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Show Hays Befriends Ambitious Greek Boy POSTMASTER GENERAL HATS has befriended Andrew Louchiou, a native of the Island of Crete, and Is giving him a chance to be "progressive." "progres-sive." For the monthly sum of ?S0 the Greek, now twenty years old, helps the Hayses keep their apartment in shipshape ship-shape condition and acts as sprucer-up for the postmaster gelteral at his office. of-fice. Andrew has become an institution. institu-tion. He speaks five languages fluently fluent-ly and is teaching his new employer how to talk French. "See that typewriter? I got it for him to practice on. I pay him $S0 a month out of my own pocket, and early in the morning and late in the afternoon he works around the apartment, apart-ment, and at other times he is here at the department looking after my needs." Mr. Hays likes his protege's pluck, his desire to progress and his ambition ambi-tion to make something out of himself. him-self. Louchiou came over as a steerage steer-age passenger and begun his career as waiter. .Timmie Regan noticed him nd took bim t his place in New Jer- sey as his personal butler. It was there that Colonel Harvey saw him and became interested In his future. He was with Colonel Harvey about a year when Mr. Hays got him. "Andrew was ambitious to get out of service, manual labor," said Mr. Hays, "and I promised to help him. That is why I put him to work on this typewriter. He has taken out his first papers and will become an American as soon as possible. Yesterday he told me that he had paid $25 for lessons les-sons to operate an automobile. Sooq he will be a good driver and ctn handle my car." |