Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 25 Aug 1932, p. 12

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WiEm.tt 2»7, CAZEL'Sý COLUMN .Everyonc who- gett far ahead' in life is a star at seeing the other fellow's 'Viewpoint. *When Bill Hall was in school clown .in Indiania,, be was already this kind of a star. He just *naturally could see 'he, viewpoint of the other fellow. 'wbich, accounted. largelv for bis great. s uccess botb as' a football, qparterback andii the classroom. 1In football, he took the vîewpoint of the, other team, asked biniseif what the defense would 'expect b is team to do, and -then did sometbing else. That's wby the bopys called him Sheck Hall. Sliik bad the reputation of being à good student. At least. he got good grades. But lie contends that al l he id waM to put hinself ini the place of the professor and asked bimself what kind' of a student the "prof'" would be.like. "W h. e said. '-ifI were a pro- fessor sitting up.there looking out over a bunch of numrbskulls. I'd likeý the boy wbo appeared to be interested in what I1 was saying. wouldnt I? And if lie asked me* a sensible question now and then, I'd say he was eager to learn, and therefore must be learning a lot -from me, woulnt I? "Sure. So you see, I just handled the professors in this way and they gave me good grades-evert if they, didread MY examination, papers.', Stick now affilms ýthat was the main reason for the good g rades hé got in 1. know also that it is the reasonwhy, he bhas been geting along so well since he left scbcoo. He could, and did see bis Job in busines from the viewpoint of the man higlier up--did this so well dth li h is now. at the age of tbirty- two. one of the higlier ups hiniseif., nattural signts tnat are seen wnen at YSAiiFVVLlL, UV! Lior 1.11V ".5.'Va sea. Take, for instance, tbat mi- but a short distance aliead. At 1900 gratory house. Everyone of the four- (7 o'clock), Albatross tied up ini the teen oficers and crew wbo were Manitowoc river Just below the first aboard Albafross Tuesday, june 21, bridge., w-as familiar witlî the appearance of As port of cail for sorne eigbt or a boaàthouse;, ikeiise witb the ap- ten car'.ferries, locale of two ship-, pearance of *a bouseboat. j3uttàa bouse yards, lay-up adftngotqaters on a boat was something else again- for many' steamers, and bomne of Memtbers of the, crettw of A'lbatross on the, bows prit 'of 'Pitta.;- a phenonenon wbich fitted 1into 110 ordinary classification. "It'a a House" It was during the forenoon watcb, with Albatross sonie tbree to. four hours out of Port Washington and beading Up the Wiscontsin shore with a liglit following wind. The wbeels- man, bis eye on the lubber's line of the compass, was lazily swinging bis wbeel; severall other Scouts were clustered in the cockpit, knotting, splicinig, anid talking about the trip; two mlen up forward were bulsily en- gaged in replenisbilug the ships water tanks -witb 'buckets boisted froin the. ake d downi below tbe messboys were swabbinig tbe cabin and scttin.g tbe table for tîoon "soupy." Tieil that trickle of smoke on the smuth- eastern borizon began to arouse ini- terest. for it was rapidly taking. the On thte sts.a ta Ma>is.tcee: close, haulefd with a. fréssh north -u'ind. numerous lake men, Mlýanitowoc is a sbippfing- town as perbaps, no other city- on the Great Lakes is. A sertes of fortunate coincidences made its features apparent to the visiting Sýcouts. Alfenlt% Wdmette vrmue" 191Z for this samne are knowti as we anticipate reason Osur two "Up-to-date"- tbe customers, -7fag.4 ustA Suidr-Cézel Drog Ce-). B. Suovier, Mgr. Ridge sud 1Lake Av. ph.n. WoIsîette 316 Franikfort, thjey were to finc tender1 and tow in that harbor. The ex-f p1anation probably was that the liglithouse service, having recently built new quarters at Chicago, n longer needed the old bosethere,1 A second was a launi Manitowoc fortunate circunmstance Fred Snite, bhing at the yard of the by, John Sbipbuilding corporation. O'Neill. 1- n The dredge, gaily decked witli bunting, was poised at the edge of the river; workmen were already knocking out the wedges from under. It was to be a broadside lauinching- a, Custom with ,many ,lake yards. Mucb bammering, mucli excitemenit: and then what. bappenied, happened in *a burry. The sponsor releàsed the bottie; a flashing ax severed1 a re- tainine liné; there, was a> runhl)le, a tremiendo'us splash,' a rcusing chorus oéf uhitles-anid the dredge Turboý was water-borne. Other sigtsýat the yard that minoru Jng included haif a dozen lIake,,steati- ers "uiiot running t his year, flth coast guard cuîtter Seininiole lin drvdock, anid.the Pinta. :Pinta was a large. old-tiie, down-East schooner wbich had been brought to L.ake Michigan in- 1930 to l)e turnied into a Chicago Sea Scout training'ship. Cost of re- pair and refltting, hoivever, hiad pre- vented, ber from going into service. The, Scouts from Wininetka wenl- aboard, looked lier over, and lined& up on the bowsprit for a Jicture. 1 Off to Michigan Albatrcss said goodbye to Mani- towoc onXednesdav- eveninig. after a pleasant. and ,profitable 24-hour stay. The skipper gave the. wheels- mani a course'of. NE by E .Y4 E; it was to be a run across, tle lake t o Michigan. The firstI niglit w atch (8:'12) was listless : a breeze %Vnas. almost non-1 existent and the shi1) (lid littie moôre than drif t. But at 2 o'clock il, the mornifng the winid suddeuly camne to life, blowin.g fromn the iiorth wih a force of 5 ("19 to 24 miles per hiotr,"> and Alb)atross.leap)ed ahead. Runni.iing ligbts sighited ofif the port bow be- longed to a Ft-atkfort-to--M\atiito,%oc car ferry, which drove by about 0.300 (3 a.m.), just as imorning, twiligh' t be- gan to creep over 'the heavifig lake from the east. The suni rose a. brui- liant 'bail of fire; Albatross lunged tovar.d Michiigàin at a gooci 8 miles speed. No breakfast in the cabiti this moring; top. mu.cb îitch and roll; instead, tomato juice and crack- ers to al ilbaudsoin deck,

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