Vol. 3. No. 34
LAYING ASPHALT
THROUGH CAMPUS
-Contractor Is Now At Work on
the Surfacing of Cameron
Avenue
TOWN PAVING IS IN USE
The Ziegler company, which
has the contract for the Univer
sity's and the town’s new pave
ment, is laying asphalt on Cam
eron avenue through the cam
pus. The six-inch concrete
foundation was completed sev
eral days ago, but wet weather
delayed the surfacing.
The surface, in the campus
and on the Raleigh road along
the east wall, is of Kentucky"
asphalt. It is spread on dry
and is then pressed by a ten-ton
roller.
Franklin and Columbia
street the pavement is solid con
crete. A stretch of two or
three hundred yards on the
south side of Franklin street,
from the President’s House to
the business section, has already
been thrown open to traffic. By
the end this week all the pave
ment will have been laid, on both
sides from the President’s House
to the west campus gate, but a
few more days will have to pass
before all of it can be used.
Riding Club is Formed
New Organization Will Have Its
Headquarters in Davie Woods
Frank Bell, who brought a
dozen saddle horses to Chapel
Hill from his camp in the
mountains, has formed the Da
vie Woods Riding Club.
The club is so named because
W. S. Roberson has offered to
provide quarters for the horses
in Davie Woods, the residen
tial development just outside
the eastern limits of the village.
Just where the stable will be
built is not yet decided; but
on the 1,200-acre reservation
there is ample opportunity to
place it so that it will not be too
near any of the home sites.
In the reservation are a num
ber of roads and trails excellent
for horseback riding, and Mr.
Bell thinks he has found an
ideal place for a base of horse
back riding operations.
His faith that the saddlers
would receive a warm welcome
in Chapel Hill has been justi
fied. There is a brisk demand
for them. Among those who
have been riding are Frank
Graham, Miss Clara Cole, Miss
Dorothy Ford, A. C. Nash, Miss
Foster of Statesville, Miss
Guelda Elliott, Mr. Heath, the
Misses Kennett, and Howard
Mumford Jones.
The privilege of using the
horses is not limited to persons
who join the club. Anybody
can arrange to ride by appoint
ment with J. 0. Bell at the
Roberson house on Columbia
street (telephone 369.)
Women’s Fraternity Pledges
Chi Omega has pledged Mar
garet Bridges, of Tarboro; Ethel
Crew, of Pleasant Hill; Estelle
Lawson of Chapel Hill, and Au
gusta Andrews and Elizabeth
Calvert, of Raleigh. Pi Beta
Phi has pledged Ellen Melick, of
Elizabeth City; -Susan Rose, of
Fayetteville.; Katharine Martin,
of Burlington; Margaret Ellis of
Savannah, Ga., and Miriam Bag
gett, of Lillington.
Mrs. William M. Dey has as a
guest her sister, Mrs. W. W.
Old of Norfolk.
The Chapel Hill Weekly
LOUIS GRAVES
Editor
Chapel Hill Chaff
M. C. S. Noble’s friends no
ticed, one day last week, that a
gold chain ran across the front
of his waistcoat. This, not be
ing a usual feature of his at
tire, led to inquiries. It turned
out that the chain, together with
a gold knife which he drew from
his waistcoat pocket, was a gift
from his son, M. C. S. Noble, Jr.,
who is teaching at Davidson—
bought out of the month’s sal
ary received by Mark.
* * *
Since I wrote the piece on the
joys of breakfast, three or four
weeks ago, I have received two
separate orders, from the
Postum Cereal Company, for
..copies of that issue of the paper.
Tn the article I eulogized bacon
and eggs, and coffee and toast,
but had nothing to say about
grape nuts and other products
made by the Postum people.
Are they going to canonize me
for extolling breakfast, the meal
in which they have so heavy a
financial interest? Or are they
going to sue me for libel for
failing to include in my ideal
menu the things that come from
their factory?
♦ * *
Vernon Kyser, Scoutmaster,
mindful of the Boy Scout reso
lution to do at least one good
deed a day, set out to introduce
George Coffin Taylor’s eight
year-old son to people around
the town. Mr Kyser, supposing
the boy was named George for
his father, introduced him as
George. The boy made no ob
jection. After he had been
made acquainted with a score
or so of citizens, N. W. Walker
happening not to hear distinctly,
asked: “Did you say your name
was George?” Young Taylor
replied meekly: “No, sir, my
name’s Edwin, but Mr. Kyser
calls me George.” This is a
tribute to parental discipline in
the Taylor household. Evident
ly Mr. Taylor has taught his
son not to contradict his elders.
Writers Will Gather
Group of Literary People to Be Here
on Thanksgiving Day
A group of Southern editors
and writers are to meet in
Chapel Hill Thanksgiving Day
to discuss literary matters in
general but, in particular, the
policy of The Reviewer in rela
tion to social and literary af
fairs in the South.
Miss Emily Clark and Hunter
Stagg, editors of The Reviewer
before it was moved from Rich
mond to Chapel Hill, are ex
pected to come. Mrs. Julia
Peterkin, author of “Green
Thursday” and other books and
stories, has promised to be
here.
Paul Green, the present edi
tor of the magazine; Addison
Hibbard, Archibald Henderson,
H. W. Odum, and Gerald W.
Johnson are making arrange
ments to receive the visitors.
Dr. Mangum Is Back
Dr. Charles S. Mangum,. who
went to Boston several weeks
ago to pursue investigations in
the Harvard Medical School, is
back home.
Club’s Hallowe’en Parly
The Country Club will have a
Hallowe’en party on Saturday
night of next week, October 31.
It is to be a gay and colorful
affair.
Willie Hogan, of the post-of
fice staff, has been confined to
his home by illness.
CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1925
PLAYMAKERS ARE GOING TO NEW YORK; THIS IS
BILL COX, WHO WILL APPEAR IN HIS OWN PLAY
| jjj jjipi
IjMiPffliM life
Jfi ■ i
a. ,!
The Carolina Playmakers are
going to New York, for the two
weeks from December 21 to
January 1.
They will appear in three
plays—“ The Scuffletown Out
laws,” “Fixin’s,” and “Gaius
and Gaius, Jr.”—in a new thea
tre, on lower Fifth avenue, for
merly occupied by the Macmil
lan Company.
Bill Cox, author of the Robe
son county outlaw drama, who
has been living in New York
these last few months, will
play the same part that he
played here last year. Miss
When Edwin A. Alderman Is President
After Edwin A. Alderman,
formerly president of the Uni
versity here and now president
of the University of Virginia,
left Chapel Hill last week he
paid a short visit to Raleigh.
Red Powell, newspaper corre
spondent on various subjects
but particularly on politics, has
Raleigh for his headquarters.
And the presence there of Mr.
Alderman moved Mr. Powell to
revive the suggestion which was
discussed a few months ago by
the vVashlngton correspondents
—namely, the suggestion that
Mr. Alderman be the Democratic
party’s next candidate for Pres
ident of the United States.
* * *
Mr. Alderman's masterly ad
dress on Woodrow Wilson, at a
joint session of the Senate and
the House, was what brought
his name forward in the talk
about candidates. This per
formance led many millions of
people to be told of his abilities,
which before had been known
to only a relatively small part of
the population.
* * *
Well, much stranger things
have happened. If the McAdoo-
Smith rivalry keeps up, threat
ening to split the party again
as it split the party a year ago,
it may be that the Democratic
convention will say “a plague o’
both your houses” and turn 4o
some eminent outsider who has
stirred no animosities.
* * *
Corne to think of it, the Dem
ocrats have done much better
with university presidents in the
last 30 years than they have
done lyith lawyers and other pro
Frances Gray, who scored such
a splendid success in the leading
role in “Fixin’s,” will also join
the troupe for the New York en
gagement.
On the way to the metropolis
the Playmakers will make a
week’s tour of Virginia. . Their
schedule calls for appearances
in Lynchburg, Richmond, Wash
ington, and Philadelphia.
The gun used by Mr. Cox in
“The Scuffletown Outlaws” is
the one that belonged to Henry
Berrie Lowrie, the outlaw chief
whose career provides the theme
for the play.
fessional politicians. For this
period the score stands as fol
lows: Number of presidential
elections, 8; nominations of law
yers, 5; nomination of news
paper owner, 1; nominations of
university presidents, 2; vic
tories for lawyers and newspaper
owner, none; victories for uni
versity president, 2. That is,
since Grover Cleveland, the uni
versity president candidate has
batted 1,000; the others have
batted .000.
* * *
There is no reason why the
liberal wing of the Democratic
party should not be thoroughly
satisfied with Mr. Alderman.
He is a liberal from A to Z—a
woman suffragist, an ardent ad
vocate of the League of Nations,
a sympathizer with the policies
and measures that have for their
goal the'improvement of the lot
of “the under-privileged.”
* * *
And historically he is correct.
He is a Jeffersonian born and
bred. The Jeffersonian mantle
clings about him all the more
closely through his connection,
|
for the last quarter of a century,
with the institution which Jef
ferson founded. If the ghost of
the author of the Declaration of
Independence rises from the
grave to make nightly excur
sions, as ghosts are said to do, it
has to stroll only three miles to
find itself upon the lawn of the
president of the University of
Virginia.
Perhaps these visitations are
made, and perhaps the hovering
spirit not only bestows sym
pathy and goodwill but also im
(Continued on fogs tivo)
Mr. Chase Chose to Eat
Wreck Responsible for Depletion of
the Presidential Purse
On the last lap of his journey
home from Tennessee, Sunday
night, President Chase, carefully
examining the contents of his
purse, found that he must make
a choice between eating and rid
ing the Pullman. He elected to
eat. When he got off the train
at Durham he had just 30 cents.
This is how it happened:
He attended the Vanderbilt
University semi-centennial cele
bration at Nashville. Between
Nashville and Atlanta the train
was wrecked. The locomotive
and the mail coach left the track
and turned ovej. One or two of
the day coaches left the track
and barely escaped collapse. The
Pullman coach, in which Mr.
Chase rode, stayed on the rails,
but it got such a violent shaking
that one woman in it was thrown
down and broke her leg.
There was a long delay, and
because of it Mr. Chase had to
remain in Atlanta overnight in
stead of coming straight on
through; and the hotel took the
cash he had expected to cover
the cost of the journey home.
. University presidents have to
prepare all kinds of speeches,
but the kind Mr. Chase re
hearsed as he approached Dur
ham was an absolutely new kind.
He was'planning just how he
would tell the bus driver that
he had only part of the fare and
that he would have to postpone
the payment of the remainder
until Monday morning. But
Mrs. Chase was at the station to
meet him, with the family car,
and so when he got to Chapel
Hill he was still 30 cents to the
good.
Grandparents Are Stars
Mrs. Marßae and Mr. Henderson
Make a Hit with Their Dancing
At the Country Club’s party
last Saturday night the two
most active and ,skilful dancers
were grandparents: Mrs. R. S.
Macßae, a grandmother of many
years’ standing, and Archibald
Henderson, who was recently
made a grandfather by the birth
of Mary Curtis Ramsay in Salis
bury. In both grace and endur
ance they outdid performers far
younger.
Mrs. Macßae’s most effective
dancing was the fox trot, in
which she frequently paired
with H. D. Carter. Mr. Hender
son’s favorite was the new and
popular Charleston, and he
showed up at his best with Miss
Polly Wells. Miss Wells is a
dancing teacher by profession;
so, naturally, she does not will
ingly put up with a tyro. The
mere’circumstance t hat she ac
cepted Mr. Henderson’s partner
ship several tidies is tribute e
nough to his excellence.
The party was, altogether, a
most successful entertainment.
It started off with a tasty sup
per which had been arranged by
Mrs. J. E. Lear. This wound up
with a procession of brides
serving t he cake.
C. D. Snell superintended a
series of games and stunts. One
exciting event was a contest in
toting peanuts balanced on table
knives, the two teams being
captained by 11. I). Carter and
John M. Booker. Bturgis E.
Leavitt did a Spanish dance, the
cachuka.
President Chase 111
President Chase is confined to
his home by a light case of in
fluenza. i
$1.50 a Year la Advance. sc. a Copy
FLORIDA FEVER
STRIKES 3 BOYS
Gooch, Brown, and Council Set
Out for the Land of
Quick Fortunes
FATHER ZEB NOT ANXIOUS
i_
The Florida fever struck a
new group of victims Monday
night. Floyd Gooch, Universi
ty freshman; Philip Council,
senior in the high school; and Jo
Brown,, worker in the Gooch
Case set out at midnight for Ra
leigh, there to hit the trail and
trust to accommodating motor
ists to lift ’em on to the land of
quick money.
* *i' •
JThe last thing heard of them
is ' that they passed through
Cheraw, South Carolina.
Few people knew anything a
bout it until the boys were on
their way. Zeb Council, the
printer, learned of Philip’s de
parture when he came downtown
to work in the morning.
“Phil had been spending the
nights away from home with
one of his friends lately,” said
Mr. Council, “so of course his
not being at home did not arouse
any suspicions. Well, I’m not
worrying about him. I did want
him to go through the high
school, but he’s twenty years old,
and I suppose he can look out for
himself. Boys have to go
through the stage of wanting to
strike out for themselves, and
the best thing to do is to let ’em
fight it out.”
Charles E. Gooch, who left
unexpectedly for Miami with
John Abernethy two or three
•weeks ago, writes postcards to
his friends here, but he doesn’t
say anything about wanting to
come back. He tells about the
great demand for restaurants.
“I don’t know what he’s do
in,” his father, J. E. Gooch, said
yesterday. “He may be cooking,
for all I know.” He added,
laughing: “I hope he’ll come
back with a million and make us
all rich.”
Navy Band’s Two Concerts
For the first of the University
music department’s series of
entertainments, the United
States Navy Band came to Chap
el Hill yesterday and gave two
concerts in Memorial Hall, one
in the afternoon and one in the
evening.
On the afternoon program
were Sousa’s “El Capitan,” the
overture to Wagner’s “Rienzi,”
and Chopin’s “Polonaise, Op. 40,
No. 1. In the evening the pro
gram included the overture to
“Tannhauser,” Liszt’s Second
Hungarian Rhapsody,” and
Strauss’s “The Blue Danube.”
Negroes Publish a Paper
The Orange County Training
Schoql is publishing a newspa
per for distribution at a big
celebration which the negroes
are to have on Thursday, Octo
ber 29. The paper is called
“The Orange Jewel,” and the
articles in it, written by the
teachers and the pupils of the
school. They deal with educa
tional, commercial and other ac
tivities of the race in Chapel
Hill.
- . 1
Koch to Read “Hamlet”
For the first of this season’s
Playmaker readings, Frederick
H. Koch will read “Hamlet” Sun
day evening at half past eight
o’clock in the new theatre.