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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1942)
Filling Coffee Cups of America A half a billion pounds of the golden bean—coffee—come up from l.atin America each year to the port of New Orleans, there to be ground, roasted and blended to make America's favorite "brew" Recognized as a morale builder, coffee is in great favor with military mtm, and our boys on land, sea and in the air look forward to that steaming cup. These photos take you to Coffee Town. Heavy bags of green coffee hang poised over the heads of the carriers in the great dockside coffee sheds in New Orleans, and then are dropped upon the head of four huskies. ... fu 11 ill ..— I Preparations are here being made for “cupping," in a New Or leans coffee firm, one of the steps in grading and testing of coffee. These coffee tasters sit at a cir cular table which revolves to bring them cup after cup of dif ferent varieties. A coffee maker prepares a big pot of the age-old brew that has cheered savant and common man alike from time immemorial. In an old French quarter cof fee kitchen, coffee it poured with one hand while milk it poured with the other. A young “car hop” gaily swings out to the rows of parked cars with coffee for two brewed in the 1 inimitable Coffee Town way. A Mean T rick By KARL GRAYSON Associated Newspapers—WNU Service NED GROSS knew all the reasons why Herbert Allis had left Raeburn university and when I expressed an interest in hearing them he grinned and looked pleased. Ned is a man who likes to tell stories and he ap preciates an attentive audience. “I’ll have to go back," he began, "to the time when Herbert was made a full-fledged professor and began his duties as an instructor of mathematics at Raeburn. Rae burn and Barkley, you know, are and have always been keen rivals. Not so much in the athletic field as in the academic. Each prides itself on its scholastic standing and each adheres to rigid rules concerning the qualifications of its faculty and its student body. "A tradition of long standing was broken by Raeburn when the board of trustees hired Herbert Allis, for Herbert didn’t possess a master’s degree. Now a master’s degree may or may not determine a man's didactic ability, but at Raeburn and Barkley, too, it invests him with a certain dignity, and has always been a necessary asset. Herbert Allis was the exception, but this was be cause he possessed exceptional abil ity in his line. In fact, he was quite famous, considered throughout the country as an authority. And Rae burn knew that by breaking an an cient tradition they had added one “Herbert was quite young at the time, a small, unassuming man." more point of fame to their long list. “Herbert was quite young at the time, a small, unassuming man, and was very grateful and proud of the honor which went with his profes sorship on the much envied Rae burn's shattering of the ancient tra dition, and to Herbert's ears came eventually bits of gossip which seemed like a direct menace to his job. He was then quite unaware of the extent of his own fame. “But as time went on and the Rae burn board of trustees continued to maintain him on their faculty at the same handsome salary Herbert began, to use the vernacular, to feel his oats. That is, his fame and im portance became so widespread that even the little man himself heard about it. It set him to think ing, and after a time he took the bull by the horns and approached the Raeburn trustees in regard to an increase in his salary. “Much to his surprise the board awarded him the increase without the usual wrangling and red tape. In a sense this was a mistake because it stimulated in Herbert a feeling of confidence and self-importance. He didn’t exactly get the swelled head, but he became more sure of his ground. "Meanwhile, Barkley continued to speak disparagingly upon occasion of Raeburn's rash move in break ing their traditions. Herbert wished something could be done about it. But at the moment no form of ven geance presented itself and Barkley continued with its remarks, even after a nationally circulated maga zine published an article of praise and admiration concerning Herbert and his work. "It was following the publication of a second and third article in equally well-reputed magazines that Herbert began to wonder if there weren't more behind Barkley’s de rogatory remarks than traditional disapproval. And the more he thought about it the more firmly he became convinced that the Barkley board of trustees was envious. "And eventually a new and des perate plan took form in Herbert’s mind. He re-read the three maga zine articles concerning his own greatness in order to give him the necessary confidence, and then, in the greatest of secrecy, drove over to Barkley and called on the chair man of its board of trustees. The chairman received him graciously, in fact almost eagerly, and for two hours the pair remained closeted to gether. “A week later Herbert tendered his resignation to the Raeburn board of trustees, and announced that he had been hired by Barkley college to head its mathematics department. The Raeburn board was shocked, indignant, incredulous. They con sulted, went in a body to wait on Mr. Allis and after much hemming and hawing they offered him a much ' higher salary and a department head. “But Herbert was adamant. He had promised to join the Barkley faculty and that he must do. The Raeburn men be came panicky. They hemmed and hawed some more and final ly confessed that they had sus pected Barkley of being wishful of securing the little man, but they had also felt assured, due to Barkley’s disparaging re marks, that the rival college would never break its tradition of hiring a professor who didn’t have an M.A. degree, hence had not offered to raise Herbert’s salary. But, under the circum stances, they would double what ever amount the Barkley board had offered for an annual stipend. “Still Herbert wouldn't listen. And in the end he departed for Barkley despite the almost tearful pleading of the Raeburn boys. “Well, a month passed and then Herbert began wreaking his ven geance. The opportunity came when a metropolitan newspaper asked him for an interview. In providing information about himself, Herbert announced that he was pretty proud of the fact that he was the only pro fessor ever allowed on the Barkley faculty who didn't possess a mas ter’s degree. Barkley, he said, had broken a much adhered-to tradition in hiring him. “When the article was pubished the Barkley board was slightly per turbed. They didn't like to be re minded that they had spoken dis paragingly of Raeburn for once hir ing this self-same man. But Herbert was famous and becoming more fa mous by the minute and they were willing to take it on the chin. They knew that Herbert was a drawing card. “Raeburn, on the other hand, was quite bitter about it all. Herbert’s everlasting bragging was getting on their nerves. Everyone was there fore, quite surprised when, the fol lowing spring, upon occasion of the dedication of a new dormitory, Rae burn invited Herbert Allis to give the address. Herbert was flattered. He spent hours writing out the speech, and when the eventful day arrived, he appeared in cutaway and striped trousers and mounted to the platform with his old friend, the chairman of the Raeburn board. And there he stood, puffed out and proud—the only man who ever taught a class at either Raeburn or Barkley without possessing an M.A. degree. “Preliminaries were quickly dis pensed with. Herbert was an nounced and with much gusto made his address. The crowd applauded and was on the point of dispersing when the chairman raised his hand. ‘A moment,’ he said. ’There is still one more event on our pro gram which I am sure you will all be interested in watching.” The chairman turned to little Herbert and there was a twinkle in his eyes. ‘In view of the great work and fame of our esteemed guest, Mr. Her bert Allis, the board of trustees of this college has seen fit to be stow upon him the great honor of a master of arts degree.* “Herbert’s mouth opened. He stared. He looked angry, made as if to protest, but hesitated as the cheers of the crowd reached his ears. He turned to them, as if in a daze, automatically bowing his thanks. Then he swung back to the chairman, muttered something in an undertone, turned and left the platform. And from that day to this he has not forgiven Raeburn univer sity for the mean trick it played on him. Michigan University Has Rare Instruments Instruments accurate enough to show the bending of a solid steel bar from the pressure of one finger, or the lengthening of the bar from the heat of a human body, will be in cluded in the “gauging and preci sion measuring laboratory” estab lished by the war department at the University of Michigan. All types of devices needed to check thei accurate processes used in mod ern industry are provided in the laboratory. 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