— and grateful. Point is made of the matter, for from these 21^ 

 sources were shortly to come sorely needed subsidies to his 

 department. Though of the first established in the "new" 

 school, Wherry's division was always to rest at the bottom of 

 the financial ladder. Administrators ever on hunt for subscrip- 

 tion to university cause seek motive. Well, here it is. 



Mother told of adventures which had been his in the days 

 of long ago: 



The children went up the hill last ev'n'g to see some foxes that 

 live in a hole in the ground. They saw two little ones and an 

 old one but they ran into their nest. It is too soon for the 

 monkeys as the crops have only been sown. 



THE world vortex now engaged Wherry. Though long 

 committed to the British side, the conviction had grown 

 slowly and was not yet, even, without its reservations. He had 

 hangover still of an active as opposed to an atrophied Chris- 

 tianity; and he was doctor — sworn to God to save and not 

 to take life. He had seen the half of his family and his friends 

 labelled "German" in disparagement; and made suspect, even 

 though rooted in American soil at least eighty years. All of it 

 somewhat foolish, he said; and smiled. But the national dedi- 

 cation did change him — into something yet more silent. 



He volunteered; refused admittance to the regular army 

 (forty- three with a leak in his heart) he asked assignment to 

 the medical division. This, too, was denied him. So why not a 

 dollar-a-year man, to see action in Washington? If you but 

 knew it, his daily business with living fire was quite as hazard- 

 ous as TNT. Thus for a season, he waved about in the nation's 

 capitol some finely engraved and uncashed checks from "The 

 Treasurer of the United States of America," for twenty-five 

 cents each; to be estopped of court for gumming up the 

 nation's bookkeeping. 



Geo W McCoy (how, no one knows) got him a more 

 lucrative job. August 14, 1917 Wherry wrote from Chevy 

 Chase: 



I have at last summarized our "acidosis" inoculation experi- 

 ments. I'll send you a copy for comment and addition. My 



