The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-15
The D. M. Read IConpany.
AMBASSADOR PAGE BEGINS HIS GOTH
 YEAR TODAY

Walter Hines Page who was chosen by President Wilson as American ann bassador to the Court of St. James. is a south erner, having been born in Cary, N. C., dfty-nine years ago today. and he is a scholar
 Ambassador Page was educated at Randolph Macon College in Virginia and at Johns Hopkins University, be- coming one of the first fellows of the latter Institution He left Baltimore in 1878 and went west to grow up with the country becoming a reporter, and afterward editor, of a daily news paper. He then organized a. news paper syndicate and travelled through the southern states, writing letters on condit tions In that section of the repup- lie These contributions resulted i1l an offer of a place on the editorial staff of the New York World. He wrote book reviews, editorials and spe- Ecial articles for the World. and was time among the Mormons of Utah, studying their religion. customs and mode of life.
 MT. Pages next step was the es- tablishment of a little newspaper in Raleigh. N. C.. in which he advocated many measures which have since been adopted. but which were then consid- cred revolutionary and radical After this experience he was member of the editorial stafs Of number of leading newspapers and magazines, in- cluding The Forum, the Atlantic Montfa1y and. latter1y, the Worlds Work.
 He is philosopher as well as an editor and diplomat. The following quotations are selected from his ad- dresses and editorial essays: cit is shining day in any educat- 1 ed mans growth when he comes to see and to know and to feel and to admit 1 that it is just as important to the world that he ragamuffin child and his worthless nefghbor should be train ed as it is that his own child should be- 1 Until a man sees this he cannot be l a worthy democrat nor get q patriotic l conception of education. for no man ] has known the deep meaning of dem ocracy or felt either its obligation or it's lift till he has seen this truth l c1early.''
 s.I believe in the free public train
 ing of both the hands and the mind 1 of every child born of woman. be- llieve that by the right training we l add to the wealth Of the world. All
 wealth is the creation of man, and he 1 trained uses Of the co1nnurfty' and i the more we train the more wealth
 every one may create.
 ssI believe in the perpetual regen-
 eration of society. in the tmmortanty Eof democracy .and in growth everlast- ing.''
 .sThe only advantage that Americans have over their kinsmen of the Old 1 World is the advantage of free demo- cratic training We are no more ca pablo by nature than the English, and we are not as we'll trained as the Ger
 mans, but we have greater social no bflity, which is the very essence o1 democratic training. We have built
 a type of, society that. permits more
 men to find their natural place in 1t l rd fG hat hA fos trfbution to social science. to the science of training men and of build ing states, is the demonstration thai
 we have made of the ever recreativ and ever renewing quality Of democrat ic society,"
 .fGreat changes come as silently as the seasons. aHF no more sure o1 this Springtime than I am of the
 rejuvenation of our society and the lifting up of our life"