Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-22
COLLEGE MEN DINE
Sigma Chi Members Enjoy
George AIDES Humor.
LOCAL CHAPTERS BANQUET
Occasion characterized by Novel
Features.
FAKE WIRELESS MESSAGES
Parodies on Current Songs Con-
tribute Greatly to Merriment
of the Evening.

| With songs, real wireless messages,
| stories and humorous take-offs on the
| merry banqueters. and the presence of
| George AIDE, grand consul, the annual
alumni banquet of the Sigma Chi Frater-
| nifty. at the Shoreham Hotel last evening,
| passed off as one of the biggest successes
of the fraternity.
| George AIDE came from Palm Beach as
the special guest, being tired, he said, of
| the society of the pampered rich. Dis
claiming in any way the role Of an after
! dinner speaker, he unfolded his manu-
script and proceeded to enlivcn the as
semt1age with characteristic, bits OF
humor.
AIDE on Dinner Speeches.
The after dinner speech, said Mr..
AIDE, bears the Same relation to a din
ner that the editorial does to the daily
paper. The consumer has to take one to
get the other. OF course. there is this
difference: The reader of the daily paper
may take the editorial or leave it alone.
while the man who attends the public
dinner is stung, unless he happens to sit
near the door.
"A few years ago two great Ameri
can newspapers suspected that The
Ireading public did not hunger for
heavy editorials, so they began cut
ting down on their editorials, and the
more they cut down on these editorials
the more they jumped in circulation
and advertising.
"The world Is waiting for the man
who will have the courage to print a
tion of an editorial page, and likewise
it is waiting for some Napoleanic
pioneer to rise UP and organize a din
ner at which the first man who rises
in his place and starts to clear his
throat will have $4,000 volts of cleo
tricity shot into his person and be car
ried out on shutter
You have in this city large and
worthy person who has found 1t en-
Ibarrassing to try to follow in the foot
| ed from one place to another by jump
ing over hurdles and turning f1ip-nops.
Yet his job was easy, compared with
mine,
"The man who is on to himself Is
just as useful citizen as the man who
| is truly gifted.
Grateful to Washington Friends.
'"rhe Washington chapter OF Sigma Chi
/ is especially dear to me because when
we first produced the College Widow l
was led to believe that the public was
not in sympathy with the undergraduate
or the phases of college life. The play
had been frowned upon by the ajority
| who knew what was coming. and was
at. the Columbia about three jumps i'm
front of a tit. You fellows invited me
| to the University Club when 1 was on
the point OF taking to the Potomac
| river. You were good dramatic critics
| and bolstered me up. l never had cause
| to regret the occasion of your verdict
| that night, which was one Of the happi-
est l ever spent in my life.''
| The banquet was replete with novel
features. A wireless station received mes
sages from Baltimore, Philadelphia and
| New York and sent replies. The fake
messages, which were largely hits at local
celebrities. evoked rounds OF applause
Members of the active chapter sang at in
tervals parodies on song hits and con-
tributed greatly to the success and live
illness of the occasion.
Representative Francis Burke sent re-
grets. DR.. Thomas S. Sampson responded
to the toast, "Covet Earnestly the Best
Gifts" Rev. DR.. Wallace Radcliffe of the
New York Avenue Church and Judge
Douglass of Atlanta, Ga. who is petition
ing for a chapter at the University of
Georgia, also spoke.
Dewitt c. Croissant. president of the
local chapter, was toaStmaster and added
fund of humor to the occasion. The
officers of the chapter are: Dewitt C.
Croissant. president Norris f. Frey, vice
president Edwin J. Mckee, treasurer:
Paul Freeman, secretary, and DR.. Robert
mittee comprised: F. w. McReynolds, e. G.
Evans, Robert Farnham. jr., and the
banquet committee: Morris F.. Frey,
chairman; DIR. John d. Thomas, s. s.
Hempstone, Clarence A. Hensey, S. w.
Fitzgerald and Risley G. Hunt.
Who Were Present.
The following were present:
George A. Weaver, Louis Weaver, r. A.
Galleher. S. s. Hempstone. DR.. J. L. Rig
giles, Clyde B. Weikert. j. w. Potter,
Charles Cobb, William III. Woodman, E.
r. Blake. w. w. Bride, Carl A. Chris
tiani, Arthur j. McElhone. j. w. Alex
ander, Edwin Lefevre, II. S. Shaw, +. D.
Minor. j. M. Quiggle. +. w. McReynolds.
Carl A. Mapes DIR. j. p. Fillebrown. Bry-
an w. Morse, w. NJ. Birney. E. r. Eaton,
Julian Barnes, William Yeager, Z. III.
Handy Henry Zeh. A. II. Williams, w. II.
Evans, Morris Wooden, r. G. Hunt, j. D.
Mattson, Bedford Brown. DR.. John d.
Thomas, r. NJ. Packard. r. II. MiIlward.
w. l.. Halstead. j. HOldsworth Gordon,
r. G. Langmade, George l.. Edmunds,
d. A. Sherfey, Theodore A. Acker. James
H Dorman. DR.. Frank Biscoe, l. s.
Briggs, Leander p. Mitchell. Col. d. M.
Ransdell. DR.. Robert Farnham, Rev. A.