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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1934-02-23

would be willing for me to join
in the discussion. What about
Uncle Toms Cabin ?" | suggest
ed. They did not seem to take
this seriously. | will have to go
and see if | can't get the back
ing of Mrs. John H. Anderson
for this notion.
| didn't get far with the pro-
posal | made to Lamar String
field, that he select some other
name than Ensemble for his
small group of musicians. How
ever, | am not discouraged and
will make another proposal. This
ono is that he change the name
of his latest composition from
A Mountain Episode" to Moods
of Moonshiner." In describing
the music he has said that it in
terprets the moods of a moon
sinner, and that phrase certain
ly has more punch in it than the
title the piece now bears. "A
Mountain Episode" might mean
almost anything. 1t might mean
meeting of lovers, or a hunt
ing or fishing expedition, or the
collapse of a real estate boom,
or a prayer meeting at Montreal
or Junaluska. But Moods of a
Moonshiner" er"-now, there's a
title to lure you! 1t carries the
sort Of promise that would tempt
even the tired business man to
seek culture through music. He
would say to himself: THAT
sounds good-and it reminds me
Of something I'll Just tuck a
little of the moonshlner's product
inside and go down to the
Woman 5 Club and find out what
the moonshiner thinks about"
Along with other editors |
Joined cheerfully in helping to
ballyhoo the piano performance
which Rachmaninoff was to give
here Wednesday evening under
the sponsorship of the musical
fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha | was
sorry the Russian star was taken
i'll and couldn't come, but not AS
sorry about that as about the
Continued on last page)
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1934-02-23
John Couch to Johns Hopkins

John Couch, Of the University
botany department, on leave
from the University, has gone
to Johns Hopkins to teach my
cology for a month. This is the
second time Johns Hopkins has
called him to deliver course
of lectures He is one of the
worlds leading authorities in his
field.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1934-02-23
Chapel Hill Chaf

Faust" was about to come
ever the radio, and the intro
ducer was telling the story Of
the opera A twinge from
neuritis in the arm had gripped
me when he began, but it last
ed only a moment. He related
that Satan, coming to the aging
Faust in the guise Of a dashing
Fcavalier, offered to give him his
youth in exchange for his soul
Faust hesitated, and then agreed
to the bargain. At this. point
another twinge smOte me, and
another, and, in the course of
the afternoon, many more. When
| was young | didn't have peu
ritis, and | wish somebody would
come to me and offer to give me
my youth for my soul There
is one difference between what
Faust did and what | would do:
Faust hesitated before accepting
And another difference: Faust
wanted his youth back again so
that he could fasclnate a beauti-
full young woman; all | want
mine for is to get rid of the
tWinges.
Speaking of age and youth:
Mrs. Cornelia Robertson, who is
88, had a Slight attack of illness
all day Saturday and Saturday
night She was up at seven
O'Clock Sunday morning, stirring
around. Later she said to her
daughter: I'm ashamed of the
way | acted yesterday getting
sick. I'm going to have a
luncheon party tomorrow" She
made out her list Of guests, con
Veyed the invitations, and busted
herself with the preparations.
The luncheon came off. as ar
ranged, and Mrs. Robertson was
as lively as anybody there.
When / Joined them one day
this week Frederick II, Koch
and Mrs. W. S. Bernard were
|puzzIlng over what play to put on
at the convention Of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy
to be held here next fall Out
Of courtesy they intimated they
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1934-02-23
First Aid for C.W.A.

First-aid instruction has been
given by Red Cross experts to
about so C.W.A. employees in
this county. A special demon
stration in artificial respiration
was given by Lee J. Greer.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1934-02-23
Fencing Match Tomorrow

There will be a fencing match
at $3.50 tomorrow Saturday
afternoon in the Tin Can between
the University and V.M.I.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1934-02-23
South Carolina Wins, $3.50

The University of South Car
Olina beat the University of
North Carolina 45 to 80 in the
basketball game here Wednes-
day evening.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1934-02-23
"Witching Hour" Next Week

The Carolina Playmakers will
present Augustus Thomas
drama, "The 'Witching Hour" :"
next Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday evenings, March /, 2,
and 3.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25

cheap, and lies worth nothing" he
quotes. The trip cost him SIS g day,
and he met enough "Bearclaw Joe's, /"
"Scalplock Jacks" and 'Tnjun Char
Hes" to last him a lifetime. he asked
amazing questions and received more
amazing answers, and perceived that
wild stories and wierd dress was q pro-
fessional weSterner's stock in trade
One Of "Stalkers" magazine articles
describes Montana as he saw IL in Aug
ust, 1885, He writes: Gold dust is the
only circulating medium in the terri
tory, and Is the standard Of trade.
Treasury notes and coin are articles Of
merchandise. Every one who has gold
also has a buckskin pouch to hold it.
Every store has scales, and In them Isl
weighed out the fixed amount for every
purchase according to Troy weight. An
ounce is $IS, pennyweight is 30 cents.
and SO ON. It is amusing 10 see how
the friction Of the scales is made by
some men-particularly by the Jews
whose name is legion--to work them
no loss. In weighing In" the scale
beam bows most deferentially TO the
gold side; but In weighing out" it
makes profound obeisance to the
weights.
The same cupidity has given rise TO
two new terms In the miners vocab-
ulary: trade dust and bankabie dust.
Bankable dust is simply gold pure and
undefiled. Trade dust has a plentiful
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25
AIR EXPRESS HAS
LOWER RATES
HEAVY GAINS HAVE BEEN MOTTO
Ed AT GREAT FALLS MUNICIPAL
AIRPORT RECENTLY

Substantial rate reductions foR air
express handled over 8 nationwide net
work Of commercial airIines BY Rail
way Express Agency. became effective
August Is. according to r. 3. Dwyex.
Great Falls agent. Outstanding reduc-
tons permit air express shipnenA O.
packages weighing three-9ourths o. =
pound or less. ct the flat rate Of 65e,
regardless Of distance carried. The cor
responding charge for one pound Is 81.
Minimum charges previously ranged up
20 $50. General lowering OF tariffs
effects particularly the lighter weight
shipments, which now constitmae the
greatest percentage OF packages handled
over the airlines. Yet new low rates al
so provide for air shipment az rack
ages Weighing up to Is pounds, between
cities 149 miles apart, at cost uf 81
including special pickup and delivery.
Improvement of service by air ex-
press has been made possible by ex-
pansion Of airline routes and recent In
augurati0n Of more frequent schedules.
The reduction Of tariffs on light
weight packages win not only tend 70
increase traffic by present users Of air
express. but 1t Is expected that many
concerns and industries previously um-
able to make use Of this service win
now find It profitable TO employ this
high-speed delivery system" according
to MIR. Dryer Railway Express Air
Express division operates over the lines
Of Alfred Frank, Inc. Consistent and
heavy traffic gains have been registered
TO and from the Great Falls airport, il
is reported. Recent analysis Of com
modities shipped shows thak o heavy
percentage Of packages are handled
Ia air-rail movement, with point Of
origin OF destination off-the-air- line
routes. Such shipments are forwarded
to and from the airports by fast pas
senger train express service, il rs stat
ed.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25

sprinkling Of black sand. There are
three grades of trade dust--good. fan
and dirty. A trader takes bankable
dust. but keeps saucer Of black sand
ON hand"
Going up Emigrant glilch their party
found half dozen log huts which con-
stituted Yellowstone City. It was here
that Baillie- Grohman first heard the
expression that puzzled him for some
time, when you pan him out you don't
get color"
Emigrant Gulch, he says, was settled
by q party from Iowa. They sunk con-
siderable money here. The heavy rock
in which they found the gold deposits
was improbable to work, and the rich
est claim they located was so high up
that 1t was free from ice only on the
hottest days Of midsummer. Even dom
keys couldn't make the grade, and the
men had to pack flour to camp on their
backs. Still the emigrants persisted in
their search for gold. and built their
huts-not such substantial buildings as
he had seen, earlier, in Virginia City.
One thing Yellowstone City did have,
that interested the visitor nightly: q
set Of written laws as voluminous as the
Code Napoleon. The inhabitants met
every day to revise them, and discussed
them Unfortunately. Women held
claims; and the hard life Of pioneer
women seemed to him doubly desolate
in this high mining camp.
Consideration Of the lot Of white
women In a primitive environment
brings into his discussion the custom
Of taking Indian wives, which some Of
the settlers followed. he says:
"At Deer Lodge, In q valley almost
equal to the Gallatin in extent and fer
tility. old Johnny Grant lived for many
years a life Of patriarchal serenity
among his wives and concubines, his
glocks and herds. BY constant presents
Of beads and whisky, and many q warm
meal to them on the warpath. he had
raised himself in the esteem Of the saw
ages, and had favortte squaw from
almost every tribe among his wives.
When the Flatheads passed by, no
woman appeared at his hearth but a
Flathead; when the Blackfeet came,
he sole wife Of his bosom was q Black
.eet. Though for many years almost
he sole white man In these solitudes,
AZ AAN%4 ~ RNf9@Q Will tAAG AAaA4NGSf y 1
iharer In their sports, and arbiter in /
III their Qllarrels: and when he died,
ne left cattle on thousand hills to his
JOn.
young Johnny Grant is a mere rep
.tition Of his father. He can neither
'ead nor write, and In conversation
us nouns are not always true TO his
Terbs; but he has all the slyness and
;raftiness Of the Indians. / hear that
le is immensely disguised with inn
migration. he admits that with It his
reeves increase In value, and he re-
poets dollars and cents, but he fears
lis moral and intellectual standing win
uffer."
So much for BaiIlie-G rohman's OBJ
ervations when he was travelling as .
top shelter"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25
HEAVY SHIP MENTS
BY AIR EXPRESS
NORTHWEST ATRLINEs NOW AZ
FTLIATED WITH GENERAL AIR
EXPRESS COMPANY

Northwest Airlines recently made the
first shipment Of air express under their
utilization with General Air Express
which concluded its second year as an
inter-air line operating unit with a
poundage increase Of approximately 40
per cent over its first II months period.
Preliminary reports for last year in
dictate express carried by member COM
panies of the same system would prob
ably attain $4,000 pounds as compar-
ed with 424, 40 pounds carried in the
first year of operation. Important rate
reductions made public several days ago
are now in effect The reductions in
clude new fiat rate Of IS cents for
shipments weighing three quarters
pound on less between any two Of the
IFS cities served directly by the sys-
tenn, and flat rate OF S1.00 for ship
ments weighing one pound. Other re-
auctions running as high as STU per
cent over previous rates are based on
weights and length Of haul and in
clV1de pickup and delivery services by
Postal Telegraph. Inclusion of North
west Airlines as a member of General
Air Express gives the system third
transcmtinental route Under its
present organization General Air Ex-
press covers practically every section Of
the country with 18,4l5 miles OF route
providing direct service to SO states and
including connections which enable
drastic reductions In shipping to
virtually every city in the United
States.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25

The second way 10 visit the West was
to secure letters to the officers at the
various army posts or 1ngratiate one
self with them. Since the posts were
lonely places, officers usually welcomed
personabIe strangers. Once accepted,
a visitor was given stores, wagons.
horses, troopers for guides, and what
ever else the post could offer. But the
sportsman discovered that what the
officers wanted was less a hunting
partner than q good drinking partner.
In spite OF the weary monotony Of their
lives, he says they knew little about
game, carde little for shooting -as sport
land found their chief relaxation In
drinking. He admits their whisky was
good.
The third way to see the West was to
attach oneself to resident hunter or
trapper, and 60 with him on his
rounds far away from beaten trails"
This Baillie- Grohman did on his
fourth trip. He attached himself TO
two trappers bound for Wyoming. Their
outfit consisted Of three men, a boy,
huge canvas-covered wagon, six
months provisions, and 80 or 40 head
Of horses. He has q writer's interest
in the idiom Of the west. An outfit, he
explains, is western term that may
mean mans wife and little ones, a.
wedding or funeral plainSmans q
kitchen utenstl, or a rifle.
"a westerner VIII say" he remarks,
that he never knew one Of them there
English lord top-shelfer outfits to come
over a hunting without bearskin wipes
trough bath towels, rubber buckskin
shoes Oaced boots.) and a corkscrew
in their pocketknives." He quotes q
guide as saying: Them outfits 1 hear
called ladies' maids always strAddIes
their horses
They had two pack horses to carry
their bundles OF rusty beaver traps;
patched rawhide harness; rifles sIl1ng
ready; and altogether they smackcd
Of the wilds. Though hunting is his
great interest, he sees and records In
Items beaver with brok-1
en tooth, which has permitted the op-
posing tooth 10 grow to five inches in
length, causing les death; "a paint, =
! small package Of Chinese vermillion.
ike q SeidIitz powder, much in demand
among the Indians.
SO, alert to all around him, he leaves
Montana for the last time, heading for
on a road eight hundred
niles wide, where the air seems five
Ifths oxygen" Three years later, Ia
I882, Charles 5cribner's Sons publish
d his account Of this Journey Camps
n the Rockies" The writer sums up
he westerner's attitude toward mex
,erienced travellers IN the story OF the
tllager watching q Scotchman riding
n q cowcatcner: Go slow through
his town, stranger, so we can take sou
a."
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25
my GRACE STONE COATEsl

ny GRACE STONE COA1ESl
Anthar os BLACK Cherries" 'Portulaeas II
The wheat" and Mead and AEangei WurEel-
Per 20 years or SO, between the
1855 and 1885, there appeared Ia
Rmglish and occasionally American
magazines travel articles from re-
mssae parts Of the world signed
STALKER All o. them were concern
ed with big game hunting, and many
eG them dealt with hunting In the
Rocky Mountain region. The writer
was william BalElAe- Gr0hman, Eng
lRsh sportsman, who made his fourth,
ans final, visit 20 Montana In 1879.
He made four trips before he found
out how to see the real West. There
were three ways Of seeing the West,
he reported, and he had tried them all
and knew the advantages and disad-
vantages Of each.
The first way was to take ones own
outfit, hire high-priced guides, and go
where they wanted TO take one. This
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25
State Pays $476,238
for Liquor Revenues

Montana contributed s476,238 to the
federal government Ia the form OF
liquor taxes from Dec. /, 1888, 10 June
80, or since the repeal Of prohibition,
q summary released by Lewis PenweIl,
collector Of internal revenue for Mon
tana, reveals
Nearly 05 percent Of this amount, or
S454, 459, came from the excise tax OF
S. q barrel on the manufacture Of beer.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25
Montana Compliance
With NRA Is Good

MIRA administration in Montana has
been satisfactory, Donald Renshsw,
MIRA regional director for II western
states, said q few days ago during q
visit to the office Of Miles R0mney,
state director.
Renshaw Is stressing compliance with
code regulations and urged the publie
to report violations or rumored viola
lions.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25

was the way for men
of m e ans, top
shelters" who travel
ed for pleasure and
wanted TO take their
pleasures with as lit
tie discomfort g s
possible. Making his
first trip this way,
Baillie = Groh m q n
found himself loaded
up with two wagons
Of unnecessary stuff,
he shot no game, and
he saw people as they
were not. He asked
questions, and was
answered with tall
& t0rfes tsTsaIk Is
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25
Gasoline Tax Receipts
Exceed Previous Mark

Gasoline tax receipts for the first is
days Of August amounted to $251, 1884,
bringing the total for the year to date
TO 1886 $40.
July receipts totaled s41e, $50 COM
pared with $374,282. The state board
Of equalization said few days ago that
July was the seventh straight month
this year that the collections exceeded
those for the corresponding month Of
1888.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25
Missing Man Found
Drowned in Stream

just two weeks from the day he dis
appeared, the body Of George Hax1sauex,
Big Fiat resident, was found In the
MissolIla river, II miles below Miss0ula,
by two fishermen. Hausauer, AZ, had
drowned on the night Of Aug. z, while
rowing across the river from the WIN
lam Lamb ranch seven miles west o.
Missoula, 70 the Florence Cyr plaee,
where he was employed.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25
TROUT LING PLANTED

Lakes and streams on the east slopes
of the Graz mountains are receiving
q new supply Of native and rainbow
trout for the future recreation Of Park
county anglers and those who so inl
that area 10 do their fishing.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25

sugar and psneapples are the chief
agricultural products o. Hawaii, but
coffee, cotton. and meat also ara ina-
portant.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-08-25

Houses being constructed Ia Colombia
are to have electric labor-sayine de-
vioea
Evening star., 1934-11-23
BONE OF MONSTER
FOUND IN VIRGINIA
Smithsonian Gets Vertebra
of Sea Serpent of go
Million Years Ago.

Monster sea serpents swan in the
nearby ocean some 6O,000,000 years
ago.
A single vertebra of the largest fos-
sill snake known from North America
has Just been deposited with tne
Smithsonian Institution by DR.. w.
Gardner Lynn of Johns Hopkins Uni
yersity, who picked it up on Belvedere
Beach, Va, in the so-called Aqua geo.
logical formation.
This was a marine formation laid
down at the bottom of the sea during
the Eocene or dawn" period, when
mammalian life was gaining its great
est impetus and the remote ancestors
of man were making their first appear
ance on the earth. The Aqua forma-
ton of the Chesapeake Beach region
has yielded many other valuable fos-
sils of sea creatures.
Bone Indicates Enormity.
From the single bone about all that
can be told of the ancient serpent
was that it was a monster, according
to DR.. C. w. Gilmore, National Mu-
scum curator of vertebrate paleon-
tOlOSy. JAlC olDC Va tAiAo
vertebra with those of existing snakes,
it would appear that the creature was
similar in size to the largest members
of this reptile family known today. 1t
must have been approximately rs
feet long and with a proportionately
thick body. 1t is believed to have
been distantly related to the present
python family. although probably not
ancestral to these snakes. None of the
eXtant python family are sea-dwelling
creatures, although most of them are
fond of water.
Paleophis virginianus, as the newly
discovered fossil has been named, had
some contemporaries nearly as big
Two of them have been found in New
Jersey and third in Alabama. All
were marine creatures.
Tiny Wyoming Snake.
The earliest snake known from
North America. Mr.. Gilmore says, also
is represented by only single bone in
the Smithsonian collection. 1t was
found in Wyoming in a formation dat
ing from the upper Cretaceous geo.
logical period, approximately 100000
OUU yCdIo dSO. IL Wdo d lilly
the bone measuring only about a
quarter of an inch in diameter. Dur
ing the two geologic eras succeeding
the Eocene few snake fossils have
been found, but all appear to have
been small reptiles and probably not
poisonous.
1t was not until the early Pleistocene
the time of the ice ages-that the
first snakes of any poisonous family
are found in North America. Then
fossil bones of some relatives of the
rattlesnakeS are found. One of these
is as large as the largest rattler exist
ing today-nearly feet in length
Fossils of snakes are rare and diff
cult to interpret. Apparently the
family came late in the life process
sion, since the very earliest bones yet
discovered date only from the lower
Cretaceous in Europe-that is, from
about 120,000,000 years ago.
Evening star., 1934-11-23
PRISON TERM ASKED
FOR DRUNKEN DRIVERS
Denver Police Back Colorado
League Asking New
State Law.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER. November 23.-Denver
police officials swung their support
yesterday to a movement to make
driving while intoxicated punishable
by penitentiary sentence in Colo
RADIO.
The Colorado Municipal League
will sponsor such a law in the next
Legislature.
William E. Guthner, safety commits
sioner, and Police Chief George w.
Marland said they will cooperate
fully with the league.
"An automobile in the hands Of a
drunken driver is nothing more than
a lethal weapon" Marland said.
Evening star., 1934-11-23
FORT PECK DAM CITY
ENClRCLED BY FENCE
Wall of Wire Erected to Guard
Records and Machinery in
Town Of 5000.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FORT PECK, Mont, November %.
This city of 5000 inhabitants is to
become a modern walled town."
Woven wire fence and steel posts
will substitute for feudal stone walls
and buttresses, but the idea is the
same. To protect its records and
machinery on the s72,OOO,OOO Fort
Peck Dam project, the Government
lis erecting a 6-foot fence around the
entire town area.
There will be but two openings in
the stout fence, both guarded con-
stantly by Federal officers
The towns present population of
5000 is expected to grow as work
on the huge dam over the Missouri
River progresses.
Evening star., 1934-11-23
Grocery Manufacturers Elect.

NEW YORK, November % R.-
Paul S. Willis of New York was re-
elected president yesterday of the As
sociated Grocery Manufacturers of
America. R. L. James of Chicago was
elected first vice president.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1934-12-13

Evi tagdij SO cent.
Beallani minden gyiil6sen lehet, az
el6re hirdetett helyen.e
Tiszteletbeli eln0k DIR. Laurisin
Jen6. Eln6k MatyAsy Istvan. Aleln0k
es a vegrehajt6 bizottsag eln0ke
Danish JOSEF. Titkar Ress JOSEF,
4O8 West Federal st. P6nztarnok
Bouckey Karoly. Ellen6r6k: ,Horvath
Vilmos &s DR.. Schager Jen6. Hazbi-
zottsag Veres Imre es Szab6 Ferenc.
nendfentarto Frank M. Emo. Macy.
oizottsagi kepvisel0k: Matyasy lst-
van es Danish J6zsef; p0tkepvisel0k:
franks NJ Ern6 es DR.. Schager Jen0.
vegrehajto bizottsag tagjai: Ivan
janosne, DR.. Laurisin Jeno, Franks
NJ Ern0, Dr. Schager Jen6, Pallay
Andras, Tausz Bella, Borbely Janos,
rimko JOSEF, Hrabk0 josef es Kiss
Andras
Gyuleseit a Demokrata Klub he
yisegeben, Youngstown Hotel tartja
hivatalos lapban jelzett id6ben. Hi
vatalos lap az Amerikai Magyar
Hirlap.