The Washington times., 1921-09-23
THEY'RE HUMAN
William Atherton Du Puy

Prof. Henry Seide Candy, head Of the English
department at Yale. is the author Of a textbook
on English that has vexed many youth even be-
yond those sacred precincts
But during the this professor went over
and functoned some sort OF liaison officer
in the British Intelligence Service.
One day he found II necessary go right up
front where things were happening. At the very
same time a squad of young engineers. recruited
largely from students Of the University OF Mis-
souri,, were being sent forward.
They all had to don gas masks and 60 inside a
gas.filled hut mant tanned for the purpose, just to
demonstrate their ability this makeup
under front-line conditions.
The youngsters had found out that this liaison
officer was the man who had written the text
book on English that they had been forced to
study out in Missouri.
When the latter individual emerged from the
gas hut he was sputtering and gagging and car
rying on something awful The oppressive con-
ditions inside his mask had made him sick
''You just love it, don't you, professor" ="
chorused the engineers "Well, we feel just like
that toward your old book on English
Edwin r. Meredith went to Europe during the
war on the same ship with Colonel Clarence o.
Sheriff., now military aide to President Harding.
They got quite chummy and Colonel Sheriff.
confided to the man who was later to be Secre-
tary of Agriculture that he had always nursed an
ambition to own and operate a farm.
Mr. Meredith confided in return that brass
buttons had always appealed to him and that
hankerins for the army had always fused around
satisfied with other callings..
Here is a versatile young woman. She sat her
down and wrote a novel entitled The Intellect.
uals." Then she Jared forth and won the Eastern
championship in tennis. Later she went into the
Airondacks and built herself q bungalow with
her own hands. Her name Is Mary Dixon Thayer.
The young man who is putting zip into the
campaign the Internal Revenue Bureau is con-
Quoting against tax evasions Is one r. H. Matson,
deputy commissioner, one-time attached to the
staff of Senator Smoot of Utah.
David Farchild. who Is in charge Of plant III
PRODUCTION for the Department Of Agriculture,
and Gilbert Grosvenor, head of the National
Geographic Society, are both sonsinlaw Of DR..
Alexander Graham Bell
What is a highjacker7
There is a question which one cannot ans~
unless he is decidedly modern, for It is a term
defining a calling which has come into being
within the last year or two.
e. II. Matson, deputy commissioner OF Internal
Revenue, knows all about highjackers and be.
lieyes that they have buccaneers backed into the
The bootlegger in his high powered car all filled
up with Illicit liquor is something OF a bold SOM
bre himself and hard to handle. The high HACKER Is
the man who goes down the road to a lonesome
spot, stops the bootegger with his cargo Of hooch.
takes It away from him. drives off with It and
leaves him to walk back to town.
II isn't an easy thing to do There lot Of
,hings that might happen to one In the process
OF it's accomplishment. But 1t is being done
every night In scores OF places. The highjacker
IS abroad In the land.
CONGRESSMAN Fritz @. Lanham of Texas, son
Of q governor OF that State. pays almost no at
tention 20 Walt Mason and other modern poets
and smuses himself by veadrg and translat ting
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