WHAT WE NOW ARE By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Emeritus Dean of Men, University of Illinois. Grover is quite discontented with the curriculum which the college has : lald out for him. He has in mind certain things which he will be doling ten or twenty years from now, and so far as he can see a great deal of the work which he is required to do In college will be of no practical benefit to him at that time. He sees no use in Lat. fn or English IMterature or military drill and a half dozen other things with which his course is cluttered up. “We none of us set out with the intention of being what we now are,” & shrewd observer of human nature has said, “and we have all of us had to adapt ourselves to our situation from time to time.” Possibly his statement Is a little sweeping, but In my own case it is strangely true. I have never done anything that I planned to do, and no position which I have ever neld did I go after. It was chance or oppor- tunity or the request or the insistence ©f my friends that put me into one position or another, I think it Is so with many people. They plan to do one sort of work or another and then gettle down for life in something en- tirely different. For these reasons I believe it makes little difference what pone studies In he chooses those branches of study which give him mental discipline and breadth of view. Whatever makes a man think is the best thing for him, There was Brown, He had made up his mind before he was out of the grades that engineering was the thing for him. He ate up mathematics and physics and chemistry, He was mis- erable until his mother bought him a set of tools, and then he fixed every thing in the neighborhood which need. ed mending or readjusting. He on the honor roll in college in neering, and was elected to Tau Beta Pl In his junior year. He Is very like iy a successful engineer now, you say. Wot s0. He is the president of a bank. {®. 1931, Western Newspaper Union.) college, just so was engi- Grandmother at 32 Although she Is wvarely thirty-two years old, Mrs. Pearl Downward of Rushville, Ind., holds the distinction of being the youngest grandmother in her state. At any rate, she is the young- est to claim the honor. Mrs, Down ward was married at fifteen and be- come a mother a year later. Her daughter, Mrs. Verdi Stevens, now of Dallas, Texas, recently duplicated her mother’s record. - { 5 ho London.—*No traitor shall escape death,” sald Mustapha Kemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey, when, In 1023, he signed the death warrants previously executed by the sultan of Turkey, of those who had been traitors to their during the war. The story has just reached London, however, of how the ghazl relented for the first time recently and freed one of Tar- key's traitors, The memory of his widowed mother, whom he adored, moved him to mercy In one of the most extraor- dinary stories coming out of the war, He granted clemency to Capt Sabry Bey, formerly of the British army, who had risked death by re turning to Turkey eight years ago to see his mother before she died. He was arrested only recently. Lieut, Sabry Bey of the fusiliers of imperial guard, was recommended for aeronantics in 1913 after a di active service record In the Balkan war, and sent to England to train. He was at'ached to ing corps, then In its Infancy, hecame popular Through his kinsman, ince the Turkish who fought with British allles In he obtained entree o the country state Ottoman the stinguished the Royal Fly- and very the mess, Tewfik, had ‘rime Crimea, ambassad most t ex- clusive circles of English society. When Britain declared 1inst Germany in August, 1914, Sabry, like all the rest of his Mess, war fever 1 tradition Inherited from became too strong for him, tered the ranks of a British regiment retreat, at * naiils Chapellle, war ag comrades In the got he pro-British the Crimea He en infantry and fought at Mons, in the Givenchy and at Neuve Within three months and before Turkey entered the war, Sabry ey had won an officer In the British active service, In the early days of November, 1014, telegrams from the war office at Constantinople arrived in London for him to Turkey, which already made up her mind to the Germans, Sabry never re lied and the Turkish ambassador its commission as army in had Join i was unable to obtain any trace of him the Mons Star, medal, and was men- tioned In dispatches by the British commander in chief. In the meantime the Turks held an imperial court mar. tinl and the sultan signed his death warrant at the end of 1016. In 1023 Mustapha renewed it, Eight years ago the friendly com- mander of a British torpedo boat de- stroyer shipped Sabry at a Bulgarian port and dropped him at the European side of the straits, The Turk swam back to his own country, despite the death warrant, because he had re. In 1916 he received the Military ODD THINGS AND SIR GEORGE GRIERSON ~ of England ePepxs 179 LANGUAGES FLUENTLY / NEW—By Lame Bode In BROOKLYN NY. = 4 s1oRIES HIGH AND. ony 8 FEET WIDE HAIR CAN BE GROWN ON A APRIL FOOL 15 A FLOWER vos THE PASQUE (P nuttaLoann) Soldier Risked Execution to Aid Widowed Mother. celved news that his aged widowed mother, of whom he was the only child, had become a paralytic, For eight years he remained hidden in her home disguised as a servant, Japanese Swim Star Japan's new swimming star is Koll "nv # ¥1 & we » 3 ¥ ’ 3 Yamazaki, sixteen-y 1 high school boy, who broke the Japanese record for the 100-mete by splashl row 1 ns through the d nee in 50 1.8 seconds, al championship meet at Tokyo. He is assdred of a place on Japan's swimming squad In the 1832 Olympic games at Los Angeles, during the natior Romance of Ozark Mountains & pretty little seventeen-year-ol and a twenty-oneyearold hus! ended In the Circuit court here when Judge C. Jasper Bell annulled their marriage In Bentonville, Ark. Miss Eloise sorority girl and leader on the University of Mis- souri campus last year, was the young wife and Charles Sears, son of a wealthy Kansas City family, was the husband, Both live in Kansas City. Charles did not appear in court to defend himself In the annulment pro- ceedings, but he was represented by OF INTEREST 10 HE HOUSEWIFE A piece of orange skin placed on top of the stove will take away the heavy odor of cooking from the kitch- en and give out a pleasant fragrance. » * » Shearer, To remove brown stalns from light colored ranges, dip a cloth In turpen- tine and apply to stains. With a lit- tle pressure the stains will come off. - . - Label your jars and bottles with adhesive tape and write on the tape with red Ink what the jars contain. The tape sticks to the jars and is not likely to loosen. » » » The hole In the bottom of a flower pot should never be closed up, Place a few cinders or bits of broken china over it to let the air In to the roots and keep the soll from coming through, * & » After washing and drying woolen blankets hang them on aline In the open alr and beat them well with a carpet beater. Fhis raises the fluff and the blankets look almost as good When a man is sure that his friends never say unkind things about him he can be sure that all his friends are dead. : i Few people entered the house, as it was notorious that she was the mother of a traitor who had A short time ago Sabry Bey attended his mother to and In an- swer to the priest's question, good Moslem commits this body to the grave?’ Babry answered, “Her son.” His arrest was a When the dictator it and Sabry's 1} him. He was taken executive under ghazi ordered the prisoner and gave pardon his been convicted, the grave “What matter of hours, was Informed of he for before the chief heavy guard. The the escort to rele him a com because he had once for 1 story, sent thrice r in the I ind on the w life: kans, again for Eng ern front, and fin: mother's last years, Mustapha reminded Sabry that he had also loved his own ther deeply and declared that since he had heard of the ia won- cir have irkey ily to console 1d been dering whether, under the same iid Yo £4 back, cumstances had the courage to come Worn Out Land to Be Used for Reforestation Creek, Mic) Farm g has gis id In K Is considered "worked out" Crops ed. professor of forestry, vergreens on the land, de } the eX- iy, W oh 80 far as grain Pac] A, will try « Are concert Herbert, youl "oe di ty 5 ¥ ng «ight or nipe years periment, his attorney, who did not contest any of the remarks that Eloise made con ” cerning their marriage and love affair 8 1 been mar ng a week- ether they “There married couple We all had a few and Charles suggested that we go to Bentonville, a sort of Gretna married. When we got there my We They went on a four