The Cedarville Herald, Volume 51, Numbers 27-52

i 'pi/if¥wjw wyiwgaiw INTO THE FAME By ELMO SCOTT. WATSON OURmore great Americanswere honored recently when busts.of them made by leading sculp* tors of this country were utt- velled in-the Hall of Fame at New York university on Uni* vOrsity heights In New York city. Theyrepresented achieve* merit in widely different fields of activity for one was a sd- * entlst, another was a poet, an- « other a lawyer and the fourth an invenior. They were Louis Agassiz, 1John Greenleaf Whittier, Rufus Choate, and Samuel Finley Breese Mrirae and the addition of these four now brings the number of portrait sculptures which have already been unvcdied. up to 48.. ' ‘ 85 meri and women have been elected to ’the Hall of Fame and bronze tablets com* •memorating their achievement have, been placed, hut money for placing the busts of the remaining 17 has riot yet been raised. Busts, of James Madi­ son, Henry Clay and John Paul Jpnes have been prepared for their niches, but, at the time of the _ announcement o f the plans for. this year’s unveil­ ing, sufficient funds had not been guaranteed to - assure the inclusion of these three notables in the 3928 ceremony. Tiie history of the Hall of Fame, In brlt* is ■m : 1 , ■ On March 5, 1900, the council of New York university accepted a gift of $100,000, afterward Increased to $23(1,000, from ajjdonor whose name , was withheld, for the erection and completion on University heights, New York city, of a building 'called “The Hall of Fame for Great Americans,” The he.il was dedicated May SO, 1901, when twenty-six national associations each unveiled one of the-bronze tablets in the colonade. May 30, 1007* eleven new tablets were unveiled, ora­ tions being given by the governors of New York and Massachusetts. May 21, 3921, twenty-six new tablets were unveiled, April 27,1922, a temporary bust of Gen, U. S. Grant was unveiled by Marshal Joffre of France. ■->“ In May, 1922, busts were unveiled of Edgar Allan .Poe, George' Washington, Allss. Maria Mitchell, Gilbert Stuart and Mark tldpi;Ins. The busts of Robert Fulton and Horace Mann had been unveiled several years before. Mny 22, 1923, there were unveiled busts of R. W. Emerson, H. \V, Beecher, Frances E. Willard, U. S. Grant (permanent), R* E. Lee, Alexander Hamilton, and Abraham Lincoln, On May 13, 1924, busts were unveiled of John Adams, Rev, Phillips Brooks, Samuel L, Clemens (Mark Twain), Peter Cooper, James B. Eads, Joseph Henry, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William T. G, Mor­ ton, and Alice F. Palmer, On May 32, 1926, busts were unveiled of Roger Williams, advocate of religious freedom and founder of Rhode Island; James Kent, chancellor of the state of New York; Daniel Webster, states­ man ; Daniel Boone, explorer and frontiersman; Jonathan Edwards, theologian; George Peabody, financier and educator ; Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin; Edwin Booth,ac-tof,and Augustus Saint Gnudens, sculptor. On May 0, 1927, the following were honored; John James Audubon, naturalist; William Ellery Chartning, preacher and theologian; Admiral David Glasgow Farm* gut. Civil war naval commander; Bfenjamln Franklin, scientist and statesman; Washington Irving, man of letters and historian; alary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke college. Massachusetts has good reason to look upon the Hall of Fame unveilings this year as some­ thing of ft Bay state triumph, for of the four men thus honored she claims three as native sons and the fourth, a citizen by adoption, Sleeps in her soli in the shadow of her great university. However, there is something Of the Irony of fate In the fact that two of these sows of hers, who later became world-famous, did not fare very well nt her hands In their youth. She let one almost starve when he was ft struggling young painter, and she ostracized and virtually drove from her borders the other when he became a champion of abolition at a time when that move­ ment was far from popular in -New England. , Samuel Finley Breese Morse waa the painter Morse was bom in Charlestown, Mass., April 27, 3791, When a student at Yale lie became inter­ ested in art arid upon,his graduation in 1810 he went to London to study under the famous Ben­ jamin West, England hailed himns a potentially great artist, but when lie returned to Boston aud set-up his studio Ills Countrymen showed no inter­ est in his pictures. The inventive genius, which was to make him famous later, was alive even then and in 3816 he and hi# brother invented «n Improvement in a pump; for a fife engine. Al­ though Eli Whitney, inventor of the’ cotton gin, and President Jeremiah Day of Yale were enthns- ■iastic oven, the invetitlpn/fhe public was not. Finally Morse decided to go to New York-arid continue Ills .career as an artist, 'and there in the face of discouragement and ppvorty persisted un­ til he gained the recognition which he deserved!! Although nt the age of forty lie seemed commit­ ted to an artistic career, lie was still Interented In .invention and in 3832, while returning from Europe, got the idea for ' the electro-magnetic telegraph from a certain Dr. Charles T. Jackson of Boston, who was a passenger on the same ship. Morse perfected his invention in 11837 nrn} for the next few years vainly tried to get con­ gress to appropriate funds to develop its use. Success came at last when he had ail hut aban­ doned hope and When the day came for the offi­ cial demonstration, the message which was ticked off over tlio line which led from the United state} senate chamber to.Baltlmore, 80 miles away, was: "What hath God wrought?'* .Morse lived to see his epoch-making Invention used all over ilio world and when ho died in 1872 lie carried to Ida grave in Greenwood cemetery in N6w York city the greatest honors that the nations of the world could bestow upon him, The' story of John Greenleaf Whittier, the be­ loved Quaker poet, the “American Robert Rums.” is similnr in some respects to that of Morse. ITe was born December 17, 1807 nt Haverhill, Mass. His youth was one of tod ns a fanner boy until a wandering Scotchman, a tramp, struck the’* poetic fire In his soul by reciting some of Burns’ linos to him. Through a devoted sister and (tie editor of the local newspaper, later famous ns William Lloyd Garrison,,the prophet ornboliiion, the boy’s verses were published and lie was given a chance for better schooling. ms contributions to the New England Weekly « Review carried his name afar and by 1830 he was editor of that Journal. But tire death of Ids father took him back to the rocky hillside farm near Haverhill and there he remained for flute years. In* the meantime the .abolition movement was gaining ground and it was a cause ^vvhlch appealed to the young poet. He became secre­ tary of the Anti-Slavery society and editor of the Haverhill Gazette, which he made an abolition organ, But abolition was anathema to the Now England mill owners and WhltHer was forced to leave the state, as were Garrison and others. After a short time in New York Whittier went to Philadelphia as editor of the Freeman arid there a mob sacked his office nttd threatened ids life.' In 1840, he returned to Aroesbury Mass, to make his home and when the slavery issue was raised again after the Mexican war be went io Washington to become editor of the National In­ telligencer, nn antlslaVery paper. When the Civil war ended the question of slavery for nil time. Whittier returned to Ids home In MiiM-a«-hus<>i»j» und the belligerent abolitionist once more became the Quaker poet, desirous to “bury fu the waters of oblivion all the bitter things I said in (he strife." •' / .• . When the Centennial celebration came In turn he waft chosen to write the ode which (should slug the glories of the nation on its ono hundredth birthday,: But for all this' honor aud the many others that came to bim,;he remained the simple poet of the people, beloved by simple people all over the world, and by none,more than those of Ids own state among whom he died on September 7. 1892. The third son of the Bay state’ who was ho^- ‘ otefl the Hall Of Fame this year was Rufus Choate* lawyer, orator and scholar, of whom it ‘ was once raid, “His personal magnetism combined with Iris wealth of learning and his strong sense pluce him among the greatest forensic advocates Hint America has produced. He may fairly be ranked as .the equal of Lord Erakine,” Choate whs horn at Essex, Mas#., October. 1, 3799, , While a student at Dartmouth college he was so strongiv Influenced by the great speech of DnuleJ Webster in the famous Dartmouth college cane that he determined to study law. After his graduation from Dartmouth* trt 1819 he studied another year in that institution nnd then entered the law school at Harvard. After a brief time In the office/ of the attorney-general of the United States he opened his law oifice in Danvers, Mnss., and in 1830 was elected to congress where he distinguished himself the next year by a speech on tire tariff, , ,■ in 1811 Olioatc was elected to the United States . senate In the place of Daniel Webster* who lmd been appointed secretary of state by President Harrison, and soon proved that he was a worthy successor of the great orator. Among Ills most brilliant speeches, which are ranked among the greatest ever delivered in tlm senate, Were those on the. Oregon boundary, the tariff, the fiscal bank hill, tire Smithsonian Institution and the annexa­ tion of Texas. For the next twenty years he was prominent In hatlnnal affairs until Ills health failed and he died In Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 13, 1839, while on a journey to Europe to seek to regain his lost health, “I Cannot afford to waste time in making money," once declared Louis Agassiz and In that sentence he summed up his lifelong devotion to the‘Ideal that made him one of the greatest sci­ entists the world bns ever known. Although he was horn In Switzerland, America claims him as her own alhce he came to this Country in 1846 at the age of thirty-nine tind spent the rest of his life here. At one time Napoleon III of France offered him the directorship of the great Paris botanical gardens add a seat In the French sen- aie, both great honors and highly remunerative. But Agassiz's reply was that he found the fauna and flora of this country too Interesting ever to desire to leave It. Nature study was his ulj-nbsorbihg passion. He gu\e eighteen hours of every day to it,“There ia never a moment except when I am asleep that I mu not Joyfully occupied," he once said. “Give me the hours you say bore you and I will receive them ns most precious gifts." He eared nothing for money. "1 «iu not a quarter of a dollar ahead in the woild, ami never hope to he,” is another of hiS .rtafomenb). And this was made at n time when buslms&began to he n God in this country. By his personality and Ida devotion to science he awoke lit Americans u greater appreciation for the work of the scientists and he did much to popularize nature study in (Ids country, Agassiz died In 1878 ami his grave in (Ttmbtldge, Mass., Is marked by a massive bowlder frqm the Aarglacier in Switzer­ land, where smite of hi# earliest geological studies were carried on. LouiseBrooks Louis# Brook#, * pstNe brunette whose dancing In Zlegfeld'e Fotllet and “Louis the 14th" y/as dne of th# sensations of a recent theatrical tea- son, was signed by a prominent mo­ tion picture producer to a long-term contract, following her outstanding work In “The American V#nue.” >Mlss Brooks is a native of Wichita, Kan, She has Jet-black hair, dark-brown eyes, and weighs 120 pounds. •------ O— Unccramou Sense By John Blake . CONTROL /"“i DEFERS who Were astonished at x J the renuii’kuMe record of Bobbie Joneu, who some .time ago defeated all the American -amateurs ut their own game, can remember the time when this, tad, on missing a punt, would stamp on his putter, or throw it vio­ lently away. Jones had temperament, which la necessary to alt high achievement. But before he could become a mas­ ter of the game, lie had to take the temper out of Iris temperament, and this, after long self-discipline, he has succeeded in doing. Sometimes qualities which ure the .real elements of success become ob-; staeles to success. The Bible,-written many years ngo, tells us that Ite who ruleth his own /spirit Is greater than he who taketh n city. But in ull probability the men who took cities in those days ruled their spirits first, so they combined two sorts of, greatness, Then men who do great things In" tlm world are usually nervous, imagi­ native ntpn, who hove high ideals of the way 'thing# should be done, and' who are Impatient with themselves for pot attaining those Ideals. That i s , why they get Into rages when they make mistake?, and because of those rages continue to make more and worse .mistakes. To tannage oneself Is a long hard Job, yet it must be done, and done effichritly before ope can manage any­ body else, or succeed in a great tusk, Th. re is little doubt that this Jones chap will succeed In life ns well as in golf, la work as weltn s In play. He has the intelligence to know tlmt superiority In a sport Is really noth­ ing, and lie has the determination to exercise the self-government which will enable hlin to succeed In other things. It Is customary to regard young men who are prone to fly into violent rages over their failures as “unfitled for life, Thin Is a mistake, The fact that they do fly into rages proves that they know what they ought to do, and have no patience with thefficelves when they cannot do it. It is the spring In the steel which makes it superior to iron, buf the spring .must be controlled and care­ fully adjusted if tt Is to he useful in mechanics. Vnurtmt in Site Th# tallest monmnenrof Mon* la th* Washington monument, 555 feet high, but the largest monolith is in KnrnMt, tig «# , being 306 feet high. The high­ est chimney in the Old world, measur­ ing 474 feet, Is ih Glasgow, The lmg- Atnednct in Me is lit# Crotott of New Turk, which is 86 miles long; bat the longest ever built is in Bern, MOmiles to i*n*th, ] S ig h t o f An im hU j ' The biological survey says that the * crystalline lens varies somewhat in the eyes of different mammals, Magnifi­ cation of the object may sometimes . .result, hut it is impossible to tell the comparative impression on the retina and th* optic nerve. Should man ap- - pear three times his normal size to animals, Ml other objects Would also H Magnified three time*. j True P er fam e* To dhitlnguish perfume iiuly, take the stoppor friiju each crystal tiaguii qmJ for n moment move It gently bark and forth ntitil -fhe preset vntlve nho- hoi hr.u evaporated, and only the cA stttce remain,'j. it is then one ty greet­ ed by tlm subtle call of the Dure “odour,” and tho fragrance of one's Choice become# umulstakahtu. W eddm g Ring on T o e In the register of 8t. James’ church Bury St Edmund#, England, Is tin following entry * "OhrSalopImr Now- sum married Fliartiy Morrell. Olmrltf Mori ell being entirely without arms, the ring waa placed upon the fourth toe of the left foot, and aim wrote her tumid in the register with her right foot,” Sometime# the slow plodding tern- peram; nt wlU go farther than the bril­ liant one, but never if tbe brilliant one Is properly managed. All Hie world's greatest genomes have been eccentric, But it Is a mis­ take tn regard eccentricity ns genius. The men who have reduced ,their eccenumitles to the minimum, sad kept n constant check on them are ■those who arc most likely to get Into the Hull of Fame—after they are dead—nnd to enjoy the regards of high reputilth n While they are living, Ymii-'t Mr. JoneS lias set a valuable* exumph* not only to golfers hut to all young men everywhere LeniT.tng to control himself was a tough Job. But he did It, aud will be able to continue to do It whenever it Is necessary. (Copyrtsht,) On Shipboard First Passenger—Home on up and see the iceberg 1 Second Bn; senger—I'm not Inter­ ested. I've goi an electric refrigerator at horn?. —--0——« ■ Realism Path r—How do you like your toy town, Voramy? Toim iy—It’s all right, but 1 head about six mo,*e filling stations. Anrtanf fig h te r * filem is Oho AMorit*#, against whom the Is raelite* fought for possession of Pal­ estine, ars represented on Hgyptiao monuments a# a race Of blue-eyed blonds* $e*m Jeke on RlehMan The only way for a rleh man to b* healthy is by exercise and absttneuee, to Jivo as if he was poor; which wft* esteemed the worst pert of poverty.*- Temple, - Carrington T. Marshall (CUMluetic*) CntShl* hr RqwNicu Nwu»,li« United States Senator (SHORT TFRM TO fUirOFFTS TUBM -1 a SENATOR WHJJ 5 ) Frimary-.-Tuesday, August 14th, 1928 Carrington T. 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