Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-08

have the privilege of hearing one of
the really big men of the North Amer
lean continent. He is DR.. J. A. Mac
donald, of Toronto, Canada, who comes
, to address the graduating class of the
high school. H. C. Wilson, an old
newspaper man, now with the Times
Republican, who is familiar with him
and his work during the past ten
years, talks of DR.. Macdonald in this
| strain
| II would like the thinking men Of
, the city to realize the privilege they
have offered them at the Odeon tomor-
row evening. l was surprised to hear
of DR.. Macdonald coming. Superin-
! tendent Palmer and the school board
members have done the community a
service worth remembering in securing
i him. He is not UNUSUALLY available for
high school commencement addresses.
But he was to be at Grinnell College
and was induced to come up here for
a night. Last year he talked to the
! students of the state university at
Iowa City and those who heard him
! stii talk of the feast Of reason and
flow of soul they had.
! Is Famous Editor.
! His theme, as announced. shouldn' t
scare any one. Macdonald has a fine
faculty and suave facility Of ilumi-
mating the most notwithstanding sub
ject. l used to labor on a paper in
Toronto that delighted in everla stingly
controverting everything political pro-
nounced by the paper Macdonald has
been the ruling force and forceful
writer on for more than a dozen years.
That is only one reason I am inter-
ested in him and what he says.
And am sure he will break from
his big trea tment Of world conflict of
, Ideas to say something personal to the
; four and seventy citizens-to-be of NJ.
RI. S. IS, and to all others who will
hear him, that they will find
memorable. Honestly, l feel such a
chance to garner worth while mem
cries for duller days as is presented
tomorrow evening comes too rarely in
our lives. Macdonald is a scholar, but
he has the saving grace of not being
3 scholastic Of manner or speech He
is a man OF the moment, filled with
knowledge of present-day world needs
and folks needs. and with some adj
mirably progressive ideas for attaining
them.
Proud Of Being Whole celt.
In our big eastern cities announce
ment of his appearance throngs any
auditorium. He is great big man
physically. and his mental stature is
no less large. And he has humor. He
is descended from long line of Scot
tish Highlanders--he has said he is
all Ceit Cameron. Grant and Mac
dOnald'-but his forbears have been in
AMERICA since before our Declare ton
of Independence was written. His
! father, grandfather, and great grand
! father were all native to Nova Scotia
somewhere around -Pictou, l think. He
is very proud Of his lineage. and is
prouder of his II-. D., from Glasgow
University Gas one having memories
of that famous old school of Adam
Smith. of Lord Kelvin, of the Cards,
have second reason for interest in
, Macdonald) than of any other Of the
bunch of collegiate degrees he is bur-
dened with. And mind you, he was
given that honor because of his work
as plain newspaper man in making
for righteousness and doing good to
his fellow men and, the land he and
they belong to.
! Il note that Mayor Millard has gone
! to Hamilton, Ont, to comfort his aging
! father Macd onald's earlier school
days were lived in Hamilton.
First Parson.
| James Alexander Macdonald was
| born in western Ontario, in MiddleseX
county, fifty-four years ago. When %
years old he was graduated from Knox
College, Toronto, and four years later
he was indicted into the passionate of
Knox Presbyterian church in St.
Thomas, in his native county. That
was in 1891. But he got out of the
: church in 1896 and went to Toronto
to edit religious weekly. He found
! his meter, as the French say. He was
born journalist. In 1902 he became
{ head of the Toronto Globe-and
guess that during his editorship there
/ he has had some thirty five or forty
! libel suits to defend. His paper is
quoted all over the British domnions.
and in our own eastern cities eX-
change editors clip it faithfully.
Or. Macdonald thinks the United
States great world nation. His
magazine eulosy of last year on Eu-
ropes Failure; Americas Triumph
! was worth reading. AS a Canadian
! editor and political writer, he is lib
| eral or a Grit as they say over there.
{ In all his work he has been notable.
! A saying of his that expresses him bet
! ter than his best friend could Is this: "A
man doesn't lose himself on straight
road He is no dreamer. He Is long
headed and hard-headed, with I
twinkling eye and way of putting
thoughts before men and women 50
that they stick with them.
/ When He Talked With Taft.
! For the past half dozen years ne
has been something of a public man in
I these United States. 1t will be re-
quite unofficially with President Taft
smoothed out quite wrinkle in the
plan for trade reciprocity between this
country and Canada and led directly
, to the signing of the treaty in 1911,
/ tho that had its effect in beating Mac
; donald's party across the line that
year.
| Among many International places
he holds. DR.. J. A. Macdonald is one
Of the directors of the Worlds Peace
Foundation, that had it's birth in Bos-
i ton some years ago.
by the way. he has a potent per-
sonality as well as big body. He is
one of the most persuasive, compelling
and convincing orators before the
country today. He is a school man.
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