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Show Former Waiter, Now $5000-a-Year Man, Spurns Old "Job" (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) WASHINGTON, June 7 "I know of a young man who was a waiter in a small town restaurant res-taurant in pre-war days for $12 a week and tips," said Colonel Arthur Woods, assistant to the secretary of war, today. "He had been in the national guard and managed to get an appointment at an officers' training train-ing school. They sent him to war as a second lieutenant. Ho came back a captain with a medal and a citation. cita-tion. " 'Nothing doing,' he laughed, when the boss offered him his old job back in the restaurant with the promise of a head waiter position in a few months. 'I am a five thousand thou-sand dollar a year man now,' and so he was and is. "The other day the young man ' got his five thousand dollar job he is employed by a big concern which has a large number of lVm to' handle and he fits in admirably." |