Part 10 (2/2)
This is a typical incident in the extremely busy, richly human daily routine of the man who created the office of Dean of Men in Aray hair smartly parted, with kindly, clever, humorous blue eyes and a smile that is an ecstasy of friendliness, ”To froht to five every day and handles all of the very real troubles and problems of the four thousand-odd es one hundred callers a day, in addition to answering a heavy mail and attendance upon various cos He is known all over the country as an authority on fraternities and their influence, and a power forthat influence constantly better and finer In business, farmer, and school circles in the Middle West Mr Clark is fa speeches His quick, shaft-like hu sarcasm, and his rare, resilient sympathy havepersons
They still tell the story on the caster alked into the dean's office one fall, set his suitcase on the floor, and drawing two one-dollar bills and a fifty-cent piece fro:
”That's all the h Will you help er, i jaw Reaching over, he took the two bills and pocketed thereat men,” said the dean, ”started their university careers with only fifty cents I don't want you to be handicapped, so I'll keep this two dollars You can get work at ---- Green Street waiting on table for your meals, and the landlady at ---- Chale for room rent”
The boy earned his way successfully for several months Then suddenly he was taken sick An operation was necessary Mr Clark wired for a Chicago specialist and paid all expenses out of his own pocket The student recovered, and two years after he was graduated sent ”To a check for five hundred dollars
”To redeem my two dollars which you have in trust,” the letter said, ”and please use the money as a medical fund for sick students who need, but cannot afford, Chicago specialists”
The dean has an abnorues' gallery”--the photographs of all inco freshmen are taken and filed away And many an humble, unknown freshman has been exalted by the ”hello, Darby,” or ”Good , Boschenstein”--or whatever his nareeted him
Mr Clark once revealed to o he was professor of English and had strong literary ambitions, with no little promise There came the offer of the office of Dean of Men He had to choose betriting about peoples lives or living those lives with people And he chose, with the result that at all tiht it's ”Tommy this, and Tommy that”; an accident case may need hi students ue an irate sheriff into the conviction that they are not robbers and s in the rooms of lonesome students who ”need a friend”
”Tommy Arkle” is one of the Middle West's finest contributions to the modern ideal of human service
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TWO NEW MACHINE GUNS ARE INVENTED FOR THE US ARMY BY THE ”EDISON OF FIREARMS”
BY HARRY B HUNT
HARTFORD, CONN, NOV 12--”Well, Old JM has done it again”
That is the chief topic of conversation these days in the big shops of Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport, where the bulk of the rifles, pistols andturned out
For in these towns to say that ”Old JM has done it again” is the si has invented a new kind of firearm
This time, however, ”Old JM” has done it twice He has invented not one, but t guns Both have been accepted by the United States governned, and work of production is being pushed night and day The neeapons will be put into the field against Ger? You never heard of hi is the father of rapid-fire and automatic firearms
His is the brain behind practically every basic small firearm invention in the past 40 years He has been to the development of firearms what Edison has been to electricity
”Unquestionably the greatest inventor of firearun experts of the Colt, Reton and Winchester plants, whose business it is to study and criticise every developun inventor, he is the enius in the country when it coun than a reporter
A few years ago a paper in his home state--Utah--published a little story about his success as an inventor, and the story was copied by the Hartford Courant
”I'd rather have paid 1,000 cash than have had that stuff printed,”
Browning says