Abstract

In the Driftway

Arthur F. Requa and Albert E. Bockelman, president and assistant treasurer, respectively, of the Nation Press, were green with envy because Barney was mentioned in this plinth of piety and they were not. It is easy to understand how Requa was omitted, because at the time he was probably out of the office collecting bills or drumming up trade. Al is not only assistant treasurer in regard to which his duties are probably not onerous but he is the foreman of the composing room and stands six feet two in his shirt-sleeves. There is an old yarn about a retired sailor who had himself called at six o'clock every morning just for the pleasure of telling the messenger where he could go and rolling over for another two hours of sleep. Likewise when the modern child grows up, he will probably order spinach served at every meal in three ways just for the fun of refusing them all.