| Show I 1 COLLEGE BOYS WORK WAY AROUND WORLD answer to challenge of their dombay liy two young american arrived in bombay on a liner front from port said the other day their luicir only baggage being two rain ca cita tit a camera shaving set sewing kit and a bible they were allowed to laud land and go free because their passports were in order and because the shipping company did not care to take the case e to court incidentally the the adao y youtha h had worked well as dock deck hands and had bad won the friendship of the officers and crew in bombay the stow always said they were college brodu ates taking a year oft to work thele way around the world without receiving a cent from home their journey Is an answer to a challenge made by their college president dr P it kolbe who in a speech before the student body of akron university wondered why american students student no longer worked their way to and mound europe during vacations he even hinted that fear of the hard knocks might be the cause of this lack of wanderlust the two stud students ants adil karam twenty three years old find and james W matz twenty two in answer to the presidents challenge not only have worked their way to and around europe but are going around the world already they have been through england Hn filand france switzerland italy syria palestine end and egypt start on leviathan in new york on june SO 30 1925 1025 two weeks after receiving their diplomas the young men got jobs on the united states liner leviathan plying between new york and southampton we learned a little what doctor kolbe meant by hard knocks when we w were put to work peeling onions and potatoes it easy to become scullions scull ions so soon after our graduation from college karam remarked rem after working throe three months on this boat and then leaving it in england they saw canterbury with its historic cathedral london and wembley and hiked biked through kent four days after arriving in paris they obtained jobs they saved money saw parts paris and learned some french geneva their next nest important stop was reached by walking through the picturesque french find and swiss alps after riding around lake geneva and through the simplon tunnel they visited the famous places of milan venlee venice florence rome and naples and inspected mount blount vesuvius and pompeii work way to syria the two wanderers next wont went to marseilles france from which port they worked their way to beyrouty Bey routh syria in the of the pythons Py ry theas a french military transport in syria they went inland saw something of the war they passed two weeks in palestine the next leg of their tour was from jerusalem to egypt walking to tile desert and then stealing a ride they arrived in cantara Kan tara egypt after four days of travel because of the dirt and grime of these hard tour four days and their unshaven appearances the egyptian pai passport sport officials permitted them to enter only after a thorough questioning cairo with its pyramids the sphinx and the river nile was the next city of interest after spending live five days there the wanderers began a mile walk to port said after falling failing to ind find jobs on a boat that would take them to dombay bombay they stowed away S so far their wanderings have colt only of this amount was wa 9 used for visas leaving only actually silent in living and travel for the eight months in which they have been away from home |
