The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-27
POSTAL GUIDE AS
HALL OF FAME
Its List of Names Tells Who
Are the Greatest
Americans.
WASHINGTON NAME LEADS
Many Geographical Points Are
Named After America
Prominent Men.


In every one of the 1900 post
offices in the land can be seen a paper
bound book, dingy blue in color and
about the size of the Fifth reader OF
our youthful schooldays. Its dogs
cared" condition is but an evidence OF
faithful. unpretentious services TO the
great American public with whom IA
miliarity has never bred contempt.
1t serves impartially the all-powerful
captain of industry, the eager-eyed
woman who wishes her missive to
reach the absent loved one, and the
errant hobo, who. tired Of ''husks," at
! last writes home, says the ST. Louis
GlObe-DemOcrat.
/ Yet this modest little book answers
with fnality the question on every side
of which volumes have been written
/ and which rises again and again; VINO
are the greatest Americans:
The little book is mOdestly truthful,
and added 10 sincerity has the quality
which the Deity is supposed to monop-
Ollie. of being no respecter of per-
sons" It is the Burke's Peerage Of
fame in the minds and love IN the
hearts of the American people. II
your name is not found therein you
may be good but in the minds or
your cOuntrymen you are neither great
nor famous. With the human instinct
/ To Derpetuate the names of the famous
and venerated or the loved, the re-
peated application Of name TO geo
graphical points is sure criterion OF
fame, the naming of postoftlce or a
county is a spontaneous expression OF
regard for the person whose name II
| bears.
The many Grants in the southern
states are but an answering echo TO
Let US have peace.
I Considering that Washington was
! living during sixteen years after the
: inception and in the formative stage
of the nation. and that men closely
| associated with him lived for fifty
years after, il may we'll be expected
/ that his name Leads all the rest, and
such is the truth.
Besides the capital and one of the
most promising states, no less than
thirty-eight pOstOfhces and thlrty-tWo
counties bear his name. with four
more. such as Washington Heights
that have his name for foundation
total OF seVenty-fOur.
Lincoln is a close second. with TWEEN
/ ty-eight offices. sixteen with his name
as a basis and twenty-three counties.
! But remembering that during and for
! years after LincOln's active public life
J the people of eleven states regarded
! him as a personal enemy. it must be
conceded that hOnors are easy between
the Father of His County and the
great cOmmOner who reared the
stars and stripes anew"
] The recurrence or the great emanci-
pator's name in states that within the
memory of millions still living were in
violent rebellion, shows that venera-
ton for his many human and noble
Qualities is call over the land"
Grant is safely in third place, with
/ eighteen offices, twenty-nine whose
names are derivatives and twenty
three counties. but as some OF these
names are in honor of the immortal
| StoneWau Jackson, old Hickory is
/ releg7ted 10 fourth place.
While Monroe was long in the pub
! lie eve and his administration passed
into history as the EZRA of good feel
ing" he is in NTH place, with thirty
one offices. five founded on his name,
and seventeen counties.
Franklin. the father Of our postal
system, and the first pOstmaster-gen-
eral, is sixth. with seventeen offices,
nine whose names are derived from
his. and twenty-fouT counties.
Considering that for many years his
Poor Richards Almanac went TO every
hearthstOne, and if not read so much
as the Bible, was read a great deal
/ harder, we are forced 10 the conclu-
sion that proverbs wise saws and
modern instances" never convert any
one, and take no permanent hold on
the minds of the people.
They learn to glibly recite them for
the guidance of the other fellow, go
their own way and forget the author.
The claim that it requires an ag-
gresslVe personality TO perpetuate a
/ name graphically, fnds no confir-
nation in the case Of Taft, who comes
! seventh, with tWenty-One offices
| though he has been in the limelighi
but three years to the twelve years
of Roosevelt. who comes eighth, with
sixteen. 1t is a freak of fame or no.
tOriety that the very first Office named
for Roosevelt was in state that gave
him less than one-third OF its vote, and
in q township that went unanimously
for Bryan.
Webster. Douglas, Scott and Clay
and enrolled and have places in The
little books hall of fame in the or
der named. Strange that these men,
distinguished for long years OF faitn-
fuI service, men who were brought
near to the people by having their
sayings and doings in school books
should be sighted, but the postofhee
confirms what was said Of at least two
of them while living. They are pOpu-
lar every day but election day"
IL gives a blow to our national pride
that twenty counties should bear the
name OF Crawford out of pure spite.
but such is the case
Ia fact there are twenty-One, bu
the Crawford" in Ohio is for Colonel
William Crawford, who was burned
alive at the stake at Broken Sword
an insignificant stream that meanders
across the country
The other twenty are for William
II. Crawford. Vindictiye politician
duelist and aggressive campaigner
With less cause than had Burr To chal-
lenge Hamilton. he had brought two
opponents to the field OF honor in hi;
canvass for the senate in 1907
WHY ONE YORK SHIREMAN MAR
RIED.
An old Yorkshire collier, well known
for his success in the cenrCfUnr ffQTd