The Chapel Hill News from Chapel Hill, North Carolina • 1

jrtr- i ne Ciiiape 1 1 T7 tjoTIT 1 MmJ $150 a Year in Advance 5c a Copy CHAPEL HILL FRIDAY DECEMBER 3 1926 VoL4 No 40 LOUIS GRAVES Editor Committee Postpones Decision On Stadium Site Will Meet Monday to Say the Final Word Another reason for postponing the decision 'was that President Chase was absent He had had to go to an important educational meeting of the campus committee several days in advance of last meeting and the faculty committee approved it by a majority vote But both Coker and Dr William de MacNider members of this group have expressed doubts as to the advisability of having an athletic center so near to where new buildings are to go up Because of Dr long record of activity in the care and development of the campus and the careful study he has given to this phase of University life the trustees' committee are giving much consideration to his views The discussion of the problem within the last two or three weeks has brought forth other suggestions for a site One is that the stadium be built about 400 feet down the ravine from the place first proposed Another is that it lie built to the southeast of thu cemetery over in the direction of the Country Club And still another suggestion Continued oh four) VILLAGE MUST HAVE A BETTER PHONE SYSTEM Present Plant about to Give Way under Steadily Increas- ing Pressure' COMMON BATTERY COMING The time is near at hand when Chapel Hill's present telephone equipment can no longer stand the strain It is a now being worked to the limit of its capacity A year or so ago there arose a situation which practically compelled the University to take Over the system and today the University authorities find themselves faced by two alternatives: either to sell out to some individual or corporation or to install a new plant The switchboard now in operation was designed for not more than 400 telephones There are 422 subscribers on the list and it has been possible to serve all of them only through the use of many duplex or lines More applications for connections come in every month When the expansion of facilities can lie postponed no longer the common battery plan will be substituted for the existing antiquated magneto plan Which means that the subscriber will simply lift the receiver off the hook to call central instead of having to turn a crank The proiKiscxl new switchboard will have a total capacity of 1200 connections and will lie equipped from the start for 600 The cost of the improvement including the central plant the instruments ami the changes in ing is estimated at bet wren $25000 anti $30000 As long as the present plant is kept in oHration thu central office will remain in the little frame building often called a on Henderson street near the sist -office When the common Imltcry system -is installed central will Iks moved to the luh-lic Service building where the University Consolidated Service Plants has its headquarters It is likely Unit along several blocks of Franklin street thu cables will then lie run in underground conduits instead of on isiles Squirrels Travel by Wire People passing along the street by the post-office recently have been entertained by the sight of the University squirrels running along the electric light and telephone wires When the Play-makers string their lianner a-emss thu struct the squirrels going over to Clarence store to ask Mr Cheek for refreshments use the lianner as a bridge and thus avoid the necessity of dodging automobiles Window Decoration Prizes The Community committee which carried on the clean-up campaign recently has awarded two prizes for artistic window decoration The first prize goes to the Consolidated Service Plants the second to the Carolina Confectionery Champion Come J' Edouard Champion the French publisher and bookseller who was to lecture here Monday evening had ah automobile accident and did not get any further south than Richmond A telegram to William Dey conveying regret said that he was not injured A Clavilux Recital Novel Form ofEntrrtainmriit Will Be (iveinoiMUy Evening A clavilux concert a form of entertainment never before presented in Chapel Hill will be given by Thomas Wilfred in Memorial Hall at half past eight o'clock Monday evening under the auspices of Phi Mu Alpha the national honorary music fraternity The clavilux is an instrument upon which the artist plays not with sound but with light recital an artist at a this is a passage from one review of Mr Wilfred's performance not a sound is heard but as he touches the keys on the strange instrument in the darkened hall the huge screen comes to life and opens up vistas of fantastic forms in such graceful movements and gorgeous colors as ivo pen can Thomas Wilfred began his research' with the use of light as a fine art in 1905 but it was not until 1922 that he played his first public recital of silent visual compositions His achievement has won for him a worldwide fame The Matin of Paris has called the clavilux culminating point in esthetics" and a Brussels journal says: were transported into a gorgeous fairy world that continued to live before the inner eye long afterward" colors these says Deems Taylor thu New York critic unconnected with anything we haVe known before have un emotional effect startlingly like that of musjc-they set the imagination free they are by turn amusing exciting und menacing with Hashes of quito unearthly The price of admission to concert is $1 with a special rate of 75 cents for stu- dents seats There are no reserved Comedy Tonight I'luyNinkmi Will I'rmmt GulilNmilh'it "Shi1 HIiniin lo Cwnqurr" Oliver Goldsmith's comedy Stoops to will lie presented by thu Carolina makers this (Friday) evening and again tomorrow evening Manager Elmore says that the curtain will rise promptly at half pust eight o'clock The Haymakers are just back from an unusually successful lour with the play in custom North Carolina They gave nine lierformanrcs almost every one to lucked house Shepperil Strudwick apitears as Charles Marlow Jimmie King us George Hustings Charles Norfleet us Tony Lumpkin and Miss Margaret Ellis as Kate Hardcaslle Other memlsirs of the cast are Miss Eral Thompson (Mrs Hardcaslle) John Harden (Mr Hardcastle) Miss liCfiore McFadden (Constance Neville) Miss Mary Margaret Wray (the barmaid) William Brandon (the landlord) and William Atlee (Sir Charles Marlow) tavern com-panions are itorlrayed by Shelton Day Dwight Currie A De-Voe Austin and Leonard Lewis and Mr servants by the same four actors and Miss Mary Margaret Wray Mrs Urban Holmes is ill with scarlet fever Her mothlr Mrs Gemmel of Iondon Ontario was' expected to arrive in Chapel Hill last night Chapel Hill Chaff A few weeks back I was proud to publish to the world the high standing of my neighbor Vernon Kyser as an autiiority on soap This was apropos of his being retained as an expert witness by American manufacturers who were defending their right to apply to their product the word Castile The attackers are a group of importers who bring into America a European article which alone they say may properly be called by that name The suit before the Federal Trade Commission is still in progress and Mr Kyser continues his researches From being a soap chemist he has perforce become a soap historian In the University library and in the private library of his uncle Vernon1 Howell he pores over1 musty tomes ip search of evidence to fortify his conviction that Castile is a generic term which for centuries has pertained to soaps made in various countries He tells me that he has found references to soap in ancient Hebrew scriptures Some of the books which he consults are in Iatin and then he goes down to get Mr Harrcr the Latin professor to translate for him The other day he found something of what he was looking for in a German pharmacopeia published half in Greek and half in Iatin This indicates that another language man Mr Bernard will have to lie called for help I have suggested to Mr Kyser: that he ought to write a liook culled History of If cleiinliness lie next to godliness this work might bring him a degree from some theology school One of our citizens who went to Charlottesville last week told me of an incident of the Curo-liua-Virginia footliall meeting (Cinttimirtl on jnign three) The Chapel Hill Alumni Will Meet la Organise Thrmnelvra into an Annariation A Chapel Hill association University alumni is alsiut come into being An organization meeting will lie held in thu Episcopal parish house at half past seven next Wednesday evening De-cemlier It I) Connor is temporary chairman of thu committee that has arranged the gathering and Linker tom-library secretary Other mem-iiers an Bernanl 8 II Hobbs Jr Frank Graham Baity Markie () Bowman Edward Knox Taylor and Daniel Grant Both alumni and alumnae are eligible for memliership in the association There are 340 former University students' in Chapel Hill and £arrtoro Murrhisons Prepare to Build Mr and Mrs Murchison are getting ready to build on their lot on Henlac road opposite the on a part of what used to be the Battle place Part of the clearing that part which consisted of eating" pecans off the was dope by the twins Cameron and Nancy Henderson Children Have Fever Barbara Henderson and Archibald Henderson Jr are both down with scarlet fever Bar bare was seized with the malady before her brother and so is further on the road to recovery FRANK GRAHAM GOING TO GAME IN AUTO SMASH Misses Terrell and Parker in Car with Him Have Bones Broken CAR CRASHES INTO HOUSE Frank Graham approaching the A building late in the afternoon the day before Thanksgiving came alongside Miss Margaret car In it with Miss Terrell was her friend Miss Coralie Parker He asked them if they were going to the game in Charlottesville and they said no he asked Unable to justify themselves with any good reason they said very well then they would go Mr Graham had planned to make the trip oh the train but they isfied him that there was plenty of room for three in the Coupe So after a few preparation they struck out north to cateh the train at Lynch burgh About three miles this aide of the Virginia line they came to a sharp bend in the road But they know it was there for (as they afterward learned) the warning sign at this point had been torn down They were rolling along at a good clip and Miss Terrell at the wheel saw that if she tried to make the curve the car would turn over She chose what seemed the better chance and left the road A tree stood squarely in her path A quick turn' of the wheel carried her safely past it and then smash! the cur run into a house an aiandoned country store MiHs Terrell had bone in her foot brpken Miss Parker got a cut about four inches long aliove her eyebrows and tomes in her hand were broken Frank Graham for some reason which none of the travelers can came out of- it without a scratch lie helped the two young women as liest he could and presently a nearby family came to give aid They said the had heard the crash and knew just what had happened since five other cars hud left the road here within the last month or so A school teacher took the three football fans in his car and brought them Istck to Durham to Watts Hospital Miss Terrell and Miss Parker after receiving surgical treatment sent word out to their escort wailing in the corridor that they wanted him to catch a train and go on to Charlottesville you can do added Dr Upchurch you might as well go Mr Graham found one berth left on the special car from Durham and reached Charlottesville Thanksgiving morning Miss Terrell and Miss Parker are still in the hospital but are rapidly recovering Dr Toy to Address A Dr Calvert Toy will address the Parent Teachers Association at its meeting in the school auditorium Monday evening His topic will lie Preservation of the Health of the Children of School The program which begins at half past seven o'clock 'will jndude (also songs by the high school glee dub and piano selections by three children under the direc-tfcaef Miss Aline Wear Smith The committee on buildings of the board of trustees adjourned its meeting here last Monday without deciding upon the site for the new Kenan stadium It will convene again this coming Monday and will then make the final decision When Mr Kenan announced the gift three weeks ago it was taken for granted that the stadium would be placed in the ravine' near the Tin Can But then the objection was raised that this site was too close that when the University expanded toward the south the noisy Athletic celebrations would be too near the precincts devoted to scholarly pursuits' The members pf the committee spent several hours discussing the matter and listening to arguments pro and con At the afternoon session they concluded that they wanted a week longer to think it over 1 too important a question to lie settled hastily" one of them said when the meeting broke up VThe University is growing and got to look a long way ahead When the stadium is built it will lie built to stay We afford not to be dead sure in the right Christmas Seals to be The annual Christmas Seal Sale in aid of the fight ugainst tuberculosis will be held in Chapel Hill next Wednesday December 8 from ten to half iwst two Mrs llnliert Wettuch chairman will lie assisted by Mrs II Curler (who will select thu district chairmen) Mrs Toy treasurer Mrs II Hobbs secretary Mrs Iuavitl advertising Mrs Otto Sluhl-mun canvassing of students Mrs A I bibbs canvassing of campus buildings Mrs Lear decorution of automobiles Mrs 1 'runty window oration and Mrs Bynum Ten district chairmen selected from the health department of tljp community club will conduct a house-to-house canvass The first drive will lie followed by a sale in the school Receipts from the sale in Chaiiel Hill and Carrboro last year were $682 One fourth of this went to the slate luliercu-losis association three fourths was spent in and around Chapel Hill During 1926 $367 has lieen appropriated for thu muin- (Jet Quail in (ieorgia Hogan cashier of the Bank of Chattel Hill and Dr Clark the duntist brought 50 quail with them when they came in from Georgia last Sunday night They got the birds in two hunts in the southern part of the state Mr Hogan visited his brother a cotton broker in Macon and took I)r Clark along in the Franklin car to keep him company On the way back they stopped at Atlanta' From there the banker made a side trip to call on Frank Strowd in Birmingham The two travelers started out from Atlanta at half past six Sunday morning They drove 472 miles to Chapel Hill in less than 18 hours reaching here about midnight Put on Sale Wednesday tenance of a public healtliT nurse among the negroes $320 for the expenses of patients sent to sanatoria for tritotment and $25 for the relief work of the King's Daughters The lsiard which administers thu fund is made up of Mrs Moody Durham Mrs Leavitt Mrs 8 Rrockwell Mrs Ixuir Mrs Toy Mrs II Carter Mrs Clyde Eubanks and Mrs II Pratt Tho urgency of the need for money is emphasized byithu fact that approximately 30 jkt cent of the children in North Carolina or around 300000 have found by the investigators to be undernourished What vigorous effort can accomplish is -illustrated by thu reduction of thu undernourished children in one school in thu last year from 27 iur cent to jmt cent In another srhool every child in one grade was brought up to normal weight Mrs Wettach ami her fellow workers have set $800 as the minimum amount to bu rained this year in Chapel Ilill and Carrhom Everytosly is asked to help Sanford Charlotte Thu Sanford high school foot-bull team eastern champions and the Charlotte high school footliall team western champ-ions will play for the Slate high school football championship on Emerson Field at half past two tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon Thirty-eight high school teams entered the championship series this year The final eastern game which was played at Fayetteville on Thanksgiving Day between the Sanford and Wilmington teams resulted in a victory for Sanford by the score of 7 to 0 The final western game played at Salisbury last Saturday by the Charlotte and Greensboro teams resulted in a 10-to-0 victory for Charlotte Many supporters of high school football from Charlotte and Sanford are expected to attend game' Scad the Weekly art Christ giftsHJIjfc year 1 iv et- ssr 'i -1 JU MS I I.