Show NATIONAL MEN AND AFFAIRS J Famous Hunter of India Finds Monocles Are Ie Not Worn in San Francisco Yale Gets Chance t to Sing German Tune I BY BT T SMALL bL LL Special COrre Correspondent of The Tho standard Examiner Copyright au 1923 IS 2 3 W WASHINGTON Doc Oid 1 1 Old the natives call hint him Blind Ee E e out In India but he has returned to the United States with the tho cOllection of ot jungle trophies probably probably ably over ever brought to this country The Tho trophies are aro destined for the American Museum of Natural His History tory In New York end and appropriate appropriate- appropriately ly Iy enough are aro to be placed in the thO new Roosevelt Hall of o that institution Institution tion U n Included ate aio somo some of ot the rare specimens which T R himself sought In vain aln Old Blind Eye E e Is all 11 In the way ay of a hunter that Colonel Roosevelt wanted to be And ho he Is none other other than Lieutenant Colonel John Champion of JohnI that I crack Indian regiment the United Horse who ho was stationed at the tho British embassy here for eo something like Ilka too years ears at the tho close ot of- tha world war l After his I tour of duty hero Colonel Faun Faun- thorpe Faun thorpe went back to his duties In Inthe Inthe I Ithe the Indian civil service and became I CommissiOner at Lucknow Just a year ear ago 80 he obtained Ica leave Icae e of ab- ab absence absence ab absence sence to hunt with Ith Arthur I Into the d depth of India and Burma to obtain the animals desired by bytho bythe bythe the tho American Museum Next year he goes to Indo China for another whirl at the Jungles and the wild beasts The hunting looks books pooks of India and Africa are filled tilled with the exploitS of Colonel who got his title of Old OIa Blind Eye Bye because of the fact that he otien wears rs u 11 golden rimmed monocle to help hell the islon islon of his left orb But that good right eye he can see a n pm- pm pin pinpoint I point a thousand yards ards away avva n and that is ts why the tho nath natives es 10 love e him andI I They know how he can shoot hoot Many of them serving as pOI potters In the hunting II 01 owe one e their I lives to his unerring aim And it has hns come out now that the Colonels Colonel's shooting partner In this I last fora foray Into the Mr r Verna is under a similar obliga obliga- obligation obligation tion During a tiger shoot in I I heu-I paul eu-paul paul when the hunters were ere mounted on elephants a full grol grown n I tigress suddenly emerged from the thc jungle and sprang on In the head of the elephant on which Vernal Yerna was riding The took the latter so completely by surprise l that he ho was as dared daTed and helpless for forthe forthe the moment As the tigress ress crouch crouch- crouched crouched crouched ed for tor a leap on the man in the howdah Colonel tired fired I and the beast fell to the earth carth shot through the head I Colonel doesn't ap- ap appear appear ap appear pear to be accompanied bv by his monocle on this trip to America I and thereby hangs a tale While on duty futy at the British embassy he I took a trip to California The mon mon- monocle monocle monocle ocle wont went with Ith him Vh When n he rl- rl returned re returned turned to Washington it was miss miss- missIng missing missing ing You You know confided the tha colonel I found they the reallY eren t being worn out there at all ail Silly Sill eh what hd vi hat 7 1 Colonel has bas had an Interesting career During th the war he was for tor a time the press officer In charge chargo of the correspondents at atthe atthe atthe the British front In Prance France HI He H had the power of life lUG ot 01 or death h death over 0 el the writings of Sir Philip Gibbs Sir Percy Robinson Sir str Percival Perchal Phillips Sir William Wllliam Beach Thomas Themas Sir Herbert Russell and Russell and the more humble writer of this his narrative The Thc colonel also directed the takIng and end the exhibiting of that first gI eat moving t picture of ot th the war the the battle of ot the Somme The ThO colonel was badly gassed while ho was directing the picture n the the first day of the battle of Arras and the thc capture of Vimy Ridge bY bYtho bythe bytho the tho Canadians I In battle as in to the jungle Faun Faun- aun thorps thorpe was as nerveless Shell fl o left him absolutely cold and he had such euch contempt for tor the tho musketry ability of o both both the German and British soldiers that he felt he was in no danger at any time from that direction On one occasion when n a equate cIn In a certain French village I was being shelled by th the Germans and everyone had taken corer er Colonel was vaa found fast asleep In fn an automobile right fir Hithe the center of the tho public place whence all but he had tied fled Its easy to to brave bravo when you ou are out 1 with Ith once r re- re re remarked marked ked Philip Gibbs You You would be afraid to be anything else Now ow that the football tumult and 1 shouting has died away the story Is being told of ot how how the Yale I students happened this year to re- re relive re revive vive live Ive the singing of their favorite song Bright College Years The Tho song sont is sung to the tune of ot the 1 German national anthem althem Die Dlo Am Rhine and it wasl was only I natural that it should have been banned during the world al war As Asa Asa Asa a matter of fact tact there were no football foot foot- football toot ball ball games In 1917 1911 and 1918 at 1 which the s song ng might ha have e regaled the spectators Then there was as IL a reeling feeling right after the war that some one might object to the an- an anthem anthem an anthem them not realizing realising that the words as sung Bung at al Yale had no association whatsoever vv vc Ith iii the Fatherland However Ho In 1921 It was as decided that sufficient time had elapsed lap ed to allow allo all hate to sub subside Geri Ger- German Ger German man opera was being revived In New York and the Y Yale le boys wanted anted to let loose They wanted anted In particular to let Jet loose at the Yale Yalo bowl boI bo I where Princeton was to topIa pIa play It was discovered dl red ho hoe however e eer er that Marshal Foch was present It would never do to bust the Ger Ger- German Ger- Ger German German man song right in this the face faco of the marshal of France So the was as postponed a year J ear Lat Last I ait sear ear earthe the students once more were ere ready read to go at the Yale Harvard Yale Hal yard vard game In Inthe inthe inthe the bowl But alas It was as discovered ered this time that Tiger Clemen ceu was present Someone asked the thc Tiger If it he would object The is rough spoken He said no he n wouldn t object ob- ob object ob object but he said It in such a way that the boss bo s thought he meant otherwise and so In a they the with with- 1 withheld withheld Ith- Ith held their vocal ocal fire on Bright College Years This year icar ear there were ere no allied allied notables at New NewHaven Ua fiasco en and so the boys and the band let go In a grand old chorus which apparently was enjoyed by byall byall byall all |