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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-11-08
THE CLOSING OF
MEMORIAL HALL
STARTS RUMORS
States Inspector Finds That
Concrete Casing Has Caused
Some DRY Rot" in Wood
DANGER is NOT IMMINENT

Rumors about the condition of
Memorial Hall-some of them to
the effect that the building had
been condemned - have been
coursing about the village ever
since the University authorities
put the building out of use about
two weeks ago.
The facts are these:
The building inspector sent
here from Raleigh by the state
insurance department found that
some of the wooden columns en-
cased in concrete had corroded.
The concrete, preventing air
from getting to the wood, caused
a dry rot" to set in.
The report of the building in
spector was submitted to the
head of the insurance depart
ment, Dan c. Boney, and Mr..
Boney has transmitted it to
President Chase with the state
ment that there is no imminent
danger but with the recommen-
dation that no sgatfTeEings be
held in the hall until engineer
ing and building experts have
the opportunity to make further
observations.
The construction Of Memorial
Hall is unusual. There are few
auditoriums in the world, it is
said, in which such a wide span
is obtained by the use of wood
alone.
"The roof is supported by two
great wooden arches 1877 feet in
diameter, lengthwise of the
building" says Kemp Plummer
Battles History of the UniUer-
sity. They were built on the
ground, and the raising them
was a perilous task. The first
attempt resulted in failure, most
notifying to the foreman be-
cause there was a large company
of witnesses, including the Wis.,
iting Committee of the Trustees
and Bishop Graan Of Mississippi.
One of the arches was raised a
few feet, the tackle gave way,
and the ceremony was post
poned. The next attempt was
by an experienced house-mover,
Mr.. O. r. Smith, to whom we
paid $500, and was successful.
AS the long complicated ropes
strained and the pulleys creaked,
and the network of heavy tim
bers slowly and steadily rose in
presence Of interested onlookers,
the scene was very exciting"
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-11-08

The Chapel Hill Post of the
American Legion has arranged
for the presentation of "The
Soul of France" at the Carolina
Theatre Sunday, November 10.
At both the afternoon and the
evening performance a free-will
offering will be made for the
benefit of the disabled World
War veterans at Oteen Hospital.
Under the joint auspices Of
the University and the Ameri-
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-11-08
The Garden Club

Mrs. l.. A. Mailer of Raleigh
will speak to the Garden Club at
3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in
the lecture room of Davie hall.
Her topic will be Garden
Plants" She was president of
the Raleigh Garden Club last
year. Everybody is invited.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-11-08

can Legion the annual Armistice
Day exercises will be held in
Gerard Hall Monday morning
with Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt
as the speaker.
AS Mayor of Chapel Hill,
urge all CITIZENSHIP join in the
celebration of Armistice Day
and 70 give their hearty support
to the relief work of the Ameri-
can Legion.
Zeb Council, Mayor.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-11-08

gle over wages and hours lies
a greater struggle-that of a
people born to life in the country
and forced to adjust themselves
to living in town.
The play, then, holds no brief
for either side in the present in
dustrial conflict. Rather, it
presents these people as simply
human, kin to us all in their
struggle for "somethin' better'n
they got"
F. H. Koch,
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-11-08
Flags Out on Two DAYS

The Chapel Hill post of the
American Legion will display the
Stars and Stripes along Franklin
street on two days next week:
on Armistice Day (Monday) and
again on Thursday in celebration
of the coming of the Marine
Band.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-11-08
Miss Knox Plays November 18

Emile Rose Knox will give a
violin concert in Raleigh Mon
day evening, November 18, with
the harpist, Marjorie Henderson,
and the pianist, Sue Kyle South
wick, Many of the people of
Chapel Hill are planning to at
tend. Miss Knox is now play
ing three times a week over the
radio station WOR.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-11-08
Journeys End"

Elmer Hall will read Jour
ney's End" at $3.50 Sunday eve
ming in the Playmakers Theatre.
This is the Playmaker Reading
for November. The public is
invited.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-11-08
knight Invades West

E. W. Knight of the faculty
of the University's school of
education went to the Middle
West to address the Teachers
Assembly of Nebraska. He also
addressed the students in edu-
cation at the universities of Ne
braska and Iowa.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-11-08
Mrs. Ramsay's Third Child

A third child, a daughter, was
born this week to Mr.. and Mrs.
Claude Ramsay. Mrs. Ramsay
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Archibald Henderson.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-11-08
Groves Talks in Tennessee

E. R. Groves, professor in the
University, addressed the East
Tennessee Educational Associa-
tion in Knoxville last week, on
"The Teaching Of Family Rela-
tionships' and "The Social Con-
ditions Influencing Marriage"
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-11-08
The Legion Auxiliary

Next week, November IL to
18, is American Legion Auxili-
airy week. All members are
urged to renew their member
ship. The annual dues of 81
should be sent to Mrs. Auburn
Leigh, secretary and treasurer.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-11-08
Among the Best Sellers

Phillips Russells Emerson,
the Wisest American, appears
in the list of the six best sellers
in non-fiction.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
Book Collection Shows
Printers Art at Best

Among the countless millions OF
books on the shelves Of the library at
the British museum, are about 200
volumes considered the acme of the
printers art. They form an ex-
hibition of books illustrating the most
beautiful and expensive British and
foreign printing during the last ten
years. Centuries-old Chinese manu-
scripts and illuminated books from the
monasteries of medieval Europe are
exhibited in the same room as these
masterpieces Of postwar printing
which attracted the attention of
printers whose names are famous
among book collectors in the two
hemispheres. Books from the leading
presses of England, Scotland, the
United States, France, Germany, Hol-
land. Spain, Italy, Poland and Belgium
are included in the collection. They
have all been printed within the last
ten years, and experts are unanimous
that the art of the printer has greatly
improved since the opening OF the
Twentieth century.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
Age Not Determined by
Number of Years Lived

The following bit Of philosophy,
written by a contributor who signs it
author Unknown" has been received
by the Detroit Free Press:
youth is not time of life-it Is
a state of mind. It is temper Of the
will, quality of the Imagination, a
vigor of the emotions. 1t is fresh
ness of the deep springs of life. Youth
means predominance of courage over
, timidity, of the appetite of adventure
lover love of ease. This often exists in
a boy Of twenty. Nobody grows old
fby merely living number of years.
People grow old by deserving their
ideals.
whether seventy or sixteen, there
Is in every beings heart the love of
wonder, the amazement at the stars
and the starlike things and thoughts,
the undaunted challenge of events, the
unfailing childlike appetite for what
next, and the Joy and the game Of
life. You are as young as your faith,
as old as your doubt; as young as
your self-confidence, as old as your
fear; as young as your hope, as old
as your despair. In the central place
of your heart there Is a wireless sta
tion. AS long as it receives messages
of beauty, hope, cheer, grandeur, cour-
age and power from the earth, from
men, and from the infinite, so long are
you young"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
Arthur ]. Dinsmore & Bro.
Name ''Peony" Traced to
Legend of Mythology

In the days of the Greek gods and
sgoddesses, the peony first came to the
worlds attention Leto, Apollo's moth
er, was the one to introduce it. ApOl-
10 was known as the god of healing
and his son, Aesculapius, was the god
of medicine
1t seems that pupil of Aesculapius
named Paeon was the physician of the
gods. and to him Leto first gave the
plant which he employed to cure
Pluto of wound received at the
hands of Hercules during the Trojan
war.
The fact that his pupil could sur
pass him in effecting such cure made
Aesculapius angry, with the result he
attempted to kill Paeon. hut Pluto, in
debted to Paeon for his own life, res
cued the physician of Mount Olympus
from dealt by changing him into the
plant that had saved his life. Until
this day that plant bears Paeon's name
and is known to us as the peOny.
The history of the peony in China
and Japan is of sentimental nature.
Fittingly enough, the words "ShO Yo,"
meaning "Most Beautiful" were APP
piled to the herbaceous peony, while
the tree peOny held sway as the king
of Flowers. kansas City Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
Only Dame Nature Can
Freshen Mind and Body

"The earth is the great reservoir of
physical forces, and whilst no scien-
fist has yet been able to discover how
intimate or how perfect is the cOnnec-
tion between the mental and the phys
ical, there exists. no doubt, correla-
ton between the processes by which
the body and the soul are kept healthy
and vigorous by drafts on the great
reserves of nature.
"One grows tired of books and
cloyed with all manner of art. Then
comes hunger and thirst for ma
ture. Real thought gathering is like
berry gathering-one must go to the
wild vines for the racy-favored fruit.
Art AM nature are really the anti.
podes of each other-one is original.
the other second hand. When we go
from the library or the studio to the
woods or fields, we go to get back
what art has robbed US of-the fresh
ness of nature. The suggestions of
nature come-Out of the mysterious.
invisible generator; but art merely
reflects its suggestions back upon ma
ture."-Maurice Thompson.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
House Of the Future, @
as Architect Sees Il

/. The house of the future may be seen
as building designed without win
idows except perhaps a few small ones
Tor the purpose of observing the wish
tor at the door or determining the
state Of the weather.
\ The large wall space will be utilized
BY the architect as a means Of ex-
pressing a new type Of architectural
beauty. Within, we shall have all the
comforts we now possess plus others
hndreamed of.
\ There will be illumination contain
ing healthful percentage of ultravio-
let light, and there will be a ventilat-
ing system supplying fresh, warmed,
Or cooled air to all parts of the home.
Quiet will prevail, no matter how
noisy the street may be.
The smoky atmosphere of our cities
does immense damage to textiles, fur
hiture and all the trimmings and trap
pings of the home. The air circulated
by the ventilating system can just as
easily and readily be made free from
dust and corrosion and properly hui
midified at the same time. The home
will become free of the accidental va
riations of the weather.-Albert Par
sons Sachs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
Freak of Striking Clock

The bell on the house of parlia.
nAent in - London may be heard for
4 idistance of four miles and within
that radius there are points where
it us possible TO hear the clock strike
% Through the combined utilization Of
thet wireless and the sound waves
This is at eleven o'clock each day
when the time signals are sent out
from Daventry. There is an interval
of Az seconds between the strikes and
at h distance of four miles, five or six
strokes are heard by wireless before
theSfirst of the sound waves and then
1--WE or six afterwards so that under
theke conditions it is possible to hear
thel bell, "Big Ben," give off % strokes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
Black Ok Always the
Symbol of Misfortune

The black OK symbolizes old age, Ill
luck, adversely, or trouble in general,
according to an article in the Path
finder Magazine. "The black OK has
trod on his foot" is proverbial ex-.
preston recorded already in 1916 by
John Haywood 1t means that one
knows the meaning of sorrow and
misfortune, such as having been visit
ed by death.
The phrase alludes to the black cat
tie sacrificed by the ancient pagansG
to the internal deities, especially IL
Pluto, supreme Judge and lord of the
underworld. White cattle were sac
rificed to Jupiter. ID
At Rome the altar on which the
black oxen were sacrificed was 20 feet
below the level of the ground and was
never exposed to public view except
when the sacrifices were being made.
Among the Arabs the black camel is
the symbol of murder and death by
violence.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
Yes, Please

The little hoy had been sent to the
drug store to get some liniment and
special kind of china cement.
do you want the two things in
separate parcels?" asked the druggist,
us soon as he had attended to the boys
demands.
"Yes, please" answered the little
fellow. II think it would be as. well.
: The cement Is for mother; she wants
10 mend the teapot. The liniment is
for father. Mother broke the teapot
over mis- head"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
Defending Thirteen

One of the arguments against re-
forming the calendar is the coinci-
dence that the thirteenth of each of
the thirteen months Of the proposed
year would fall on Friday. One Of
its defenders answered this opposition
by saying that the United States
'grew great on thirteen" and. incl
dentally. on Friday.
America was discovered on Fri
day. the Pilgrims landed on Friday.
there were thirteen American colonies.
thirteen stripes and stars on the
American flag. and thirteen feathers
on the American eagles tail. The
motto, e Pluribus Unum, contains
thirteen letters.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
In the Same Boat

Two friends met one day and be-
gan to discuss the various events
which had taken place in their lives
since last they meta year ago.
''I've not done anything much at
y job" said one. II took a job as
room} and I've not had 1iEi'te's
pace since lon the go, d
and ordered ahnut=-" - = ~
.That's just how I've been treated r
broke in the other.
I "You!" said the first, surprised.
f'How can you be putting up with my
Aort of life?-you never took on as a
groom!"
ST did," said the other, gloomily. II
tbok on as a bridegroom!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20

manner Of drinking tea varies
eountry to country. In Bokhara
man carries small bag Of tea
wRh him and, when assailed by
hunts up the nearest tea booth
Is the boothkeeper brew a pot
al. The Bokhara breakfast bever-
lis Schirechaj-tea in which bread
baked and which is favored with
cream or mutton fat. During
day the drinker takes tea with
IS of -four and mutton suet. After
king he eats the tea leaves, which
considered a great delicacy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
bikes Long Employed

The bikes which protect the Neither
lands and the German coasts of the
North sea go back to the old Roman
Times. Apparently even before the Ro-
mans appeared the Batavians at the
mouth of the Rhine protected them
selves by bikes. Dursus, after the con
quest of Holland, ~ B. g., built an
elaborate system of artificial canals
and dikes Pliny the ElIer gives an in
teresting description of the artificial
hills which were erected as places of
refuge during. the Hoods.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20

OF THIS huge city Of buildings al
most half are owned by the telephone
company, says Richard Storrs Coe in
the Bell Telephone Quarterly. And
these figures are exclusive of the build
ings occupied by the Western Electric
Company, Inc, with its huge manufac-
turing plants at Hawthorne, ILL.,, and
Kearny, N. j., and store houses else
where throughout the country, not to
mention the great industrial plant
now in course of construction at Point
Breeze, Baltimore, Md
This group of buildings is said to
be the largest group belonging to any
industry in the United States. To
meet the demands of the public for
telephone service the systems build
ings are constantly being expanded.
This years program includes 200 new
buildings and so major additions,
which in itself is an undertaking of
very considerable magnitude. Last
year 122 new buildings and SO addi-
lions to buildings were erected.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
Cruel

Johnson never dared ask anyone to
his home. His wife was unpopular
with.visi
,"AFen't you going to ask your friend
1ombkins and his fiancee to our
homer" she asked one evening.
q "Nbt muchl" replied the husband,
Who preferred to entertain his friends
at restaurants.
@You dislike him. don't your was
Mrs. Johnson's next query.
"a little.' answered the husband,
''but Dot enough for that"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
Mysterious Crows

Vows which talk have been found
mean Weenen in Natal. Their remarks
reflibelous. They say to the natives
of the district: "There will be no rain ;
Won, have killed your chief" They have
STATED a first class scandal about the
deafM of Muzucitawayo, once chief of
the Mennu, who died of dropsy. The
natives are fiocking from all the sur
rom districts to hear them. The
kew e mystery, suggests a Natal
pane the fact that the crows only
spea when a certain head boy is
pres There is nothing to prove
that hey have been corrupted by
Mar kburg parrot.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20

If you are meeting your obliga-
tons to yourself and your creditors
you are doing more than some
people.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20

Well, after the girls leave off their
stockings, what will they take off
next.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20

Nowadays, if man falls by TIE
wayside, the chances are that he was
pedestrian.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20

Marie C0leIIf, expert cable tester
cable that bears her o. X. is free fri
OF the out-ot-ordinary jobs that 1oome
Marie Colelli, of the Kearny (New
Jersey cable plant Of the Western
Electric Company, is testing one of
many huge cables turned out daily
by this great telephone manufacturing
plant. Telephone cables now contain
as many as 1886 wires. Every cable
manufactured in the plant of this CON-
pany is thoroughly tested by experts
before it is placed in service.
Telephone cable has now been used
for SO years. the first cable having
been placed in service in 1879. Cable
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20

A cure for worry is work, but the
work has to be ceaseless,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20

knotos that each section of telephone
M tmperfecttons. Gable testing is one
. noto fill.
has been largely responsible for the
great development of the telephone
system since it allows the use of
thousands of wires in small space
and has greatly reduced the cost of
telephone construction and mainte-
nance.
If cable had not been developed, it
would have been necessary to con-
struct and maintain thousands Of
parallel pole lpes each carrying a
great network of wires extending In
every direction throughout cities.
towns, and communities.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20

Every man is sure of death and
taxes and that he'll lave to shave
when he wakes up in the morning.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20

Cigar smokers don't care how
much the government taxes cigar
cites or pipe tobacco,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20


beauty which comes from appropriate
ness to their surroundings as well asl
adaptation to the purpose for which
they were designed. These conditions|
are shared by the smaller and more
unpretentious telephone buildings AS
well as by the skyscrapers. Utility,
beauty, appropriateness to its local.
tion, adaptation to the purpose in hand
each is characterized by the same
conditions-each is a definite manifes-
tation of the same spirit.
While these buildings are not lack
ing in modernity. they are outwardlyl
faithful reproductions Of Colonial
homes. A striking illustration is the
Colonial brick building with its white!
doorway, shutters and roof rail att
Silver Spring, Md. Despite its usel
as a thoroughly modern telephone
office, this building, Mr.. Coe states,
would not have looked out Of place.
to Washington's Continentals had they
passed 1t on one of their long marches
during the Revolutionary War.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
! So,

is Prescription 1or
Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue,
l lious Fever and Malaria.
il is the most speedy remedy known.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20
The S SO
COAC ~ ~

AHpricesJ. o. b. factory, Flint. Mich.
COMPARE the delivered price well the list price In
considering automobile values Chevrolet's delivered
prices include only reasonable charges for delivery and
6nancina
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20

the 5000 buildings of the Bell Tele-
phone System, ranging in size from
the monumental headquarters struc-
ture of the New York Telephone Com
pany-the largest telephone building
in the world-with it's 100000 square
feet of floor space, housing 5000 peo-
pie as we'll as equipment serving close
Ito 100000 telephones, down to the
smallest buildings whose personnel
includes dozen or two people serving
several hundred telephones, have q
Carl invastra a,adau1z1 n.ztiing land. of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-09-20

Telephone buildings are first Of all
built for utility. The objective of theI
whole vast fabric Of the telephoneI
system is to serve, to be useful, tol
provide adequate and economical tele-
phone communication. =,
In addition to the utility service Of
telephone buildings, consideration isl
given to the design Of the structures,
so that they may harmonic with their
surroundings and be appropriate Atol
the climate. and perhaps6 s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17

over an embankment at Wythe and
Fairfax streets. completely overturning,
according to a report made by Police
Sergt. George Everly who investigated
the affair. Police further stated that
two red lanterns were stin burning on
top of the excavation when they made
the investigation.
Operator Arrested.
Lacy, who was the owner and opera
tor of the light truck in collision with
the street car, was arrested by police
after he had received hospital treat
ment. He is charged with driving while
drunk, possession of pint jar OF alleged
whisky, and colliding. and was held for
hearing in court today under $1,000
bond.
His truck was badly wrecked, the en-
tire front carriage and body being
smashed and witnesses said that 1t was
almost a miracle that Lacy was not
badly injured. The street car, which
was eastbound on King street, was max
ing the turn into Royal street when the
accident occurred, and was in charge
of Conductor Samuel Pallant and was
driven by Motorman Charles LyleS. The
step of the street car was broken and
some other damage done to 1t, but no
passengers were reported injured. The
truck blocked traffic on King street for
some time until it could be towed on.