Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-05
ELOQUENT ADDRESS WAS
DELIVERED BY Mr., SH|PP
Rpore the Alumni Of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at
Auburn Yesterday Cordial Reception Given to The
Well Known AmeFiCuS Orator

grown! Now the foreign manufactur
ers of all the states crude products
: whether of wood, metal or cotton, in
varlably get more money in thei
manufacture than do our people VIII
furnish them at first hands. At
glance we observe that the one cryin,
need that calls in thunder tones t,
Cur colleges and universities, is fo,
better trained and technically educat
ed men of action with independen
minds to manufacture here at home
all the products of the earth anf
thus diversity the industries of the
state. To diversity will be to glorify
1t is the Ten Thousand Dollar Mer
that are wanted!
There are today more ten thousand
dollar jobs than there are competent
ment to fill them. They are. alas.
too scarce and the positions are seek
ing men to I'll them. The ranks of
/ mediocrity, however, are full. The
one thousand dollar man is never
/ sure of a job and competition with
him is always present and disquiet-
ing. For lack of efficient training and
wholesome discipline, thousands must
spend their lives in violent competi-
ton within the crowded ranks of this
| mediocrity. This economic law that
drives the weakest to the wall can
neither be resisted nor questioned. Ii
is a law that has no mercy or senti-
ment, either in nature or society, yet
producing in it's operation all that is
most valuable or permanent in civil
ization.
There can be no progress without
definite and traceable cause. Let the
conditions all exist for rapid growth
and logical development, let no essen
tial ingredient be lacking and the
country will progress in the very ma
ture of things. With all natural con-
' 'ditions unsurpassed, with transporta-
facilities ample and markets of the
world ready to absorb all her man
ufactured products, Alabama cries in
sistently for the Ten Thousand Dol
lar Men to give to her the lead in the
manufacture Of iron, cotton and steel
The supply of such men has never
equalled the demand
The noblest work of God is man and
mind is the greatest part of man. The
value of education is estimated just
in proportion as this fact becomes ap-
preciated When Sir William Black
I stone wrote his famous commentaries
on the laws of England, there were
one hundred and sixty offenses for
which men were executed, including
the stealing of a watch worth five
pounds, the killing of rabbit, and
the defacing of London bridge. Now
there are only three crimes for which
the death penalty is inflicted. This
is because of the higher value placed
On men in general as civilization ad-
; vances.
The great Napoleon in battle, watch
ing with field glass the decimation
. of his own forces by the Austrians,
was approached by a courier, saying:
Sire, the three regiments sent TO
destroy the Austrian batteries have
all been struck down by the dreadful
fire of the enemies guns; what or
ders sire?" Forward" said the
great commander, "send the fourth,
fifth and sixth regiments to take their
| places" In half an hour the courier
returned, reporting the destruction OF
these three regiments. Then he spied
his old trusted Ney at the head OF A
battalion, rushing to the carnage to
save the day for his chief Napoleon
for the first time was agitated; dash
ing I'D to his great marshal, he eX-
claimed: "Stop, Ney! go back!
can lose ten regiments of soldiers
their places can be filled by new lev
les of men, but you, the bravest OF
the brave; my leader of the Old
Guard; | can never afford to give ur
in the whole of La belle France your
place cannot be filled. Men are moth
ing: man is everything
"The reason why,
The cynic, the sad and the falleI
= Who had no strength for tn
!, strife"
IL Are with the great majority, at tn
S foot of the ladder, is because the,
RI lack pluck, persistence or sens
y enough to mount it. The ambitious
:, the eager, the trained the dogged an
r | daring continue always to excite tn
& | 6ckle. the bigoted and lazy Superior
Q itv will ever assert itself through a
r. arying conditions and yicissitude'
: Alexander stephens was puny, but b
G his energy he became great. Willial
II IT. Crawford was poverty stricken
d his youth and had the care of h
d deceased fathers large family, but b
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