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$150 a Year in Advance 5c a Copy CHAPEL HILL FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26 1926 VoL4 No 39 LOUIS GRAVES Editor Edouard Champion Great French Publisher Will Be Here Monday early seventies of the last century by EdoUard father Honore at 9 Quai Voltaire Paris Honore succeeded the bookseller Thibault known to the trade as pere father of Jacques-AnatQle Thibault father of Anatole France the great French author The shop was located oh the left bank of the Seine opposite the Palace of the Louvre A score of years after his estblishment at Quai Voltaire where his reputation was made he moved to the present shop 5 Quai Malaquais also opposite the Louvre close to the Institute of France "As a publisher he invariably sought out not the most profitable but the best book and employed in its fabrication only the best materials 1 demanded a good price but the discriminating buyer was always glad to pay it He printed the thesis of the humblest students when they appealed to him recouping the financial deficit by selling books from his private collection if necessary A tremendous worker he put through the press some 3000 works the descriptive catalogue which in itself was a monumental undertaking a bookseller he had many original ideas He was more interested in knowing the liooks he handled and placing them where they were most needed and would be of the greatest use than he was in doing a large Continued on page two) (Robertson Builder Hugh Robertson who became known to Chapel Hill by marrying Miss Harris and achieved fame in New York later by building skyscrapers was here for the week-end with Mrs Rpbertson and their friends Mr and Mrs Fred Moses and Mrs Smith It is something of a distinction for Chapel Hill to be related if only through marriage to the builder as Mr Robertson is of both the highest apartment house and the largest office building in the world As we sat in the lobby of the Carolina Inn Saturday evening I was questioning him about high buildings he had put up and he told me of the Rita -Towers the tallest dwelling at the corner of Park Avenue and 57th street in New York It belongs to Arthur Brisbane the celebrated newspaper -writer 4 The Ritz Towers is 42 stories high and the plot of ground on which it stands has an area of only 80 by 100 feet Think of that a moment 42 stories on 80 by 100 feet To the man who knows nothing of windbracing arid other aspects of modern engineering such a structure seems impossible Yet there it is Mr Robertson descrilM's it as looking like a lead Kncil standing on end When I went to New York ataut 25 years ago Arthur Brisbane was talked of as the highest-paid newspaper man in the country He was one of Hcarst's lieutenants and wrote the editorials for tTie Evening Journal His salary was reput-ed to Ih $50000 and each year he got an additional large sum in the form of a percentage liased on increase in circulation Rut his income then was small in comparison with what it has since grown to be He has in- (ContiHHed on uge two) Red Cross Report Thi lti II JunI Hum uf $119 Nrli From its annual roll call completed ths month the local organization of the Red Cross oli-tained $419 Of this $170 rame from student memberships and $219 from town memlerahis After the deduction of the lercentagu turned over to national headquarters the amount left for the Chajiel Hill chapter is $222 The chapter had a balance in the bank January 1 1926 of $266 Kweipts for Florida relief curried this up to $126 The disbursements thus far this year include $157 as part of the sul-ury of the negro nurse $149 sent to the Florida rejief fund and various small sums for local relief Literature Department Meeting The literature department of the Community Club will meet next Tuesilay at 7 :30 in the east room of the Methodist church "One by Herbert Quick will lie reviewed by Mrs Higby Mrs Caldwell and Mrs Mctzenthin Presbyterian Bazaar Dec 1 There will be a bazaar at the Presbyterian church next Wednesday December 1 from three to eight There will lie all manner of things for HOPE TO HAVE STADIUM READY FOR 1927 GAME Work Will Begin after Meeting of the Committee ITS A TEN-MONTHS JOB The University hopes to have the new Kenan stadium ready for the Carolina-Virginia football game on Thanksgiving Day of next year Next Monday November 29 the committee on buildings of the board of trustees will meet in Chapel Hill to make the final decision upon the site and immediately this matter is settled the construction will begin There is little doubt that the ravine south of the campus selected two or three years ago as the bestlace for a stadium will be desiginated by the committee The conformation of the land here is such that the cost of construction will be much less than it would be if a concrete structure had to be put up on a level space Other advantages are the sylvan beauty of the spot and its easy accessibility It is only about five minutes' walk from the South building The first thing to be done in the way of actual physical work js the clearing of the site The hillsides whereon the concrete stands will rest are nov covered by a heavy forest growth Many of the trees are timber material and as soon as the starting signal is given a sawmill will be moved on the scene The trees that are large enough for use will ta fed into the sawmill as fast as they are felled and the lumtar cut from them will be held on the ground to serve as seating surfaces The approved practice for stadia call for wood lictwecn the soft human body and the unyielding masonry Cushions serve well enough but most of the sfiectators do not bring cushions along and so the designers provide planking as a protecting layer Surveyors uru already-going over the geouwHifinark the limits of the playing field and the stands and to indicate the levels that the graders are to establish at various points There is a steam shovel in Carr-taro which can lie put into op oration as soon as the space is cleared fur it The engineers who have been making the plans estimate ten months as -the minimum period within which normal weather conditions the construction of the stadium can be completed Hence if it is to lie ready for tho Carolina-Virginia fcMitliall game next Thanksgiving Day a prompt start must be made Sandwich Club Meets Here The Sandwich (Tub of Raleigh met last Saturday at the home uf House It is a discus- sion group which has 16 members and meets every two weeks Those who came for the gather-ng here were Dr II A Royster Theodore Johnson Frank Rice Charles Johnson Samuel Lawrence Dr Hicks A Ellis Keeble Brown Shepherd Clarence Poe and Wells Way Robert Ituark and Dr A Shore were unable to attend Guests who live in Chapel Hill Coffin and Francis Bradshaw Chapel Hill Chaff When I saw Judge Frank Winston recently he told me of the Episcopal church choir in which he used to sing when he was a student here in the seventies Miss Sophie Mallett (now Mrs MacNider) was the organist -Among the singers besides Mr Winston were Miss Sliza Mallett Mr and Mrs Sea-on Barbee and Frank Fremont s' Cousin Sophie' telling me a-xut this choir told me at the same time of attending the marriage of Miss Molly Hargrave he mother of William Cenan the donor the new stadium The largrave home sat back in a grove that bordered the main street where the Andrews-Hen-ninger store the Sanitary Market the Model Market and other business houses now stand lias Molly Hargrave met Cousin Sophie on the street and said: "I want you to come to my wedding going to have a cake with At that it was the year 864 toward the end of the Civil a cake with icing was an unbelievable luxury in Chapel Hill for almost everybody was sunk in poverty The bride went to live in Wilmington and it was there in 1873 that William I Kenan was born In looking through a box of old papers the other day Sturgis Leavitt came across the manuscript of a story It reads as follows: Hero and the Jroken Sword Years and years ago men dressed in suits of mail swords and battleaxes The Prince's army was fighting the army is being surrounded The army is retreating The Knight is the coward He stood at the end of the battle They thought that the dead He said (Continued oh jiuge twB) Lloyd Buys Purefoy Place Lueco IJoyd taught the old Purefoy place a mile from town on the road at the recent sale conducted by the Durham Auction Company He had owned it once before and had sold it The price he paid this last time for the house and nine lots was about $5500 The last previous owner was Canaday who taught from John Fowler Week-end Guests Miss Virginia Crawford of Goldsboro spent the week-end with her-aunt Mrs A A Kluttz Misses Retarca Graham Betsy Warren and Elizabeth Bryan were with Miss Dewey Mitchell Misses Elizabeth Nunn aryl Janet Hollister were with Mrs rfkinnor Mrs I Moore and her daughter Miss Meta Moore were the guests of Mrs Lyons Norfleet Goes Home to Sleep A succession of one-night stands does not induce enthusiasm for another long trip Charlie Norfleet got back Wednesday from the Playmakers' nine-day tour A friend who saw him packing his bag asked him If he was going to Charlottesville for the Carolina-Virginia game He said he was going to his home in Winston-Salem to go to sleep Lftvitatfons programs plac-aras-Tba Orange Prialabop MOVING HOUSES ON NEW ROUTE OF STATE ROAD Right of Way through Block West of Town Limits Being Cleared IT WILL BE A SHORT CUT Houses are being moved" to make way for the first part of the new route of the state highway leading out of Chapel Hill toward Hillsboro This part is a diagonal cut across the block just outside the western limits of the village It eliminates two rightangle turns the one at the end of Franklin street and one at Rosemary street where the Marshall blacksmith shop used to stand The second the new route is to the west of the Baptist church in Carrboro The clearing of theway there waits upon the conclusion of agreements with property owners As Boon as Jack Long the con tractor has Unshed his paving job in Chapel Hill he will move his force westward and begin laying concrete on the stretch from the west end of Franklin street to the Carrboro school He will operate through the winter working on every day when the weather permits Two strips of pavement are completed on the Columbia street block by garage each of them being wide enough to accommodate easily a double line of vehicles They will be thrown open to traffic about a week from this coming Monday There is still a central space which has not been paved yet the contractor will come back to this after the pouring is done on Franklin street Off to the Game Ifundrrdii of Htudrnto Go to (Ihir lottoovillo Kyiwr Lead Cheerio Chapel Hill had the look of a deserted village yesterday be cause of the exodus of students for the Thanksgiving holidays Hundreds went to the football game in Charlottesville and other hundreds scattered to their homes all over North Carolina There is a three days' cessation of classwork it will be resumed Monday morning In order to release its force earlier than usual on the holi day the Weekly went to press before the result of the game was known That is why this iwrne though dated Friday does not contain the score Our read era will have read the news of the struggle in the daily press before they see these lines Kike Kyser took his Cheerios to the game There are atau 250 of them and they rehearse diligently for the climax of the fall chpering season In con hcction with the pep meeting in Memorial Hall Monday evening Mr Kyser put on a vaudeville show the program include singing dancing sketches am the antics of clowns Community Club Meeting The Community Club wil meet in the parish houscf the Episcopal church this (Friday! afternoon at half past three a'dock The program fs sponsored by the American home department English Bagby will address the gathering Year books of the club wil) be frfven to all members who have paid their dues One of the greatest publishers and booksellers in the world Edouard Champion of Paris will be in Chapel Hill Monday as the guest of Mr and Mrs William Dey At half past seven in the evening he will deliver a lecture in French in Phillips Hall Champion was an intimate of the late Anatole France and of Anatole Franco" is the title of one of the lectures he is giving in America This will probably be his topic The visitor appears under the auspices of the department of romance languages and of course it Js the French scholars of the community who are most interested in his coming But everybody is cordially invited to hear him His intinerary in this country as originally planned included only a few of the larger institutions in the North and west His friendship with Mr Deybrings him here They became acquainted when the American professor visited his shop on the Quai Malaquais on the left bank of the Seine across from the louvre Iast summer they met frequently at the bookshop and at social gatherings and it was then that the Parisian bibliophile decided at Mr invitation to come to Chapel Hill house of says the Saturday Review of Literature founded in the The Playmakers Return Hark from a 9-Daya Tour in Eaalrrn North Carolina The Carolina Pluymakers got home Tuesday night from a successful nine tour of eastern North Carolina They gave She Stoop to Conquer in Durham Fayetteville Clinton Nashville Spring Hoiks Scotland Neck Murfreestaro Kdenton Elizatath City Nuw Bern Washington-and Hillsboro Their monster blue-and-white bus in which they made the entire trip had difficulty finding space on the little ferryboat crossing the stand from Eden-ton to landing It bad to be driven over the side of the vessel Instead of entering from the end Then after making the passage it was heljied off I he boat by the aid of jacks hoisting tackle and other moving equipment The entire popula lion of the place assembled to witness this operation There were 21 persons in the company Elmore being the manager and Mrs Elmore the chaperone Miss Margaret Ellis appeared as Kate Hardcaslle Miss Eral Thompson as Mrs Hardcastle Mrs McFadden as Constance Neville Miss Mary Margaret Wray as the maid Shepherd Strudwick as Marlow Charles Norfleet as Tony Lumpkin King as Hastings and John Hardin as Mr Hardcastle The driver of the bus was John Phillpot Durham to Have Grand Opera Durham will have grand opera next spring Performances will be given March 7 8 and 9 by La Seals Grand -Opera Company of Philadelphia Phul Weaver head of the music department of the University is chairman of the committee that will form a permanent organization for bringing grand opera to the city' The Alumni Conference Attrndvd by about 100 Crnniman Hpraka at Dinner The second mid-winter conference of University alumni was held at the Carolina Inn last Friday and Saturday A-round 100 men attended and it was a highly successful gathering I Josiah II Penniman president and provost of the University of Pennsylvania was the princi-jial Hteaker at the banquet Friday evening At the closing session on Saturday after Chase had sHken the assemblage by a rising vote adopted a motion pledging support to the request made by the University for a-propriations at the next session oflho legislature Daniel Grant the general secretary made an address in wfiich he presented a survey of the activities of the Alumni Association Bernard presided over a meeting of the permanent class bureau this bureau elected Fred I Carr of Wilson Shore of Charlotte and Ben Cone of Greensboro to the Ixmrd of directors of the association King'a Daughters Supper The Daughters will hold their annual supper in the Episcopal parish house Thursday evening December 9 The price per plate is 60 cents The public is cordially invited to attend AIt is the one public function of the Daughters in the year and the proceeds go to charity Iturenee Stallings a Visitor Laurence Stalling spent a few hours in the village Tuesday He drove over from Wake Forest where he and Mrs Stallings are visiting her father President Potent novelties linens and laces salads barbecues brqnswick stewJ) Connor Linker Oscar were Mr' nefghbors: The public -invited.