The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-07-08
Louhets Give Luncheon.

Paris, July 7.-President and Madame Loubet gave luncheon today in honor of the American special ambassadors and visiting naval officers. It was served in the state dining room of tlle Elysee palace. Mime. Loubet had Am bassador Mccormick on her right .,nd Junior Special Ambassador Loomis on her left. President Loubet had Mrs. Mccormick on his right and Mrie Fal- Hers, wife of the president of the sen- ate, on his left. The luncheon was of unusual elegance, the President show ing marked courtesy to his American guests.
 takes the shape of cringing servility to- ward wealth, and in another the shape of brutal arrogance on the port of certain men of wealth. Each one of these states of mind, whether it be hatred, seryilitys or arrogance, is in reality closely akin to the other two; for each of them springs from fantastically twisted and exaggerated idea of the importance of wealth as compared to other things, The clamor of the demagogue against wealth, the snobbery of the social columns of the newspa pers which deal with the doings of the wealthy, and the misconduct of those men of wealth who act with brutal disregard of the rights of others, seen superficially to have no fundamental re- lation: yet in reality they spring from shortcomings which are fundamentally the same: and one of these shortcomings is the failure to have proper ideals.
 Must Be Remedied.
 spThis failure must be remeded in large part by the actions of you and your fel- low-teachers, your educators throughout the land By your lives no less than by your teaching you show that while you regard wealth as good thing you regard other things as still better It Is absolutely necessary to earn cer- tain amount of money; 1t is q mans first duty to those dependent upon him to earn eonugh for their support; but after a certain point has been reached money making can never stand on the same plane with other and nobler froms of effort The roll of American worthles numbers men like Washington and l.in- coin, Grant and Farragut, Hawthorne and Poe, F'ulton and Morse St. Gaudens and MacMonnies; it numbers statesmen and soldiers, men of letters, artists, sculp- tors, men of science, inventors, explorers, roadmakers bridge builders, philantro- psts, moral leaders in great reforms; 1t numbers men who have deserved well in any one of the countless fields Of ca- tivity; but of rich men it numbers only those who have used their riches alright, who have treated wealth not as an end but as a means, who have shown good conduct in acquiring it and not merely lavish generosity in disposlng of it.
 Thrice fortunate are you to whom it is given to lead lives of resolute en- deayor for the achievement of lofty ideals, and, furthermore, to instill, both Ixr faDn nlti aofr these ideals into the minds of those who in the next generation will, as the men and women of that generation, determine the position which this nation will hold in the history of mankind" ,
 Responses to the Presidents address were made by John R. Kirk, president Of the State Normal school at Kirksvie, Mo, and Miss Katherine D. Blake, prin- cipal of public school No. 6, New York city. Miss Blake's response was nota ble effort. She pronounced an eloquent euloov on the President, concluding with these words:
 .sHe is a greater teacher than any among us We are teachers of children; he is a teacher of men. teacher of na- tions. He is not only the President Of tbe ITnited States but of all the best loved man in the world.
 As the President shook hands with Miss Blake at the conclusion of her address tbe audience rose to it's feet and cheered her nearly a minute It had been the Presidents intention to make another addrass outside the auditorium, but his fine was so short he could stop only long enough on the ocean driveway to greet the crowd, which had assembled and to express his pleasure at the recep- ton accorded to him. He left immediate ly for oyster Bay.