The Alaska daily empire., 1918-12-07
The Great Men of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.
(Cincinnati Enuuirer.)

Cincinnati Enquirer)
 By great men," in this connection, do not mean those who great in the highest of that word, but those who stand out the leading figures of their age
 With regard to real greatness we agree with Men cius that the great is he who does lose his chd's heart'; with Seneca, "that the greatest is he who chooses right with the most invncible olution," and with Phillips Brooks, that has to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race and that what God gave him He him for mankind"
 We speak rather of those individuals who signally represent the period in which they play their part these whose names and deeds are on everybody's tongues, not so much because they mold tn age they live in, but are molded by it and are it's most dis, tngushed product.
 In this limited sense such men as Vanderbilt, Edi- son, Rockefeller, Pullman, Westinghouse Be the Wright brothers, the men of yesterday Possessed of good and sometimes remarkable talents these living in of material progress, quickened by it to the performance of achievements which dered enormous service to their fellow men, threw them into the limelight and placed them upon ped estals.
 The great men of today belong to different cate gory. They, too, are product of their period great convuson shook the world and called for statesmen who knew how to meet momentous crisis in the political history of the world and soldiers who knew bow to meet and overthrow vast military or ganizatons. They already in the world, but hidden most of them in obscurity until the gency called them forth and held them to view. Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, Venze los, Foch, Haig Petain, Pershng, Allenby-these the illustrous names, these the great men of this present day.
  They alive, in colleges, in schools in era dles some in khaki, some in overalls and some in knickerbockers- -unrecognized unsuspected even but destined let the currents of their through them, be uplifted by them, to exemplfy them and shine in their glowing light.
 We know not who they are, but dare predict their type and specify the deeds that will make them great for the characteristics of the may be so easily dscerned that he who runs may read
 The coming age is to be one of reconstruction and the readaptation of old resources to demands in every sphere of human life. l therefore, mothers forf fbair md Qht lot teach them that they will be honored by their fe- lows in proportion they help to solve the problems of human relationship and show their brethren how they may dwell together in unity. If our young men and madens wish stand in the light where the great of to-day shining let them fit themselves solve the problems of labor and capital, those of the more equal distribution of the treasures this fe of the peaceful relationships of nations the elimination of poverty the reclamation of crim- inas education of youth, the obiteration class distinctions and denominatonal prejudces.
 Whoever perform any one of these herculean tasks will receive the homage of his fellows in the age which has been ushered in by the overthrow of political tyranny and the ascendency of military power