New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

VIII were StuL 10 LIE SCHOOL Dy t0e
government to study agriculture So
they could return to the islands nx
instructors. B. S. Pulanco and E.
A. Cabacungan were among the first
to crowd around the recruiting
table at the college to enroll and
they were in the first party of forty
two Agricultural College students to
leave for the mines.
James Shawl and Allen Dale, two
full -blooded Indians of the Potawa-
tonne tribe, living near Mayetta,
were among the first to enroll as
coal diggers. Both these Indians
had been in France, being among
the first to volunteer in the Rain
bow Division ammunition train, the
first unit to be recruited in Kansas
at the opening of the war.
Haskell Institute is the second
largest Indian school in the country.
H. B. Peairs, superintendent, gave
all the Indians a big Thanksgiving
dinner and after it was finished the
superintendent explained to the
young Indians, many of whom were
ex-service men, or S. A. r. C. men.
the desperate situation Kansas
women and children were in. He
asked if there were any Indians who
would help dig coal, and the entire
body of $50 Indians arose almost
as one man and volunteered. Some
were too young and some were not
physically able to stand the work,
but superintendent Peairs found
from ITS to 200 Indians ready for
service.
Most Of the volunteers are going
into the mines in the same spirit
that they went into the trenches in
france. For example, volunteer
from Wichita appeared with a kit
on which was stenciled captain H.
X. Cassidy, 165th Infantry, A. f.
F."
A striking miner confronted Cas-
sldy at the mine.
Those mines are knee deep in.
mud and water" the striker said.
You can't work in a place like
that"
Cassidy looked his informant
straight in the eye and replied:
'I've bailed out trenches before.
Have you?"
The striker passed on.
W. Eugene Stanley, lawyer, son
of the late Governor William E.
Stanley, of Wichita, is laborer in
the pit. He is a candidate for the
Republican nomination for Con-
gress. He has just been discharged
from army service, having been in
the service fifteen months. He was
an aid to General Leonard Wood
and was with General Wood at
Gary.
Burton Rodman, who is rich and
ordinarily would be engaged in at
tempting to sell expensive limou-
sines as Christmas presents at this
season, was very earnest laborer
with a pick.
''Some Of us are here for three
days, some for a week and some for
the duration of the war;" Rodman
said, drifting into military terms.
"And we have replacement troops
ready to fill up any vacancies"
Roy K. Wells, five times wounded
and promoted to captain while serv-
ing with the Princess Pats, invalided
out and then sent back to France
with the American army and mus
tered out as captain, was hard
worker.
Allen Burch, another lawyer,
widely known as DOC" Burch ar
the University of Kansas ten years
ago, is also practicing with shovel.
Football While ''Resting''
The unquenchable college spirit
is capable of running coal all day
and playing football, too. The
other afternoon the Washburn Col
lege and agricultural college teams,
both of which had volunteered in
a body, played post-season game.
The Aggies won and Immediately
had to play game with the K. U.
squad and lost. In both instances
the line-ups were the same as were
used in the big games Of the Mis-
souri, Valley and the Kansas confer
ences. Goal posts were constructed
out of mine props.
In front of the Commerce Build
ing in Pittsburgh, the gathering
point where the miners invariably
rally and move around and read the
newspaper bulletins, sullen-eyed
crowds watch army motor trucks and
soldiers pass and pass again all day
; long.
"These guys amt the usual kind
of scabs." ono miner who had