FEJEVARY:  I have a sentiment about it, and where our sentiment is, there our work goes also.

SENATOR:  Yes.  Well, it was those mainsprings of sentiment that won the war.

(He is pleased with this.)

FEJEVARY:  (nodding) Morton College did her part in winning the war.

SENATOR:  I know.  A fine showing.

FEJEVARY:  And we’re holding up our end right along.  You’ll see the boys drill this afternoon.  It’s a great place for them, here on the hill—­shows up from so far around.  They’re a fine lot of fellows.  You know, I presume, that they went in as strike-breakers during the trouble down here at the steel works.  The plant would have had to close but for Morton College.  That’s one reason I venture to propose this thing of a state appropriation for enlargement.  Why don’t we sit down a moment?  There’s no conflict with the state university—­they have their territory, we have ours.  Ours is an important one—­industrially speaking.  The state will lose nothing in having a good strong college here—­a one-hundred-per-cent-American college.

SENATOR:  I admit I am very favourably impressed.

FEJEVARY:  I hope you’ll tell your committee so—­and let me have a chance to talk to them.

SENATOR:  Let’s see, haven’t you a pretty radical man here?

FEJEVARY:  I wonder if you mean Holden?

SENATOR:  Holden’s the man.  I’ve read things that make me question his
Americanism.

FEJEVARY:  Oh—­(gesture of depreciation) I don’t think he is so much a radical as a particularly human human-being.

SENATOR:  But we don’t want radical human beings.

FEJEVARY:  He has a genuine sympathy with youth.  That’s invaluable in a teacher, you know.  And then—­he’s a scholar.

(He betrays here his feeling of superiority to his companion, but too subtly for his companion to get it.)

SENATOR:  Oh—­scholar.  We can get scholars enough.  What we want is Americans.

FEJEVARY:  Americans who are scholars.

SENATOR:  You can pick ’em off every bush—­pay them a little more than they’re paid in some other cheap John College.  Excuse me—­I don’t mean this is a cheap John College.

FEJEVARY:  Of course not.  One couldn’t think that of Morton College.  But that—­pay them a little more, interests me.  That’s another reason I want to talk to your committee on appropriations.  We claim to value education and then we let highly trained, gifted men fall behind the plumber.

SENATOR:  Well, that’s the plumber’s fault.  Let the teachers talk to the plumber.

FEJEVARY:  (with a smile) No.  Better not let them talk to the plumber.  He might tell them what to do about it.  In fact, is telling them.

SENATOR:  That’s ridiculous.  They can’t serve both God and mammon.

FEJEVARY:  Then let God give them mammon.  I mean, let the state appropriate.