Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1911-07-13


At meeting Of the Presidents Of
twenty Of the nnfion,s largest coEpoe-
afions held h New York, the otter day
twas matter Of comment that Of
those present twelve were FnrzheE's
boga',
When the younester at home ON the
farm 9e,s esthe blues and fnne1es that
there h no longer the chance that there
used 10 be "a rise above the fnonotonE
and drudgeEy Of tilIer Of the soil he.
| can think Of these twelve captains of
industry who started a. he II starting
and remember that when they were
boys there were times when they too
imagined that It was hopeless ambi-
ton to aspifs to win their wy % tie
front in the city.
/ He wants to remember that the farm
has. evolved some Of the world great
est men and some Of it's most conspicu-
ously useful ones and that with the in
creasing activitiessof the nation In all
directions there is now. more than ever,
room at the top for an exceptional man.
In the contemplation of the stirring
achievements Of the farmers boy, past
and present, IL he has imagination and
soul he win find helpful inspiration,
when the day seems dark and the fu-
ture full Of gloom. Let him recollect
as the world surely does that it was the
farm that gave us Andrew jackson,
Willard Fillmore, Gar field, Horace
Greeley. Sir Isaac Newton and the
brilliant Carlyle. It was q farmers
son Eli Whitney, who created the cot
ton gin, which laid the foundation for
the growth of the cotton industry, now
worth $9OO, 900. 900 year to the United
States and farmers boy; Elias Howe.
who emancipated womanhood from
, the slavery Of the kneedle by inventing
the sewing machine.
Another brainy farmers boy Oliver
Evans called the Watt of Ameiica
J was the first to build and operate q
locomotive in the United States. Cyrns
) cCormick, inventor of the reaper, the
) whir of which is to-day heard round
the earth, was the modest son of an
I Illinois farmer. The first machine
to make tracks was the creation
of Massachusetts farm lad Thomas
Blanchard and the device that furnished
4 the world with the modern scerw wat
] the work of poor Vermont genius
Thomas Harvey, quiet, thoughtful
! farmers son. To the resourcefnlness
: Of an Ohio farm lad Charles r. Brusf
. who inYented the dynamo, the world il
indebted for its present day great in
dustrial and power plants that give EN-
i | ulovmeY,f tn millions nf hands Thorna,
0 A. Edison, most brilliant Of the world
inventors. sponsor for the electric light
E tie monograph and q hundred Other
3 devices, was the son of poor farm
E laborer. K. M. Turner, inventor 81
: the acousticon. the photograph and thu
! interior telephone bearing his name
: universally used, when not engaged or
his fathers Indiana farm used to hire
1 himself out to neighboring farmer
+ at 25 cents day seeding corn, at which
: he was acclaimed an expert. From /
y Wisconsin farm came G. L. Shoies, tn,
e inventor of the typewriter. which rev
, olu'ionized the business methods OF
= the world
d Where service is the only credentia
e that commands recognition and man.
/ ability must square with his responsi
bility, the farmers boy who ha
!, hearkened to the call of the big cit.
!, will be found to-day in the front ranl
9 of the worlds useful workers in ever,
large city on the face of the earth. Fo
he makes good and the world needs him
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