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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-10-25
Library Day

A lone bookworm with horn
trimmed spectacles made a queer
spectacle when the throng of
visitors were attending the re-
ception in the University's new
library last Saturday afternoon.
The only person there who was
using the library for what it
was made for, he sat at a table
in the vast reading room with
encyclopedias and other heavy
tones piled about him. A green
eye-shade came down over his
spectacles. Chattering women,
with patient-looking men tag
ging along, milled about him,
many of them looking at him
curiously and commenting upon
him in low tones as though he
were some sort of freak in a
circus. Archibald Henderson
was receiving guests nearby, and
some of those whom he greeted
accused him of having planted
the solitary student there for the
sake of atmosphere. The young
man paid no more attention to
the people all about him than if
they had been so many specks
on the floor. He put one book
aside and took up another, he
turned the pages, he made en-
tries in his note book. He was
attending to his job-and let the
celebration go hang.
Louis r. Wilson, with Mrs.
Wilson and several guests of
honor, stood IN the rotunda, and
hundreds of his friends pressed
forward to shake his hand and
congratulate him upon the mag
nificent building which had
crowned his labors of a quarter
of a century. And fluctuations
were in store, too, for Arthur
c. Nash, the architect, but he
was not there to receive them
because he had guests at home.
Young women of the library
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The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-10-25
Chapel Hill Chaf

Surprising facts about the
past life of professors-that is,
surprising to most of their
neighbors-come to light now
and then.- Probably not many
of the faculty colleagues of
Howard w. Odum, the sociol-
ogist, know that he began his
teaching career with Greek as
his speciality and pursued it for
several years. James F. Roys-
ter and A. w. Hobbs used to
play professional baseball. DR..
Charles S. Mangum was the
states most popular tenor when
he used to go about with the
Glee Club, and at about the same
time he was a gymnasium in
structor. w. S. Bernard was a
tobacco warehouseman of note
in eastern North Carolina
around thirty-five years ago. w.
C. Coker was a banker in Will
mington, but the charm of turn
ing a cold and clammy eye upon
borrowers was vanquished by
the charm of securing the
woods and fields for the agari-
Gus compestris and the conyolut-
ed discomycetes. The other
day | learned that Vernon
Howell, at a certain period in
his life, owned an interest in
every barber shop in Rocky
Mount. Once he went out into
the country near that city in
search of antique furniture. In
a farmhouse he found a piece he
liked, and the farmers wife said
she would sell it for seven dol
lars. But when the transaction
was about to be completed she
began to hesitate, and finally
she recanted entirely and said
she believed she wouldn't sell.
Mr.. Howell found out long after
ward that she had changed her
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LEGION ARRANGES
T0PRESENT PLAY
ON NOVEMBER 10
Famous War Drama TO Be Given
for Benefit of Fund for
Disabled Veterans
AFTERNOON AND EVENING

The Chapel Hill post of the
American Legion has arranged
to present the famous moving
picture play, 'The Soul of
France" Sunday afternoon and
evening, November 10, at the
Carolina Theatre in connection
with the celebration of Armis-
tice Day. There will be no ad-
mission charge, but there will
be a free-will offering for the
benefit of the fund which the
Legion post uses for the relief
of the disabled World War vet
erans.
The presentation of the pic
ture is made by the cooperation
of E. Darlington Smith, man
ager of the Carolina, with the
officers of the post. A committee
of Legionnaires called upon Mr..
Smith at his Office night before
last, told him of their desire to
have a benefit performance, and
asked him if they might have
the use of the theatre on the
10th.
81 will put the theatre at your
disposal and try to get you any
picture you want" he replied.
After a discussion they decided
on the stirring war drama which
is now drawing large crowds in
New York.
Rev. Alfred S. Lawrence, state
chaplain of the Legion as we'll
as post chaplain here, will con-
duct a brief memorial service
and make a few minutes talk
before the picture is shown on
the afternoon of the 10th. Be-
fore the evening performance,
which will be timed not to con-
flict with the church services,
Robert B. House is expected to
welcome the crowd and say a
few words about the posts pur-
pose in presenting the play.
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OLD OAKS DYING:
VILLAGE SHOULD
CARE FOR TREES
Two in the Grove East of the
Campus Had to be Cut
Down Recently
OTHERS FAILING RAPIDLY


Many of the people of Chapel
Hdl haze grieUed, IN recent
gears, at the death Of one after
another of our old trees. The
f0lIoaOing piece is 10ritten by a
homecoming GlumnuS lOho has
loved the trees Of the campus and
the vilIGge since he first sdV
them nearly q third of a century
ago.
We regret to have to chronicle
the death of two old and vener-
able citizens of Chapel Hill. One
victim was a centenarian living
at the southwest corner of the
Library, on the campus; the
other was a slightly younger
resident of the grove in front of
the home of Mrs. Julia Graves.
Both were oak trees, and in each
case the axe put an. end to their
sufferings. The older veteran
had been for years a sufferer
from heart disease, which grad
ualIy converted its core into a
brown dust, while the other
died from the limbs downward.
The latter's nearest neighbor
is also suffering from a mortal
malady, and must ere long add
itself to Jove's celestial grove.
Already it leans like the Tower
of Pisa, and Professor Kicker
son has been cautioned not to
leave his car under it, for it's
crash would convert even the
hardest Dodge into a tangle of
metal.
1t is pathetic to see how this
survivor Of more than a hundred
winters has foreseen the threat
to its life, and has tried to avert
it. 1t careens to the north, and
since its buttresses on this side
are decayed, it has put out to
the southwark a vast and
crumpled root which grips the
ground desperately, as if the
root knew that it was its own
er's only stay. But when high
winds attack the ponderous
trunk, this root groans sadly,
rising and falling in unison with
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A Flying Trip to Charleston

They are Of the swamplands--
still waters, and expresses, and
hanging gray moss, and herons
sometimes standing on logs in
the water and sometimes perched
in the trees, and now and then
a solitary and majestic eagle.
To this artist the swamplands
are an old familiar tale. She
has been wandering through
them all her life, and in them
she finds beauties unsupported
by the stranger and then, by her
understanding and her art, re-
veals these beauties to the
strangers eye. The sun shone
through the windows the morn
ing was there, and the studio
glowed with the brilliant Colds
and blues of the pictures.
+
went down from Chapel Hill
with Phillips Russell in mis-
speedy runabout and was hos
pitably received by his mother,
Mrs. Lucy Phillips Russell, and
Miss Betty Werner in the alb
sence of Mrs. Pettigrew Werner.
Mrs. Werner came in from
New York just an hour or two
before we started back home,
and | heard with keen interest
of her having been at Mt. Ver-
non, a few days earlier, to make
etchings of the famous home
stead. She was commissioned
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KOch's Troupe Presenting Three Plays

The Carolina Playmakers pre-
sented their twenty-fourth bill
of original plays last evening,
and they will repeat the program
this (Friday) and tomorrow
Saturday evening.
A revival of Paul Green's The
No Count Boy, which won the
first prize in the National Little
Theatre tournament in 1925,
starts off the evenings enter
tainment. In the cast are
Phoebe Harding, Howard Bailey,
Holmes Bryson, and Muriel
Wolff.
In MGgnOliG's Man Gertrude
Wilson Coffin, who is an actor
in the play as well as the author
of it, tells the tale of a noun
tain spinster who seeks a hus.
band through a matrimonial
agency. Mrs. Coffin appears al
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Mis- Tish, the village dressmak-
er; Ted Wilson as Newt Nor
ris, a local widower; Muriel
Wolff as Magnolia Starnes, a
spinster; and Marvin Hunter as
Bartholomew M. Burgess of
Arkansas.
The third and final play on
the program is Being Married,
a domestic comedy by Catherine
Wilson Nolen. The principal
figures are well-to-do young
married people in Chicago. In
the cast are Milton Wood, Elzada
Feaster, Howard Bailey, Helen
Mckay, Anne Melick, Elizabeth
Barber, and Beth Colley.
The settings for the three
plays were executed by Jack
White, William Day, Frank
Gray, Tiff Keim, Robert Erskine,
Walter Grotyohann, and Fred
Greer.
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Kings Daughters Officers

The new officers of the
Kings Daughters in Chapel Hill
are: president, Mrs. F. p.
Brooks; vice-president, Mrs.
John f. Lear; secretary, Mrs. j.
A. Page; treasurer, Miss Annie
Belle Durham; chairman of the
program committee, Mrs, r. E,
Best; chairman of the investigat-
ing committee, Mrs. r. B. Law
son.
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V. p. |. Comes Tomorrow

The alibi artists and post-mor-
tenn experts had busy time, for
a while after last Saturdays
game, explaining just how it was
that Georgia beat Carolina; but
by Monday the noise of explana-
tions had about died away and
the community was beginning to
look forward to tomorrow's
match with the Virginia Poly
technic Institute. 1t will take
place at 2:30 in the Kenan sta
dium.
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Graduate Club Reception

The Graduate Club will give
its third annual reception in
Smith building, Friday, Novem-
Der l, from $3.50 to 10:30. The
University faculty and resi-
dents of Chapel Hill are cor
daily invited to be present. Fol-
lowing the reception there will
be an informal dance from 10:30
to I.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-10-25
Graded School Enrolment

At the close of the first school
month there were 1913 pupils en-
rolled in the high school and 364
in the elementary department of
the Chapel Hill school. These
figures were issued from Super
intendent Hoyle's office this
week.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-10-25
By Mary deb. GrGUes

The athletes of ancient
Greece, no doubt, in the eyes of
some art critics could put it all
over our present-day football
players in respect to costume,
which, according to the sculp-
tors, never consisted of anything
more than a bit of vegetation,
while of course our boys are al
most completely covered by bull
bous uniforms. But for lovely
surroundings even fair Greece
could not surpass a contest held
in our stadium on a sparkling
October afternoon. Grass, sky,
and foliage lend charm and color
to the white concrete bowl fitted
so gracefully into the gentle
curves of the valley. Spectators,
who individually might not take
a prize at a beauty show, col
lectiyely make an interesting,
harmonious panorama of a
myriad hues. And to the mod
ern eye there is even beauty in
the trim efficiency of our players
uniforms.
AS one sits on the South
Stand of the Kenan stadium one
sees, through the opening of
fifty feet or so between the
stands at the western end, a
delightfully."- sylvan vista of pine
trees. AS evening advances
long, smooth shadows also ad-
vance upon the green surface of
the field until one looks over
these to a sunny spot in the
woods beyond, which might
make a dwelling place for
nymphs. Around the field the
spectators, forming many blobs
of gay colors, send up airy
clouds of smoke from hundreds
and thousands of cigarettes.
These clouds form a blue and
lavendar autumnal haze as eff
fective as Natures own-and of
its essence native to Carolina
where most Of the tobacco is
grown for these loyal smokers.
Above the stands in the GEN.
ter soar two slim flag poles, one
behind each central box. Be
hind these, and forming a per-
feet background, are the pine
trees, and above their rich
green the bluest of skies across
which sails an orange-bodied,
silver-Winged airplane. AT the
East end of the stadium, snug
ly settled on the emerald sward,
stands the field house. Only one
thinks of sitting rather than
standing, for it looks so comfort
ably ensconced in it's nest of
green-like a house in a fairy
tale. Behind it again we have
a beautiful background of soar
ing pines, perfectly setting off
the pinkish tiled roof. From the
chimney there rises a spiral of
smoke produced by the furnace
for heating water for the play
ers, which gives a cozy air of
nominees. Beside the cream
stucco walls is the stand for
colored spectators, who also send
up their incense of North Caro-
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PickpOckets Busy at Game

After the football game last
Saturday the police found 20
purses which pickpockets had
wrapped in newspapers and
thrown down near the fence of
the Kenan stadium. The thieves
had taken out all the cash but
had left the checks. In one OF
the purses was a check fol
$4,000.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-10-25
New Directory Is Out

A new directory, giving the
names and addresses of towns
people as well as students, has
been issued by the Y.M.C.A. A
master directory" is kept at
the Y building for the entry of
addresses that have been chang
ed since the directory came out.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-10-25
L. r. Wilson President Again

Louis r. Wilson has been
elected president Of the North
Carolina Library Association.
He was president in 1909 and
1921; so this is his third term.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-10-25
Operation on J. F. Royster

James f. Royster, dean of the
University's graduate school,
now on leave Of absence in Eu-
rope, was operated on for ap-
pendicitis in London Saturday.
The Chapel Hill weekly. [volume] (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1923-1972, 1929-10-25

One always thinks of old
things in connection with
Charleston - old streets, old
houses, old gardens, old furni-
ture, old notions. But when |
was there the other day | found
that something modern held the
main interest Of the inhabitants.
This was the Cooper River
bridge, a lofty and spidery struc-
ture which leads over to Sulli-
vans Island and the Isle of
Palms. 1t gives a fascinating
drive. You look down on the
bay, and cluster Of torpedo
boat destroyers, and Sumter far
off in the distance; then you
roll on through the Fort Moul-
trie army reservation, and down
avenues bordered with palmet-
tos, and at last come out on the
beach where the car spins along
the waters edge at high speed.
1t was on this journey that
/ saw a sign reading: "Do not
throw trash around pernicious~
ly." | thought this was a very
proper use for the word per-
niciously.
The water colors of Miss Alice
Huger Smith provided me with
one of my happiest hours in the
city, and I was lucky enough to
hear the stories of the various
pictures from the artist herself.
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The Decorative Value of Football

lima smoke. A peaceful scene,
one might almost say.
But there is no peace. Amid
wild cheers out trot the players
in snappy uniforms. Last year
our boys contributed their bit of
color with orange jerseys. This
year they were not so gaily
garbed. Of course, as we have
remarked, the Greek uniforms
provided by Nature may have
been more graceful, but the alb
Isolute utility of those of today
compare with them as does the
automobile compare with the
horse. New times, new types of
beauty. With their function in
mind one can admire the smooth
tan leather helmets fitting so
snugly the heads they are de-
signed to protect from buffets,
the well-padded shoulders, the
well-padded breeches - sturdy
brown legs are better, however,
than striped stockings-and then
the shoes so adroitly fashioned
to grip the turf. When these
admirably armored armies trot
out, some lifting their feet like
sportive colts, no wonder the
stands rise and shout. They are
a superb sight. Their beauty
thrills the crowd.
And the band. Our band
prances out in uniforms of blue
and white. The blue is not the
pale anaemic shade sometimes
fused by us, but a vigorous blue
with a kick to it, deeper than
the blue of the October sky and
yet akin to it. The white braid,
the caps, are jauntily worn by
all the young men, but best of
all is the drum major with his
slim figure, and his snappy strut.
AS his silver baton catches the
sunlight, his crested head reared
high, he is as wonderful as a
Russian dancer.
In this scene Of variegated
movement and color each on
locker may find some particular
aspect most charming, depend
ing upon his point of view. To
the undergraduate no doubt the
accompanying flapper is the
piece de resistance; to the proud
papa, clamping his cigar and
leaning forward resting on his
baywindow, the substituting son
enveloped in a blanket on the
players bench; to the Chapel
Hill mother the little boy in
khaki knickers scampefing out
on the West end Of the field be-
yond the goal posts, where he
and his kind gambol and frolic
like puppies, seeing none of the
plays yet imagining they are
football fans. Any mother can
safely let her eyes keep track
of her y0ungster as he nimbly
scales the wall separating the
field from the spectators, flies up
the steps, or attempts to climb
the fiagpOle, since the absolutely
fool-proof announcing system
has been installed. She may
even plan her Thanksgiving din
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Swanson and JOlsOn

Gloria Swanson will be on the
screen at the Carolina on Mon
day of next week and Al Jolson
on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Miss Sharkey's Daughter

Miss Josephine Sharkey has
adopted a tWo-months-old girl.
She arrived in Chapel Hill We'd
nesday. Her name is Hilda.
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Norfolk Editor Visits the Hill

Louis |. Jaffe, editor of the
Norfolk Virginjan-PHot was
here at the Inn Sunday night.
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Women Students Entertain

The women students of the
University entertained at Spen-
Ger hall Wednesday afternoon.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-09
STEADY GAIN IN
MASH DEMAND
April Registers Increase of
81 Per Cent In Domes-
tic Shipments

KENOSHA. Wis. June S.-The
approach or touring rme-those long
anticipated months that send mil
lions Of American motorists into
he open to revel In new scenes and
yensations-has brought with it a
steady national increase in the de-
nand for the Nash 400" cars that
Bit so perfectly into every motoring
requirement, according to officials
II the Nash Motor company sales
department.
Following an April which register
I'd a gain Of 92.68 per cent in do
mestic shipments of 400" Series
cars over the month a year ago,
they received reports today from 10
IF the most important American
motor sales centers showing that
deliveries Of new Nash cars in these
points during the week ending May
Is were 43.04 per cent above deliver
les in the same cities for the or
responding week in 1928. All indi-
cations point to another record
breaking month for Nash, they de-
clare.
Consistent Nash gains are being
reported from the great automobile
marketing centers as the season adj
vances." G. II. Bliss. sales manager,
said today, following receipt of sales
reports from these cities. During
the week ending May Is. New York
reports an increase in Nash deliver
les amounting TO SIS per cent over
the same week last year. In metro
politian New York. during the first
four months in 1929. official new car
registration show the Nash 400
first among all cars except Ford and
Chevrolet. Chicago rolled up a AZ
per cent gain. while the other lead
ing Nash markets for the week
Boston. Philadelphia. Cleveland
Minneapolis. Milwaukee. Pittsburgh.
San Francisco. and Los Angeles
brought the average gain to 1904
per cent.
I'm Detroit-a territory called the
worlds most competitife automobile
week ending May II show an in
crease in Nash retail registration
Of 92.3 per cent over the correspond
ing week a year ago. and an 1921
per cent increase for the period from
January l to May II over the same
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-09

than a ton, made its first success
full trip from Baltimore to Endicott
Mills, a distance of Is miles and
return, August IS, 1880.
It pushed a small open a carry
ing Is passengers and made the
return trip In 81 minutes.
In marked contrast TO these early
vehicles are the army's latest
palace horse motor vans, which can
transport six horses or eight ponies
or mules. The animals can be taken
to the battle front in good condi-
ton instead Of being fatigued by a
long journey on foot.
Another army development. the
six wheel. dual tire tractor truck
will demonstrate how it ear travel
at fast speed on a good road Dr. buck
the worst muck and mud holes.