The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-13

plainly threatened, his pep was gone. The
lung had taken care of itself under treat
ment. The rest had not
The Major got him interested in teach
ing Private Doe, national hero in ordinary,
how TO spell yours received and so on
in business letter. Now that instructor
is the keenest man on the staff: he says
it's given him everything TO live for all
over again.
Perhaps a list of the subjects taught
will explain for itself the scope of such a
school:
Academic Department English TO for
eigners and illiterates, elementary school
subjects, high school subjects, French.
Commercial Observation-Disclosures,
penmanship, commercial art, business
practice, commercial advertising. business
English, typewriting, rapid calculation,
shorthand, stenotypy.
Many Parts in Industrial Side.
Industrial Department mecnan-
les. armature winding, mechanical
draughting, architectural draughting,
machine design, shoe repairing, IN
dustrial arts, fine arts, electrical
work, linotyping, machine shop prac-
tice, wood carving, monotyping,
sheet metal working, printing, upholster-
ing and furniture repair, shop mathe-
MATES, toy making and novelty handl-
craft, surveying and mapping, telegraphy,
woodworking (three branehes), telephone
switchboard operation. Movie operating
and X-ray assistants technie have been
added
Agricultural - Gardening, farm me-
chanics, greenhouse work, cooperative
farming, cooperative chicken raising.
Physical Training Setting up work
and exercises on doctors prescription.
The writer was hearing about it in the
Majors office pen when a boy OF ~ or
under, with rather weary eyes and the
hospital look about him, dropped in and
took chair With all due respect for a
distinguished young American who has
figured in the newspapers of three con-
tinents, he didn't look as if his first razor
had ever needed to be honed. He stood
about 5 feet 5 and at that he was what
the New Englander calls a rather small
boned young Teller. What was left of his
left hand was recognizable as having been
q hand.
His name is withheld because he is fed
with acclamations. 1t happened in the
Toul sector, quiet one, last April at
2:30 A. NJ, or exactly thirty minutes
after the hour when courage, according
to Napoleon, is rarest.
The subject of our remarks was taking
coffee and things to an outpost in No
Mans Land at the end of q shallow
trench. He heard a rumpus and then
figures doomed up before and around him
and the largest barked at him in French.
He didn't know much French at the
time, he says.
The Heinies had jumped the outpost,
seeking prisoners. They wanted him in
that capacity. He hesitated, thinking it
might be French patrol, but made out
in time that he was requested to come
along for a dirty Yankee.
Found He Had Lost Fingers.
He dropped his coffee and reached for
his "gat" and grenade and his left hand
fingers went off at the motion. he dis.
covered the loss of fingers later on. The
big man in front was trying to grapple
him; he jammed the "gat' in the big
mans face and pulled. Then, he says,
the others ran like hell for their own
wire, but not before one had smashed
him over the head with the butt of
rife. Somehow he crawled back to our
front trench with fractured skull.
Next day they found that his Heinie
was wearing complete map of the Ger
man outposts, upon which handy bar
rage was promptly laid. THE man also