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Show I School Head Passing ' Vacation as Army Camp Carpenter 1 B 1 I East St. Louis Hi Principal Earn- I ing Wage at I Shiloh, III, Avi- ation Field. I TB R0R J0HN B- HUDDLE PrI- Hj clplo of the "Washington and Irving schools, East St Louis, j is passing his vacation as No. 75S of 1 the carpenter's staff at the aviation Hj field, nine miles from Belleville, near Shiloh, 111. Incidentally he is earning moro money than he docs through the Hl school year. HJ His salary Is $1,750 for supervising two schools ten months. His wages as Hj, a carpenter are S6.S7 a day of ten hours and $12.50 for Sundays and hol-i'days. hol-i'days. As the work must be rushed because of the war, there is work ev-ery ev-ery Sunday and all holidays. If he works every day in Jul)', which has five Sundays and one holiday, his pay at the end of the month will be $2-17, as compared to his monthly salary of $175 when he teaches school. Prof. Huddle is the possessor of the highest grade certificate in Illinois. He has given twenty-five years to his pro- Hl fesslon. Besides his preparatory in- struction he has attended professional Hj and educational institutions in' the school year and vacations. Last year, besides bis regular school work, he carried four majors at SL Louis Unl-vcrsity. Unl-vcrsity. He is a Junior in that insti- Hj tution, and expects to remain one of Its night students until he is graduat- ' In the school year he attends SL Louis University classes three nights in the week. In doing this he is fol-lowing fol-lowing the wishes of the East St. Louis Board of Education, which advances the salaries of teachers according to a system in which attending school fig-ures. fig-ures. Next winter Prof. Huddle will be entitled to $1,800 a year, the maxi-mum maxi-mum salary at present ' in East St HH Louis. Ij Gets an Early Start. Prof. Huddle has no intention of I giving up his profession in preference for the trade taught him by his father, Benjamin Huddle, SS years old, excellent excel-lent carpenter and cabinet maker. But he's glad that he is the possessor of this trade at this particular time. His vacation days are not exactly play-days, play-days, as one may see by heading his daily program, which follows: Each morning he tIbcs early enough to have his breakfast and to be ready to start for the aviation field at 5:15 o'clock. He makes the journey in the automobile of a fellow worker. The trip begins at his home, 2914 Virginia place, in Alta SIta, East St Louis, continues con-tinues over the dykes to State street, on to Belle7llle If the Belleville motorcycle mo-torcycle "cops" aren't hungry then out the Carlyle road to the aviation field. Tho distance of about twenty-one twenty-one miles. The best time Is made between be-tween AUa Sita and Edgcmont and Belleville and the field, because tho Belleville ordinances require a speed of fifteen miles an hour only from Edgemont to the Belleville city limits. The best road is that where the speed Is limited. Once Uio automobile in which Prof. Huddle was traveling to work was slopped by a policeman, and Prof. Huddle will defend the chauffeur when he Is summoned to trial. Among the other things in which he is versed 13 law, he being a member of tho Jefferson-Lincoln law class, which studied M 1 : . . i T7l- Ol T 1 Iior several yuurs iu iuu xviu&l oi, .lajuis City Hall. Belleville motorcycle policemen arc paid only when they make arrests and ' it is said that tho Belleville custom is to fine $25 and costs for the first of-' of-' fense, $50 plus costs for the second, ; and a rising scale for all others. ( Prof. Huddle says tho flno road j which Is almost minus a vehicle at 1 5:30 o'clock in tho morning would I tempt almost any one to Bpeed. Ho ' also says that tho watchfulness of tho j motorcycle policemen is so acute that almost any kind of speed is more than j fifteen miles an hour in their Judg-1 Judg-1 ment With luck, ProL Huddle arrives at .' the field in time for tho opening hour of work, 7 o'clock. J There Is much work to be done and j one must be an experienced carpenter j to get it done. Many men are hired 1 each day and many are discharged, j The man who doesn't know tho trade may hammer away a few days, but he goes aB surely as do horse weeds from well cultivated corn fields. The superintendent su-perintendent of construction and the foremen know their business, Prof. Huddle says, and they know it as ho insists that boys and girls know fractions frac-tions thoroughly. "Working Under College 3Ian. Prof. Huddle's foreman is a graduate gradu-ate of the University of Illinois, having hav-ing completed the course in engineering engineer-ing and architecture. Prof. Huddle listened to the man's directions one day and knew before noon came that his "boss" was a college man. The "boss" knows Prof. Huddle only by his number, but he probably knows that No, 75S and himself have certain mental men-tal kinship. Uncle Sam is particularly fortunate In his superintendents and foremen at this aviation field. They are men of the right class. Prof. Huddle when as"kcd is It irked to be told after many years of telling replied: "While I could not stand to be driven, driv-en, I enjoy intelligent supervision. When I know that tho man who is ordering or-dering me knows what he is talking about I find it a pleasure to accede to his orders." Workers at the aviation field have, an hour at noon. That's the same amount that is allowed in the East St. Louis public schools. Time was when Prof. Huddle gave some attention to the kind and quality of his fopd. That was before last February, when he practically fasted for three weeks. He weighed 198 pounds then. At the end of the third week his weight was but 168 pounds. He has lost 5 pounds since he began his vacation work at the aviation field. That loss is small In comparison to the amounts lost by other carpenters. Prof. Huddle began his three weeks of near-fast with two days of absolute fasting. Later he took black coffee for a few days. To this diet he added spinach. This was increased to light meals. These light meals have not been materially increased in-creased and Prof. Huddle says the result re-sult is that he has never felt better in his life than at present, when he calls his condition "coltish." Not so long ago Prof. Huddle had a reputation as a chef, gained by his management of "his electric chafing dish for tho benefit of his teachers, many of whom have to take their lunches to .school. He can still concoct con-coct good dishes, but his appetite docs not require any except plain food. However, it is his opinion that the ability to cook has no sex limitations. Work at the aviation field Is over at 6 o'clock and wages for ten htfurs are at the rate of eleven hours. The return journey to East St. Louis is made by automobile, with careful attention at-tention to speed in Belleville. After supper Prof. Huddle sits on his screened porch in one of the best residence districts of East St. Louis and enjoys what he calls his only vice his cigar. He does not discard his becoming blue and white striped overalls over-alls and in one of the pockets is his gold watch, which has a chain and other decorations not often worn by a workingman. He docs not retire until 10 o'clock, taking the time between supper and bed for reading. There are children in the Huddle family. A son of 25, Elmer, who has enlisted in the Third Illinois Artncry, which is being recruited in East St Louis and suburbs; a daughter, Mrs.-William Mrs.-William Maurer, who was Miss Rachel Huddle, a teacher in the East St Louis schools before her marriage; William Huddle, 19, a student in the East St Louis High School, of which both the others are graduates, and the baby of the family. Grace Hite Huddle, 9 vears old, in the sixtli grade, and named for one of the best teachers of English in Illinois, who is also a relative rela-tive of Prof. Huddle. There was another an-other child, who died several years ago, Tollcy, memory of whom will recall re-call to many East St. Louisans the miniature Bunkum school made by pupils pu-pils of Prof. Huddle several years ago as a problem In mathematics and construction. con-struction. Some things have to be told before you can know all about the miniature Bunkum school. Prof. Huddle was born in Omega, 111., "the last place." His uncle, Judge Cagy, was a law partner of Silas Bryan, Bry-an, father of William Jennings Bryar. His family was part of tho big Huddle family of Virginia, which holds a reunion re-union each July. Prof. Huddle received re-ceived an invitation to the reunion. Originally the name was Hottcl, and Its possessors were French Huguenots. They settled in Virginia and sent their children to school taught by an English Eng-lish teacher who did not know the difference dif-ference between German and French. He asked the Hottel children their name, but he did not aBk Its spelling. He listened carefully and deduced that these were German children who pronounced pro-nounced "d's" as "t's" and that their names must be Ho'ddle or Huddle. It became the latter for the time being, in time some went back to the old spelling and others took a middle-of-the-road form, as is evidenced by the invitation to the reunion, which is signed by three members of the family, fam-ily, each with his name spelled a different dif-ferent way. One of these i3 a minister. minis-ter. Prof. Huddle's branch of the family went to Ohio and later to Illinois. His father, who taught him carpentering, is still living. His mother lived until she passed her SOth year. Prof. Huddle went to the Iuka schools and when he had completed thero passed a year teaching in that neighborhood, which is near Salem, 111. The confinement of the schoolroom did not agree with him, and he took employment em-ployment as a timekeeper for a Baltimore Bal-timore and Ohio road gang. The gang was sent to Caseyville, 111. Then came romance Into Prof. Huddle's life. Mrs- Huddle was a Caseyville girl. Near Caseyville is the Bunkum School. Prof. Huddle obtained this school for the winter. Tho Bunkum road, as it goes up tho hill past the Bunkum School, is one of tho prettiest drives In this section of the countrj. Bunkum Bunk-um and Caseyville have strong individuality. indi-viduality. The latter was named for a lieutenant governor of Illinois, and has lived up to its basoball name by producing some of the best ballplavcrs in the country. Larry Doyle was born in Caseyville. Dan Hariley, who became be-came mayor of Cripple Creek, was a Caseyville boy, and is an uncle of Larry Lar-ry Doyle. Which hasn't much connection with the Bunkum School, except that the annual picnic of tho Caseyville and Bunkum schools arc hold on the same day. Prof. Huddlo taught the Bunkum School for several years. When the school needed an addition he built it. He also built his own home in Caseyville, Casey-ville, as well as many porches and porticos which still may be seen. He knew every inch of the Bunkum School, now standardized, so well that after he had become an East St Louis principal, after serving as principal of the Caseyville School for several years, he decided to let his pupils learn several chapters of arithmetic through actual construction. Under his direction they made a miniature Bunkum School, concrete foundation. desks and all, every measurement true to the original, and this, when completed, com-pleted, was shown in the East St. Louis High School at a large meeting of teachers and then returned to the Alta Sita School, where it still is an object of interest. At the time of its making Prof. Huddle was principal of the Atla Slta School. It i3 pleasant to know that the present principal of the Alta Sita School is Prof. John E. Miller, Mil-ler, one time a teacher of tho Bunkum School, to whom the miniature school means much. Tollcy Huddle, the dead son, holped his father in much of the work on the little schoolhouse. The desks were cut out of wood by the girls of the Alta Sita. School, many of whom had never known just what a country school was like. Much besides arithmetic arith-metic was taught in the making of this school. In the rear of the Huddle home is a chicken and pigeon ynrd that has tho most elaborate burglar alarm and lighting facilities in East St Louis. Understanding the switchboard which controls these I3 as good as taking a course in high school electricity. elec-tricity. Push one thing in tho yard and not only do bells ring, but tho yard IBMJ becomes as bright as day. Milk-fed chickens thrive in this yard, as do one India Runner duck, a dozen or so HMJ Guinea pigs and some pigeons. HwJ Prof. Huddle acknowledges that h is versatile, also that he can adjust himself to conditions. He says that he has a profession and three trades. The latter are those of carpenter, jeweler and machinist He has worked other vocations, once as a machinist, another as traveling salesman. Friends who HMO know his ability iu argument and ora- HH tory have wondered why he did not PfR qualify for the Cliautauquo circuit. "SSsajgl If Prof. Huddle wished he might re- Mra tire from active work as a teacher and HR draw a teacher's pension. That kind OBf of a life has no attraction for hire. Ho considers himself too young and too mentally active. He knows that I1H 'flH nois coal miners at present arc draw pVA ing wages ranging from $90 to $119 every two weeks, and that credits, pro-fcssional pro-fcssional meetings, etc., have nothing to do with their raises. He knowa uhat he could earn at his other trades should he wish to leave his profession HH for one of them. But he has no Inten BVJ tion of making a change. H |