The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-20


written after so; La Fontaine's Fa.
bres, Gulliver's Travels, all treasures
that Wilt enrich the literature Of the
world forever The average age Of
the Chief Justices OF the Supreme
Court OF the United States. perhaps
the greatest legal tribunal on earth,
is nearer lothian so, Marshall having
concluded his prodisiousl labors OF
more than three decades at 80, fancy
at SO, Waiteiat ~, Fuller still presid.
ing over that august body today nj
10 1t Is safe to- sayvthat the average
age at which the more than fifty
associate justices who have occupied
the Supreme Bench, since its .organi-
cation were still in the full exercise
of their functions is nearer IS than
60 31 -4@glsfS 'r.,. 81. je,
Such is a partial list Of the achieve
ments of men who have passed the
half-century mark. Eliminate these
achievements and you would blot out
most of the worlds advancement.
Observe that We are still ten years
above the Osler limit of 40. Were we
to go still further, and erase the
deeds of the infants" between 40
and so, we would destroy about all
that remains of human progress. We
would have to eliminate the printing
press of Gutenberg the discoveries in
electricity Of Franklin and Galvani,
Priestley's discovery Of oxygen, the
smallpox preventives of Jenner, liar.
vey's discovery Of the circulation Of
the blood, La Sales discovery OF the
Mississippi, Bessemer's process for
the manufacture of steel, Watts
steam engine, Stephenscn's railways,
the military feats of Grant ani Sher-
man and Cromwell and Nelson,
Blackstones Commentaries on the
Principles Of English Law, the SER
vices of Washington in the American
Revolution. In science, music. art,
and literature we would wipe out al
most all the surviving contribnt: dis
to human enlightenment; among
these the conceptions of Herschel
and Won Baer. the compositions or
List and Sphor the creations OF Dore
aud Rubens and Blake. many OF the
masterpieces of Shakespeare, Scott,
Gibbon, Hume. Macaulay, Carlyle,
Petrarch, Pope, Dickens, Chateaubri-
and, Leasing, S.r,rgeon, DUNES, VII
fian, Motley, and Gray. This brie,
and incomplete i.view will show tina.
our older men are by no means to be
despised; that We owe to then what
Is most permanent and uplifting IN
the utilization CT the world. Il shows
that a man rarely reaches the .ul'
frIi, ion of his powers ustil he enters
the forties and the flfties, and that
as long as life ,lrobs within his DV.
SOFA he is capable Of tremendous ser
vice to mankind, that "age is oppor'
tuiij;y no less than youth itsonf."
IN the words of Mr.. James O. How
ard, one of the most gifted officials
in our Congressional Library, himself
an example Of the possibilities oil age
q nan is as a rule immature, unripe,
cail3w, vealy, yerdant, sappy, bumpti-
oIs, bat-blind, and grass-greeu unt!l
he reaches the ate OF 40 ears |
repeat that thefe has been of late
too much of disposition TO neglect
and disregard the old. | would not
tepi ecate the encouragement Of
young men and women, they have "a
h.y. and effective mission ~ fulfill;
rht the old need Encouragement as
we'll, affection and solicitude a,o as
welcome to their twilight years as
to the radiant hours of the young.
Beneath gray locks may blaze the
fires of genius; perhaps II gentle
word may wake In feeble eyes the
vision Of an eagle. Society in its
fatuous adulation of mere youth is
falling into serious error Such an