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The Washington times., 1931-04-13

morrow evening &T G:oV 70 &U
The idea back Of the Muddy
Ruel remembrance. sponsored by
The Washington Times, Is less
money and more names, because
It feels that when Sunday, April
10, comes and the fans are In
their home park for the first Sun
day Of the season, and Muddy
marches UP to home plate to be
presented with his gift. thousands
Of fans will regret they didn't
chip in a nickel or o dime, just
through forgetfulness.
Below are o few interesting let
ters which tell just how some Of
the fans feel about Muddy.
Among the most prominent let
terS are those Of John BoleS, well
known stage and screen star, ap-
pearing in person at the Rialto
Theater this week, and little 10
year-old Robie Jansen, Of Dahl
gren, Va.
Enclosed you will find my
contribution 10 the Mwddy RueI
Gift Fund. I have always been
o great admlrer Of this doughty
baM player and only wish il
were allowable TO enclose o
larger sum. I regret that I win
not be i'm Washington when the
presentation Is made TO him, for
I knew I would enjoy 1t Inn
menseAy. JOHN BOLES."
please find enclosed my
check fer 81, to be added to
the Muddy Ruel Gift Fund.
with ivieSt best wishes to
the WASHINGTON team for the
season Of 1881, I ann,
ALVIN r. sUER."
"Am sending o dime fer
Muddy Ruel. He is o gOOd
catcher. why did he have to
leave Washington? I hope I
can see him play this year.
Muddy is o great player.
Robe JANSEN"
II ANA emily o ysung fan cut
ct MP. GFifRitA'S Stadium, but
nevertheless I feel very happy
to donate my part for the gift
Of o great little player-Muddy
Ruel. This Is only my third
baseball season, but I stiM re-
member Mr.. Ruel as o great
favOFite Of mine while attend
ing the game. Here's hoping
IN be able to see the presenta-
item On Sunday, 10.
"WARREN GARRETT"
April 8.
''InclOsed find my donation
towaFA the Ruel gift fund. I
hepo 20 attend the game April
10 and be with the many Ruel
admirers.
THOMAS II. ROONEY"
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
Southeast Pin
League
SEASON RECORDS

SEASON RECORDS
High individual averages-BuS Pre-
iOS-ss: Mooney. iOs-17. High indi.
vidual game--Baldwin, 1S7; Bus Pre-
vost. 15S. High individual sets-Bus
Provost, 403; Geuthler, sea. High
spares-Bus Provost, 17e: A. Goddard,
$50. High strikeS-Sam Del Vecchio,
IS; Augusts, 23.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
GOLF
By CHESTER HORTON

Many Of you golfers, per
hapS without knowing it, shift
your StrokinG method violently
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
Jewellers Pin
League

SEASON RECORDS
High average-Tobey (Jewel Shop),
1o6. High game-Murray (Heller Plat
ing Company. 1855. High set-Sheaffer
"a. Kahn, Incl, 373. High strikes
Sheaffer a. Kahn. Inc.l, a. High
spares-Aronstein Is Desio). 151. High
team game-Galt & Bros. No. l. 5S2.
High team set-A. Kahn, Inc, 1917.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13

Richard Fleet, Of the Tele-
phone Company, labels The
Times Tournament one Of the
best organized sandlOt leagues
to his knowledge. Mr.. Fleet has
long been connected with boys
camps i'm Maryland.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13

(AnOther instalIment of Ford
C. Frick's life story of Knute
Rockne will appear in tOmOrrOw's
Washington TimeSO
The Washington times., 1931-04-13
AltrOck to Clown

The party will be Saturday,
April 1S. The party is primarily
to have the boys meet the players
Of both the Athletics and the Sen.
ators. But there will also be en-
tertainment by AL Schacht and
Nick Altrock.
The Washington times., 1931-04-13

The Times Junior Baseball
Association will give away absO-
Iutely free 1OO tickets to the
afternoon game between the
Athletics and Griffmen.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08
Aldermen Reelected
Members Of Present Board Win in
Election by Large Majority

In the municipal election
Tuesday the members of the
present board of aldermen
Brodic S. Thompson, =. l..
Burch, X. M. Trimble, and r. ID.
w. COnnOr-wcre reelected by IA
large majority. In the contest
for Judge Of the Recorders
Court G. p. Hinshaw won from
l.. J. Phipps by 81 votes. Zeb
p. Council was unopposed for
mayor.
The total number of ballots,
73O, was far larger than in any
previous town election. The
school athletic building (com-
monty called the "tin CAM
made an excellent polling place.
There was ample space, and the
onicials-Paul Robertson, Rev.
B. J. Howard, and Moody Dur
ham-conducted the balloting,
and afterward the counting, in
a businesslike and orderly man
ner.
The record Of the vote is as
follows:
For mayor, Zeb Council 657.
For Judge Of the Recorders
Court, G.. p. Hinshaw 372, l.. j.
Phipps 1886. For aldermen for
the four-year term: p. l.. Burch
545, B. S. Thompson 52A, r. d.
w. Connor 494, e. J. Woodhouse
200, J. T. Durham 175, Eugene
Andrews lat. For alderman
for two-year term: r. M. Trim
BILE 492. L. A. Whitfield 1873.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08
Artists Trials
Putting on an Exhibit of Pictures
Here Is No Soft Snap
By MARY deb. Graues

By MdrY deb. GrdpfS
Once Il charming capitalist of
North Carolina said to poor ar
tist: II envy you more than any
body ! know. You live on ideas,
while II he left off the SEN
tence with a sweeping gesture
denoting contempt for his mum
dane existence. The poor artist
felt like finishing it while you
poor dear, are forced to live on
money-aIas! 1t would be nice
for me to try that once too"
Then a small group of artists
got together and we decided that
we would get some fun out Of our
ideas and with the aid of some
other North Carolina artists of
similar aims-b0th here and
afar-have an exhibition. We
thought it would be interesting
to see what those living on ideas
were doing. There was where
our trouble began. First we
were told we could show our
things in the band practice room,
but unfortunately the band OBJ
jected. Then we were offered
the new music building and JOY
reigncd. About a week before
the exhibit was to open we re-
ceived a letter saying, too bad
there was no way to hang pic
lures without running the walls
of the building, so we must CO.
operate with the building de-
partment in the expense Of
having an easel made for each
canvas. We looked into our
treasury and found six dollars.
Then joy, a member paid his
dues and we had $11 but even
with all that money we did not
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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08

Professor Grows Uneasy When Ed
mund Stays Out All Night

Edmund Taylor and Craig Nc
Intosh, high school students,
went down to Strowd's Low
grounds late Friday afternoon
equipped each with two blan-
kets and poncho and food sup
plies. Their mission was to OBJ
serve birds, and in order to car
ry it out thoroughly they were
prepared to spend the night in
the open.
They wandered along the
creek, downstream from the
bridge over the Durham road.
At night, after a campers sup
per, they sought place for
slumber. A slope adjacent to
the outlet of the municipal sew
cr seemed suitable; by shifting
the air carefully they assured
themselves that the sewer pro-
duced no nOxious OdOrs; and
they wrapped themselves in
their blankets, laid down on the
ground, and went to sleep.
Around ten o'clock they
awoke to find the rain pouring
down upon them. Arising,
gathering up their blankets, and
moving up the slope until they
came to a pine thicket, they
hung their ponchos on the
boughs to form a shelter. But
it was a shelter in name only
the boys got very little more
sleep.
In the morning, however, they
forgot their weariness in the ex-
citement of watching the birds.
They saw herons and other in
teresting migrants, ard alto
gether they recorded on their
pads 62 separate and distinct
species.
While their observations pro-
ceeded, George Coffin Taylor,
professor of English in the Uni
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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08
Hubert Maddry Injured

Hubert Maddry, 20-year-old
son of James A. Maddry of the
Orange church neighborhood
north of Chapel Hill, is in Watts
hospital as the result Of serious
injuries received in an automo-
bile accident at the Chapel Hill
street underpass in Durham one
day this week. He was on his
way to work in a car driven by
a friend, Mr.. Cole. A truck
turned in suddenly from the
street running parallel to the
railroad and came speeding
toward them. Mr.. Cole swerved
to the right to avoid the truck
and crashed into the cement
wall.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08
COKER TRACT OF
3O8 ACRES SOLD
Purchaser St. Pierre DuROse,
Report Is That He Will
Erect Country Home
LAND IS ON STATE ROAD

w. c. Coker has sold a tract OF
land out on the Nelson-Raleigh
road. 30S acres. to St. Pierre Du-
Bose of Durham. 1t is made upe
of the old Cheek farm and the old
Duke farm, each Of which lies on
both sides of the road a little
over a mile out from Chapel Hill.
just this side Of the Orange
Durham county line where the
road takes a sharp bend to the
left.
Mr.. DuBose is the son-in-laW
of John Sprunt Hill and the
brother-in-law Of Watts Hill,
both OF whom ARE alumni Of the
University and are we'll known
in Chapel HILL He comes from
a well-known South Carolina
family.
There is some mystery as TO
the use to which he will put the
tract. When the news of the
transaction first got out, the re-
port was that the land was to be
used as a dairy farm, and peo-
pie thought that Watts Hill,
president of the Durham Dairy
Products Company. which re-
Gently began to do business in
Chapel Hill, might be interested
in the venture. But A. +.
Hughes, the agent through
whom the purchase was made,
told somebody the other day that
the new owner intended to put
up a country home on a hill to the
north Of the road.
1t is said that Mr.. DuBose has
bought, also, the adjoining tract
known as Lloyd Mountain.
There are three dwellings, on
the land sold by Mr.. Coker. One,
at the top of a slope north of the
road, was recently vacated by
Mrs. Cushman and her daughter.
The other two, one of which was
formerly the home of Addison
Duke, are south of the road.
The construction of the new
state highway to Nelson three or
four years ago, affording a new
short route to Raleigh, added
considerably to the value of the
Coker property.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08
Citizens Would Do Well to Take
More Interest in Towns Affairs

The people Of Chapel Hill have
voted by a large majority to
keep the present board of alder
men in office. The only doubt
of this result lay not in the fear
that the board did not enjoy the
confidence of the community but
in the fear that Indifference or
forgetfulness would keep the
citizens away from the polls.
But their interest was aroused
and they trooped up to- the
school to cast their ballots.
1t would be we'll for Chapel
Hill if its people, instead of for
getting all about their local gov
ernment until the next election,
would display some interest IN
it from week to week. The al
dermen are honest and capable
men, but they are not immune
to error; and it would be good
thing for them to receive adj
vice-and, if need be, criticism
from their fellow citizens.
If you have anything to COM
plain of, about how the town ;
business is run, don't content
yourself with grumbling about
it when you meet your friends
on the street or in the post
office lobby or at the soda foun-
tain. Go to the aldermen's meet
ings in the Town Hall and tell
'em what you think. The
meetings are open to every
body.
Or, if YOU care to, write a let
ter to the editor of this paper.
We will be glad to print any
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08
HickersOn's New Book

r. Felix Hickerson, engineer
ing professor in the University
and his mother went to their
home in Ronda Tuesday. Mr.
Hickerson will return in a day
or so, and soon he is going north
to arrange with the McGraw-
Hill Book Company for the pub
lication of his new book, "The
Analysis of Continuous Beams
and Frames" and for a second
edition of his "Highway Curves
and Earthwork."
Mr.. Hickerson has been on
leave Of absence from the Uni.
versity since Christmas, but he
has remained in Chapel Hill in
order to work on his book. 1t
is nearly completed.
He will be in New York most
of this month and will also be
in Washington a while. He will
probably be back here for Com
mencement.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08

communication about the town
government provided it is
couched in decent and courteous
language and is offered for pub
lication with the writer's sigma
ture.
At present our own chief
criticism of the administration
is this: we have a feeling that
it is guilty of mistaken empha-
sis in the way in which it directs
the energies of the police. We
have nothing to say against the
officers themselves. but we
should like to see the aldermen
acting. of course. through the
town manager-have less atten-
tion paid to running down some
poor and friendless Negro sus-
pected Of hiding a fruit jar of
liquor and more attention paid
to controlling the speed of auto
mobiles on the streets. 1t ought
not to be lost sight of that the
main function of the police is
to protect life and property. A
day never passes when we do
not see cars, and frequently
busses. going along the main
street at dangerous speed. This
is vastly more important than
the infraction of parking ordi-
nances. We should like to have
the aldermen call for a report
from the town manager upon the
number of arrests made TO"
speeding and the number made
for parking in the wrong place
or disregarding some minor
traffic regulation.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08
Cats and Birds

This is the bird-breeding sea-
son, and ali over the land the
population is divided between
bird-lovers and cat-Iovers. Many
bird-lovers say that all cats are
natural-born and incurable bird
killers, whereas the cat-lovers
say a distinction ought to be
made between good cats and
bad cats.
Two or three weeks ago this
paper told how the CaldWells.
upon leaving for Europe, had
left their cat with Mrs. Summer
lin. and how Mrs. Summerlin
impelled by the dark looks Of
her bird-loving neighbors. had
turned the handsome black Per-
sian over to a family at
the other end of the village.
Doubt was expressed as to the
nature of the welcome the neigh
borhood there would extend 70
the newcomer.
4 neighbor of mine who is
fond of cats has been discussing
the matter with me, and he de-
clares that birds are not in
danger from we'll fed and we'll
cared for cats. He says:
whenever this cat of the
Caldwells, or any other cat or
dog, or man. or child. approaches
too close, the bird seeks another
place. if it be feeding. or utters
its customary warning cry If 1t
be near its nest-all very nor
nal in the animal kingdom AS
it exists today. Notwithstanding
the presence of the cat the num-
Der of birds increases daily and
all seem to be as happy as ever.
"As is very we'll known. the
diminution in our wild life is
due much more to the lessening
food supplies than to the loss
of life through hunting by man
or other animals. Conversely,
then, to increase this wild life all
that is necessary is to provide
an abundant supply of food and
environment to which the ami
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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08
Bas0n Sings in North
He Charms Audiences with Programs
of Negro Spirituals

George +. Bason has been
winning great success in the
North in his singing Of Negro
spirituals.
His first recitals were in the
metropolitan district around
New York city, and recently he
filled an engagement in Ithaca.
The people there knew the rare
quality Of his voice, from their
acquaintance with him when he
was in the Cornell faculty, and
large crowd turned out to hear
him in the Presbyterian church.
He was accompanied on the Or
gan in some Of his songs and on
the piano in others.
Drawing upon his knowledge
Of the Negro race and it's pecu-
liar genius, as he learned it in
the South" says the Ithaca
Journal-NcWs, "Mr. Bason inter-
preted not only the musical soul
Of the people but it's poetry. The
congregation held him long af-
ter the recital to offer con-
rgratulations and to ask him to
come again"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08
Chapel Hill Chaf

ut looks as if every time l
go to school something happens
to me-" said Mrs. George B.
Logan when | met her Monday.
At the school few weeks ago
her daughter Georgia fell
through a hole in the floor, into
the furnace room, and for a few
moments Mrs. Logan thought
the child had dropped into the
furnace and burned to death. 1t
was terrible shock for both of
them. Then, one day last week,
Mrs. Logan went to the school
and sat down upon a bench, and
the bench collapsed under her.
She said-well, never mind what
she said her language was not
of the sort that one associates
with faithful member of the
Presbyterian church. The words
were English, with a Scottish
accent, and they siZzled, and
that is all that needs to be told
about them.
| have an idea that if all
tillers of the soil were as indus
trious and intelligent and
methodical as Rev. John Cald-
well, the 69-year-old Negro Bap-
tist clergyman, the agricultural
situation would not be as bad as
it is. AT his home at the east
end of the village, near the Rid
ing Club stables, he has a half
acre garden that is a marvel Of
neatness and order. Here he
raises spinach and onions and
potatoes and lettuce and other
vegetables, and he sells them to
regular customers whom he has
served for years. He does his
own planting and cultivating
and harvesting, and he is his
own sales department and de-
livery department. He is as
faithful as the sun and as
prompt as the clock.
We who have~known him a
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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08
Tennis Victories

The University tennis players,
now on tour in the North, have
been winning a series of VIC
tories. They defeated George
town Saturday, Princeton Mon
day, New York University Tues
day, and West Point Wednesday.
In the series with George
town in Washington the Caro-
linians took 7 out Of 9 matches.
Mangin (G.) beat Grant ON. c.,
60, 6-2, and Mitchell and Man.
gin beat Grant and Hines 1916,
Ga. The S Carolina victories
in singles were scored by Hines,
Yeomans, Graham, Wright, and
Hendlin, and the 2 doubles vic
tories by Yeomans-Wright and
Graham-Abels.
Carolina took 8 out of 8
matches from Princeton Mon
day, the only loss being Grant
Hines to Strachan Thomas.
Against New York University
Tuesday the score was the same,
|8 to /, Hendlin being the only
loser among the visitors. At
West Point Wednesday the
Carolinians not only won all the
8 matches but did not lose a
single set.
They were to play Yale yes
terday and will play Harvard
today.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08

Memorial Day exercises will
be held at half past ten o'clock
this friday morning in the
school auditorium. The winning
historical essays in the contest
arranged by the Daughters of
the Confederacy will be read,
and the prizes will be awarded: !:
S. in the high school, $3.50 in
the 9Th grade, and $3.50 in the
7th grade.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08
The We'll Lectures

Harold J. Laski of the Uni
versity of London gave the first
We'll lecture in Memorial hall
last night. He will give the sec
ond at 6 o'clock tonight and the
third tomorrow night.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08
FILIPINO GARDEN
AT MRS. kLUTTZ'
NazarenO, Student in the Uni
versity. Is Building 1t
as a Souvenir
FISHES TO LIVE IN POOL

Alfredo Nazareno, the Filipino
student in the junior class in
the University, has a deep affec-
tion for Chapel Hill, and several
months ago he. conceived the
idea Of leaving the village some
pleasing reminder of his resi-
dence here. He decided that a
garden would be the best souve-
mir.
Having become a friend and
admirer of Mrs. KluttZ, he pro-
posed to her that he carry out
the project on her place. She
hesitated, because the layout of
her grounds had been settled to
her satisfaction and she was
doubtful about introducing eX-
otto decorations. But last week
she consented, and now NaZare-
no, in command of Negro labor
ers, is making a strange and
wonderful transformation be-
hind her house and beyond the
edge of the purple iris bed.
1t is Filipino garden, which
is about the same thing that
picture books have made famil-
lar to US under the name of a
japanese garden. An eXcava-
ton for a pool has been made. Or
perhaps they call it a lake. This
is of curious shape which T
f. Wright, who lives in the
KluttZ cottage, says reminds him
Of a pretzel. 1t is about a foot
and half deep. When the
banks are cemented it is to be
filled with water, and in the
water will dwell fishes which will
not only serve as ornaments but
will also ptevent the breeding OF
mosquitoes.
There is an island at the east
end Of the excavation; and there
is peninsula jutting from the
north bank; and there is to be
an arched wooden bridge from
north to south. At the west END
Of the pool (or lakeD is to be a
mountain, made Of stones, three
or four feet high. All manner
of flowers, of varieties tina,
flourish in this latitude, will be
planted on the island, on the
peninsula, and around the wa
ter's edge; and evergreens viii
neutralize the curse OF winter
The whole area Of this Filipino
garden is about equal to that OF
a fair-sized dining room, but
Nazareno's art has made it look
many times as large.
Thus far the scene has beer
viewed by only a few of Mrs
Kluttz' neighbors, but Wher
NaZareno has finished his jOt
she is going to have party ir
celebration Of him and his
achievement.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08

Fellowship for Creech

The French ministry of public
instruction has awarded to Wal
ter Creech a fellowship for the
study of romance languages at
the University Of Lyons. Mr..
Creech is now one of the French
teachers here in the University.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08

They were to play Yale yes
terday and will play Harvard
today.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1931-05-08

Koch Going to California
Frederick H. Koch is going to
Los Angeles this summer to
teach drama in the University
there.