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

$150 a Year in Advance 5c a Copy LOUIS GRAVES Editor CHAPELHILL CL FRIDAY DECEMBER 10 1926 VoL 4 No 41 Party SITE IN RAVINE IS CHOSEN FOR KENAN STADIUM About 500 Feet Further from Campus than the Place First Proposed WORK STARTS PROMPTLY The question Where shall the new Kenan stadium be built? has been definitely answered The committee on buildings of the University's board of trustees met here Monday and chose a site southwest of the Tin Can about 500 feet down the ravine from the sife-first proposed Present at the meeting were Haywood John Sprunt Hill Felix Harvey and Everell all of whom are trustees President Chase Coker Charles Woollen and Dr Foy Roberson Dr Roberson has been invited to sit with the committee during the consideration of this particular matter The group walked through the woods and examined three proposed sites then-they came back to the office in the South building for their discussion Operations preliminary to actual 'construction have already begun Surveyors have been at work mapping the rontours and marking the limits of the playing field and the Concrete stands Stakes and blazed frees indicate the new levels that are to bo established in the middle of the ravine and along the hillsides "Ready by next Thanksgiving Day" this is the forecast made by Charles Woollen graduate manager of athletics when he is asked how long it will take to complete the job Nearly all the undergrowth has Urn cleared away and the felling of trees is in progress Not many of those that have to come down are of any considerable size When thu trees are dragged otf and the stumps are grubbed up or dynamited a stcum shovel will be brought upon the scene to scoop the earth (Continued on pagt four) I)r Adams Mows In Vinit from I'hyairinn Author and lion ivant of Columbia Car Stolen They Lose Their New Chevrolet on Street ja Durban The new Chevrolet landau of Mr and Mrs Wettach was stolen in Durham Monday They reported the loss to the police at once but no trace of the purloined car has been received The law professor and his wife were on a shopping tour in the city He parked the automobile on Corcoran street between the First National Bank and the railway He was gone half an hour when he returned the Chevrolet was not there G6ne with it were two rugs and a newly resoled pair of shoes After making their report to the police Mr and Mrs Wettach came home on the bus The car was insured against theft for about three fourths of its value The Mysterious Turkey Who Left It at Alderman DoorHaa Never Been Made Known Last week I chronicled what Frank Graham had told me of a stranger's leaving a turkey at the door of Edwin A Alderman president of the University of Virginia Then I wrote to ask Mr Alderman just what had happened and if he had ever discovered who the giver was He replies story as I remember it is this: My wife and I came home one day and found in the house a turkey that had been taken in at the door by our colored maid She had no card but simply stated that some gentleman had left it with his compliments and said that he was from North Carolina I fancy he had given his name or had even left his card but the old colored maid had nothing except the turkey We greatly enjoyed the turkey but have always sutreml because we did not know how to make proper acknowledgment of so handsome a gift I think this happened two or three years ugo and the mystery has never been solved I have never gotten another turkey and I blame the generous giver for not re-Iieating his actof generosity If a man show decent gratitude for a turkey around Christmas time or Thanksgiving time he certainly lacks a fundamental virtue I still hope that I may lie able to express my appreciation to the kind friend who had us so thoughtfully in mind" Mrs Elliott Rides in Stale The finul lap of the journey home from her recent tour of North Carolina cities was made by Mrs Dora MacRae Elliott in the new Packard sedan of her brother Donald MacRae the magistrate of High Point Mrs Elliott visited Charlotte Concord High Point and Greensboro In Greensboro she and her mother and her brother Cameron called upon her brother Lawrence who is recovering from an operation from Alarm Interrupts' The Chapel Hill firemen were the guests of Irving Gatt-man manager of the Carolina Inn at supper Tuesday evening The supper had been eaten there had been two or three talks and Chief John Foister master of ceremonies had called upon Alderman Clarence Wills fdr a few remarks Mr Wills was about to rise to reply but instead leaned forward in his chair with the look of a man who was straining to listen "Fire alarm!" he exclaimed Whereupon all the feasters leapt from their seats and ran out of doors Two of them hopped into a car and sped down Columbia street A few moments lata: the big red engine came back over the same course clanging and puffing One after another the firemen swunthem-selves aboard of it and when it turned into the campus they were all there The alarm had come from one of the fraternity houses back of the Library The trouble proved to be nothing worse than a chimney that had caught fire and all danger was past when the firemen arrived The engine was driven back through the campus gate and parked on the'street near the Inn but then Chief Foister decided to take the company for the remainder of the mewing to the assembly room on the upper floor of fire headquarters So the speechmaking program was divided into two parts A Feast In Memorial Hall On the stage a great white screen Before the stage a strange instrument the Clavilux with a keyboard lenses unseen mysterious mechanisms A man a native of Denmark eager nervous fluent tells of a dream of youth of years of lalioratbry experiments with Light of the passion to employ Light as the medium of a new art Thu man goes to the keyboard of the slrunge instrument his hands move over and colors Hash upon the screen Vague forms falling and rising-winding and twisting and swirl-i ng Forms such as no man ever saw in the world about him Baffling meaningless yet at moments the siiectator is aware or susiects that these forms aru about to convey to him an idea He feels he is on the point of grasping and again he is lost All the while he is conscious of the lieauty of gorgeous colors ever-changing pursuing and escaping and intermingling with utter abandon A beauty he cannot expain hut only acknowledge and enjoy The screen is suddenly blank The man at the keyboard announces "a Chicago nocturne" Now appears a great bridge in the night powerful gloomy sinister A red danger-light that glows disappears glows again The steel skeleton of a building scaffoldings derricks hoisting apparatus Over it all hangs an air of Will Dine the Old-Timera The Chapel Hill alumnf of the University Id their organization meeting Wednesday evening voted to give a dinner in January to the members of the faculty who have been in the service 30 years Carl Durham was (elected president of the Chapel Hill association 1LDW Connor vice-president House secretVY wd Chapel Hill Chaff The man who was here twenty or more years ago often reflects rather sadly upon how completely the old-time intimacy of University life has parsed away Not only do students go by one another without recognition but there are now so many faculty members that many of them are strangers to one another A few days ago a group of University students accompanied by a professor were in Wilson JTobe Connor met them and heells of the meeting in a letter to a friend in Chapel Hill "I was introduced to the professor" he writes I remarked just by way of making conversation that perhaps he knew my brother Bob Connor one of his colleagues in the faculty He looked blank and asked me to repeat the name Then he said that he was not only not acquainted with Bob but had never even heard of him" Adams had a friend come down from White Plains New York to visit him not long ago The visitor made several trips to Raleigh by way of the short route through Lowe's Grove to the hard-surface highway at Nelson Many of our Chapel Hill citizens have complained of the lack of direction signs on this road a lack that has caused travelers more than once to lose their way We complained but we did nothing about it The stranger from White Plains loaded his car with boards shaped like arrows and painted orange and went out and placed them at forks and crossings These boards! am told guide the traveler safely between Chapel Hill and Nelson Football games are played at the end of the week and by the Continued on jngt four) The I) Finances Charitable Orsanisatioii'a Report Khowa Balance of $5A7 The King's Daughters of Chapel Hill huve issued their financial reporter the year ending October 31 1926 It is as follows: Balance on hand Oct 27 1926 3935 Rac'd from Seal Sale used for tuberculosis patients 2500 from town treasury used for local charity 2500 Rec'd from various source used for local charity 12726 Total amt rec'd 1661 Total amt expended 21074 Balance in treasury 587 The organization held its annual supper last night for the purpose of raising funds urgently needed for charitable work Mr at the Organ Hubert McNeill Potcat will give an organ recital in the Episcopal church at five o'clock Sunday The program is as follows Overture Pomp and Cifcum- stance Elgar Andantino Ijeniare Nocturne Liszt Souvenir Drdla Prelude Act II Loheri-jjin Wagner Andante Cantabile Tschaikowsky Marche Slave Tschaikowsky Large New World Symphony Dvorak SCHOOLCHILDREN PREPARE FOR BIG CHIUSHIAS SHOW! Yule tide in the Great Hall of a Manor House of Old England THE MERRY DAYS OF YORE Under the auspices of their English Club the children of the Chapel Hill school will present a Christmas festival next Friday evening December 17 It is probably the most ambitious enterprise in the way of a spec-tade'that the school has ever undertaken A hundred and fifty boys and girls will take part in It The festival which bears the title "Christmas at the Manor Hall' will be directed by the English department and Miss Margaret Ellis with the cooperation of the music department and the Parent Teachers Association Miss Josephine Sharkey and Miss Enita Darling members of the A are directing the folk dances In the orchestra will be Mrs II Paulsen piano Mrs A Jordan Mrs Murchison Zimmerman and Mr and Mrs McCorkle violinists Sides trumpet I) Carter flute George Lawrence bass viol Wright bass horn The entertainment will tie at the school There is no charge for admission "Christmas at the Manor Hair will introduce the characters and customs of the merry yuletide in old England: cooks and stewards troubadours car-oilers trumpeters wassailers knight and ladies jesters a master of revels a yule log and a boar's head sword-play and marrhing and dancing The principal roles will be tdayed by Tom Walker Charlotte Steiner John Manning Isaac Manning Ira Dodson John Higby Odell Gridin Robert Coker Arthur Mangle Joe Couch John Warren Mildred Fearington Fred Koch and Fred Prouty Club Supper Tonight Fore-Runner of Other Fmli vitim dur-hut the Chriiitman Holiday There is to lie a supper at the Country Club this (Friday) evening at six o'clock Mrs Charles Woollen is chairman of the committee on Preparation She has arranged for some of the members to bringcoiTee sausages sandwiches and other provender It is suggested that every member who has not yet been asked to escort foodstuffs to the clubhouse may be' properly accompanied to the party by a quarter of a dollar Bridge will be played after the supper is disponed of and the addicts of this sport are asked to make up their groups in advance and to fetch their cards Another club entertainment is to be given before Christmas The announcement of that will probably be published next week Mr Potter to Read Russell Potter will read "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens in the Haymakers Theatre at half past eight o'clock Sunday evening This astartatuaent Is roe to all first at the Inn second at headquarters At the Inn SW Andrews Town Manager Knox Rev Howard and Moody Durham responded to toasts Mr Andrews recalled the founding of Chapel first fire-fighting organization many years ago and told of the primitive equipment and of the difficulties under which the company operat-ed At headquarters the principal speaker was Sherwood Brockwell of the state insurance department who was for many years in the active-fire-fighting service He spoke of the great annual loss of life and property from fire "All you men have heard of the expenditures that North Carolina has made on its road system" he said you realize tfuit for every dollar we have spent on our state roads in the last five years there has been a from fire of 61 cents? In North Carolina 300 lives on the average are destroyed by fire every year and we have an annual property loss of around $8000000 to $9000000" Mr Brockwell emphasized the importance of arousing the interest of the people in fire protection to the end that every community may have proper equipment and efficient service Just before adjournment Chief Foister announced that the firemen had been invited to be the guests of Jack Lipman on the fourth of January of Light the menacing the inexorable the cruel Time is turned back a thousand years and from Chicago the siiectator is transported to Mesoiotamia to the court of the magnificent Ilarun-al-Kash-id in Bagdad and liefore the eyes are spread nut by definite images but by suggestion the splendor and panoply of the East Thu memory of the Arabian Nights here aids the fancy The columns and waves and showers of color present to the eye the pictured walls and the gilded ceilings of a palace the brilliance of countless lamps drinking vessels of silver und gold opulent divans and languid women in silks and spangles Sheherazade the- incomparable story-teller parades before you her immortal characters Ali Balm Aladdin Sin- Imd the Sailor princes and iieg-gars magicians and merchants jinns good and jinns evil The Arabian Nights are gone More vague and mystical color forms Gray shadows sin suffering and death Clouds of gold and rose purity tenderness and love Limitless simres worlds beyond worlds The vastness of the ocean the intimacy of a walled garden Monsters and fairies angels and demons the kingdom of heaven and the torments of the pit As through Sound (or centuries past so now through Light Hail to Thomas Wilfred amfhis Clavilux! Edward Knox treasurer President Chase was elected an honorary member Phi Beta Kappa Meets Tonight The University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will have a meeting at half past eight o'clock this (Friday) evening In the Episcopal parfsfi house Changes in thrby-laws will be consider ed' y- Dr Ned Adams physician author and lion vivunt of Columbia South Carolina blew into Chapel Hill Tuesday and brought with him from Pino Bluff in the region Gordon Craig the pickle magnate of Richmond Virginia Waller McNeill financier of Conncticut and New York and Miss Mary Ilincks a tall and handsome young woman who is ono of the guests at Mr McNeill's house imrty As fur as Chapel Hill js con-limed Dr Adams has two claims to recognition: he is a friend of the George Coffin Taylors and he has written a book of South Carolina negro stories for the University of North Carolina Press The visitors remained in the village only a few hours in' the course of which they made a tour of the University campus Dr Adams entertained hiM companions and a few of his Chapei Hill friends at-luncheon at the Carolina Inn President Chase at Furman President Chase went to Furman University iii Greenville South Carolina this week to deliver the principal address at the institution's centennial celebration Jc" The Fate of a Peacemaker In one of the University buildings a few days ago Miss Louise Venable came uppn two dogs Sinner Venable and Spot Chase-rengaged a fight Before she succeeded in separating them she had broken one of her finger bones i I.