Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-09-14

-..s;@ent W. II. y. White OF shepherd
o.,,.ce State Normal School told the
20 ,sachers enrolled at the Monon-
IL, county institute in Morgantown
s-,s,ssdav in the course of an ad-
- in which he briefly outlined
Sor,e Of the clements of this States
greatness.
p,,;ness. watchfulness and loyalty
80 the qualities President White
- the teachers TO employ in their
,,,ipn to counterfeit the propagan-
=, n metropolitan newspapers hold
-, vest Virginia up TO the eyes of
.L,.nor'i as a lawless State, always in
-, ,urnoil of industrial disorder.
.Doo't refer to this State as the lit
., ,,oyntain State" President White
,,4 This is truly a great State,
,~t ,ou teachers must let your pupils
-. that West Virginia has given
,, ,r.s country some of its greatest
men and women"
IN enumerating some of the great
.,s, md women from West Virginia,
a. White included the following:
tn Alaska, Mary Mcfarland, inspired
missionary.
tn the Methodist Episcopal church,
four Of her greatest bishops and the
,,,rer of Methodism beyond the Mis-
s;ss,rri." Andrew Moore.
tn the Baptist church, John w.
Co8.cs. the "Spurgeon of America"
To medicine, DR.. John Mitchell.
Tn invention. James Rumsey, who
built the first boat propelled by
steam
To Ohio, four of her ablest COVER
nors.
tn Alabama, Kansas, North Dakota
and Maryland. a governor
To Portland, Oregon, John Stephen
son. the founder of the city. -
To Oregon, chief justice, Jesse
Thornton.
To Missouri, Champ Clark, speaker
of the house.
tn California, a United States SEN
aor James Farley.
To the wells Fargo Express COM
pany. a president, Dudley Evans.
To the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company. Thomas Fitzgerald.
To Iowa, Jonathan P. Dolliver, her
greatest United States senator, and
Iohn F Lacy, a splendid congress
man.
To the colored race, Booker T.
Washington, the greatest leader that
ever sprang from the colored people.
John w. Davis, who was Americas
ambassador to England and who is
now one of New York's most brilliant
attorneys.
Henry Sydnor Harrison, top-notch-
er in modern fiction.
Melville DAWSON Post, foremost
writer of thrilling short stories.
Guy D. Golf, assistant attorney-gen-
eral of the United States.
Hurry Up" Yost, the greatest foot
ball coach in the world.
Greasy Neale, noted all-round ath-
le,e.
Errctt Rodgers, considered the
greatest fullback that ever appeared
on football field.
DR. l. c. White, one of the foremost
biologists Of the world.
Joseph Raw, mathematician and
noted as the author of rays Arith-
metic."
Dr. Frank Carpenter, eminent mill
erlogst 4. c. Fields, famous mir
sue! king
West Virginia is the second coal
producing State in the union, Mr..
White said, with eighty-fve seams in
iortF-ninc different counties. The
STATE produces two-ffths of the glass
Manufactured in North America, and
~ '2r the greatest glass manufac-
I''aa state in the country. The
STATE ranks second in mineral wealth,
'a- has more potential power than
any .'aer state. Virtually inexhaus-
''.e supplies of limestone, shale,
E@NS sand, clays, sandstone and iron
ore u0ie-lic the state.
Professor Thomas C. Miller, for
"' state Superintendent of schools.
4 .''"'' president of the Shepherd
o"''tl Normal School and at present
'a,H.'-r o., the University faculty.
,t''' 70 '"c teachers Thursday af-
s'''.7 ~ educational progress made
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