Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-05-27
THE FARMERS BOY.

At a meeting of the Presidents q
twenty of the nations largest cOrpor
ations held in New York, the othel
day 1t was a matter of comment tina
OF those present, twelve were far
mer's boys.
When the younger at home ON the
farm gets ''the blues" and fancies
that there rs no longer the chance
that there used to be to rise above the
monotony and drldgery Of tiller Oh
the soil, he can think Of those twelve
captains of industry who started az
he Ia starting and remember that
when they we've boys there were
times when they too imagined that
it was hopeless ambition to aspire
to win their way to the front in the
city.
He wants to remember that the
farm has evolved some Of the world s
greatest men and some OF its most
cnspicnously useful ones and that
with the increasing activities OF the
nation i'm all directions there is now.
more than ever, room, at the top for
the exceptional man.
In the contemplation Of the stirrimg
achievements of the farmers boy,
past and present, III he has imagina-
tom and soul he will find help6ull Inn
SEPARATION, when the day seems dark
and the future fun OF gloom. L.
him recollect, as the world surely
does, that 1t was the farm that gave
us Abraham Lincoln, one Of the world d
most majestic Figures; that 1t gave
us Andrew Jackson, Millard Flllmore,
the martyred Garfield, Horace Greedy,
Sir Isaac Newton and the brilliant
CARLYLE. 1t was farmers son-,Elh
Whitney, who created the cotton GIN,
which laid the foundation for the
foundation for the growth OF the cot
ton industry, now worth 5000, ZOO, 900
a year to the United States and
farmers boy-Elias Howe, who eman-
cIpated womanhood from the slavery
of the needle by dnventing the sew
ing machine. Long before Robert Full
ton sailed his steamboat, the Cler-
mont up the Hudson. John Fitch, the
Ingenious product Of a Pennsylvania
farm demonstrated that boat could
be propelled by steam by equipping a
skiff with an engine and saining his
craft up the Delaware with its aid
Another brainy farmers boy-OMver
Evans-sometimes called the Watt of
America-was the first to build and
operate a locomotive in the United
States. Cyrus Mccormick, inventor
OF the reaper, the whir Of which Is to-
day heard round the earth, was the
modest son Of an ordinary Illinois far
mer. The first machine to make tacks
was the creation of a Massachusetts
farm lad-ThomasB blanchard, and the
device that furnished the world with
the modern screw was the work of a
poor Vermont genius-Thomas Hair
vey, a quiet, thoughtful farmers son
To the resourcefulness Of am Ohio
farm hd--Charles F. Brush--who i'm
vented the dynamo, the world is in
debted for dts present day great i'm
dustaial and power plants that give
employment to millions Of hands.
Thomas A. Edison. most brilliant Of
the worlds inventors, sponsor for the
electric light, the photograph and
hundred other devices, was the son
Of a poor farm laborer. X. M. Tur-
ner, inventor Of the acousticon, the
photograph and the Interior telephone
bearing his name, now universally
used, when not engaged on his fathers
Indiana farm used to hire himself out
to neighboring farmers at rs cents a
day seeding corn, at which he was
acclaimed an expert From Wiscon-
sin farm came c. L. Sholes, the i'm
ventor Of the typewriter, which revo-
Mtionized the business methods of the
world
Where service Is the only credentialI
that commands recognition and a
mans ability must square with his
responsibility, the farmers boy"
who has hearkened to the call OF the
big city will befound today in the
front rank of the worlds useful work
ers in every large city on the face
Of the earth. For he makes good and
the world needs him.
One wonders what sort Of beauty
those parents possess who didn't want
to keep their baby because 1t was not
pretty and 30 gave 1T to a Children's