Evening star., 1921-10-16
ALL IN A DAYS WORK

7NO the editor: Every little vile
I get in a bunch where the
boys is talking about foot ball
and what is the matter with
Yale and etc. and of course I half to
put in wd. or and finely somebody
asks me what college did ] tend and
1 half TO admit that / didn't tend no
college and then everybody kind of
shifts and from that time on they
don't pay no tension to what l got to
say.
Well friends 1 suppose they's a few
| amongst my readers that is in the
| same boat like 1 am and can't boast
of no alma mater so maybe these few
will be gratified if I take up the
cudgelS in behalf of the non college
man and state few incidence where
Of their life and a whole lot of money
to get a college degree and now it's
pretty near as much use to them as
a thirst for beer. Like for inst. the
other night We was playing bridge in
what l sometimes call my home and
1 of the players was a man that had
studied electric engineering for 4 yrs.
and vile we was playing it begin to
sprinkle out doors so pretty soon all
the electric lights in Great Neck had
the rest Of us past a few jokeing re-
marks about 1t and after 5 or 10 min
uteS somebody asked what was we
going to do and the electric engineer
cleared his throat and says:
Haven't you got no candles in the
house?"
lIH7ELL friends, that is just a SAM
w Pile of how much good this birds
education done him in big crisis
like the above, but what 1 started out
to tell you about was a young friend
of mine that had always been inter-
ested in chemicals when he was a kid
and had a laboratory in his house and
was always monking with acids and
| etc. and finely when it come time for
him to go to college he insisted on
takeing pharmacy ,I,. which drns is store the
course. as that was his hobby
and besides they's suppose to be
whole lot of profits in the drug busi-
ness SO he took or yrs. of it and
come out a register pharmist and MS
old man decided he better work in
| drug store vile before he started
| him in a store of his own.
So the day before the kid went to
work he was nervous and scared for
the fear somebody would bring in a
~
right or something. and he might give
them a fatsl doze of poison, but the
next time l seen him l asked him
was he getting along o. X. with the
| prescriptions and at 1st he give me
kind of d sad smile and then his voice
broke so l asked him what was the
matter and finely he says he had quit
the business and / asked him why and
he says because he didn't have the
right kind Of a education.
Well friends, / got his story out of
him and here it Is. He spent the 1st
day overlooking the stock and the
next day the prop went out and left
| him alone on the job and pretty soon
! in come a lady and he asked her what
| could he do for her, madam, expect
ting her to pull out code letter from
some Dr., but she says:
could you cash me a check Tor
$500 as I haven't time to go to the
bank and my husband forgot to leave
| me any money"
| So he cashed the check, and an
| other lady come in and bought
| telephone slug and she was. in the
| booth about Is minutes and finely
come out and told him the people
she was trying to call up had moved
+, and she had got hold OF some-
body else that lived where the peo-
pie she wanted use to live and the
| girl wouldn't give her back the slug
SO he would give her back her nickel.
| So he give her back her nickel,
| and then 3 gals come in and one
! Of them wanted maple nut parfait