El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27
du Prince Student Declares Dancing Is Not for Men

JUS it would seem unsuitable for men tol
dance"
D. S. Gill has converted his sonorous
name Of Sirdar Dalip Singh Gill into the
AmericaDized version which appears on
the Columbia University register, in order
that he may be democrat of the demo
Gratis. He wishes to take no undue state
during his university career, and has fur
Their demonstrated his desire for Ameri-
can simplicity by setting aside his title of
Sirdar, which means military chief and
which at home entities him to Difference .
from everybody in rank below a prince.
Not only is he showing his determination
to be very modern and very. American by
appearing upon the rolls in so unpict-
.uresque a guise, but he has gone in for a
far more vital innovation
Mr.. Gill has set aside the most insistent
tradition of his ancestors-he is working
for his living, and yet his father is a mill
,tary chieftain and Sikh, who traces his
ancestry fourteen hundred years. Like
an his race, he can see no reason
why any son of his should wander to for
eign lands and spend his days in hard
labor for the requirement Of practical arts
in no way necessary for the proper con
duet of life Of a Hindu of position.
In order that he may take back to his
home the diploma of the Columbia School
of Mines. Sirdar Dalip Singh. as he would
be called in his home, is living in partial
defiance of the viii of his parents. VINO
do not desire that he should stay in this
country. For that reason he does not re-
ceive from his family the income which
was at first sent to him when he started
out to see the world, and his parents sup
posed that he would speedily return to
them TO settle down ike the rest of his
friends to a life Of ease, broken only. per
haps, by military activity from time to
time
Il wanted to come to the United
States even when I was little boy" ex- i
plains Dalip Singh q used to read
about it in my first books and I was
more interested in this country than in
any other. When I finally got here I
found it all that I had thought. I shall
60 back to my country when I have com
pleted my studies, but I shall never re
turn to the life that most of my friends
lead I shall make money for myself. I
like the way that everybody in the United
States starts out to make money for him
self At home my father would say.
There is plenty of money for us to live
well; why cannot you do as 1 have done
and as your grandfath Their did? What has
done for us will do for you. 1t is not
proper that son Of mine should labor
for money.
Here also" said Daip Singh saga
ciously. many persons viii tell you that
it is not right to run after money so very
hard, but 1 notice that they are all run
ming"
At nome Dalip Singh might now be
living either in the town residence of his
father, in Piatella, or in the suburban
villa in whose flower filled court the fam
lily gathers during the pleasant weather.
There for my pleasure I could hunt
tigers and lions in the jungles," said Dalip
Singh, "or the wild boar, which is even
more dangerous. have often hunted the
wild boar, but that was in my boyhood
when L was too small and weak to use a
spear used a rifle to shoot the boar,
but this would not now be permitted be-
cause it has been too easy to kill the 7
animals in this way. Even children can
shoot the beast, and this has led to an
unwise slaughter. Now there is a law
in the State of Piatella that the boar can
be killed only with the spear. To throw
tie spear takes not only skill but strength, /
and young boy can rarely accomplish