The Washington times., 1923-03-26
ANOTHER PROFESSOR
TILTS A LANCE AT
TRADITION
q HERBERT KAUTlEAN.

b HERBERT KAUFMAN.
HE pundts at it again. college professor, after
extensive experience, assured that intelligence
is ancestral hand-down. Hereafter wen choose
grandfathers with and aspire accordingly
Man to be captain of his hopes and architect his
destiny.
Ambition henceforh must consult heredty not oppor
tunity before measuring its flights Find who your folks
formula
Bang goes another Of democracy fondest traditions
All the boys who became great inventors industrial
magnates prominent scientists merchant princess eminent
statesmen usous authors the product Of indefinite
preparation, not self makers Of careers
lngrates to rob their forbears Of % much credit.
The learned gentleman invites controversy
Centuries Of CuILs and One Napoleon.
~ GENEALOGICAL charts challenges and confound such
NJ moonshne. decks are shuffled and dealt
anew to each generation Yesterdays peasant il to-
morrows premier and in due time his blood returns to
peasant veins
The Bonaparte family bore centuries cus one
Napoleon Who and where the relatives Of Demosthenes
and Confucus and Archimedes and Plato and Saladnf
Michael Faraday, the chemist to whom we owe optical
glass and the fundamentals Of electromag was
bookbinder's apprentice Of obscure antecedents
James Ferguson the astronomer, q hhepherd boy,
mendng clocks painting portraits designing mills and spin
ming gear mapping the stars with threads and beads and
with never q hint Of traceable forbear.
Ask GOrAy About His Sires.
b7HOMAS GUY, South Seas trader and builder Of Lon
dons great hospital the issue Of literate lighter
Thomas Newcomer and his fathers fathers father we're
Dartmouth loeksmhs The practical engine which
he first gave the world was, Of course brthright
All the Opes must have had their minds on painting
while they taught each other carpentry in Cornwall that
John could eventually become professor in the Royal
Academy. 4
Joseph Turner academican and foremost exponent Of
acquaree the undoubed heir Of talent developed in
the hardressing trade
Tinda outstanding physicist of period son Of small
shopkeeper manifesy derived his flair from the interest
which pins tape sellers VIGOROUSLY scientific
subjects
Maxim Gorky, famous Russian novelist was previous
" pedder sculery boy bakers apprentice gardener and
watchman Ask him how much help he had from monjik
sires.
The Self-Suf iciency Of Determined Men.
TOMORROW will be robbed Of expectation faith will
fade from million eager souls, and horizons turn to
prison wallis when to believe in the self
sufficiency of determined men.
Century searching biography finds precedent quality
in their strains to explain Abraham Lincoln Andrew
johnson William Henry Harrison
Ford and Edison outright originals.
These United States not old enough fully to chart
of strains but already have abundant
testimony to the speed with which giant stock dwndies
dwarfhood.
Even hundred and fifty years Of observation amply
confirms the theory of short sleeve to shirt sleeve in three
generations
The direct collateral Of rich and famous folk derive
temporary advantage from inherited wealth and prom
But the ability to and direct and create
seldom leaps from loin to lon that which
talismans in 1923 mainly signify nothing in the affairs Of
1923.
Bradstree Who's Who and the Social Register agree
that precious little Of the wealth. position and distinction
hereabouts entails
HOw Nations Rise and Fall.
@ENIUS and inspiration oftener wild flowers than
I growths of persistent culture.
Nations advance in a body but seldom under heredi-
tary captains
Food environment morals and institutions lift people
above another.