The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-11-24
HIGH TRIBUTE ISPA|O
BOYS WHO HAVE
MADE CORN RECORDS
YOUTH WHO BLAZES THE WAY
TO BETTER YIELDS is A BEN.
EFACTOR.
SClth1lf.C FARM No IS URGt
IN presenting Prizes J. |. Finney Ad-
vIses Boys to Stay on the Farm and
Value the Dignity of Labor-.PIea
for Conservation.

I 'iiS piILCo W Tie Will
ners in the coin contest instituted by
the Maury County Board of Trade, J..
|. Finney, secretary of that organiza-
ton this morning spoke as follows:
The man VINO makes two blades
or grass grow where only one grew
before has, in all history, been re-
garded as a bepefactor to the human
race, as the advance agent of human
progress. What them, will adequate
ly describe the youth, who by his
own efforts by superior intelligence,
by perseverance and by scientific
methods, has caused two or even
three grains OF corn to grow where
but one grew before?
Corn is the great staple cereal or
America. 1t is by long odds the
NOSE valuable of all the crops pro-
duced in this wonderful LAND. II
furnishes the meat and the bread for
millions Of people. 1t furnishes the
motive power with which the farms
Of this country are operated. It sup
plies fuel for the equine machines
up on thousands of miles of city
streets. Unquestionably therefore
corn is not only the most valuable
| but the most indispensable of all our
products. The more corn produced
upon our lands the greater the
worlds supply OF its leading food
staple, the easier we make it for I'M
numbered thousands of laborers in
all lines of human endeavor to supply
, themselves Will the necessary energy
to accomplish their tasks and the
! food to satisfy the hungry mouths
dependent upon them.
The youth who can demonstrate to
all the world that one acre Of land
will produce as much corn Under
scientific treatment as five or even
ten acres will yield by the ordinary
method is not only a benefactor or
his race, but he is entitled to be
classed with the hero saviors who
| have blessed this world. He is a
builder not destroyer and he should
have a place upon the scroll OF :ame
a notch higher than that which we
accord to the man who blazes his
way to glory and Immortality through
human blood and gore. The former
makes the world an easier place in
which to i've; by making more album
dant the supply of food he blesses
| all humanity; the warrior stained
with human blood and begrimed with
| the smoke of battle, brings nothing
but misery anG sorrow and unutter-
able woe to all the land.
| And yet a short sighed world has
never builded the monuments nor
reared aloft the towering edifices to
commemorate the deeds of the hero
saviors that it has erect to the nero
destroyer. But in reality is not the
fame of the latter written in letters or
blood and IS not his most enduring
monument builded upon the bleach
ing bones of unnumbered thousands
of human beings?
The world owes an homage to the
humble savlors of humanity that it
has been loatn to acknowledge, but
the times are changing. Already we
catch a rift of that dawn which is to
usher us to a better and brighter
dav when in all this earth there shall
be mo war nor rumors OF war,
when an enlightened Christianity will
proclaim the universal brotherhood
of Man and the Fatherhood OF God.
Speed that day. Let its bright light
unon every home in our cline.
Young men, you have achieved
what in my Judgment is one d the
highest honors that can come to man
in this life. You have discovered the
best way in which TO secure results
you are Dathfnders. You have blaz-
ed the way to the highest endeavor.
You have discovered one Of the great
eacrets of nature. You have caused
her TO Weld up the greatest harvest
that has ever been recorded in this
county. Not only that you rave
surpassed al records for your State
The production of 1877 bushels OF corn
upon a single acre. of land is a feat
never before accomplished in this or
any other county within all the con
fines of Tennessee. That is not all
Never before lave two boys in a
single county, rye in the same nigh
bo,boo obtained results comparable
with that occurred by the winners OF
the first and second prizes.
you John Van McKibbon, and you