Livingstone College - Livingstonian Yearbook (Salisbury, NC)

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1928 The Maple Leaf 1928 new trial. The appeal was granted attorney W. H. D. S. Moreland, of California, rep- resenting the defendants. The closing words of his argument were: If all men were given justice, the grave yard would have to give up some of their dead. After this powerful plea, the judge sprang to his feet and said: Gentlemen, we will have to throw this case out; Gilliam and McDonald go free. Attorney Moreland is looked up- on as the greatest lawyer since the time of Clarence Darrow. I had a few words with the boys, and I nosed the Albatross towards New York. One hour and six minutes, I landed safelv at Mitchel field. I was not in the city very long before I ran across my old friend E. W. McCoy who was heading the department of English at Columbia University. He was also Vice President of the Erie Railroad Co. I was informed by Professor McCoy that Bishop Daly had just left the city; he is the only bishop on the bench, and is doing the work that it took twelve bishops to do. After spending several hours in the beautiful home of Prof. McCoy, I took the air again. While passing the Catskill mountains, I ventured to fly low enough to get a view of the Summer residence of Miss Nettie Ingram. She held the distinction of be- ing one of the leading Morticians of New York. A few hours later, I landed in Han- over New Hampshire. Among the thousands who awaited my landing, was my long looked for friend Lindsay Eason. He informed me that he was director of music at the Conservatory of Hanover. In a Hanovian journal, I was delighted to hear of the achievements, both abroad, and at home, of William Powe in Oratory. After visiting several places of interest with Eason, I bade him adieu and in a very few minutes the Albatross was again behind the clouds. About four o ' clock, I was flying over the big ship Cabo Espartd which had on board Ambassador John H. Lewis to London, and Helen Buckley and Grace Morrow, missionaries to Africa. Pa e 28

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1928 The Maple Leaf 1928 Kitchen. All arc so marvelous and so dissimilar as to point to the folly of an attempt at any description. We rode on a few rods farther and came to a news stand where I bought a news- paper, The Globe. It ' s headline read Scientific Achievements of Negroes. Gladly surprised I was to see the name of my old homie and classie, William Douglas, now one of America ' s greatest scientists. In his laboratory he has just succeeded in converting the deadly poison T. N. T., used in the World War to destroy human lives, into fragrant violet perfume. This perfume is made from the combination of T. N. T., phosgene, a poison, and castor oil, a purgative. The compound once used to still the heart of an enemy is now used to quicken the heart of a lover. It sells at forty-two dollars an ounce and is known by the chemical cognomen, Methylheiptin Violette Carbonatte. He has also made aluminum from clay, and chewing gum from china- berry. All told, he has received over five millions for his various contributions. He has also been admitted to the British Royal Society and awarded three Spingarn Medals. He now peacefully resides in his brown stone mansion in the Black Hills of South Da- kota — (Just Ruth and he, and the baby makes three). In another column I saw the name of Dr. Isaiah McClain my old roommate and classmate in the old glorious days of Livingstone. Despite his belief that every inven- tion is an insult to some god and that physical and chemical inventions are blasphemy, and that every biological investigation is a perversion, he accidently discovered that a new drug could be made from combining Hydrorgyri Corrosive Chloridium, Acidium Cnticium, and Hamamelis, which would elimmate all the color pigments of a human epidermis without affecting the individual, and a beauty cream for women that has changed our idea of beauty from the steatopygous Hottentot to the modern Anglo- Saxon, from the Venus of Brassempory to the Venus of Milo. Dr. McClain owns the second largest drug store in America, covering an entire city block in Whistler, Ala- bama. He and Mrs. Worth McClain are touring Asia. Jack and the madam insisted that I stay a few days longer with them. But , said I to my friends, dutv calls and I must obey. He drove me over to the flying field where my plane, the Super-Albatross was waiting. It was a huge tri-motored monoplane, capable of doing 250 miles per hour. With a twist of the propeller, I put the valves into action. I congratulated my friend on his wonderful success at raising and selling sugar cane and was off. I circled low over the place once or twice, then straightened out. Very soon the abyss of heaven had swallowed up our form. Within two hours I dropped out of the clouds like a shooting star, landing safelv at Raleigh, N. C, to replenish my fuel supply. My attention was attracted by a mammoth parade, and I asked a nearby gentleman what was the excitement. Dr. Daniels, said he, a noted dentist, has just been elected to the position of governor of North Carolina. Great stuff! I said giving him two dollars. ' Please send him a telegram of congratulation for me. I took off again and was soon crossing the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. On up the Potomac I went, landing at Washington about 12:30 p. m. Leaving the field I went to the Ponce De Leon Hotel and an hour later found me on Pennsylvania Avenue. It was here that I met another old friend, Dr. Ellis, a thriving dentist with an elaborate office on R Street, N. W. He told me that he had fourteen dentists at work and a mechanical department that supplied the city of Washington. He asked me to walk to the courthouse with him and on the way he explained his errand. They are trving some of our friends today, T. D. Mc- Donald, the big butter and egg man of lower Broadway and W. Mance Gilliam, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Naval forces, for selling the Atlantic Ocean to the English government. We went in and listened awhile. Our old classmates were found guilty and given twenty years each in Atlanta. After leaving the Court- house, I went with Dr. Ellis to his home. Mrs. Ellis and the children were in the Adirondikes on a vacation. We arose early the next morning, — after a very pleasant nights sleep. After breakfast, I bought a paper the headline of which read: Mc- Donald and Gilliam given twenty years in Atlanta, but appealed to Supreme Court for Pa e 27

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1928 The Maple Leaf 1928 The J ast Will and Testament We, the undersigned, known under the corporate name of the Chiss of ' 28, being of healthy body, of full age, of average intelligence, of sound and stable judgement, realizing that the time for our departure from this field of scholastic endeavor is near, do hereby make this our last will and testament. Through this will we dispose of all our valuable property and experience and do give and bequeath the following ar- ticles, to wit: 1. To the Junior class we leave our dignity, our campus poise, our Senior privileges and the other of those qualities that earned for us the respect, dread and fear on the part of every 2. Samuel F. Daly grants to H. T. Henry and Cecil Coleman, his ministerial ability and his charges with the hope that both together will be able to handle them success- fully. 3. To Marie Ingram and Girlever Harrison, Grace Morrow and Helen Buckley grant their collegiate personality. 4. Lindsay Eason and Jake Lewis divide equally between ' Norsie Meeks and Dancy Lee their singing ability with the hope that they will profit thereby. 5. Joseph Daniels and T. D. McDonald bequeath to William Thomas their athletic ability and hope that these with his own will enable him to achieve world fame. 6. Nettie Ingram gives and bequeaths her tendency to talk to Emma Foreman and Carmen Malone, hoping that the recipients will be more able to control this tendency than she. 7. Isaiah McClain grants to William Davis his laboratory coat and drawer. 8. William Powe leaves his oratorical ability to Emanuel Jones. 9. Joseph S. Jackson gives and bequeaths to David Bradley his desk, waste basket, a bottle of red ink, and his office coat. 10. Edward Ellis divides his poetical powers between Corinne Austin and Anna B. Patton. H. Wallace Lewis and William Douglas leave their scientific knowledge to Leroy Borden and Booker T. Medford. 12. Eric Mckoy grants and bequeaths his seniority to his sister, Olive. 13. Howard Moreland and W. Mance Gilliam bequeath their radicalism to William Walker and Dancy Lee. 14. To the Class of ' 30, which to itself seems so all sufficient, sophisticated, and all- wise that it would hardly appreciate any meagre gift that we might have to offer, we give nothing, except one good wish that some day it will be all that it thinks it is. 15. To the freshmen class we give all our college experience with the hope that they will be able to survive in this new collegiate climate. Our reason for not giving more is that they are so far down that we are honestly afraid that one of our gifts might slip through their fingers and be broken on the blockheads below. 16. To the Teacher Training Department we hereby bequeath Price Kindergarten and Ballard Elementary schools in order that they may further augment their knowledge of teaching. 17. To t he athletically inclined we donate a modern, fully equipped gymnasium with the hope that they will spend many pleasurable moments therein. 18. To all our friends and enemies, we leave our good will and best wishes for success and happiness in their struggle with life and things. In witness hereunto, we, the class of ' 2 8 set our seal and signature this 6th day of June, 1928. (seal) THE CLASS OF TWENTY EIGHT. Wm. Douglas, for the class) Page 29