The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-02-17
What Dreamers Have |
Accomplished |
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDeN.
!CopyrIght. McClure Newspaper syndlcat,

The dreamers live forever, while
the toilers die in day" What would
have become of this country, what
wretched conditions we should now be
living under had it not been for the
dream of our forefathers?
It was Washington's dream of liber-
ty and independence that enabled him
to endure the hardships of that cruel
winter at Valley Forge. 1t was the
same kind of a dream that supported
Lincoln through those frightful years
of the Civil war and that enabled the
country where those without magma
ton saw only savages and unbroken
forests.
The dreaming capacity is not a
mere phantasy of the brain. 1t is the
prophesying ability. 1t is faculty of
seeing possibilities, forecast of what
is possible to US.
The actualities of today were the
dreams which men laughed at even %
years ago. We are living in realities
today which were once dreams which
people ridiculed. The dreamers were
often abused and prosecuted and
sometimes thought to be insane. The
locomotive, the railroad. the steam
ship, the telegraph, the ocean cables.
wireless telegraphy, the automobile,
the flying machine-all these were
considered dreams of the insane by
multitudes of people.
Marconi, the Wright brothers, Pro-
fessor Bell, Edison, Morse, and all
the men who have given us our great
modern inventions which have eman-
cipated us from much of the drudgery
and hard conditions under which our
forefathers lived, would have been i'm.
prisoned or hung as witches had they
proposed these things three-quarters of
century ago.
Take the achievements of dreamers
out of the world and who would care
to live in it? The men who see only
facts, who see only things that actual
ly exist at any time have not been the
worlds greatest benefactors. The
men who have seen and anticipated
the civilization of the future, the men
who have seen and anticipated human
wants long time ahead-these have
been the worlds benefactors. It is
those men who see teemins cities,
thriving factories upon the desert,
when others see only sage brush and
alkali plains that are the true civiliza-
tion builders.
The greatest benefactors of the
world have been the seers into the fu-
ture: they have been the dreamers of
things to come.
Civilization itself is largely the
work Of dreamers. Because dreamers
dreamed we are enjoying multitudes of
comforts, Injuries and facilities and
useful things which but for them we
should have been deprived of. Be
cause dreamers dreamed we have col
leges, universities, marvellous educa-
tional facilities, vast libraries, master
pieces, which nations envy; in fact,
our lives are crowded with things that
dreamers have given us. But for some
bodys dream the very land in which |
we live would still be an undiscovered !
wilderness. The dreamers tunneled |
our mountains, have spanned our great |
rivers, opened our mines of wealth, |
they have made it possible for us to |
travel across continents and across
oceans in portable palaces.
The automobile dream which people
laughed at rs years ago is now help.
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ed streets and many other industrial
problems. II is taking the place of |
horses, making our streets cleaner and
our cities more healthful. The auto
mobile is one of the greatest bless
ings that has come to women in a
long time, for it is taking them out OF
the monotony of their homes, giving
them variety of experience, widening
and deepening their lives. It is revo-
city life by tempting people
INTO the country. II is adding wonder
'ully to the health of the confined bust
ness and professional man.
In fact the automobile dream Is be-
coming one of the greatest health
promoters, one of the greatest joys
md blessings that ever came to hui
nanity.
There is a divinity in legitimate
Our desires, our longings,
ire the prophesies of what life may
20. ought to be. The great thing is to
ashton the life after the pattern
hown us In the moment of our high
'st vision. to make our highest mo-
nent permanent.
he golden age onward. not behind;
he halfway through the past has led