FEJEVARY: And we're holding up our end right along. You'll see the boys drill this afternoon. It's a great place for them, here on the hill--shows up from so far around. They're a fine lot of fellows. You know, I presume, that they went in as strike-breakers during the trouble down here at the steel works. The plant would have had to close but for Morton College. That's one reason I venture to propose this thing of a state appropriation for enlargement. Why don't we sit down a moment? There's no conflict with the state university--they have their territory, we have ours. Ours is an important one--industrially speaking. The state will lose nothing in having a good strong college here--a one-hundred-per-cent-American college. SENATOR: I admit I am very favourably impressed. FEJEVARY: I hope you'll tell your committee so--and let me have a chance to talk to them. SENATOR: Let's see, haven't you a pretty radical man here? FEJEVARY: I wonder if you mean Holden? SENATOR: Holden's the man. I've read things that make me question his Americanism. FEJEVARY: Oh--(_gesture of depreciation_) I don't think he is so much a radical as a particularly human human-being. SENATOR: But we don't want radical human beings. FEJEVARY: He has a genuine sympathy with youth. That's invaluable in a teacher, you know. And then--he's a scholar. (_He betrays here his feeling of superiority to his companion, but too subtly for his companion to get it_.) SENATOR: Oh--scholar. We can get scholars enough. What we want is Americans. FEJEVARY: Americans who are scholars. SENATOR: You can pick 'em off every bush--pay them a little more than they're paid in some other cheap John College. Excuse me--I don't mean this is a cheap John College. FEJEVARY: Of course not. One couldn't think that of Morton College. But that--pay them a little more, interests me. That's another reason I want to talk to your committee on appropriations. We claim to value education and then we let highly trained, gifted men fall behind the plumber. SENATOR: Well, that's the plumber's fault. Let the teachers talk to the plumber. FEJEVARY: (_with a smile_) No. Better not let them talk to the plumber. He might tell them what to do about it. In fact, is telling them. SENATOR: That's ridiculous. They can't serve both God and mammon. FEJEVARY: Then let God give them mammon. I mean, let the state appropriate. SENATOR: Of course this state, Mr Fejevary, appropriates no money for radicals. Excuse me, but why do you keep this man Holden? FEJEVARY: In the scholar's world we're known because of him. And really, Holden's not a radical--in the worst sense. What he doesn't see is--expediency. Not enough the man of affairs to realize that we can't always have literally what we have theoretically. He's an idealist. Something of the--man of vision.