THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



rather unceremoniously and an American officer o£ the PubUc 

 Health Service was kept in charge. 



It seems that when we declared war against Germany, Dr. 

 Caccini offered his services to the Medical Reserve, was ap- 

 pointed a Major, and was placed in charge of the medical work 

 at the great aviation training-school at Fort Worth, Texas. He 

 was then on his way from the aviation training-camp at Mineola. 

 I introduced him to a lot of men, and he told us many inter- 

 esting stories. While at Forth Worth he used the airplane to 

 visit his different stations, and, speaking many languages, and 

 being a social sort of man, he talked with all kinds of people. 

 Once when he was conversing in German with a restaurant 

 keeper he was accused of being a German spy in American 

 uniform. He was promptly exonerated through his personal 

 acquaintance with the District Judge. When he told this story 

 at the Club an American member said, "That is interesting, but 

 not half so exciting as something that occurred here at the Club. 

 A man put his head into the reading room and remarked, 

 'See that German professor?' The alleged German professor, 

 who was an extremely patriotic American, picked up his chair, 

 hit the man over the head and killed him instantly. He was 

 carried to the police station, where he got into consultation over 

 the telephone with the Chief of Police, the Attorney General of 

 the United States and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 who all agreed that the homicide was so justifiable that the man 

 was liberated before bedtime." 



This story was told seriously, and it was amusing to see the 

 puzzled expression on Caccini's face, and also on that of Captain 

 Luserna de Castiglione of the Italian Commission. They were 

 not accustomed to the exaggerated American sense of humor. 



Then we all went into the library and examined the Italian 

 war maps given to the Club by General Guglielmotti, and 



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