Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-11-28
MANCHESTER, IOWA, NOVEMBER 2S, 1917.
A LINE FROM JUDGE SEEDS.

Washington, u. u, NOV. TO- 1911.
The Editor Of The Democrat:
Allow me to make suggestion,
through the columns Of your paper, to
the people of Manchester and vicinity
in the interest of logical historical
conservation. The future of the people
depends upon the Interpretation Of
their psychology-the knowledge of
the mental or soul reactions Of the in
dividuAl.
The psychology of Germany, (an ex-
ceedingly bad one) has made of its
militarist system the terror OF the
earth. It's masters have studied the
Individual for decades and used that
study as the basis for its present So
cial conditions.
More and more, history, If it Is to
be useful, must study the common man
and woman, and secure definite prin-
ciples upon which to act in society.
The ordinary activities Of the COM
munity should be considered as a lab
oratory out of which is to come a
higher and better race, in that 1t
knows and conseryes the best in the
people which are at any special time.
Every community should conserve
(save up) the results of the labora-
tory's work and use them for progress
sive purposes. This is being done
now in many communities. In Des
Moines there is the Aldrich Collec-
ton which preserves the signatures
and writings of many of the great
men and women Of the earth. Here
in Washington the Congressional IL
brary has a large assortment of writ
ings and pictures of the statesmen of
the past. ....
BY these memorabilia it can be
known what sort of men they We're.
But the extraordinary people are not
the foundation of the nation; that re-
mains for the common man and wo-
man. I think that it is a patent fact
that the making of the West was ac-
complished primarily by the person.
alities of the pioneers, MOST of them
unknown outside their immediate
homes. They were the mighty peo-
pie of the earth. Those personalities
should be saved for future generations
My suggestion is, then, that all per-
sons who have letters or pictures of
those pioneers of Manchester and va
cinity-say of the men and women
who lived and thought and worked
from the beginnings to 1866, be asked
to furnish them to committee or, If
possible, to the librarian of the Car
negie library, then to be properly ar
ranged and catalogued for future ref
erence.
The typewriter is killing the per
sonality as exhibited in Glettess and
written documents; now is the TIME to
save the older folk The pictures
would form galary of far more worth
to Delaware county or the state of
Iowa, than those Of Kings and Queens
and Warriors, Cor they are to depart
and become meaningless; the pioasers
are in our blood and bone and will
stay:
Call to mind staiwart men and wo-
men who made our community and feel
what incentive for good actions and
aspirations for higher things their
pictures or a line from their pens
will suggest.
A few of these pioneers remain.
Judge Blair, Mr.. Cawley. Mr.. Adams,
Mr.. Sherwood and one or two OF those
lovely women Of our modern Israel
who might make added suggestions
along these lines. The suggestion Is
made with the thought that it would
We correct thing to do. q 2s
EDWARD P. SEEDS.