White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-04-08
by L. c. BRANsoN,
..,ner of White Pine News Staf.

name III print anu o'ii 'eos w
U -. 1, writing to 8 the personal
'.nuoun. but there seems to be times
~, a person cannot get away from
,.hor and give himself all that sat
s,ao,ion that goes with the game,
mis- is one of them.
see by the papers that Harry
wallace is coming to Nevada, and
',.ee Harry was my classmate and I
|,nogine that I am about the only
s.rson in Nevada who enjoys a per-
sanol acquaintance with the secre-
AIRY of agriculture. 1t may be that I
hove a right to break into print.
NV brother Johnny. two years my
.,dor and | went to Ames College
,,om Villisca. Iowa. landing there
.hout March 5. 1885. We had taught
..hool that winter for s35 n month
and boarded ourselves TO get the
money TO go on. One of the col
,eye rules was that we had to de.
.oslt s21 each 10 guarantee our
yard bills If we boarded in the cot
,.oes or s26 If we went In the main
,ollege building. We had decided
an the cottages, one of the reasons
AeIng that we had not quite the cash
N mt into the main building.
Charley Waterman and Bent How.
land. who had been students at
lmes three or four years before, had
haen fred and sent home. which was
shat was called graduating at the
hack door. They coached us on how
IA act when we reached there. This
vas before the word haze" had been
ofned. I think. and Charley eau.
tonea US particularly to not let any
oder students get hold OF us. take
rs into a garrett and give us the mil
itary exam. He said they would
"trip our garments and put US
through some awful tests In = nude
condition. etc.
We had ridden on a train before,
opee or twice for twenty or thirty
niles, but the night We started on
the trip from Villisea We could not
eat q morsel OF supper. | have been
travelling ever since. but that was
the only time IL took my appetite.
The thinking about II. but they say
il affects everybody that way the first
time. We rode east 10 Abba. chang
ing cars there. and northwest 10 Dies
nrnf,.- awWf.rfr1 Of Iaylt1ht II MAS
the first time in our lives WI had
heard newsboys crying out papers
for sale. As we pulled into the city
they we're screaming:
Morning Register-Leader.' the
latter in tones ever so shrill. "all
about the city election"
We did not breakfast there but
took the early morning train for
Ames. At the college town we were
nearly starved, so we bought SONS
cheese and crackers and sneaked or
10 the sidelines 10 eat them. But II
did not satisfy US and we were a
hungry as ever.
Soon Johnny ran onto the college
bus the college being on a big farm
two miles west of town. and was
told by Billy. the driyer-I have for.
gotten his other name-that he could
not take US that trip but he wouia
be back. Or we could walk out L
the college by following the railroad
track. turning of up to the build
.ngs when we came to the farm. We
turned that down instanter, fearing
We might run right into one or moro
Of those dreaded older students.
When we reached he college in
the bus II was 100. On the bus
was an older student. ell right. but
he was such a perfectly honest. fat
country kid, a few years older than
US. that we could not e that he
would harm anyone, much less would
he play tricks like Charley Water
man had told about. He proved to
be a member OF the senior class and
every inch as fine a fellow as he
looked and the pictures you have
seen of him since. with a full beard
| will explain, for that beard was
grown to conceal the fact that where
other people have n chin he had only
a place for one in tho form of a cute
dimple. | have called on him twice
at Washington since. in 1906 and
1908, where for sixteen years he
held down the Office of assistant sec
rotary of agriculture under Mckin-
ley. Roosevelt and Taft, and his
name is Willett NJ. Hays. on ae-
count II he being the d%iscoverer OF
the chemical depravity of the soil
and Of finding the elements In the
form OF phosphates and nitrates to
rehabilitate II. he has been called
The Burbank of the east. Can any
one say that his discoveries have
been less important than these OF
Luther Burbank? Even with the
name Hays would he have poor.
green country kids?
Billy drove us up to the college
entrance: we walked in; several
people we're grouped there and to