The Newtown bee., 1909-09-10
The Newtown Bee. Newtown, Friday, Sept, 10, 1909,
Washington MODEL SCHOOL BUILDING, tContinued from Page 4.l 9

e"tt"h eh the N'Ah NHtNH tl'N uNEAH
 and which those entering Into tnei
 labors have carried on to this com
 pletlon. There is a whole chapter h
 the Bible book of letters to the He
 brews in which the writer dwells a
 length on the proposition that with
 out the sacrifice of life there is nc
 uplifting of the ways of men-with'
 out the shedding of blood there is nc
 putting away of the evils of tho
 world, or gaining of good. All that
 Is of worth and profit to mankind
 costs life, comes by the spending and
 pouring out of human life. Every
 field that Is ploughed and planted
 and harvested to produce food for man, every factory or road or bridge
 that is built, every house or church or school that is erected, every mine that is dug or ship that is sailed, or war that is fought or office that is administered, costs life. Someone spends their life that this may be done. Men value possessions by money or gold; they make basis for exchange in such values. I have sometimes thought that the truest valuation of anything in this world is how much life it cost, how much human life has gone into its produc- tion, its conservation or its applica- tion to the needs of men. Is it not so that the real value of anything is not gold or money or exchange, but it's life value? How much human life has it cost and how much human life does it continue to demand? How much blood, as it were, was shed? how much life given that it might come to be or continue its be- ing? If we get measure of that we have an inner and secret worth which oyer-tops every other estima- tion. And part of the worth of this high school to us is that it has taken the spending of such true and worthy lives to bring it into existence.
 and others have also spent and been spent that this might be done. Their time, their interest, their labor was given that this town might have this well fitted, well equipped and eminently beautiful school. It is not often that the spending of life necessary for a public work is so openly manifest as it has been in the erecting of this building. It is not often that the two most interested and efficient in the beginning are taken before the work is completed. But because it has been so the work that here stands will always be felt to be more more precious to us. Two noble lives went even in their last efforts into it's accomplishments. As long as this building stands there shall be upon it's walls the record of these lives which were so largely given to it and which spent of their last days in it's sustainment. 3
 And one lesson l would now call
 rom this strange combination of two lives going down to their end in one work lesson, which I think the and young people who come aere and their fellow citizens who 1well in this community may we'll take and profit by. It is this; How 1elpfully and effectively and worth fly two lives of such different equip- nents and gifts and ways of living could yet be equally engaged ana efficiently engaged in the same good abor. William Brinsmade was a scholar, student and a teacher. His path lay aside from the work-a-day world, In the study and the class 'oom with the few who gathered ,nere he was quiet, deliberate, al- most hesitant at times, in all that | implied outward engagements ana | public duties, and yet no man among | IS had more of such forced upon him; 10 man was more trusted is such en- leavors. He was I think
 THE MOST JUDICIOUs MAN IN
 THIS COMMUNITY,
 nd people came to know that that vas so, and in what he consented hey would trust his judgment. Will
 ur Kilborn was business man. his york by its very nature putting him
 t the meeting places of men; he had o meet everybody and to meet them epeatedly, continually, and he loved 0 do so. He was also a visionary nd a fulfiller of visions, always see- ng new things that could be done nd with his seeing was endeavoring gain and again in my personal con- act with him he came to me with roposals, which at first sight bought uncertain, impracticable be- ause of the work or equipment they