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Vol. 5. No. 14. STATE’S PYTHIANS WILL BE INVITED TO GATHER HERE Grand Lodge Will Be Asked to ‘ Hold Next Convention in Chapel Hill TO GIVE ANSWER JUNE 14 Chapel Hill Lodge No. 97 of the Knights of Pythias, at its meeting last night, voted to in vite the Grand Lodge of North Carolina to hold the state con vention here in the summer of 1928, one year hence. The invi tation will be laid before the Grand Lodge at its meeting in Charlotte a week from next Tuesday. Members of this lodge think that there is a good chance of acceptance. In past years many Pythians, in various parts of North Carolina, haiVe expressed a desire to have a gathering in Chapel Hill; but it is only re cently, since the erection of the Carolina Inn, that there have been adequate accommodations for visitors. The date of the annual Grand Lodge meeting is fixed at the second Tuesday in June, So, if Chapel Hill’s invitation is ac cepted, from two to three thousand people will flood into the village just after the 1928 commencement. Memorial Hall, or perhaps the stadium, will be the scene of a great convocation; the Pythians will have parades through the streets and campus; and there will be band-playing and feasting and dancing. The Chapel Hill lodge is known as one of the most active and faithful branches of the Pythian order. It was founded in September, 1897, with E. S. Merritt (held in' affectionate memory by thousands of Univer sity men as Sampy Merritt) the first charter member. Since then Mr. -Merritt has served several terms as chancellor com mander. Lewis Hutchins was the first chancellor commander, and early successors of his were S. L. Herndon, W. L. Pickard, A. A. Kluttz, and Banks Teague. Other occupants of the office have been W. E. Lindsay, Fred Pritchard, T. H. Raney, Charles Gooch, C. L. Wills, Zeb Council, and Albert McCauley. The pres ent chancellor commander is Moody Durham. The lodge has 75 members. It may be that the two North Carolina temples of the Shriners —the Oasis temple with head quarterp at Charlotte and the Sudan temple with headquarters at New Bern, will hold a joint meeting here toward the end of next summer. Chapel Hill is on the border line between the two territorial divisions and would be an ideal place for such a gath ering. Poppy Sale Brought in $80.19 The poppy sale conducted under the auspices of the Auxiliary of the American Legion's Chapel Hill post, for the benefit of disabled World War veterans, brought in $80.19. The women who had charge of the sale were Mrs. Dora Elliott, Miss Ferrell, Miss Lucille Elliott, Miss Koonce, Miss Pearson, Mrs. A. C. Pickard, Miss Mabel Mallett, Miss Rebecca Jordan, Miss Mittie Pickard, and Miss Marianna Taylor. They had the aid of the following business Concerns in the village: Pickard’s store, Eubanks' drugstore, Sutton & Alderman, Pat terson Bros., Gooch’s Case, the Uni versity Cafeteria, and Swain Hall. Maddrys Visit Brockwdl Rev. Charles E. Maddry and his daughter Miss Katherine are visiting the 8. J. Brockwells during Com mencement. The Chapel Hill Weekly LOUIS‘GRAVES Editor Chapel Hill Chaff Robert. B. House lives in Park Place, which is a University resi dential quarter traversed by a University road. As executive secretary of the University, he passes his days in the Presiden tial suite in the South Building —the very center of power. Yet observe how little notion he has of the uses to which to put an influential position. The stretch of road in front of his home is the roughest I have found any where in the village—a succes sion of ridges and ruts in fair weather, a bog in time of rain. It has been in this state for months. I have told him more than once that the executive sec retary of the University ought to do better by himself than that, but I haven’t been able to persuade him to say the w’qrd that brings the road gang to the job. I hereby make this appeal to whoever the University’s road chief is: Please fix up the road in front of Mr. House’s yard. t * * * My nephew, Pemmy Rees, has a six-weeks old puppy that he has named Taps. The morning after her arrival Taps started crying at 4 o’clock and kept the family awake. This moved somebody to suggest that the name Taps had better be changed to Reveille. * * * On the street in Windsor the other day Francis D. Winston met an old negro who, when asked his age, said he was 16 when John Watts “came around binding out folks.” This youth was bound out to a kinsman of Judge Winston’s in 1864 and was sent to Chapel Hill where ( Continued, on page four) The Savilles Come Home Back in Chapel Hill after Their Year in Venezuela Thorndike Saville, Mrs. Sa ville, and their son, who went to Venezuela last year, have come back home. They arrived in Chapel Hill last Saturday and are the guests of Mrs. Saville’s father, H. V. Wilson. Mr. Saville was called to Venezuela as a sanitary engi neering expert to lay out water supply and sewer systems for the principal cities of the coun try. These last weeks, since his return to America, he has been engaged in writing reports of his work. He has found time also to write a series of articles on Southern power resources for the Manufacturers’ Record. The Saville baby, Thorndike, Jr., was subjected to many dif ferent languages in Venezuela. He heard his parents talk Eng lish, the chauffeur talk Spanish, and the nurse talk French. The consequence is that often, not be ing able to decide what language to use, he decides to use none at all. But now he will be isolated from foreigners for some time to come; so he will have a less dif ficult choice to make—the choice between his father’s Massachu setts English, his mother’s Maryland-Carolina English, and his neighbors’ Chapel Hill Eng lish. Travelers to Europe Among the Chapel Hill citi zens who will sail for Europe this month are H. H. Williams, the Chases, the Foersters, the A. W. Hobbs, and the Potters. Subscribers going out of town may have theWeeMu fol low them if they will write or phone in their summer ad dresses. Please attend to this as promptly as possible. 9 CHAPEL HILL, N. C„ FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1927 Stadium Will* Be a Big Part of The Show This Commencement This commencement will have something to offer, in the way of a show, that no previous com mence has ever had. That is, a stadium under construction. For months now alumni of the University have been hearing a bout the progress of the Kenan stadium, but relatively few of them have had a look at it. The visitors will begin to pour in to day, and from now on through the week-erui they will be troop ing down to see the place where around 20,000 or more people are expected to gather next Thanksgiving Day. And they will find it easy to believe that the job is to be completed in good time. The last fortnight has brought a remarkable transformation in the aspect of the stadium. On the east side the wooden forms have been put in place over a great part of the length of the stand, and already the pouring of concrete has begun. Before this week is out a start will prob ably have been made on the forms on the opposite (west) stand. The construction operations are so scheduled that the shap ing of the concrete seats goes on at one place even before the ex cavation is finished at another. So, while tlie steam shovel and the trucks toil away on the west side, the front and end walls and some of the seats will be com pleted on the east. And all the while, there proceeds the grad ing and surfacing of paths and roads. Turf for the playing field pre sents just now one of the prin cipal problems of the builders. Originally it was thought that grass might have been planted by this time, but the discovery of vast quantities of rock pro longed the excavating phase of the project. Now, therefore, Charles T. Woollen, graduate manager of athletics, is talking of bringing in by train or truck turf from some old pasture; preferably by truck, of course, Cobb Judges Babies Has to Pick Winning Boy and Girl among Progeny of Alumni Collier Cobb has been appoint ed chairman of a committee to pick the most beautiful boy and girl among the progeny of Uni versity of North Carolina Alum ni. He was announced as the chief judge in the Alumni Review without having been informed of his appointment. When photographs began to pour in through the mail he thought that somebody had put up a joke on him, and accused the editor of this paper with instigating it. But he soon found out that it was an officially authorized con test. Any alumnus in the classes that are holding reunions at this commencement may send in a picture of either a child or a grandchild. One prize will be given for the winning boy and one for the winning girl. The result of the judging will be an nounced at the alumni reception tomorrow (Saturday) night. And the two victorious alumni— fathers or grandfathers, as the case may be—will be crowned with wreaths. »» . . Delegates to thfi Conference Among those who went to the dis trict Methodist conference at Bahama (near Durham) this week were H. M. Wagsuff, S. J. Brockweli, and J. E. Lear. if the proper kind of pasture can be found near at hand. The field will be thoroughly piped, and, if hot enough water comes down from the skies, men with hose will be on hand to give the grass frequent wettings. People who have visited the stadium in recent weeks have been greatly pleasecP by the ar rangement of the broad and well-, surfaced walkways through the woods. These wind in and out among the trees from both the South road and the Pittsboro- Pinehurst highway. They are designed for foot travel, not for vehicles, and at many places a tree is left in the very middle of the walk. Cars are to be parked at some distance from the gates. They will be left along the roads and streets, and two or three athletic fields will be available for them. The idea of the build ers is to distribute the crowd al lowing it to come and go along many arteries at the same time. The schedule of work allows % ample time for sprucing up the areas around the stadium. Build ing materials, left-over earth and stone, and accumulations of rubbish will be cleared away; the walks and roads will be neat ly bordered; possibly there will have been time to do some planting. Already arrange ments have been made to plant honeysuckle on the slope of the hill that rises above the west stand. All in all, the University is determined that nothing be “left undone to make the setting of the stadium beautiful. At the Carolina-Virginia game in Chapel Hill year before last there were 16,000 specta tors. The new stadium is de signed to seat 24,000. As to how long a time will pass before all the seats are filled, one man’s guess is as good as another’s. A good many people, having ob served the mounting interest in football, would not be surprised [f, even at this year’s Carolina- Virginia game, ail the seats were taken. The Brooks Lilies' Dazzling Floral Exhibit in the South western Part of the Village One of the most beautiful bits of Chapel Hill scenery these days is the garden of lilies be side the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Brooks on West University Drive. These are the breed of flowers sometimes called Easter, sometimes Madonna, lilies. The great white blooms on long slender stems are dazzling in the sunlight. Not only do they charm the eyes of all the pass ersby, but their fragrafice is wafted over the whole neighbor hood. Mr. Brooks began the lily gar den witlCa few bulbs, and these multiplied with astonishing rap idity. A gift of a few of the bulbs was made to Mrs. Logan, who lives next door. She put them on the back porch, expecting to plant them in her - yard. But the cook thought they were superan nuated onions and threw them away. This was not such a great calamity after all, because the Brooks garden is so close to the Logan house that a stranger cannot tell which family the lilies belong to. Subscriptions to the Chapel Hill Weekly will be taken at Eubanks’ drugstore; $1.50 a year. Seniors* Play Tonight Boys and Girls Will Appear in “The Old Oaken Bucket" The seniors of the Chapel Hill high school will present their annual play this (Friday) eve ning at 8 o’clock in the school auditorium. It is a rollicking four-act comedy entitled "The Old Oaken Bucket.” The parts in the play are tak en by John Warren, Baxter Tay lor, George Henry, Tom Raney, Isaac' Manning, James Weaver, Wade Jackson, Jim Fowler, Mil dred Fearrington, Minnie Sue Sides, Koeller Parker, Ruby Thompson, Lucille Hogan, and Mildred Parker. .. Superintendent Sides and sev eral of the teachers have joined in conducting rehearsals, with the result that the actors are prepared to give a finished per formance. Prices of admission are 25c and 35c. The Alumni Reunions Many (lasses Are Gathering Here at This Commencement Ten University classes are holding reunions here this week. Tonight (Friday) they will be holding their dinners at the Inn, at the resturants, and in the social rooms of the churches. Tomorrow, the official Alumni Day in the commencement pro gram, there will be an alumni luncheon in Swain Hall at 1 o’clock, a baseball game (Caro lina vs. the State College) on Emerson Field at 3:30, and the President’s reception and alum ni ball in the Gymnasium at 8:30. The oldest of the reuniting classes is 1888, whose members come to celebrate the 39th anni versary of their graduating. Maxy L. John of Laurinburg has organized this gathering, and 17 of the ’BB men have written him that they will be here. Among those expected are Rev. St. Clair Hester of Brooklyn, Hayne Davis of New York City, Rev. W. E. Edmondson of Los Ange les, Charles G. Foust of Dublin, Texas, Dr. B. D. Cox in Winter ville, Dr. W. H. Atkinson of Washington, D. C., J. D. Larkin of Wilson, T. J. Eskridge of Big Stone Gap, Va., Rev. J. L. Pos er of College, F. M. Harper of Raleigh, Rev. I. W. Hqghes of Henderson, W. li. Lewis of At lantic City, J. 11. Little of Char lotte, William, M. Little of At lanta, H. A. London of Char lotte, J. C. Martin of Washing ton, D. C., and R. L. Smith of Albermarle. Francis P. Venable ahcT'W&K ter D., Toy, the only present members of the faculty who taught the class of ’BB, will be guests at the dinner this eve ning. Other classes holding re unions are 1889, 1890, 1897, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1917, and 1926. Alumni headquarters, with ah information bureau, will be in the Gymnasium. Here alumni will be assigned to rooms in the dormitories. A room in some one of the University buildings will be given to each class as its special headquarters. Assessors’ Meeting Postponed Because of the sickness of J. W. Bennett the meeting of the township tax assessors, sche duled for tomorrow, June 4, has been postponed to June 16. body who wants to get or give information about tax assess ments in the meantime should consult D. D, Carroll. $1.50 a Year in Advance. sc. a Copy HIBBARD TURNS THE “LANTERN” OVER TO ADAMS Popular Column of Book News and Comment Will Still Be Conducted Here HAS 455,000 CIRCULATION * Addison Hibbard has turned The Literary Lantern over to R. W. Adams, one of his col leagues in the University’s de partment of English. This weekly column of book news and opinion, with litera ture in and about the South as its special field, was established by Mr. Hibbard in September, 1923. Like most innovations it had to make its way gradually. Not many papers accepted the first offer of it, but it had not been going many weeks before its quality attracted the favor able attention of publishers all over the South. Today it ap pears in 15 newspapers with a total circulation of 455,000. In North Carolina it runs in the Greensboro News, the Asheville Citizen, the Charlotte Observer, and the Durham Herald. Among the out-of-state papers whicl\ carry it are the Norfolk Vir ginian-Pilot (which has the ex clusive rights in Virginia), the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun, and the Louisville— Courier- Journal. Much of the success of the Lantern has been due to its ad mirable balance. Its creator maintained a high tone without soaring above the head of the ordinary reader; he wrote in an easy and simple manner that ap pealed to people outside the cir cle of authors, poets, and critics. The great book-publishing houses of the country promptly recognized the high merit of the Lantern, and so placed Mr. Hib bard on the list of persons to re ceive review copies. The mails brought him hundreds of books, and his chronicle and comment reflected a wide range of read ing. Moreover, as time went on, 7 the enterprise gave rise to a vol uminous correspondence. Let ters came in from great figures in the literary world as well as from the readers of the various newspapers in which the column appeared. Mr. Hibbard relinquishes the task because of the pressure of other duties. ... The signature of the Lantern, “Telfair, Jr.,” if one knew how it originated, had a humorous flavor. It was suggested by the name of the leading character in .0. Henry’s story, The Rose of Dixie. Mr. Adams intends to conduct the column on the same plan which was followed by Mr. Hib bard. He is keenly interested in Southern literature, and his point of view, his training, and his tastes are such that the Lan tern may be expected to retain its agreeable character. He has not yet decided upon the new signature: The School Finals The Chapel Hill school com mencement program is as fol low’s: This (Friday) evening at 8, the seniors’ play; tomorrow evening at 8, (he class day exer cises ; Sunday afternoon at 3:30, a band concert on the school lawn; Sunday evening, the bac calaureate sermon by Rev. W. D Moss in the Presbyterian church; Monday evening at 8. the graduating exercises, with Rev. W. A. Harper of Elon Col lege delivering the address. -
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