The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1911-02-24

These great leaders Of the peo-
pie and successful men OF affairs,
are to be held up as examples for
emulation by the youth of the
present day. chiefly because Of
their great achievements under diff
flculties. The lesson of their lives
will be fatally mlsread II applied
to teach or encourage the belief
that what they accomplished can,
in this or any generation, be easi-
ly accomplished OF achieved with
even an appreciable degree of sue
cess without education. No more
earnest witnesses than these IL
lustrlous men could be called to
establish this truth,
Aristotle. being asked in what
the educated differ from the uned-
ucated, said: AS the living differ
from the dead"
Alexander the Great Is not to be
charged with lack OF filial regard
for his father. the great Phillip OF
Macedon; yet he said he owed
more 20 Aristotle, his teacher, than
TO his great father.
Napoleon at school was often
sneered at by young aristocrats be-
cause Of the plainness OF his dress
and emptiness of his purse I'M
fortunately have experienced, and
doubtless also 1t has been the lot
OF young men now present, TO have
experienced the sting OF Just such
sneers and jeers. | know how
hard the lesson. yet would teach
that you be patient under such
"slings and arrows OF outrageous
fortune" Abide your time, and
: II will come 20 you who prove wor-
thy to proclaim from the heights
Q TO which your talent and industry
/ shall carry you, as to Napoleon on
/, taking the throne OF France from
> whence he ruled his scoffers. Ia
say that yet aud always the great
81 thing In the life OF man and
! nation Is career open TO talent
5 without distinction Of birth; and
!, from some proud height OF achieve
r ment and renown your success shall
4 itself rebuke the snarls of the en-
@ yious and malicious, w.. .
I' Until a time fresh within tn,
: memory Of men not older than l,thi
classics, literature and philosoph,
: we're the dominant features Of schoC
y and college work. Within this time
i however, new world OF ideas haI
Il dawned upon mankind, so that a.
education adapted to present need
Il goes beyond the old-time require
. ments for classics, law, medicine
d divinity and letters, and now. bu
d without neglecting these demands
y an education requires that all know
e and discoverable things shall b
utilized and employed for the in
Is crease Of production and the multi
u plication OF the necessities an
q comforts OF life. To these ne
d fields OF observation, experimer
N and discovery the business OF III
3. world looks for leadership TO mind
Is trained in practical education,
Let the youngest and most unst
y uCated OF my hearers go. we wi
say. TO scholar and sage havin
" ready command OF all the learnir
in the most complete encyclopedI
:, OF twenty years ago; he would as
In vain to be informed concernir
y matters of everyday contact al
experience This scholar and saI
y could tell nothing of the phonograI
y the telephone, wireless telegraph
automobiles, moving pictures, or
the ships that fly the air; Of Il
" player piano, or the talking m
" chimes; OF the Roentgen rays I
!, OF radium, and their uses; of Il
development and use OF electrici
" as heat and motive power; of Il
:, systems Of electric and troll
10 roads; Of the great advances
surgery and medicine; in enginee
" Ing, whether mechanical, electrlcl
y civil, sanitary or mining, and
" chemistry and physics. He won
" be incredulous II told that we a
~ using seven million telephone st
" tons and 100000 miles OF wiz
carrying twenty million messag
." daily and of sufficient length
y span the earth 500 times; tn
% four hundred thousand automobil
a. Of an average cost OF more tn,
1000 each are in use; that Il
' automobile industry stands fifth
rank Of the nations industrial OF
put; that more than five hundr,
. millions Of dollars are invested
| electrical apparatus; and that nea
| ly one billion dollars are invest
| In the telephone business alone. |
| would find It difficult to belle
| that steamships of less than I,
| thousand tons Durd aud TeQuirt
| eight to ten days for trans-Atldnt