The San Francisco call., 1910-05-24

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than ever in the past. The demand. he
said. was not for socialism or anarchy,
/ but for calm, scientific thinking and
judgment.
President Jordan, in his address to
| the graduating class, following the
1 comforting of degrees, spoke on THE
Permanent Wealth of Nations, which,
] he said, existed within man himself
/ and not within mans outside accumu-
/ lations. In part he said:
Not long ago died in Washington
Simon Newcomb. astronomer and phil
! osopher It was said of him, He left
a record wholly blameless and wholly
salutary, whose work added to the per
manent wealth of nations
AT the same time died Edward II.
Hartman, promoter and fnancier,
likewise great and likewise effective,
whose life and work added largely to
our nations wealth.
RICHES NOT ALIKE
But the riches they produced were
not like in kind. The permanent
wealth of nations. like the kingdom of
God, another name for the same thing,
| is within ourselves. 1t is not meas
ured by outside accumulations.
The activities of the scholar, the
clear headed, broad minded man of
science, have added to the permanent
achievement Of the human race. Men
know and think more clearly because
Simon Newcomb thought clearly. Men
act more wisely because they think
more clearly, and all this because
Simon Newcomb was wise, courageous
and productive. We are all the better
off, more or less, for his life, and this
in proportion to the loftiness of our
own ideals and the degree in which
af wrysf n
his work
Hartman was a wise man, too. He
saw ends from the beginning and he
achieved the results he aimed for. He
had his reward He made the despised
Union Pacific and the abused Southern
Pacific a continuous and valuable
piece of property. He added to his
road. to the wealth of various associa-
tions, and, incidentally, to the wealth
or at least to the early development of
a large part of the great west
IN part. this would have come with
out him, in a sooner or later time. In
/ larger part, it is a matter of absolute
indifference to the human race whether
| it ever came or not. In other words, in
those matters in which the permanent
wealth of nations is concerned, in the
long future of mental and spiritual de-
velopment, the name of Hartman finds
no place The name of Newcomb in the
same connection will stand in large
letters among those who by life and
influence have made this a broader and
better world, or who have helped US
to see better what broad and beauti-
full world this really is.
WILL REMEMBER HARTMAN
I'VE may easily conceive that in the
next generation the name of Hartman
L.
wealth nor his mastery OF railroads,
but rather for the noble record left by
the scientific observers who took part
in the Hartman expedition to Alaska.
In like fashion the time will come
when the name of Carnegie will not
be associated with steel and iron, and
even that of Rockefeller will not sug-
gest Standard oil or the association of
monOpolies. The Carnegie institution
and the Carnegie foundation will out
last these things, and the Rockefeller
Institute of Medical Research repre-
sents one of the wisest and most far
reaching uses to which any mans
money can ever be put.
This discussion may serve as a text
for the thesis that there are now, and
always have been, all over the civilized
world, men who add to the permanent
wealth of nations, their intellectual and
moral resources, and the extension of
sanity. of cleanliness and of justice. 1t
! goes without saying that the men who
accomplish these results do not work
for money. They do not work for self
alone, nor for immediate results. Theirs
/ is the far future. the future which
comes, it may be, long after the workers
are themselves forgotten. In their
work they find their own reward. And
a second thesis is this, that men Of this
type, now and ever, outweigh in inf1u-
ence the other types of men. In the
| endless struggle which humanity has
4 had against caste and privilege, against
plunder and injustice, the man who
works for the larger end wins always
the final success. 1t may not appear
/ so today nor tomorrow, nor at the end
Of the century, nor at this or any other
stage Of the game-but the game is not
yet finished.
"All the acquisitions of man." Emer-
son tells us, ARE the victories of the
/ good brain and the brave heart The
world belongs to the energetic, be-
| longs to the wise. It is in vain to
make a paradise but for good men.
EFFORTS THAT LAST
In Gods world, those efforts only
last which meet with his august ap-
| proyal. In other words, that which
endures is that which deserves to en-
dure, because it helps in the conduct of
IKE. w nat man can accomplish must
be wrought on his fellowman Only
man is plastic in mans hands. The
universe is too big for US; the tough
old world has held its way for cen
turtles of cons. We can neither make
II nor mar it. Wave and storm, sun
shine and song. tornado and torrent
comet and earthquake, all these things
VIII take care Of themselves Life is
the only material our hands are strong
enough TO hold. The only permanent
mark we can make is on the lives Of
men. Whatever makes men better.
stronger, saner, more just, more gentle
and more happy, this is what counts
This is all that can add to the perma
nent wealth of nations
| ALEXANDER LIMITED
ut is said that Alexander sighed for
more worlds to conquer, when he had
| subdued his i'll armed neighbors in .
little corner of the earth Other worlds
lay all about. and he knew nothing Of
their existence. The secrets of tbe
rocks he had never suspected. Hehad
no curiosity for the movements of the
stars. The mystery of life-its end.
less variety, its perennial unity-were
no more to him than jackal Steam
electricity, the growth of trees, the
marvel of human consciousness, ali
1 these had no existence to Alexander fhe