St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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K 4.09 ,,,, A .Jimi ,,,, Q lM,,,Am,,Q,,,W promotion to Brigadier-general. Carey reached the rank of captain, but after two years' service he grew tired of overwork and resigned to take up another profession. For the simple reason that he knew no one expected him to do so, he began the study of theology, and is now a full-fledged minister. His specialty is the performance of marriage ceremonies in Elkton, which is the get- ting-off place of so many young about-to-be-man ried couples from Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Who would have thought it of him? And who knows what Carey may undertake next? On June I, IQ33, a man with light red hair and medium build approached a rather pretentious farmhouse in South Carolina. He bore a Bible under his arm, and his features reminded one of-no, not of Reds Spicknall-Ira Tarlton. And it was he. I had veen visiting Jimmy Brashears, who owned this colonial house, and Ira had just arrived in town, not to preach, but to sell Bibles. And he had been remarkably successful. It is said that many a family who hardly knew what the Bible was had purchased one after Irais glowing account. That night we had a regular St. John's reunion, and, be- lieve mc, Jimmy's wife sure is some housekeeper. The next morning, when the mail came in, I ran across a package of Government seeds, addressed to e i Jimmy, whose broad and well-cultivated fields proclaimed that he needed them not. But what I noticed in particular was the following inscription in the right-hand corner, Compliments of N. Dodge Woodward, Representative from the Sec- ond District of South Carolina. Dodge had moved down in that country and had convinced the people that he knew something about the art of statecraft. And his participation in Congres- sional debates had about proven that the people were right when they believed him. The member of ,I7 who was youngest in point of membership, Ray lfValler, continued to write 79

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s i if da ,,,, L .,,, 4 C Swninr lgrnphvrg 3 RO,Pl:lE'l S NOTE-lt is cus- yfif-' 6 'f . . -, l siijf , , tomar in Jro Jl'lCClCS forthe Class L. Q .J M Y l I V ? ' Prophet either to chance upon some Oriental seer, who suddenly appears from a haze, and who 9' - 4' ' gives his prophecy and fades away into a cloud, or else for the Class Prophet to fall into a swoon, and while in a transient state to go through the most marvelous adventures. By all my force of imagination T am unable to do so. It does not seem natural to me. And, besides, swoons are out of style for men in IQI7. So I am giving my prophecy-just a plain, bare statement of the facts as they will be, and I am always right. p ln exactly twenty-five years, six months, two weeks, three days, eighteen hours, Hfteen minutes and thirty-one seconds there will rise from a crowded table of officers in the United States Marine Corps a man whose form and feat- ures would seem familiar to all present St. johnis men. He will propose a toast, l'lere's.to the man that is truly good. May he at some future time be born. This toast is typical of cynical, witty Houston Noble. From one corner of the table will come a voice, lf you had proposed a toast to a man who is truly great, his birthday would have been minef, It will be the powerful voice of little Bill Price, and this is a type of his wit Both of them will have entered the Marine Corps, and success will have been the re- ward of each. lProphet's Note.-After writing one paragraph I find it very inconvenient to use the term 'lwill and will have, so in the remainder of this article the past tense will be used.l The army life has claimed others from the ranks of the Class of I917. Marion Cox and Carey Jarman both entered the service shortly after graduation, and both were very successful. Marion Cox is now a colonel, and is in line for 78

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I -, . ...... , , .... , .... -7 'ff'-I-W ..... 1.7 ,..7 ..... 7 poetry, and, though successful from an artistic point of view, was not exactly an example of Worgerbilt wealth the last time I saw him. That was back in 1925, when I ran into him coming out of the Independent Pawnshop as I was about to enter. I-Ie had no coat on, despite the fact that it was winter weather, and though tact forbade me to inquire the reason, I guessed that the grasping broker had separated him from his jacket in ex- change for a few bits. fTact should also prevent your inquiring as to my own reason for entering the pawnshop. The law is such an uncertain busi- ness.j After congratulating Ray upon a particu- larly fine work in Munsey's and discussing old times for fifteen minutes, I entered the shop, only to encounter behind the desk Prism Maddox. Not having the courage to transact such an em- barrassing business with an old friend, I told him that I had known that he was in there, and had come down to chat with him. I-le told me that he and his partner, John Noble, had developed a big business, and that john was now away on a business trip. It developed later that this business trip was a visit to a prominent building in Baltimore for charging illegal and exorbitant rates of in- terest, and that the visit would extend for eighteen months, the maximum allowed by the law at that time for this offense. We expected Noble to take up the law, but it has unfortunately developed that the law took up Noble. Let us turn to the New 'York Sim of April Ioth, 1932. A glaring headline tops the front page: , KAISER ABDICATES. Pinsivnlzu VON SCHWERDTNIQR Talclzs REINS or Gov1aRNM1zN'r. This news was, strange to say, no surprise to me, for ever since his return to his native land Vonnie had been rapidly rising. But our inter- est in the paper is not yet exhausted, for written on the sporting page we discover the name Freeny at the head of the batting averages with the mark of .382. The paper's comment was, The veteran First baseman is still leading the league, and if he continues his present gait, the prospects for his sixth consecutive year of honors are exceedingly 80