GERMAN AMERICANS

of Dutchmen who can take the shirt off your back at
seven-card stud with deuces wild.

*' The educated Hollander," Professor Barnouw ex-
plained to me while raking in most of my blue chips,
" adapts himself easily to foreign ways, and his know-
ledge of the English language, which is taught in all
Dutch high schools, facilitates the process of adaptation
in America. A great many native Dutchmen are to be
found on the faculties of our colleges and universities.
The statistics of Netherland exports do not list the
scholars whom Holland sends abroad. Bulbs and butter
and cheese are of intense interest to the statisticians at
The Hague, but they are not concerned with the ex-
portation of scientists and savants. Still, Queen Wil-
helrnina's country produces a larger number of these
than its universities are able to absorb, and since the
United States (praised be Congress!) has never erected
a tariff barrier against their importation, American
institutions of higher learning are gathering the fruits
that Holland raised."

41 Do they teach you to pass four jacks under the guns
in Dutch high schools and then draw one card, pretend-
ing you're out on a limb with a four-card flush? " I
asked him.

** No," he said, *' that merely proves how easily we
adapt ourselves to your foreign ways/'

Some other outstanding adaptable gentlemen in the
fields of higher learning include Dr Jan Schilt, Profes-
sor of Astronomy, Columbia University; Dr A. van
Maanen, Mount Wilson Observatory; Dr J. A. C

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