Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-06-15
THURSDAY. JUNE is. 1911.
THE FARMERS BOY,

"SSSinS VI Cne presidents OF
twenty OF the nations largest corpora
lions held in New York the other dav.
it was a matter of comment that of
those present twelve were farmers
boys"
When the youngster ct home on the
farm gets 1.-THE blues" and fancies that
there is no longer the chance that there
used to be to rise above the monotony
and drudgery of tiller of the soil. he
can think of those twelve captains of
industry, who started as he is starting,
and remember that when they were
boys there were times when they too
imagined that it was hopeless ambi-
ton to aspire to win their way to the
front in the city.
He wants to remember that the farm
has evolved some of the worlds great
est men and some of its most conspicu-
ously useful ones, and that with the in
creasing activities of the nation in all
directions there is now, more than ever.
room at the top for the exceptional
man.
In contemplation of the stirring
achievements of the farmers boy, past
and present, if he has imagination and
soul, he will find helpful inspiration.
when the day seems dark and the future
full of gloom. Let him recollect-as
the world surely does-that it was the
farm that gave US Abraham Lincoln.
one of the worlds most majestic fig
ures; that gave us Andrew Jackson.
Millard Fillmore, the martyred Garfield.
Horace Greedy, Sir Isaac Newton and
the brilliant Carlisle. 1t was a farmers
son, Eli Whitney, who created the cot
ton gin, and it was a farmers boy,
Elias Howe, who emancipated woman
hood from slavery of the needle by in
venting the sewing machine.
Long before Robert Fulton sailed his
steamboat, the Clermont, up the Hud-
son, John Fitch, the ingenious product
of Pennsylvania farm, demonstrated
that boat could be propelled by steam,
by equipping skiff with an engine and
sailing his craft up the Delaware with
Its aid. Another brainy farmers boy.
Oliver Evans, sometimes called the
Watt of America, was the first to build
and operate locomotive in the United
States. Cyrus Mccormick, inventor of
the reaper, the wkir of which is TODAY
heard round the earth, was the modest
son of an ordinary Virginia farmer. The
first machine to make tacks was the
creation Of Massachusetts farm lad.
Thomas Blanchard, and the device that
furnished the world with the modern
screw was the work of poor Vermont
genius, Thomas Harry, quiet, thought
full farmers son. To the resourceful-
ness of an Ohio farm boy, Charles F.
Brush. who invented the dynamo. the
world is indebted for its great present
day industrial and power plants, that
give employment to millions of men.
Thomas A. Edison, most brilliant of the
worlds inventors, sponsor for the cleo
trio light, the phonograpl and hundred
other devices, was the son of a Door
farm laborer. Patrick Il. Delany, in
Ventor of the multiplex, the Delany re-
ay, the telepost automatic telegraph
and hundred other telegraph and ca
Die improvements grew up on a New
England farm. From Wisconsin farm
anne c. L. Sholes, the inventor of the
typewriter, which revolutionized the
'usiness methods of the world.
Where service is the only credential
hat commands recognition and a mans
bility must square with his RESPONSE
ility, the farmers boy" who has
to the call of the big city will
e found today in the front rank of the
'orld's useful workers in every large ]
ty on the face of the earth, for he |
lakes good and the world needs him.
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