Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-10-19
STUDY AND WORK
Columbia ST. tents Give Cafe
terra an Atmosphere"
Variety Of r ices and Countries Repre-
scented in Small New York
Eating Place.

There Is one cafeteria In New York
where the dishvashers discuss relatiy-
/ ity and the fourth dimension, where
the countermen have master degrees,
| where the bgS Eoss are prepared to
/ give an opinion IN the Genoa confer
ence, or the I,apallo agreement This
| cafeteria is located In a one-story
| building just back Of the massive gray
domed library If Columbia university
and is best known by its title o. com
MONS" the New York Sun points out.
Needy students are giYen all the jobs
in this cafeteria, with the exception Of
some managerial positions and those
In the culinary department.
A visit to this cafeteria a little after
noon on week day in the company Of
one familiar with the place and its
habitues will yield some interesting In
formation. The man who serves the
soup, for example, is a Nova Scotian.
a student of journalism, he is earning
his way through by free lancing and
by doing odd bits Of work Beside him
is Greek, in this country only year,
but already master of English.
The dark-skinned man at the griddle
is a native of Turkestan, a pre-medi-
cal student He has announced his
intention Of leaving Columbia at the
end Of the present semester to con-
tinue his studies at Iowa State univer-
sity, because the expenses are less at
the latter institution. The LOO miles
from New York to Iowa he is to travel
by emulating Jack London in his adj
verse days. This man will practice In
Persia when he has finished his educa-
ton.
Behind the salad counter stand two
Chinese students. both benefciaries of |
provincial government scholarships |
worth about $50 a month. There are |
more than 300 Chinese students in |
New York city alone, it is said, and |
more than 1000 in the whole country,
mostly sent here by their governments.
AT the dessert counter Is japanese.
Further along are to be found native
American countermen, like the others,
obliged to earn their way through |
school. The man who operates the
butter cutting machine was a seaman
all the early years Of his life and went
up as far as a third mates berth be-
fore he decided to chuck the sea and
get an education. He has four years
Of college and two in a professional
school ahead of him, even after he
works off bis matriculation require
ments. Besides this work at the cafe
terra he has job taking care of an
old man, a paralytic.
Among the dishwashers is a Hindu,
already the possessor of a masters de-
gree and now working on his thesis for
4 doctorate. In another year he hopes
to return to India, where he has a wife
waiting for him, and take charge of an
Indian college.
There is a cosmopolitan air about :
hose who eat In this cafeteria. At one
able there may be seen a group of '
FilipinoS, more than 100 /
If whom are now studying in New |! t
fork city. Next TO them there may be q
wo or three striking blonde students. a
presumably Scandinavians. A AIesopo-
amian, a student Of philosophy. is a
requenter of this place. So are two Il
russian students and several Italians. P
t is probably one of the most cosmo- Il
Olitan eating places In the city and a
ne of the most interesting when some
hing of the history of the employees
ere is discovered. and something is
earned of their struggle against odds
, get an education.