Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1935, Page 26

75, 6REAT RICHES BYNOPSIS. @ince the death of his P rmapuenu James Stimson. 20, ead of the Stimson family in New eord, Kans, and has received the atten- tion such a position justified—in New Concord. - But now he is at school in the Fast. and being a New Concord Stimson amoints to nothing at “all. Nor can James find those ‘‘temptations’ agAainst which his Aunt Sarah has warned him. CHAPTER IX. THE SPEECH. HERE were in a place called the “Fem Sem" a few care- fully chaperoned feminine young things who occasionally made surreptitious eyes at the young gentlemen of the academy when they passed on the street, but it was considered beneath the dignity of these latter to notice the Fem Sems. Now and then a few servant girls, arm-in-arm, fearfully self-conscious and rather aghast at their daring, | strolled about the campus in the twi- | light and might possibly have been | talked to. | James scarcely noticed them before they were shooed away by watchful guardians, the boys being most care- fully looked after by the higher powers. James was much used to the society | of his elders and he would have gladly | made friends with his teachers. How- ever, the latter were busy, hard-driven | men and were either indifferent or never noticed his shy advances. One of his masters, indeed, the physics prof, proved actively inimical. | This gentleman, finding it painfully | easy to render James inarticulate with | embarrassment, varied the monotony of his class room by making game of | this tongue-tied young bean pole of | & Westerner. “Well, Mr. Stimsbn,” he would say suavely, “you seem to be fairly burst- ing to express your valuable ideas. Suppose you give us the benefits of your opinion on this subject.” Mr. Stimson would thereupon un- fold himself and rise blushingly to his feet and stammer a disjointed reply while the class tittered and the master goaded him into further incoherence. At the end of the term James turned in so good an examination paper in physics that his professor practically accused the boy of cheat- ing and thereby all but broke his | heart. James could scarcely reply to this monstrosity so near was he to | blubbering, but he stammered some- how an offer to take an oral examina- tion and, after a few questions, was | given a grudging half apology. | James left school at the end of his first term with his self-confidence and self-esteem crushed and shat- tered almost beyond mending. Back in New Concord they began to re- vive somewhat, but he never after believed quite so firmly in himself as he had and was for years vaguely, | though unconsciously, expectant of re- i buffs from strangers. | His Summer was happy enough after a fashion, though he missed his grandmother constantly and his grandfather acutely at intervals. Per- | haps it was his pride that kept him | from confiding to the judge or Aunt | Sarah how unhappy he had been at school or how he dreaded to go back. However, before James left home | that Autumn he enlisted the aid of | Judge Holcomb and got the promise | of a regular and more adequate allow- ance as well as two suits of extremely | smart tailor-made clothes made in | Kansas City. | (This latter concession caused Miss | Barah many qualms of conscience and quite ruined her peaceful communion with her Maker for many, many Sun- | days as Mr. Davis, the New Concord tailor, passed her the plate in church | and never failed to look reproachfully } et her.) James, however, as one of his class- mates assured him, appeared almost human that term. Perhaps this ful- some praise went to James' head, for | the first thing he did afterwards was to buy the paper on the wall from a | departing upper classman whose room he was taking over. His predecessor explained that he had been put to great expense f re- papering and painting the room the previous term and it seemed reason- able to James that, since he himself was to enjoy the results, he should recompense the other in part. James was truly no wizard in finance, but how any one with a New England ancestry could lack so utterly a bargaining sense it seems hard to | comprehend—but then James was only half a New Englander. And, of course, as his Aunt Sarah often pointed out, James did not come from | a line of shopkeepers. His ancestors were college professors, clergymen, Judges and the like. i James’ last year at school was not actively unhappy. He was in a dor- mitory now and had a roommate and was besides a senior with all the | privileges and prestige that implies, | but he would have left school without | making more than the most shadowy | of impressions if it had not been for | his graduating essay. He chose Kansas then for his theme, his beloved, misunderstood, sneered at, jeered at Kansas and ‘worked for weeks collecting pages and pages of the most beautifully deadly statistics destined solely to annihilate any and all who doubted for a mo- ment that that particular bit of Eden was not only the richest, the most favored, and God-endowed, but the | most cultured State in the Union. ‘Then he wrote them all down in order firstly, secondly, thirdly, etc major premise, minor premise, ar; { ment and conclusion until he had | before him a very masterpiece of un- answerable facts, and burned to make use of it. | But when the moment came for | James to read his essay and he rose | to face the hundreds of indifferent, slightly bored faces that were gath- ered there from every State in the Union a certain sixth sense suddenly whispered to him that his statistics would be only s0 many numbers in | their disinterested minds and forgot- | ten before they were comprehended. The same sixth sense made him realize that to reach that vast crowd | he must first stir their imaginations | and touch their hearts. If it were | only possible to paint for them the | glory of his State, its splendid inde- | pendence, the very essence of Amer- fcanism; its originality, its steadfast: mess, the romance of its beginning, the love it inspired in its childre; The New TELEPHONE DIRECTORY CLOSES To order a telephone or arrange for additional listings call Etropolitan 9900 and all at once James felt that he could do all this. It was altogether a new sensation— this consciousness of power—and it frightened him a little even while it thrilled him. His voice trembled and broke and his knees threatened to betray him. But this sudden fine ardor, this something that came to him from somewhere, after the first sentence or two. made him quite forget himself and swept aside all self-consciousness. His voice ceased trembling and gathered richness and volume. He could be heard to the very ends of the hall and the hundreds of mothers, fathers, sisters, and aunts who had come to hear one boy's great effort and no other's ceased fanning or whispering or fidgeting on their seats and James knew that they were listening to him and waiting to hear what he had to tell them. James had other great moments afterward in his life but probably none quite reached that moment when he first knew that he held his audi- ence in the hollow of his hand and could do with it as he pleased. Fortu- nately, he pleased to be brief. His written speech which he still held he never once glanced at, though he quoted from it occasionally from | memory, and he delivered so stirring, s0 moving an address that when he sat down there was a dead silence before the rafters rang with enthusi- astic cheers. Miss Sarah, who had come East to witness James' graduation was so THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1935. moved she broke down' and cried and Judge Holcomb, who had come for the same purpose (but not by the same train, for that would not have been proper) all but did. Even the head of the academy and the professors, including the hated physics prof, were greatly impressed at James’ sudden display of oratorical powers and made much of him, while strangers crowded about him and said kind words of praise. Miss Sarah cried partly from pride but more be- cause James' grandmother and grand- father were not there to share in his triumph. Judge Holcomb, however, was proud enough to serve for half a dozen sets of parents and grandparents. ‘The first Friday after James' tri- umphant return from scheol the walls of the Stimson mansion showed the stuff they were made of by standing up stoutly under the roars the judge catapulted at them in his argument with Miss Sarah and James over the { latter's choice of a future career. The argument had been brought about by a casual remark by Miss Sarah at the dinner table that her nephew planned to study medicine. “But he’s got a heaven-sent gift of oratory,” thundered the judge. “It’s rarer than horns on a rooster.” Tomorrow, disaster strikes Miss Sarah. Greased Pig Injures Man. OAKLAND, Calif. (#).—John J. McLean, 28, is through with greased pig chases. | McLean thought it was a swell idea when some one at a party suggested it. He ended up in the hospital with bruised lips, a broken tooth or two, possible concussion of the brain—and no pig. 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