Evening star., 1921-06-05

! Eighty cents or nothing"
| Il won't pay It." said the man in
! shirt sleeves.
| All right" the workman answered
III go find somebody that will"
Trumbuil Gannett walked on up the
! in his head. An eight-hOur day at
so cents an hour came to $6.40 And
\ II a man worked ten hours. two hours
of overtime. he would get $3.50 day.
$3.50 a week. more than $e.100 a
year. That was more than an assist
ant professor got. Five hundred dol
! lars more. 1t seemed incredible.
i IL Trumbull Gannett had been pro-
fessor of Latin he might have shrug-
ged his shoulders and reflected cyni-
! cally: Such is the way of the machine
! age" But he was a professor of gas
! engineering, and the idea that boy
who had spent three or four years
hanging around a garage and picking
up tools and the tricks Of the trade
i could earn more money in twelve
months than he. who had taken a
four-years' course in engineering and
lad done two years of graduate work
and eight years of teaching and used
tools all his life. rather took him
aback. He had perhaps known 1t be-
! fore. but he had never realized 1t be-
| fore.
| And then he reflected that a profess
sor did not work ffty-two weeks in
year; he worked thirty-hve or thirty
{ six weeks. He figured quickly that
per hour than the mechanic had asked
for-not much. but<a little. That
gratified him. And he had the whole
summer free to do with as he pleased
EVEN to increase his years income.
He had known that, too, but now it
. broke on his mind with all the force
of a new and significant fact.
! Gannett had a sudden impulse to go
| back and tell the man in shirt sleeves
that he would take that Is cents an
hour with time and half for over
tine But he couldn't, OF course.
Sersity say if one of his professors
spent a summer working as me
chanic in a repair shop? Logically
he could hardly object to q professor 8
earning enough money in the summer
to go on protesting during the college
president could hardly treat the mat
The small house seemed strangely
empty without Dorothy and the
twins. The thought Of the faculty
club did not sntice him. He would
60 there to dinner. but that was az
professors. Mechanically he picked
up the evening paper and read the
headlines. He turned pageA reading
idiy. He saw the line Eight Dollars
a Day over a brief paragraph. He
read:
Kansas City. Kan. June 11.-Wages
for farm hands in the wheat coun.
try have now passed all records
! Word comes from the south that mar.
vest hands are demanding $500 gay
q thousand acres in wheat near Paw.
nee City. said today that he would
nay $500 day this year and every
body welcome. Tractor hands are now
getting $500 . day.
Trumbull Gannett threw down the
paper and started for the faculty
club. He met Wilkinson a. ne We
going in. wilkinson was proiessof
OF Reolosy. He asked Gannett II Can
nett intended to teach in the summer
session. =
! NO" Gannett heard himself say.
Il er Farming. / want to see what they
are actually doing in the held;"
Instipctively he straightened his
body, raised his head. He was taller
than the average man, little unoer
weight. but large -nSnsd; I. .da.t hs !n1s han1s
} been soft. They were large, strong
hands. A week or two Of hard work
would put him in shape again. HARD
work would do him good. He wonder
ed how uncertain following the har.
vest would be: Ms at,v Tansea Sa,'ssa tws.ye esH
Il Could he follow the harvest and live
i on ten dollars week and save forty
lForty dollars q week would come to
i four hundred and eighty dollars Tor
the summer-almost enough to pay
even IN the. far He realized that Will
+ kinsOn was saving: