About the Stories About The Stories By Ben Elkus Men and women are of a certain bent, and then, as the situation changes and the years pass, they may change. A man who campaigns for President is one kind of man. After he has been President for three or four years, it is quite likely he is another kind of man. Certain kinds of people gravitate to certain kinds of jobs.
Some men are inclined to apply for jobs as policemen, while others become professors.
There is something that attracts some people to government. It is of these last we shall speak, and of the changes which take place in them after they enter government service. These are small events which took place some years ago. They generally involve Indians and are set mostly in the remains of the Wild West. These events are part of the great adventure my parents embarked upon in 1922, when my father joined the Indian Defense Association of Northern and Central California, which had its headquarters in San Francisco.