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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
Knowing that the entire member
ship of the faculty of the University
of North Carolina and also the alumni
would like to hear anything concern
ing Major Cain, it seems that few
words regarding his recent visit to
New York when attending the annual
meeting Of the American Society of
Civil Engineers would be of much in
terest to all Of his friends
Major Cain, in company with two
other members of the engineering
faculty, attended this annual meeting
which was held during the week of
January 16. The last annual meeting
that Major Cain had attended was in
January, 1923, when he was awarded
the J. j. r. Croes medal for the most
excellent paper, entitled "The Circu-
lar Arch under Normal Loads" which
was printed in the Transactions of
1922.
Major Cain has been member of
the Society for number Of years,
and served as Director during 1912
1914 He has a great many friends
among the members and past officers
Of the Society, and they are always
delighted to greet him at these an
nual meetings, which are always held
in New York.
Il has been the custom for num-
Der Of years to have dinner on the
Tuesday preceding the annual CON
vention, to which are invited the past
and present officers These dinners
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
Increasing Yield of Mushrooms from TOtteE's
Tunnel-Ga Garden; Annual Capacity Is l,l3O Lbs.

H. r. Totten has put n
pounds of mushrooms on the
Chapel Hill market since he
launched his subterranean gar
dening venture five months ago.
From the tunnel under the en-
bankment by the Pittsboro-
Pinehurst highway he can be
seen-if there is anybody there
to see him, which there usually
isn't-with a load of the succu-
lent fungi in his arms.
The enterprise is young yet,
and the potentialities of the tun-
nel-garden have hardly begun to
be realized. Mr.. Totten's ten
mushroom beds cover total
area of 226 square feet, and the
records kept by the leading COM
mercial growers show that each
square foot should have an an
nual yield of five pounds. And
SO, when he has perfected his
formulas for the fermentation
of soil and manure, and for
spawning, the botanist should be
producing 1,130 pounds a year.
His lease of the tunnel extends
for another year and a half he
may renew the lease or he may
get another place.
Thus far he has come nowhere
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
Basketball in Atlanta
North Carolina Team Has Gone to
Southern Conference Tournament

The University of North Car
olina basketball team, which has
defeated all it's opponents in
North Carolina, left yesterday
for Atlanta to enter the South
ern Conference tournament. The
Conference championship has
been won by North Carolina four
out of the last six years, and the
chances are good for another
victory this year.
Dodderer and Purser have
both been injured. They may
be able to play by Monday, but
maybe not at all.
A despatch from Atlanta says
that North Carolina and Auburn
are generally regarded as the
two best teams entered for the
title. Play will begin today
friday at one o'clock. The
annual basketball tournament
is a big event in Atlanta; last
year the auditorium was filed
at nearly all the matches.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
Five Years of the Weekly

self rather a misfit in it, | de-
cided | had better be an editor
than a professor and so quit my
place in the University faculty.
The first issue of the WeekEg
came out March l, 1923. 1t was
printed by Seeman in Durham
and was brought to Chapel Hill
in my new Ford sedan (the same
vehicle that | have today, but
oh how different now in aspect
and voiceD. The second story
of the old Algernon Barbee store
beside the Methodist churchyard
had been rented as an office. The
copies of the paper were lugged
up the rickety outdoor stairs,
and, with the assistance of
Aubrey Shackell and Scott
Thomas and other students,
were addressed and wrapped
for mailing. Such was the pro-
cedure for seven or eight weeks.
In April | took advantage of
the chance to buy at secondhand
some printing machinery in
Burlington, part of it from a
shop that had gone bankrupt.
With a linotype machine, an old
Huber cylinder press, a folder,
a few cases of type, two job
Continued on page three)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
WOOllens Sail March Z
To Spend ~ Days in Europe and Re-
turn FOR Commencement

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles T. Wool
len are going on a trip to Eu-
cope, They will leave here on
Saturday of next week, March
3; spend three days in New
York and sail for Havre on the.
French liner, Rochambeau, We'd
nesday, March z.
The friends of the Univer-
sity's business manager have
been wondering when he would
get away for a real rest. The
summer vacation period has
been no vacation for him; not for
many years has he been away
from his office more than a few
days at a time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Woollen will
travel light, being burdened, the
village is reliably informed, by
no other baggage than two or
three suit cases. With 72 days
at their disposal, between land
ing at Havre and sailing from
Liverpool, they are going to try
to see everything in Europe but
will concentrate on France and
England. Their return voyage
will begin May 26 and they will
be back in Chapel Hill in time
for commencement.
During the Woollen's absence
their children and their home
will be under the charge of Mrs.
Woollen's mother and sister,
Mrs. Robertson and Miss Nellie
Robertson.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
Chapel Hill Chaf

One afternoon the Wagstaff
family remarked the absence of
a woodpecker that had been ac-
tive around the place. Two days
later a tap-tapping from inside
a gutter revealed that the bird
was imprisoned there. Mr.. Wag-
staff stood in the yard, listened
to the noise, and said to himself :
ITO get that woodpecker out I'll
have to send for a timer, and
have the gutter torn to pieces.
| won't do it." Firm in this res
olution, he walked away. A few
minutes later he came back and
listened again. "I'm not going
to go to that expense and<trou-
BILE to get that fool bird out.
He walked away, and a third
time returned to listen to the
tapping. mo, | won't be both
cred with him. He got himself
in there-let him get himself
out" But it was too much for
him. He summoned the timer,
and had the gutter torn away
from the house and opened. The
woodpecker, nearly starved, flew
to a tree in the L. R. Wilson
yard and began to hunt for
worms.
1t seems to me the Phipps
baby, named Vivian but com
monty called Snookie, now about
two and a half years old, doesn't
miss anything. She was present
at the movies (albeit sleeping
through them) when she was
three or four weeks old. Before
she could walk she was a fire.
quent visitor at the swimming
pool and padded happily in the
water while her stomach rested
upon the palm of her fathers
outstretched hand. When
went to the Pickard Hotel fire at
midnight a few weeks ago, al
most the first person saw was
(Continued on last page)
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
By Louis Graves

Today's issue closes the fifth
year of the Weekly.
A village newspaper, though
it may be owned and conducted
by single person, is to a peeu-
liar. degree a community enter
prise. This, and the fact that
a great proportion of the sub
scribers to the Weekly are ac-
quaintances of mine and many
of them have expressed interest
in it's progress, moves me to re-
late here the story of my five
years as an editor in Chapel
Hill.
Before | had been very long
a professor of journalism | was
seized by an itch to start a news
paper of my own. For a while
| thought the project might be
combined with my teaching in
the University, but this was be-
cause / did not realize the vol
ume of time and energy re-
quired for the running of even
a village weekly, l soon
learned that there were not
enough working hours in the
day for the doing of both jobs.
AS l had not been brought up
to teaching and considered my
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
STROWD FETCHES
HIS FIRST FORD
FOR CUSTOMER
Niagara Blue Sport Coupe; T. j.
Wilson, 3rd, Will Probably
Be the Owner
OTHER DELIVERIES SOON

The first new Ford car for
sale to customer in Chapel Hill
was driven in from Charlotte
Wednesday by Bruce Strowd. 1t
is a Niagara blue sport coupe,
and the price of it, delivered here
will full equipment, is $677.37.
The village was almost as ex-
cited yesterday morning, when
the news got abroad that the sale
of P0rds was about to begin, as
though Lindbergh had dropped
down on the main street in his
airpiane.
There was considerable doubt
during the morning as to who
would buy the car. The Uni
versity extension division had
the first call on it, but did not
want sport coupe. DR.. E. A.
Abernethy was next in line, on
the basis of priority of orders,
and for several hours Bruce
StrOwd was searching for him
to find out whether or not he
would take up his option. The
doctor was in Durham. When
he came back he said no, he
didn't want sport coupe but
would wait for a regular coupe.
Thomas j. Wilson, 3rd, came
next, and when this newspaper
went to press it looked as though
he would be the owner. Il
haven't been able to get in touch
with him yet," said Mr.. Strowd,
''but he told me he wanted the
car if the University and DR..
Abernethy didn't-so | suppose
it's his"
Mr.. Strowd said that the Ford
branch in Charlotte had deliver
ed 81 cars to dealers this week
and expected to deliver $50 next
week. He thinks perhaps he will
get an allotment in about ten
days.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
German Officials Here
Discuss Local Government with Town
Manager and Professors

Franz Berthold, executive sec
retary of the Prussian League
of Small Municipalities, and Hell
muth Westphal, an attache of
the German consul general in
New York, are touring America
to make a study of local govern
ment. Of the six days that they
allotted to the South they spent
three days here, two in Durham,
and one in Richmond.
They reached the village last
Friday morning and were well
coined by the town manager,
Edward M. Knox. His Office
was their headquarters, and here
they had discussions not only
with him but with A. C. McIn-
tosh, ID. d. Carroll, and Clarence
Heer of the University faculty.
Mr.. Mcintosh told them of the
functions of the county and
township units in North Caro-
lima and explained the provisions
of the new county government
law. With Mr.. Carroll they
talked of methods of assessment,
and with Mr.. Heer of systems of
taxation. Mr.. Knox, with ali
his records near at hand for in
spection, reviewed in detail the
machinery of small town govern
ment, not only here but in other
communities with whose govern
menal procedure he had made
himself familiar.
Sunday afternoon the visitors
were entertained at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Zimmerman.
They left Sunday evening for
Eiehlnssend, whence they were to
go on to Cincinnati, Chicago,
Detroit, Toronto, and Rochester.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24

near to keeping up with the de-
n1and. The housekeepers of the
village clamor for his product.
The fame of it has even spread
to other communities. Several
days ago Mrs. Connor served
Totten mushrooms to a company
Of guests from Raleigh. The
guests asked where the delicious
things came from, and before
they left for home they went to
the IN" Store and raided it of
the few pounds that happened to
be there. One of the features of
social life in the village these
days is the swapping of recipes
for cooking mushrooms.
Efficiency in mushroom culti-
vatlon depends upon number
of factors. The composition of
the manure, as to the kind and
quantity of straw it contains, is
important. So are the tempera-
ture and the humidity. The
manure and soil have to be stir
red at just the right intervals
of time, and the sowing of the
spawn must be done with ex-
ceeding care. BY the process of
trial and error Mr.. Totten is
learning the magic combina-
tions.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
For Music and Art Fund

Half the proceeds from the
Glee Clubs concert at $3.50 next
Tuesday evening in the Play
makers Theatre will go to the es-
tablishment of a fund for music
and art supplies in the school.
The tickets, which are priced at
81, are being sold by canvass to-
day. From tomorrow on they
will be on sale at the Smoke
Shop, and on Monday and Tues
day at the music building also.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
Pine Falls on Stadium

In the violent windstorm Sat
urday. lofty pine tree at the
corner of the Kenan stadium
was blown down and fell upon
the north stand. 1t struck the
coping Of the parapet wall a ter
rife blow but failed to make even
a dent in the concrete. Early
this week a force of workmen
directed by Alf Pickard cut the
fallen tree into fragments and
got it out Of the way.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
WHITE OAK TREE
.331 YEARS OLD
TC N0W CCTTm
I'D lgVW HEAALEU
1t Was Dying, and so Experts
Decided That 1t Must
Be Destroyed
in THE DAGGETT YARD

The white oak tree which was
cut down in the Daggetts' yard
this week was 331 years old. It
had to be destroyed because it
was dying.
w. c. Coker, the botanist, as
certained its age by counting the
rings in the trunk. There were
32l of them, but the count was
made about 10 feet above ground
and Mr.. Coker estimates that the
tree must have been growing
ten years before the rings began
to form at that height; and so
he places the trees age at 331
years. -
When this white oak first
peeped above the ground the
place where Chapel Hill now
stands was in the depths of a
wilderness. Indian braves hunt
ed and fished, and did war
dances and scalped their enc
mics, instead of toting packages
from cash-and-carry stores; and
the squaws had their gossip
while they beat up corn in earth
enware bowls instead of while
they told their partners that
what you ought to have done was
to bid no trumps on that hand.
When this white oak got it's
first look at the sky the banks of
brooks around here were dotted
with tepees instead of stills; and
arrows whistled through the
air where now the sheriff chases
the furtive moonshiners with
shotgun and pistol.
In 1897, when this oak was
born, Sir Walter Raleigh, who
seven years before had lost his
colony on Roanoke Island, cap
tured a Spanish fort in the
Azores. In that year Ben john
son first appeared on the stage
in London. In that year a young
man named William Shakes
peare, recently come into fame,
first put on "King Henry the
Fourth" and was writing down
the immortal words of Jessica
and Portia and Shylock, In that
year the Earl of Essex was ap-
pointed Earl Marshal of Eng
land by the Queen who was soon
after to have his head cut off.
So the white oak in the Dag
gets yard lived a pretty long
time. There's no way to tell
the age of a tree until you cut
through the trunk" says Mr..
Coker, "and so we don't know
the record of those that are still
standing. But this is the oldest
one that has ever been cut down
here. Before this the Oldest we
had cut down was the Lone
Pine which gave the name to
Lone Pine Hill near my home
on the north edge of the village.
That had to be destroyed when
lit was struck by lightning. It
was 2O1 wears old"
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
Marvin Wilson Agent Here

Marvin Wilson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. ]. Wilson, Jr., a native
of Chapel Hill and an alumnus
of the University has moved
here from Raleigh TO become a
special agent in Chapel Hill for
the Jefferson Standard Life In
surance Company. He was mar
ried to Miss Margaret Yorke of
Raleigh two or three years ago.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
Club Meeting Postponed

The meeting of the Commun-
ity Club which was scheduled
for today has been postponed to
$3.50 next Friday afternoon,
March 2.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
A. Nj. Jordan al Home Again

A. M. Jordan, professor of
educational psychology in the
University, who had a bad fan
and was taken to the hospital
two or three weeks ago, has
come back home and is well on
the way toward recovery.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
Colonel OIds Here on the 22nd

Col. Fred Olds Of Raleigh came
up from Raleigh as the Wash
ington's Birthday guest Of the
Chapel Hill school.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24
Exhibit % close Wednesday

Mrs. Verner's etchings will re-
main on exhibit in the Bulls
Head bookshop, in Murphey hall,
until next Wednesday.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1928-02-24

All kinds Of printing done prompt
" ut ne Grunge Printshop op Rose
mary lane, Chapel HfH.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-07


a
ginning which will be broadcast by stations of the Columbia broadcast
system the Story hour Friday night at o'clock Mary and
Philadelphia where they will witness historical
tabeau of the United States
still waltz will be played by
with accordion introducing the theme
through the NBC system Friday night at o'clock
spirit reflected such numbers
Punch and judy Keys Putin Style" will
Wrgy broad through the NBC system
Friday night at o'clock
Flop Flippant FIapper weekly
presentation Briers his Tuneful Troupe
through the NBC system Friday night at $780,
Freischuz" will be the
offering opera company Friday
castb stations of the Columbia system.
possible
If could inform to how this
be I err s.
ANSWET set designed for reception OF the broad
efficient short reception
with coils condensers designed for tuning below 100
meters should be used
Sigma Comm Through the Rye" will be
Armstrong Quaers through the NBC
Friday night at 1880
Suzanne Keene formerly with the
American Singers the National Concert
Sodero something instrumental
national broadcastng
the NBC system Friday night at o'clock
special arrangement
composition The Old Retain will
weekly through the NBC system
Friday night at o'clock
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-07
vESTRIS PROBE
PUTS BLAME ON
CAPTAIN, CREW
Study of Evidence Needed
Before Improvement,
Says U. S. Agent.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.-Lengthy
consideration of all the pertinent
facts brought out during investiga-
ton of the sinking of the Lamport
& Holt liner Vestris off the Vir-
ginia Capes, Nov. IL, will be neces-
sary before even primary suggestions
Of improvement can be made, in
quiry officials said today.
Full reports of American and
British nautical advisers were read
yesterday before United States Com
missioner Francis A. O'Neill. The
gist of both reports, direct and in
ferential, was that the Vestris crew
and Captain william j. Carey, were
responsible for the heavy toll of
lives in the disaster.
Captain E. P. Jessop, retired naval
officer, compiled the American re-
port and Captain Henry McConkey,
Marine superintendent of the Cum
ard line in New York, made out the
British report.
Commissioner ONeill will make
his own report soon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-07
Fishing The Air
All references are Central standard Time.

CONTRAST between d-tme
will regular
which will
stations of the Columbia boadcasting system
will will which
greatest number contracting the
yesterday
current.
of old time minstrel including my Mother
Bred in Old Kentucky Oh Didn't He Ramb
be
Friday
a o'clock.
Francisco has at last put its finger revbraton
This particular
itself the but after several
made the elusive noise remained
catch the noise finally summoned
pianists stellar artist
guilty
beads for sensitive mcrophones picked
pitch sent the vibrations the
Instrumental oosts including Keith Mcleod vbraphonst God
Sannea will
the through the NBBC system Friday
night at o'clock
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-07
INDIANA RADIO
PLEA STUDIED
Action Awaits Return of
Commissioner.

B1 Times Special
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The
federal radio commission probably
will not consider Senator j. E. Wat
sons letter criticizing the commits
sion because of alleged unfairness of
radio ALLEGATION to Indiana until
Commissioner Sam Pickard returns
to Washington.
Pickard, commissioner for the
fourth zone, which includes Indiana,
has been on an inspection trip in
the zone for some time and is ex-
pected back by the end of this
week.
AT the commission, it was said,
however, that while mer 1ers natur-
ally desire to please v vson, who is
chairman of the senate committee
on interstate commerce, having
jurisdiction over radio, it was felt
that Indiana is getting as good
radio service as any other state.
1t has only one high-powered sta
ton, WOWO at FIT. Wayne, which
gets about half the time on a
cleared channel, but many high
powered stations operate just over
the line in Chicago, Cincinnati,
Louisville, and other points, it was
pointed out, and Indiana residents
benefit from their broadcasts.
An attempt to give Indiana a
whole clear channel might upset the
entire delicate structure OF the al
location, it was said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-07
-- Radio -
FANS AWAITING
RADIO ACTION
BYCONGRESS
Doubt Is Voiced That Any
Legislation viii Be
Put Through.
BIZ Times Special

Blu Times Special
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-One of
the problems which will greet the
present congress will be radio. just
what, if any, legislation is to be
passed by this, the second session
of the SEVENTEEN congress, is a mat
ter of conjecture.
There are those who firmly be-
1ieve that no major" radio legis-
lation will be passed, while others
are of the opinion that something
will be done, owing to the great
interest in radio reception.
Should congress decide not to do
anything at all with radio. the stu
alton still would be taken care Of,
because the radio act of 1927, which
was amended in 1923, calls for all
ofthe duties of the radio commits
sion to be turned back to the de-
partment of commerce, which first
had Jurisdiction over radio.
Court of Higher Appeal
In this case, the commission be-
comes a sort of court of higher
appeal from any decisions of the
department of. commerce. Provision
is also made, in the act, which is
now operative, that if the jurisdic-
ton is turned back to the depart
ment the secretary of commerce
can turn over. such work as he sees
fit to the commission.
Two Radio Bills Pending
One of the many reasons given
by thoee who claim to know that
the commission will not function
after March is, next, is the fact
that President Hoover has
many times publicly stated that he
is opposed to independent commits
sions and boards.
Whether he is still of this cpin-
ION or not and whether it would
apply to the radio commission are
not known.
! Senators Oppose Commission
! 1t is a known fact that several
influential senators, who we're
most lnSlStent upon the legislation
creating federal radio commission,
are now equally insistent that the
commission be abolished
This same attitude, it is reported,
has been expressed by various
members of the house, who have
shown, considerable interest in radio
legisla tionSduring recent years. This
in Itself the antogonistic attitude
of inhuential members on both sides
of the houses of congress, is going
to make 1t very hard to get any
radio legislation through.
Not only this, but the fact that it
will be a short session, means that
any one who really wants to hold it
up probably will be able to do so
easily.