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The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Boss Sits in the Outer Room:
Secretary Has the Private Office

Dean Hawkes. probably conducts the only
office in New York where the secretary sits
in a private room and the boss sits out in
the open at the front
II find it works better that way" he eX-
planned. "I prefer to decide myself who
shall be passed on TO my secretary and who
shall talk with me. 1t saves lots of time
When the conversation is of a personal
nature take my caller into a private Office.
Otherwise I sit out in the open and decide
very rapidly whether man needs to talk
with me or whether my secretary will an
swer the purpose"
DR.. Margaret f. Noonan, professor of ele-
mentary education in the School of Educa-
ton of New York University was another
college person who thought she had never
had any startling ambitions in her youth
She had just drifted into teaching. she
thought, and had not planned on it from her
cradle days on up But, thinking back. she
did remember a few weird whms OF her
girlhood
The height of her ambition was to wear
a red velvet gown when she became a lady
Of fashion. And then she planned on hav-
ing seven sons and started a hope chest for
them when she was still in the doll age.
But I didn't let these ambitions regulate
my lfe," said DR.. Noonan. 'T have never
worn a red velvet dress. and the nearest I
aunt to a few youngsters.
"I don't remember feeling very strongly
about anything when I was a little girl ex-
cept one time when n man said that
couldn't be n lawyer when I grew up be-
cause I was a girl. ] got quite excited and
said that although I didn't know whether
or not would want to be lawyer If ! did
want TO be a lawyer I would be one. l
would be whatever / wanted TO be.
probably that is as near as I ever came
to registering a youthful ambition" said
DR. Noonan, with a concluding smile that
left one with the impression that she has
gone ahead rather faithfully with carrying
out her ambition.
Our ravorite newspaper editor. a mild
hammered man of slight build, admits an
carly ambition OF wanting 10 be six fee.
three inches tall. weigh 100 pounds and be a
prize fighter He wanted to wear a wrist
strap so he could hit 'em hard and often
and never feel the effects.
Our favorite author has an ambition which
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

opportunity presented itself. When he was
a boy in New England village he had no
dreams of passing out to the greater world;
when he was in high school he had no
thought of college. and when he was at Yale
he had no ambitions beyond becoming an
instructor in the secondary schools.
"The idea of having a certain goal off IN
the distance that I might some day hope to
reach has never operated in my case" said
Dean Hawkes. MY ambition has always
been just ahead of me instead Of far off.
have been perfectly content to do the
thing ] was doing as well as 1 could When
advancements have come to me they have
come as a total surprise.
when / was graduated from the village
high school at Templeton, Massachusetts,. a
member of the school board came to my
father and said that ought to go to college.
| had never thought of such thing. AL
though l had always been interested in read
ing, my ambitions had never gone beyond
finishing the Tempeton High School
"Of course I wasn't prepared for college.
The village school had never tackled any
such proposition as fitting a man for college,
But arrangements were made to send me to
Williston Academy In the fall Of 1894 |
onfprpd Yn1c
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Abandoned Study of Philosophy
To Specialize in Mathematics

at first / thought I wanted to specialize
I'm philosophy until one day 1 discovered
that philosophy wasn't answering the ques-
tions I expected 1t to answer. That's where
got off Of philosophy and took up mathe-
matics. intending later to teach IL in the
secondary schools. When I was graduated
i'm the class of '96 1 went to Baltimore and
fought in a boys preparatory school.
shortly afterward the school was disor-
eanized and I went back to the Yale gradu-
ate school. where I had a fellowship as an
instructor in mathematics At that time
thought that if l ever got TO the point
where / was actually talking calculus the
height of my ambition would be reached.
''In 1902 I became an assistant professor.
Continually administrative duties diverted
my attention from scholarly work when
was offered full professorship here at
Columbia l thought it meant an opportunity
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Many 1921 Freshmen
Are of Tender Years

bers 10 this year, is Zenas Franklin Neu-
meister, son of John II. Neumeister, paper
maker, of Dalton, Mass He was born al
Dalton June 8, 1905. and was prepared for
Wesleyan at the Dalton High School In
conformance with the requirement at Wes-
leyan which calls for the election by every
member of the freshman class OF some ath-
letic activity. young Neumeister has reported
for the freshman football squad.
Miss Dorothy Claire Libaire of 400 West
151st street New York city, and aged Is
years is the youngest freshman entering
Smith College this year.
Miss Libaire was born November ;, 1905,
and entered one of New York's public
schools at the ege of 6. BY doubling grades
she was graduated from grammar school
when I years old and entered Hunter College
High School. She chose Smith College be-
cause her teachers had interested her in
that institution and also because she per-
sonally knew Prof. Everett Kimbal OF the
department of history and Mrs. Elizabeth
Kimball. museum assistant.
She is an all round girl greatly interested
i'm athletics. Her favorite sport is swim
ming While she has not played hockey be
fore she will try TO make the college hockey
team. She also is interested in dramatics
and music. She expects to major in English
at Smith and is taking music lessons.
She is the only daughter OF Edward w
Libaire a civil engineer. Mr.. Libaire was
graduated from the Columbia School of Mines
with honors and also was interested in music.
leading the Glee and Mandolin clubs at Co
lumba Mrs Libaire is a talented musician,
having sung on the operate stage with
Olive Fremstad
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
What Sharp Eyes
Mean to Mankind

W. TE never see everything that is about
\A/ us and no two Of us ever see pre-
W cisely tho same things. Each sees
what his previous training and his habit or
mind have prepared him TO sec. When an
American scientist was i'm Patagonia he fell
in with a card player who told him that
always after the first Few rounds Of the
game ne knew some Of the cards as they
were dealt; he recognized them by a differ
cnce so slight that another man could not
detect It when il was pointed out TO him.
Now tho scientist mentioned is an orni-
thologist and he says that this same pre-
naturally sharp-eyed man was greatly sur
prised when he was told that half a dozen
kinds of sparrows were feeding and singing
about the house. He had never seen any
difference in them. he said. In size. color
shape and actions they were all alike. and
they all sang and twittered alike. far as
he had ever noticed
Native Patagonians like other savage
peoples have very keen eyes for certain
things things which their modes OF life
have made it indispensable that they should
notice. In other words they are specialists.
and as n matter OF course they excel In their
own particular line. But IL does not fol
low that they have better eyes than arc
possessed by men OF civilized countries.
set them TO find a reversed IS" In the
middle Of q printed page, and the tears
would run down their brown checks and
they would give up tho search with aching
eycbals. But tho proofreadcr can find the
reversed letter in a fcw moments and never
strain his eyes in the least
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
I Wanted Barrel of Sugar
Where He Could Get 1t

At the tender age of six our own ambitions
took a saccharine turn. When we were
grown TO full manhood we intended to have
a barrel of sugar beside our office desk, which
would give us an opportunity to take a lump
of sugar at any time during the day when
we particularly felt that we needed a lump
of sugar. We told parents and friends of
the idea, and grew indignant when they
appeared to doubt the sincerity of our in
tention. We even placed bets on the subject,
and have been bounded ever since for full
payment
My earliest recOllections are that /
wanted 10 be soldier" said William
Faversham, but a Scotch soldier and wear
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TO get back to the scholarly work again For
a while 1 had charge of the undergraduate
work in mathematics and put all had into
the job
When the war came the dean of the col
lege went to Washington to serve as AS
sistant Secretary of War and / was made
acting dean. I had no ambition to be per-
manent dean. yet when in 1918 I received
the appointment I had been working hard
at the job for over a year. ] think of my
self now as more of a professor of practical
ethics than as a college disciplinarian"
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of candy. They laughed at him. and ho
nodded his head at Just you watt angle.
In 1874 young Huyler began the manu-
facture of candy in his fathers bakery in
Jane street, New York city. He made soft
nfolasses chewing candy that candy makers
told him was impractical. But John S.
Huyler had made too many patches of
molasses candy during his youth not to know
what he was about. He went right ahead
and made it, confident that he was on the
road to fame.
To introduce the molasses candy to the
public, he sent three or four thousand sam
pies a day through the shopping district,
which was then down Fourteenth street.
District after district was covered and the
samples were closely followed by the famous
Huyler wagon--a wagon with transparent
sides which the lettering could be read
night and day. gong announced its arrival
and the candy was sold as fast as it could
be passed out to the customers. Fresh
Every Hour" the slogan of the system
Mr. Huyler opened his first store in Janu-
ary, 1876 at $50 Broadway. For equipment
nc had few tables and pair of scales He
waited upon the trade himself. One candy
maker, assisted by girl and boy, consti-
tuted the factory force" in the back room.
1t was at this first Huyler store that the
first candy maker made a window demon
stration of pulling molasses candy. No
regular candy maker could be found who
would consent to making a spectacle of him
self for the sake of the business. Finally a
friend of Mr. Huyler volunteered his SER
vices and went into the window to pull
candy. People flocked from all sides TO see
the free show. The real success of the
Huyler business dates from that time.
John s. Huyler lived to see his business
develop far beyond the dreams of his child
hood. Probably he became more of a cap
italist and less of candy maker than his
original plans called for, but he never once
wavered in his main idea-by profession he
was candy maker.
If all men followed their youthful threats
or even their adolescent dreams as faith
fully as Huyler there would be some queer
changes in the professional world For ex-
ample, three well known writer's of to-day
began their careers firmly convinced that
they were artists.
Booth Tarkington's one ambition was to
be a great artist, and Joseph C. Lincoln
practically considered that he was an artist.
When Mr. Lincoln migrated to New York
from Cape Cod some twenty odd years ago
he carried under his arm portfolio of pen
and ink sketches and crayon drawings. He
"peddled" them about among the magazines
and created what he was forced TO admit
was something less than a stir with the art
editors Just TO dress up his drawings and
make them look more salabe he penned
some little jingles to go with them. The
idea was that he would sell the picture for
so much and throw in the poetry for nothing
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
First Appearance on Stage
For Six Cents Decided Him

But when was taken back to London
and went for a walk one night, | wandered
down as far as the Marylebone Theatre
Church street, Edgeware road. The big gas
jet narng over the front entrance in the
shape OF star attracted me enormously.
Then found the stage entrance with dim
oil lamp burning over 1t and twenty or thirty
boys waiting around. / learned they were
trying to be taken into the theatre as supers
to be dressed up frogs in the pantomime
of "F'roggy Would a-Wooing Go" | applied
with the rest of them and was taken in-and
got my threepence per performance (six
cents).
II made a successful appearance. and with
my eyes looking through the two apertures
that represented the frogs eyes l watched
all the actors and / felt that ] could do II
myself well as they were doing it. The
smell of the grease paint. the commotion and
excitement. the fascination of the music bit
me and bit me hard and think 1t was there
that the theatre got into my head and
heart-and it has stayed there ever since"
And now, to bring this talk of youthful
aspirations TO some manner of conclusion
there is the bootblack whom mentioned
in an early paragraph. He polishes boots at
the club and talks of grand opera. BY pro-
fession, instinct and inclination he Is
grand opera singer. Actually, he is a very
good bootblack.
ne lHChS tHc III uSi iiuu9ViiouSiS' No"D''
on the polish and brings the leather to a
nice shine Then he mentions casually that
he has memorized Aida" and is beginning
on '"Tosca." If by any chance you happen to
let on that you can distinguish between
"Tosca" and the current popular melody he
will tell you the whole story of his operate
ambitions-how he is only working TEN
porarily" at the shoe stand, how he sang
from the cradle, sang on the streets of Italy
how he studies and works over his music.
how he is nearly ready to step out before
the diamond horseshoe and take his per-
manent place in the hearts of the worlds
music lovers.
Year after year passes by and he still pol
ishes boots and talks Of grand opera. But
his ambition never ages II is as youthful
as the first peep of spring. He has chronic
attack of youthful aspiration and he doesn't
want to be cured.
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Found His Jingres the Bait
For Selling His Pictures

1t was some time before Mr.. Lincoln real
lied that the jinges were selling the pic
lures. AS a matter Of fact, II was his wife
who suggested that perhaps the jinges
would sell without the pictures and save
him lot of time and bother Only after a
long mental struggle did the artist give up
his career and become writer.
To-day Joseph G. Lincoln is the author O.
about as many Cape Cod novels as there
are years on the calendar of his writing
career. He hasn't drawn anything bui
royalty checks for the last twenty years
And yet there are persons who have seer
Mr.. Lincoln on the amateur stage who insist
that instinctively he is not an artist nor a
writer but an actor. However he waves
these protests aside and admits that he Is
through picking careers" for himself
Dean Herbert T. Hawkes. of Columbia
University claims that he never had anv
boyhood aspirations or any dreams of world
conquest other than TO do the thing he was
doing as well he could until some larger
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
7IONS OFYOUTH RAREL Y MARK ONESL IFE WORK

kits and march TO the skirl OF the bagppes
At very early age I had an old discarded
suit of kits with a Balmoral hat given 10
me by some friend relative U can't re-
member which). and my mother had taken
me to Aberdeen I used to hide this suit IN
what they called the drying room, sneak In
there and dress up. cut myself wooden
sword and go out into the woods and have
terrible fights and hand-to- hand skirmshes
With tall ferns and cedar bushes-anythinS
that my sword could lick and you should
have seen the broken and bleeding army
living on the ground when | got through,
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
No Caste or Creed Displayed
In Selections by Youth

In the plans of youth there never is much
F'reudan repression. A youngster selects
his career without any regard for caste or
creed. Whether it's rolling ash barrels for
n living or playing centre field on the New
York Giants he owns up TO his preferences
unmindful of parental or ancestral tradi-
tions. And who knows but what he might
make far better outfelder than he would
the professional man planned for him by his
sponsors in the world?
Some youngsters go in for careers" as
various exploits fan their imaginations. One
week they plan on being motormen and the
next week they are just as serious about
fitting themselves to be mounted police.
Stoadfastness to one profession means moth
ing to them.
Others have fixed idea and never swerve
from it-that is, not until they reach the
age where they realize that practical con-
siderations will pop up to disturb their
persistence. And then they give up the
original plan only with heavy sighs and
quaint misgivings.
Wandering about, talking with any one
from college professor TO a bootblack. we
found almost no one following up the career
he had planned for himself i'm the carefree
days of his marble shooting past. And then
just for the sake Of proving the rule we
came on the case OF the late John s Huyler.
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he insists is still uppermost in his mind as
a goal of complete accomplishment. With
an egg in one hand he wants to take careful
aim at an electric fan revolving at a high
rate of speed and let fly. And he wants to
be still conscious when the pieces are
picked UP.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04
BY TORREY FORD.

founder Of the candy business that bears his
name.
When Mr.. Huyler was a youngster he
spent most of his rainy afternoons clutter
ing up the kitchen with his pots and pans
He liked candy and he liked to make it,
When he grew up he told his incredulous
elders he was going to make fortune out
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

Wearing a red velvet gown was the
youthful ambition of DR.. Margaret E.
Noonan, professor in New York Uni
versity.
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Vx7HAT youthful ambition? And how nearly did
Wv
and thought childhood's shows
goal Many laugh-or perhaps
persons walks of life, Herald
single many childhood ambition
realized in part.
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Herbert E. Hawkes., dean in Colum-
bia University, confessed that his am
bition always was just ahead of him
the days work William Faversham
wanted most as boy to be a Scotch
soldier in kits.
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

Booth Tarkngon's aspiration to be great artist not
author. Joseph c. Lincoln had ambition this
The New York herald., 1921-12-04

CarrsSe but
Be
Create Several and
BoObIa Be an OperaSa
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-20
WHO'S WHO
MEMBERS ATTENDING
National Editorial Association
Daytona, March 20-21, 1921
ALABAMA.

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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1921-08-26
William Twinam
Claimed by Death

The death angel visited the home OF
Mr.. William Twinam at CannonBburR,
Ky. August IA. and claimed the faith
or and husband OF the home. Mr.. 'Twi-
nam had been suffering from typhoid
fever for the past thirty-six days. but
the attending physician gave the fam
lily reason to believe he was on the
road to recovery, but when the crisis
came he was too weak to rally and
death came at the above mentioned
time. Mr.. Twinain was one of the best
known men In Boyd county. He was
4 successful farmer and kind neigh
Dor. He win be sadly missed from that
community for he was everybody's
friend. Mr.. TwInam was crippled. hay
ing lost his right arm number OF
years ago. but this handicap did not
keep him from doing the work neces-
sary TO be done about q farm.
He was a lifelong member OF the
Grassland M. Il. Church South and all
ways tried to live up to the teachings
OF the Methodist church. He possessed
an unusual spirit of cheerfulness and
was also man who was ready at all
times day or night, to help those who
needed his assistance. He was twice
married. His first wife who was Miss
Elizabeth conley, preceded him in
death Is years ago, leaving six chill
dren in their fathers care. He kept
the family together for 12 years and
was married Q years ago to Mrs. Le-
titia Taylor. who with seven children
survive. One daughter. Helen, Red
Cross nurse, died during the influenza
epidemic In 1918 at Waterbury, Con-
netlcut The children surviving are:
Frank, Earl. Roy. Clarence. Joe Will
son and James. also one daughter. Mar
garet. He Is also survived by three
sisters: Mrs. John Smallridge. Mrs.
w. T. Rife, both OF Ashland. KY, and
Mrs. S. ]. Hammons Of Banc Bridge.
Also, two brothers, James t. Twinam
OF Ashland and Samuel OF Kettle Isle,
KY,
The funeral services were held at
the grief stricken home at Cannosburg.
KY, Tuesday, August l6, and were In
charge OF Rev. Campbell, pastor OF the
Methodist Church South. at Grass
land, assisted by Rev. II. II. Miller OF
Ashland, Ky. This was one OF the lar
gest funerals held In the neighborhood
for long time, this being evidence OF
the high esteem In which he was held.
The remains were laid to rest In the
family lot in the Field cemetery beside
father. mother. wife and daughter who
have gone before. The floral offering
was numerous and beautiful.
The sympathy OF the entire com
munity goes out TO the heartbroken
loved ones who have lost one whom
they have loved and lost while.
Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep,
A calm and undisturbed repose
Unbroken by the last % foss.
Asleep In Jesus. oh for me
May such blissful refuge be.
with holy confidence to sing.
That death has lost Its venomed sting.