Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-10-16

let we KNOW that we have them
in this state. There is no inspira-
ton for children or teacher, I say
uhat you can do these things II you
want to.
! went up in Clay County to the
little town of Webb where this
plan worked out very we'll. They
put all the old subdirectors in. Just
as always, there were a number who
opposed the plan, but now thew
We're for it. 1t follows that Clay
County has the very best schools
in Iowa. Which means that other
counties will follow Clay county's
example. They will come to it by
and by.
And that suggests another thing.
Young men and women here today
do you know what a magnificent
heritage you have here in the state
of Iowa, the greatest state in the
Union. And mean what say when
say that I believe Iowa ds tha
greatest State in the Union. We
''have great men and great women.
l think more men who have become
prominent in public atfairs than any
other state. And you, young men
and young women, shall give us a
manhood and womanhood that shall
make US great people.
And now come to the real OBJ
ject and purpose Of this meeting,
an Old Settlers meeting. Well, i
like to contemplate that fact. There
sits my father today down on d.
farm in Dallas County where he
came in 1856. Last Monday he was
80 years OF age. My father has seen
in the span Of his life, this world
make most OF its greatness. 1t has
all come within the span of life
Of men who are sitting about me
here today. These men have seen
wonderful things. Is it possible for
You to conceive of this fact that
this world has been made in a life
time of men and women, and now
reaches it's greatest and truest?
Fellow citizens, this means life is
not mapped by the number of mil
lions we leave, but is mapped by
things that we do, by the ends that
We made which live, by the. love
in your hearts by the good purposes
in your heart that make good
iise longer.
Today in this age in which we
live we can see more in a year than
a man living athousand years ago
I had he lived thousand years. I
want to point out some things
that have occurred in the lives of
men that are now alive. want to
say to you what l have already
suggested that man has done, more,
has accomplished more in the last
a4Venty-five or eighty years of
tins; than in all the annals of the
world if they We're all put togeth-
er. Every accomplishment or invsn-
ton could be summed up as hav-
ing been accomplished in the last
eighty or ninety years. Now,
that is a broad statement but new
: erbneis is fact. 1 do not know,
l just wonder sometimes what
the matter that it was left to
49, nineteenth century to accom-
: -,ish all that has been accomplish
: d in this world for six thousand
I y.sars. What was there in the past
y century that enabled them to do
K more than all the men in the past?
c -,..e steam had been just as power
g full as the day it blew the top off
Mr.. Watts kettle; electricity had
! 'sen here ever since the flash in
!, the clouds of Heaven; gold and si.-
e Yer and iron had been here and
e slept in the mountains even be-
: fore the people were put on this
Q earth. But it was left to the nine
e teenth century to make these dis
ID coveries; it was left to the nine
d tenth century to make this pro
n gress.
w pul II ID q ldSC uiuehl Ill lI1G 1lS1lu-
3 DRY of mne on this patti orm today
s every locomtive the earth was
g practically the same as Abraham
i used in his time. But the horse il
v fast losing his place in this world
eel of today. l have seen the man who
n drove the first locomotive in Amer
70 lea.
nj When my father was born, anc
IS If you have man in this county
,a who is SO years old, at the tim,
he was born the city of Chicago wa
not on the map, 1T was merely I
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