The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-03-19

LHIee. henTy ihBBaWay Davis was
born in Baltimore In 1923. The Bal
tlmore and Ohio railroad was begun
In 1928. See, 1t Is not nearly a cen--
fury yet. only eighty-eight years since
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was
begun. Henry GasSawny Davis was
there as n child to zee the ceremony.
That was In 1928. He spoke OF II,
rs little one he could still remem-
Der tho noise and parade, and
Charles Carroll, the last signer OF
the Declaration OF Independence; the
last TO survive all OF that wonderful
body OF men who dared, as Hancock
did. to write his name large enough
SO that King George could read 1t
without glasses. Carroll was alIV"
In 1898. Henry Gassnway Davis.
buried Yesterday, was there to SEE
the ceremony. What did 1t mean?
II means that two human lives cover
the entire history OF the development
OF the most wonderful nation that
the world has ever seen grown up un-
der democratic government. All this
happened In two lives Two lives
covered the whole history OF II, the
doubts, the fears. the discourage
ments through which Washington
and ull those men went. From that
time the thirst Of our restless people
began. First. out 10 the Ohio; then
farther west and finally by 40 We
were on the Pacific coast; in rs we
had completed railroad line across
the whole continent, carving forty
eight states out OF continent where
We started with only thirteen. More
people now within forty miles OF
pIttsbuIE than were In the whole .
United States In 1875: four times as
many people within twenty miles Of .
New York City ls there were in the
whole nation In 1916. Thirty mill
lions Of strangers have poured in
here since 1920. The marvel OF II Is t
that thrown together in this way as
we have been that have neverthe-
less held In the main, true to the
Idea that the men had in 1875, name
ly. that the human being as far ms
possible, should be INft free to do as
he chooses so long as he does not
interfere with tho rights OF other
people. hen you realize that Hen
ry GaRsaway Davis In Just his life
time seen more than the whole
history OF railroading and that he
had come up to place where wa
can look over this nation md realize
that 1t is one OF hundred million of
beings. Now then just what
Clarksburg has been doing, other
places and other states have been
doing, trying to keep up with the
growth, tho rapid developments, try ,
ing to hold organizations together in
the face Of streams OF people coming
in; trying determlnedIy to hold up
the American ideal. and the fact that
we are able tonight to look back over
Il hundred and forty years in which,
Notwithstanding the rapid growth in
crease, we have still held together
as an organized system and with the
same spirit
When went to the Linden avenue
school this afternoon. / want TO tell ,
you that my heart just loved those
children. To think that fifteen ma
tlunalltIes-nOt the "57" varieties .
1--WE are outside OF Pittsburgh -ff-
teen groups OF children. whose par
ents have not yet such high valua-
ton OF education as we have. Now,
when We look upon this school sys-
TEN OF yours, and urge every man
here to know more Of the school syR-
tenn Of Clarksburg-when you look
at these teachers giving their very
lives. daily expanding their forces in
order that those little ones. notwlth-
standing their names-Slavs, Hum
garians, Poles. Russians. anything
you choose to name-your teachers
arc giving their lives. their hearts
and their souls TO make them Ameri-
can. l ask you TO applaud Linden
avenue school! (Applausel. That's
been going on in all the states.
was in New Jersey some few years
ago, and tell you that seventy-five
per cent OF all the children In the
schools of New Jersey are foreign.
and vet sing MY Country IT'S of
Thee" and they sing 1t from the
heart. 1t is not their country-lt is
going to be their country. Land
where theil fathers died is g.
900 miles away from here. but they
learn to say the thing that makes us
as one.
And |. in Clarksburg tonight, just
here today and gone tomorrow, II
leave no other impression behind. 1t
is to stir you men up and ever keep
in mind the tremendous attention to
your school problems in the town.
in order that these little ones may
be Americans OF America. and that
none of you nor your children despIse
those foreign countries.-thcy are the
Americans of the next generation, and
according to the way you teach them
now. so is the destiny OF American
thirty years from now to be deter
mined.
Last summer l was in seventy towns
OF Pennsylvania. in one of them. Mon
essen, a town you have heard Of, sew
enteen years DID, l met a German
Dutchman on rented farm in West
Newton. He had raised eighteen chill
dren and they were all alive and with
the exception of one OF them. all of
them are men and women out In the
world earning an honest living. In
the same town l came across an Amer
lean family OF the third generation.
and the mother was puny and there
were two puny children, that's all.
Look ahead twenty years and see
which Of those families will rule? The
Germans will rule. Now. isn't 1t I'm
portant, therefore. that in the educa-
tional advantages that are given to
the young strangers that come to this
country you should so thoroughly linz
hue them with the American ideas OF