Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-24

anything human In the picture present.
ed to him In the types. He Is led to
believe that success Is attained only by
steady unremitting and conscientious
devotion TO some ideal fixed on in early
youth. George Washington IL pictured
as boy who as a lisping infant be-
gan that campaign which inevitably
made him the Father of His Country.
Adams, Clay Webster. Calhoun and
others never We're politicians, according
to such historians, but were statesmen
from their school days,
Our great inventors, according to
such popular chronicles, wrought out
their devices by patient, unceasing la
Dor, and reaped the sure reward of all
who will do likewise. All of which Is
false, misleading and dscouraging to
the normal American boy who is retro
spectlve enough To realize that he does
not possess and canlot apply such
traits Our teachers and historians
gloss over or ignore that all potent fac
tor in the career Of every human being
which is termed opportunity longer
and less accurate word than luck"
Thousands Of men, who once were boys,
were born with the qualities which are
inseparable from greatness but few
Of them find their lives cast in the en-
yironment and favored with the cir
cumstances, conditions and events
which give sudden and effective play
TO faculties which may for years have
smouldered or slumbered.
To unduly exalt such success by lg-
norlng the train Of unexpected but in
eyltable events which made 1t poaible
Is simply browning luck while pretend
ing to ignore IT, Let US consider our
great men, be they dead or living, as
they were, and paint their portraits
with their true cQlors, giving credit
where credit Is due, giving opportunity
or luck It's credit when due. and not
Withholding censure when the facts call
for IT, Our schoolbook saints are
dreary and impossible lot. With which
preface we will proceed to a study OF
the boyhood and career OF Admiral
Dewey.
Simeon Dewey, grandfather to George
Dewey, moved from Hanover. n. H.,
about one hundred wears ago. and set
tied in Berlin, VI Here Julius Yemans
Dewey was born, one of a family OF
eight children. He was a farm boy and
a cattle drover After loading and
pitching seventeen loads OF hav one hot
summer day when in his nineteenth
year, he decided to abandon the life of
a farmer and begin the study of medi-
cine, He was graduated from YER
mont university, at Montpelier at 1928,
and began the practice Of medicine in
that town In 1925 he married Mary
Perrin Of Berlin. VI The fruit Of this
union was eighteen years of happy do
nestle life and four children--Charles,
Edward. George and Mary, who after
ward became Mrs. George p. Greeley
Of Nashua. N. II.
Mrs. Dewey died when George was
about six years old, and he has but n
faint recollection Of her In lS45. when
George WAS eight years old, his father
married his second wife. Susan Edison
Tarhox. and she brought up the three
boys and the girl with as much care
as II thew were her own.
Mary Dewey was two years younger
than George and they were constant
companions, with the boy az her cham
pion and protector.
Mr.. Dewey was the leading physi-
clan of Montpelier then a village OF
800 peonle. The Dewey homestead
and the birthplace Of the future admiral
was located on what is now No. i2O
state street directly opposte the state
Capitol building With the spacious
Capitol grounds In front and the Onion
river--now called the Winooskl-not far
away, the children had ample opnor-
tunitv to get into all kinds " mischief
and all sorts Of dangers and they miss
ed few opportunities.
GEORGES FIRST RESPONSIBILITY.
When George Dewey was boy his
father was an excellent type Of the
progressive country physician, with
fairly good practice. This was long
before the days OF specialists, and Or.
Dewey was called on for everything,
from setting a broken leg to pulling
teeth or attending a case OF smallpox.