Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-29
A Man.

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a good fellow"
Commonsense is most uncommon,
and really competent man is as
scarce as an albino crow.
Weeks believes in taking things as
they come along. and making the best
OF them. He does not hunt for op-
portunities: he just seizes them as
they arrive and utilities them.
| Weeks throws out ideas. and other
men seize upon them, thinking they
are theirs.
weeks gives everybody credit. He
asks for no bouquets. He is so rich
in ideas that he never asks for recog-
| milton.
Born on farm in New Hampshire.
John Wingate Weeks spent the first II
years of his life among horses, cows,
pigs and chickens. He became chum-
my with living things. growing things;
and incidentally he got a line on him.
self.
And then he heard the call of the
sea: and for four years he sailed the
seven seas as a MILDLY, acquiring the
tang and the tan Of a "sea -dog," and
also his diploma as an officer from
President Garfield.
Weeks loved the sea and seafaring
folks, and would undoubtedly have
now been Admiral Weeks. If there had
been ships enough to go round at the
time he received his papers.
AS it was, he left the service Of
Uncle Samuel and spent the next eight
years surveying in Florida. George
Washington was a surveyor-so was
Llncoln-so was Herbert Spencer. Sur
veying gets man out in the Open-it
makes him exact, mathematical, sys-
tematic. No surveyor ever says pretty
near" Il guess" or good enough"
From Florida, Weeks went to Bos-
ton, where he met young Hornblower;
and Weeks entered into partnership,
and the firm of Hornblower and Weeks
! became established. 1t grew from a
small bank, with an Office staff of two.
into one of the biggest banking houses
in New England.
And Weeks became one Of the most
successful and most consulted men in
the banking business. He was called
the specialist in banking Diseases and
put one or two feeble institutions upon
| their feet.
He inspired confidence.
The biggest National Bank in New
England owes it's establishment to
John Wingate Weeks
After filling many city offices, Weeks
was made mayor of his home town
Newton-and ten years ago was elect
ed to Congress.
TWO years ago he entered the Senate.
A hard worker, courageous yet
courteous, firm yet kindly Weeks has
endeared himself to all parties and fac
tons.
Republican though he is, he is also a
democrat. with a small d, and both
Progressives and Democrats will do
more for Weeks than for all the Re-
publicans put together.
In Congress he served on the House
Committee on Banking and Currency
and on the committee of Agriculture,
where he did good work.
He Strengthened out the tangle
of the Forest Reserve Bill and put on
the Statute Book Bill for the Pro-
lection of Birds
Farms, factories, forests, are his
playthings. He is a, workingman-fa-
miliar with every phase of the life of
the toiler. sympathetic without Sbeins
maudlin. His way II helping people is
| to set 'em to work.
He it was who licked the Postal
Savings Bank proposition into shape;
and while Chairman of the Post Office
Committee. he put an Appropriation
Bill. aggregating two hundred forty
million dollars. right from committee
through Congress, without the altera-
ton of even comma.
Weeks had much to do with the
framing of the Aldrich- Vreeland
Emergency Currency Bill, under which
we escaped a financial panic in the
early stages of the European War.
John Wingate Weeks is an authority
in finance. in diplomacy, in naval and
military offices, in civic government
Weeks is a worker, a builder a
thinker. doer just now we need
such men.
"A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith
and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of lucre does not kill
Men whom the spells of Office can not
buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will
Men who have honor men who will not
lie;
Men who can stand before demagogue
And damn his treacherous batteries WITH
out winking; I.
Tall men. sun-crowned, who live above
the fog
In public duty and in private thinking"