The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-05-28
COLLEGE BOYS WORK
WAY AROUND WORLD
Answer to Challenge of
Their ''Prexy."

bOuDay. - Two young AInerICdI
stowaways arrived in Bombay on o
liner from Port Said the other day,
their only baggage being two rain
coats, camera, shaving set, sewing
kit and Bible. They were allowed
to land and go free because their pass
ports were in order and because the
shipping company did not care to take
the case to court. Incidentally the
youths had worked well as deck hands
and had won the friendship of the
officers and crew
Questioned in Bombay the stow
Always said they were college gradu-
ates taking year off to work their
way around the world without receiv-
ing a cent from home. Their journey
is an answer to a challenge made by
their college president, DR.. p. R. Kolbe,
who in a speech before the student
body of Akron university wondered
why American students no longer
worked their way to and around Eu-
rope during summer vacations. He
even limited that fear Of the hard
knocks might be the cause of this
lack of wanderlust. The two students,
Adib Karam, twenty-three years old,
and James w. Matz, twenty-five, In
answer to the presidents challenge.
around Europe, but are going around
the world. Already they have been
through England France, SwitZer-
land, Italy, Syria, Palestine and Egypt.
Start on LevIathan.
In New York on June 80, 1925, two
weeks after receiving their diplomas.
the young men got jobs on the United
States liner Leviathan, plying between
New York and Southampton.
1--WE learned a little what Doctor
Kobe meant by hard knocks when we
were put to work peeling onions and
potatoes. 1t wasn't easy to become
scullions so soon after our graduation
from college," Karam remarked rem
iniscently. After working three months
on this boat and then leaving 1t In
England, they saw Canterbury, with
it's historic cathedral; London and
Wembley. and "hiked'' through Kent.
Four days after arriving in Paris
they obtained jobs. They saved
money, saw Paris and learned some
French.
Geneva. their next important stop,
was reached by walking through the
picturesque French and Swiss alps.
After riding around Lake Geneva and
through the Simplon tunnel, they Wis
tied the famous places of Milan, Ven
ice. Florence, Rome and Naples and
inspected Mount Vesuvius and Pom
peii.
Work Way to Syria.
The two wanderers next went to
Marseilles, France, from which port
they worked their way to Beyrouth,
Syria, in the stokehole of the Pytheas,
a French military transport.
In Syria they went inland, saw
something of the war. They passed
two weeks in Palestine. The next leg
of their tour was from Jerusalem to
Egypt. Walking to the desert and
then stealing ride, they arrived In
Kantara, Egypt, after four days Of
travel. Because of the dirt and CRIME
of these hard four days and their I'M
shaver appearances, the Egyptian
passport officials permitted them to en-
ter only after thorough questioning.
Cairo, with it's pyramids, the Sphinx
and the River Nile, was the next city
of interest. After spending Ave days
there the wanderers began 15O-mile
walk to Port Said.
After failing to find jobs on boat
that would take them to Bombay they
slowed away.
So far their wanderings have cost
only 1920. OF this amount $3.50 was
used for visas, leaving only $163.5O ac-
tually spent in living and travel for
the eight months in which they have
been away from home.