A Statesman from Australia Smart Frocks
(By W. B. Butler) e tine, Rocky mountain time, and Paci- Australian life that Mr. Gregory men- for Spring
Washington had scarcely. seen the fic time on their trip to the coast. tioned was the fact that more than
Arms Conference end, whenSenator Two or thre , o'clock is rather an one-half of the people live in the
odd time to land in-Ann Arhor as far cities. He said that both prohibition
G. D. Pierce, one of the greatest fig- as eating ia concerned, so we put our and the draft were proposed in his
ores in Australia,'was hrought to Ann heads together to devise a meaus hy country, but, "Thank God, both were
Arbor by the Oratorical Association which we could satisfy the appetites defeated"Horse racing is probably
to speak upon "Our Common Problems of the men and the desire -of Mrs. the dominant sport, when for a month
in the Pacific." Pierce for some tea. After considering the big city life is a great carnival. \
the Chop Suey establishments and the Motor car racing is not in evidence for
'Most of us are inclined to regard various "greasy-elbow" institutions, gasoline sells for seventy-five cents a
a well-known man as something ab- we came to the cofclusion that we gallon,
stractly ideal, a being, if one at all, might patronize the Union tap room Australia is a land of large coal re-
far removed from the realm of the and serve Mrs. Pierce her lunch in her sources and affords the principal
human being who regards obstruse room. I had grave doubts about my source of supply for Japan. Railroads
problems with the far-seeing insight being able' to' transport the desired are government owned and efficiently
of Proi-idence. Not until after the man sustenance without distributing the conducted, but the various widths of
dies, do many of us realice that he same all the way from the basement to tracks in each of the six states- is a
was, after all, a human with almost the fourth floor of the Union building. great drawback.
everything in common with us.a For a man who had been so con- I found Mr. Gregory a very friendly
One Saturday noon, the day on stantly before the public eye and had and likable sort. His humor was keen.
which Senator PietTe was to arrive, traveled to such an extent, I found We attended the lecture later in the A a bi o
,I talked with Prof.Trueblood to find Mr. Pierce that afternoon very ill at evening, where I felt that Senator y
out the time of his arrival. For an ease. It was probably due to. the long Pierce's talk was really a part of him, broidery here or there - the
hou I waited, happy if I could get ride from Buffalo without lunch that for he spoke eloquently and clearly raceful lies, bateau nek-
A few words with the international fig- confused him. I made some sugges- from only a few notes.
ure. Finally I encountered the group tions aS to the bill of fare, where he After the lecture I returned to the lines, and irregular hemlines
-consisting, as I later learned, of Pro-
might find it, but my efforts at assist- Union and saw the Senator again.
fessor Trueblood, Senator and Mrs. ance were ineffectual. When we were From the depths of one of his coat - these are a fe> ol Fash-
Pierce, Mr.~D. H . Reid, and Mr. C. W. taking the tea up to his wife he would pockets he produced a' tobacco pouch ion's Frock hints.
ed represented the commonwealth of only allow me to lead the way, while and an old briar pipe, lit up,. aned
Ausrtrrlsanii the cmmitonweAlh he carried the tray. I do not know back in-the divan with a great dea of
Australia is the Washington Atas con- whether he had no confidence in my relaxed ease, and started, to talk to
ference and are men of high rank in ability to stand up under its weight me. He was deeply interested'in edu- Capes
their country and in the estimation without spilling its contents or whether cation, especially of the' higher type,
of the other statesmen. Mrs. Pierce he was just independent and wanted because he himself had no advantages The Latest Word
attracted my attention first Ey reason to do the thing himself. I must con- of training beyond bigh school. In
of her small delicate stature and her fess I think it was the latter, for he Australia, he said, the primary schools
quiet, reticent way. seemed to decline all services which have reached a state of development C,
Mr. Reid was an Englissan in he thought he could do himself, above that of most other countries, Capes! Of silk, crepe -
dress and speech, but an American in "This makes me feel that there are and are conducted by the state govern- even- of tweed .to match a
his business-like mnner and attitude. some things in life worth while," ex- ment. The secondary institutions are suit or frock-reign supreme
He is the son of a famous English claimed the senator as he finished his partly state and partly private, while
statesman of the same name and bore last morsel of club steak. His spirits the Universities are located in each of in the world of Spring Fash-
every mark :of the refined breeding immediately brightened and he became the state capitals. In practice and
which he had received. Mr. Gregory more talkative. I pointed out the ideals the Australian universities con- ton. e's the plain cape
was still more of an English type, but carved table tops which adorned the bine the English and American meth- With soft collar - and the
he possessed the quick, appreciative tap room ceilings and the tals them- ods. The universities at Melbourns
wit which I have found so many times selves. He was interested in these and Sidney are of a very high order. pious monk cape With wide
anost entirely lacking in men of his and examined some of them carefully. Cultural education has a large place sleeves.
nationality. While Professor Trueblood was host in the curriculum. The school that
The whole party was hungry, in at a dinner for Senator Pierce, Mr. corresponds to our engineering col-
fact, almost famished. That I could Gregory was guest at my house. lege is called the "School of Mines,"
see in their eyes. Another mark of Speaking of Australia's work in the a misnomer, perhaps, but an institu-
their being highly human was the fact Great War he poicited out how the tion with purely utilitarian purposes
that they were sadly "balled-up" by flower of the nation, the young boys doing much for the country in supply-
the curious mixture of times that be- were the first to respond. Most of ing the nation with engineers of the
set this locality. I took some moments them thought that the fight would last first order.
to explain to them that our time was but a few days. The mismanagement "Many times, while traveling
an hour faster than the railroad time of the early campaigns caused whole- through the plains, I have seen a train
so that they did not arrive here at 1:23 sale destruction of the young blood. stop at some little cross road to pick
but at 2:23 in the afternoon. The out- Mr. Gregory particularly emphasized up a single boy to carry him for more
look didn't seem any too optimistic the friendliness that the Australians than sixty or seventy miles to distant
when I explained to them that they have for the American soldiers, school. This is made possible by gov-
would experience Eastern time, Central One of the peculiar things about (Continued on Page 8)
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