
of its deep and tender meaning, the gifts and
goodies and merry ymaking are all dear to us, chill
dren in heart as we are.
And so we feel like saying to ourselves and to
our readers: Let us prepare for a merry happy
Christmas; let US forget for little while all the
environments of our lives that are sad and depres
sing let us think of the treasures we possess that
'man did not make and cannot mar" let us give
tokens of love to our friends, though it should be
only geranium leaf or rosy checked apple Let
us celebrate Christmas. The yoke loosened and
laid aside for little will give rest and strength to
the shoulders the affections of the heart called in
to play and indulged will give strength to our
soul; and both will fit us for better performance
of the duties and work appointed for us in the
coming New Year.
The Carbon County news., 1925-12-24
WORLD COURT is NO PREyENTER OF WAR

Everyone knows that court is a place where
judges make decisions supposed to deal out JUS
tice
If either contending party refuses to accept the
decision he is forced to accept it by an officer of
the law
The World Court of the League of Nations is mol
exception It's advocates intend that eventually
its DEGREES shall be enforced upon the nations not
accepting those DEGREES. Force used against al
nation is the name for war.
That is why many sincere Americans want toI
stay out of the World Court, because it would take
us into the League of Nations, and call upon us to
go to war in enforcing the leagues mandates
So far the league seems to have been successful
in holding small nations in check, such as Greece
and Bulgaria. 1t has not checked the big nations
from aggression to enforce their wills. 1t did not
stop Italy's bombardment of Corfu, nor Frances
calamitous seizure of the Ruhr.
Probably if the league tried to control one of the
great European nations it would precpitate war
bigger than the war it was trying to stop
Most of us feel that the United States is not 60
ing to give any nation cause for war against u.s.
We never have yet
IF we want to help prevent wars between other
nations many sincere Americans think there is a
better way to do it than by joining the World
Court of the League of Nations. They think we
can be of more help as an outside disinterested
advisor than we could if we were party in the
dispute.
We can always join in any war we choose. God
knows either side will always want us.
The Carbon County news., 1925-12-24

frmed by the Senate last Tuesday and he will as
sumo the duties of his office at an early date.
An able lawyer and jurist, an untiring and zeal
Gus Attorney General of the State, soldier in the
World War, member of the State Bar Examining
Board President of the Helena Bar Association,
and high minded progressive man sums UP
briefly his record as citizen and public servant.
He was an Associate Justice of the Montana Su-
preme Court but a short time but his opinions
were sound and attracted attention because of the
legal learning and the application of sound legal
principles which characterized them
In every position of honor or trust in which he
has been placed he has rendered the best possible
account of himself and it is the confident predic-
tion of The News that he will prove his worth and
sustain his past reputation during his forthcom-
ing term in the office of United States District At
torney.
The Carbon County news., 1925-12-24
LOCAL POSTOFFICE
HANDLES A HEAVY
CHRISTMAS TRADE

The local postoffce has experienced
one of the busiest and heaviest Christ
mas PUSHES during the past ten days
than ever before in its history ac-
cording to postmaster C. R. Northrop.
The postoffice force have been work
ing overtime attending to patrons
sending and receiving parcel post
packages. Sunday and Monday were
the busiest days and during the last
six days an average of forty-fve sacks
OF mail has been going out of the city
each day to various parts of the world
The Carbon County news., 1925-12-24

been coming in each day, which in
|cludes Christmas parcels and first
class mail.
The public has responded thought
fully and heartily to the appeal made
by Postmaster General II. S. New to
shop early and mail early" as well
as wrapping packages securely and
addressing plainly.
The heavy business all tends to
show the return of prosperity in Red
Lodge and other parts of the Union.
The Carbon County news., 1925-12-24

seventh grade Manual Training De-
partment. All the products made by
the pupils show fine and exquisite
workmanship, particularly the pretty
hand made and painted trays made by
the girls under the direction of Miss
Malissa Boyd. The boys under the
direction of H. B. Fields, have carved
and painted neat ducks, horses, birds,
etc. placed on wheels. One of the at
tractive products made in the boys
department is footstool, which is
both very attractive and practical.
The Carbon County news., 1925-12-24
Mrs. Kaunismaki is the daughter Of

Mrs. Kaunismaki is the daughter Of
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Nassi, former Red
Lodge residents, but of late years
residents of Columbus. She attended
the public schools here and was pop
ular among the younger set. The
groom is resident of Butte.
The ceremony was witnessed by
only immediate relatives. Mr.. and
Mrs. Kampinen stood up for the young
couple. The many friends of Mr.. and
Mrs. Kaunismaki extend congratula-
tions.
The Carbon County news., 1925-12-24

efficiently rendered his services to the
public during the last four years, and
his reappointment viii meet with gen
eral approval.
Reappointments have also been
made by Congressman Leavitt in the
offices at Bearcreek and Belfry. Hazel
F. Mckinnon was re-appointed at
Bearcreek and E. A. Anderson at Bel
fry.
The Carbon County news., 1925-12-24
Former Local Girl
Weds a Butte Man

Miss Lila Nassi and Mr.. Jack Kaun-
ismaki were married the afternoon OF
Wednesday, December is, by Rev.
Matt Erkkila at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Kampinen on Haggir
Avenue. Mrs. Kampinen is sister
of the bride.
The Carbon County news., 1925-12-24
C. r. NORTHROP is
RE APPOINTED
POSTMASTER HERE

c. R. Northrop, local postmaster,
has received word from Congressman
Scott Leavitt informing him Of his
disappointment as postmaster IN Red
Lodge for the ensuing four years and
which was confirmed by the United
States Senate.
Mr.. Northrop has competently and
The Carbon County news., 1925-12-24
Venus Chapter of
Eastern Star Elect
Officers For 1926

The Venus chapter, Number 80 of
the Eastern Star elected officers last
evening as follows:
Mrs. F. w. Schwin -. Worthy Matron
Mrs. Herb Newman Associate Matron
Mr.. H. L. Hussong -. Worthy Patron
Mrs. H. B. Fields ............. Secretary
Mrs. Claire Chamberlain -. Treasurer
Mrs. H. L. Hussong .-... Conductress
Mrs. f. Heatherly Associate Conduc-
tress
Appointments and installation of
officers will take place January 13.
The Carbon County news., 1925-12-24
HON. WELLINGTON ID. RANKIN

No federal appointment, affecting this state,
has been made in recent years which meets with
such general approval of its people, as that Of the
appointment of the Honorable Wellington d.
Rankin to the position of u S. Attorney for the
District of Montana. His appointment was con-
The Carbon County news., 1925-12-24
MANUAL TRAINING DEPART
MENT MAKES STRIKING GIFTS

Christmas toys and gifts are being
displayed in the window of the Groom
quist Mercantile Company this week,
made by the boys and girls of the
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-07-31
Zeb Council Moves
His Old Place Torn Down, He Comes
to Middle of Town

Zeb Council has moved from
the campus down to the main
street. Officially the moving
of the University Printery may
be the important thing, but as
far as the people of the town
are concerned the coming of Mr..
Council to the center of village
activity is of more consequence.
He has lived here II years and
is known to everybody in town.
The Printery, which had to
leave it's old building because
this was torn down to make way
for the Phillips Hall extension,
is we'll established in the back
of the former Strowd garage
building. It's entrance is on the
alley only a few steps from the
street.
Mr.. Council has had long ex.
perlence as a printer. He is
one of the three men who start
ed the Durham Herald. After
he sold out his interest in that
he ran a semi-weekly paper for
several years. He became
manager of the University Print
cry in 1913.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-07-31
Persons Due Here Aug. 27

Letters received in Chapel
Hill from Mr.. and Mrs. Watley
w. Pierson bring the news that
they will sail for home on the
Olympic August 10 and are due
to arrive in New York on the
25th. They expect to come i'm
mediately to Chapel Hill, reach
ing here August 27. Mr.. Pier
son has been absent since last
September travelling and study
ing in Chile, Argentine, Brazil
and other South American coun-
tries, and in Spain. He writes
from Paris of the great interest
taken in Europe in the Scopes
trial and the genuine surprise
that such a thing could occur in
America in the twentieth CEN
tury!
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-07-31
Griffin, Cave Explorer
Peoples Bank Cashier Saw Wonder Of
Nature in Virginia Mountains


C. B. Griffin, cashier of the
Peoples Bank, got back early
this week from his automobile
trip to the Blue Ridge mountains
in northwestern Virginia. His
companion was his nine-year-old
nephew, James Patterson. They
were gone about a week.
Mr.. Griffin's principal activi-
ty while he was gone was ex-
ploring the celebrated caves near
Luray.
''This is about the most
beautiful sight I have ever
seen," he says. ''The place is
Illuminated by electricity and
hasrconcrete walks. The stall
actites that hung from the roof,
rejecting the light rays, are
dazzling in their brilliance."
Mr.. Griffin drove his Buick
up the Shenandoah valley, and
he found the roads superb. He
went 230 miles to Staunton,
Virginia, the first day, and the
next morning he made the rest
of the distance to the Cave.
Here he Joined some friends
from Pennsylvania who had q
complete camping outfit and the
party established itself on the
camping ground at the mouth OF
the Cave. Mr.. Griffin did a
great deal of swimming and
mountain climbing.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-07-31
To Issue Capart's Book
University Press Will Publish Lee
lures of the Distinguished Belgian

In consequence of negotia-
tions between Wallace f. Cald-
we'll, professor of ancient his
tory in the University, and the
Belgian Relief Commissions s
educational foundation, the lee
lures on Egypt delivered last
year by Jean Capart, the cele-
brated Belgian scholar, will be
published by the University of
North Carolina Press. The Com
mission has voted a generous
subsidy which makes it possible
for the Press to bring out the
book.
The volume will have some
such title as ASPECTS of Egyp-
tian Art" and will probably ap-
pear toward the end of next
winter. 1t will be beautifully
illustrated with about SO photo
graphs chosen from the more
than 200 which the author took
during his visits in Egypt and
which he has sent to Mr.. Cald-
we'll.
The first delivery of the lee
lures was made in Chapel Hill
when Mr.. Capart came here
last fall, some of them to the
public and some before the
classes in history. Two or
three were repeated at other in
stitutions in North Carolina.
The Belgian scholar is a pro-
fessor in the University of Liege
and is the director of the Egyp-
tian department of the ROYAL
Museum in Brussels. His tour
of America was made under the
auspices of the Belgian Relief
Commission, whose funds, left
over from the war, are now used
for education in Belgium and
for the encouragement of schol-
arly relations between Belgium
and America. He came to the
University of North Carolina
first because of the invitation
from Mr.. Caldwell, who not only
studied under him but had be-
come a close friend of him and
his family.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-07-31
Joint Church Services

The Episcopal and Presby-
terian congregations have a.
greed to hold joint services for
the six Sundays, July 26 to
August 80. Services will be
conducted in the Episcopal
church by Rev. A. S. Lawrence
July 26, August 2, and August
9; and in the Presbyterian
church August 16, August %,
and August 80. If Rev. W. D.
Moss is. not here one of his
brother ministers in a neigh
boring town will occupy the
Presbyterian pulpit. The joint
services on these six Sundays
will be held only in the morning
there WILDE none at night.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-07-31
WEEKLY BULLETIN
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SUMMER SCHC
August l to August 8

August to August
SATURDAY, AUGUST
Regular class work in all departments
Social Evening in Bynum Gymnasium under Auspices of
Y. NV G. A. Hours 830-11 100 p. M.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 2
Sunday School and Religious Services Churches in Town
at Usual Hours
Vesper Services Campus under Auspices of the Y NJ
w. GA. J.
MONDAY, AUGUST 3
Chapel in Memorial Hail. Hour II :OO-11 80 A. NJ
TUESDAY, AUGUST
Recital by Edwin Swain, Baritone Memorial HalI-8:3O
p. M
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
Chapel in Memorial Hall Hour II 100 IL 80 A. M
THURSDAY AUGUST
No Announcement !.
FRIDAY, AUGUST
Chapel in Memorial Hall Hour II 1OO-11:3O A. M.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8
No Casswork.
Social Evening in Bynum Gymnasium under Auspices of
-. Y. NV. G. A. Hours 8:30-11 100 P. M,
NOTE: Tickets sale in Peabody Building, No. for,
Recital by Edwin Swain, Baritone-August A.
Paul Fleming Magcan-August IL.
Carolina Paymakers-August 90
Admission, $1OO for the three performances, Al
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-07-31
Back from TOrtugas
Nv. P. Wilson Is Home Again After
Work in Laboratories

Henry Van Peters Wilson,
professor of zoology in the Uni
versity, got back Wednesday
from the Dry Tortugas, where
he had spent a month working
in the marine-life laboratories of
the Carnegie Institute. Log
gerhead Key, the island where.
he carried on his Investigations,
is eight hours by steamer from
Key West, and mail comes only
once every two weeks. DR..
Wilson, when he arrived in Chap
ell Hill, had not heard a word
of the plan of his son-in-law,
Thorndike Saville, to spend a
year in South America in the
sanitary engineering service of
the governments of Brazil and
Venezuela.
The Carnegie laboratories, on
Loggerhead Key, are one-story
frame buildings, which, when
one first sees them, would seem
to be unbearably hot places in
which to work. But each one
of them is so constructed, with
ventilators in the steep-sloping
roof, and with shutters hung
like awnings over the windows
in the section devoted to living
quarters, that the scientists live
in comfort.
On one of the keys of the Tor
tugas, not far from Loggerhead,
is great tropical bird preserve.
DR.. Wilson's boat steamed by
close to it but did not stop. The
key has only one inhabitant, a
man who lives there through
out the year as the companion
and caretaker of the millions of
birds.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-07-31
TALK OF A SHORT
ROAD TO RALEIGH
Citizen of the Capital Writes to
Mayor Robertson; ]. S. Hill
Makes a Suggestion
DISTANCE CAN BE SAVED

Again the project for a short
er road from Chapel Hill to Ra-
leigh is being agitated.
A prominent citizen of Ra-
leigh sent a letter, a few days
ago, to Mayor W. S, Robertson,
proposing that the people of
both communities bestir them
selves to put the road through.
John Sprunt Hill, the highway
commissioner for this district,
has been consulted, and he gives
some encouragement.
A look at the map shows
Chapel Hill, Durham, and Ra-
leigh as the three points of a
triangle. AS it is now, the
traveller from here to the capi-
tai goes through Durham and
makes the entire trip on pave
ment. The distance is SO miles.
If he could follow the course of
what is known as the "old Ra-
leigh road"-which joins the
central highway at Morrisville
he would go % miles instead
of 38. But this N"old Raleigh
road" is impossible.
The ideal solution would be
the construction of a modern
road along the old route. But
for some time to come this is
apt to be impracticable. The
state highway commission, in
view of the urgent demand for
roads elsewhere in North Caro-
lima, does not look favorably
upon the suggestion that this
plan be financed out of the state
highway funds.
The route from here to Nor
risville passes through four
counties: Orange, Durham,
Chatham, and Wake. 1t would
be difficult to get the boards of
commissioners of the four coun-
ties to join together in paying
| for the road.
John Sprunt Hill suggested to
Mayor Robertson, the other day,
another solution. This was
that the Durham county COM
missioners be asked to build a
good soil road from Nelson (on
the central highway westward
through loves Grove across the
south end of Durham county, to
meet a road to be built by the
Continued on page tsoo)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-07-31
Major Graham 81 Years Old

Major John W. Graham was
81 years old on Wednesday of
last week. The day found him
in much better health than for
many weeks past, and he was
able to get out of bed and greet
a number of his friends who
called to pay their respects.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-07-31
Meeting Old-timers

One of the agreeable features
of a journey such as the one
that Mr.. Odum and l made to
Dayton, Tennessee. is running
across old friends. And the
dweller in Chapel Hill is apt to
be more than usually fortunate
in this, when he goes a-traveling,
because almost every town of
any size, within a thousand
miles radius, has its University
alumni.
Stopping at Knoxville on the
way home, l saw DR.. Eben
Alexander, the brother of Mrs.
A. H. Patterson. He is a promi-
nent surgeon there. We grew
up together here in Chapel Hill,
where his father was professor
of Greek and mine was profess
sor of mathematics in the Uni
versity. In the old days Eben
was exceedingly fond of cock
fighting, and the other day l
asked him if he was still inter-
ested in it.
He is now an elder in the
church and it would not be SEEM
ly for him to indulge in this
sport. But, as proof that the
pastime of his youth is still held
in affectionate memory, the
large flock of chickens, at his
home on the outskirts of the
city, includes a few high-blooded
gamecocks. He likes to look at
them and admire their points
even though his position of dig
nifty and his matured conscience
prohibit him from letting them
have it out in the arena. When
he showed them to me he was
signing for the dear, dead days.
But maybe that was a bluff for
the benefit of me who might
betray him in print-maybe he
slips out sometimes at night,
with his cronies, and has his
fun? l don't know. | didn't
question him too closely.
Of all bundles of nervous
energy | ever saw, Eben is the
beatin'est. | remembered him
as such, and he has not changed.
Doesn't he ever quit working
| asked his wife. No. From
performing an operation he
rushes home to dig in the gar
den. Off again to make calls
on patients, and then back a
gain to tinker with the automo-
.biles or patch the roof or repair
the broken drain pipe. Poring
over medical journals at night,
Continued on page four)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1925-07-31
Chapel Hill Chaf

All my life / have been read
ing the statistical, facts tucked
away, as filters, in the remote
corners of newspaper pages.
For example, I take up a copy
of the Chattanooga Times and
read that there were 100000
cases of eggs in cold storage in
the United States June 1, 1925,
as compared with 6,875,OOO
June 1, 1924. And another
periodical tells me that the pro-
duction of peaches in North
Carolina in 1924 was 100000
bushels. And another that
the entire American cotton
crop in 1923 was valued at
$1,563, 900, 900. And so on. I'm
pressive statistics everywhere
you turn. / have read thous-
ands of these facts, and have
often reprinted them. And all
my life I have cherished the am
bition to originate one-to be
the very first to publish it. And
now at last my ambition is to
be realized: There are 32O
panes of glass in the windows
on the ground floor of John
Booker's house.
A few minutes after I had
been talking with the towns
health officer about the mosqui-
to plague in Chapel Hill I hap
pened to meet the University's
professor of zoology who had
Just come back from the Dry
Tortugas. I asked him if he
had been troubled byamosquitoes
there. He said no, but that
monster cockroaches, about two
inches long, frisked back and
forth over the ground and
through the buildings. They
had a lively appetite for the
clothes of visitors and would
eat a coat or pair of trousers to
pieces in a few hours if it were
left in reach. DR.. Wilson and
his fellow workers in the labora-
tory kept their garments tight
ly strapped in suit cases; this
precaution thwarted the cock
reaches, whose teeth (or what
ever cockroaches chew WITH
could not penetrate the leather
The counter just inside Rober-
son and Whitfield's door has
been fitted out with new top,
and on it is pasted a sign, in
typewriting: "Do not park
your hat here" Upon entering
| noticed that both partners of
the firm obeyed the injunction
by parking their hats on their
heads, and this example | will
ingly followed.