Evening star., 1923-08-26
Capital | si&1t9bk.
BY.yNILL p. KENNEDY.

|kcountYy In the paIatial suite. prepared
foH the, kaiser on the most elegant
ship In the world. and as he ap-
preached New York it meant more to
him, than. to most people. yet his
thoughts should be an inspiration to
the hundreds of thousands OF immi-
grants in whose interests he has
been studying conditions in European
countries, and the needs OF this
country.
THE steel that made New York a
city in the, sky was wrought in my
own time" says Secretary. of Labor
Davis. My father and his sons
helped to puddle the iron that has
braced the city's rising towers.
town that crawled now stands erect.
And we whose backs were bent
above the pudding hearths know
how IL got its spine. A mossy
town of wood and stone changed in
my generation to towering city OF
glitteripg glass and steel All OF
which 1 can say in the words OF the
poet. all of which ! saw and part OF
which i was"
The lessons De IedTHtu ..tt tHC
ding hearth have guided his life.
pig iron has no fiber" he explains;
"it breaks instead of bending: Build
q bridge Of IL and gale VIII oreak
II, and IL will fall into the river.
Some races are pig IRON. They nave
but they went no further. Only the
wrought-iron races can do the work.
All this / felt but could not say in
the days when I piled the pig iron IN
the pudding furnace and turned win
boyish eagerness to have my father
show me how.
The country was building, and /
gave II iron to build with. Railroads
were still pushing out their mighty
arms and stringing their iron, rails
Bridges were crossing the Missis-
sippi and spanning the chasns in the
Rocky mountains. Chicago and New
York were rising in new growth
with iron in their bones TO hold them
high. My, youth was spent In givin
TO this growing land the element its
body needed
What this country means to him
las he returned from the emigrant-
! crowded ports OF Europe can best be
surmised from his own soliloQuy:
My days were spent at forge and
pudding furnace. The iron that
| made is civiilzation's tool. ! ride by
night in metal bedrooms. l hear the
| bridges rumble underneath the
! wheels. and they are part OF me.
| the sky and know that ] have given
| a rib to make those giants. / am a
part OF all ! see, and life takes or
| an epic grandeur. ] have done the
best ! could TO build America"
Thus speaks the man under whose
| administration comes the American
| ization and assimilation of the immi-
grants OF whom he was one. and &c
whom he visualizes ideals anC
achievement.
! The first money that Representa-
tive john w. Summers Of Washing
ton state earned was for dropping
corn on an Indiana farm at 15 cents
per day. working from sunup TO sun
down, with a man with a sharp hoe
clicking at his heels while he KEEP
repeating, Hurry up. Johnny; hurry
tup. Johnny" A few dollars earned
in that way Is apt to teach the value
Of a dollar very effectually, and the
lesson Is not likely to be. forgotten
during the lifetime of the average
man, Representative Summers has
decided
4
| into the live stock business by pur-
chasing an orphan calf for a dollar
He gave the calf the very euphon!ou:
name of Jake" and taught him Il
drink milk from little Johnnys f1
igers after dipping them in a bucket
BIT was at this time that his inventiv,
genius manifested itself He borec
a hole in the bottom OF a box. drove
a peg In il and wrapped the peg will
cloth. From that time on he hat
lonly to help Jake. find the peg ane
then could stand by and watch hi
sides swell out. The live stock bust
!ness was not without its tribulations
since il became necessary at on
time to summon all the neighbors Z
help lift Jake out Of an abandoned
well. Financially the venture was {
great success. since he sold the cal
after six months of patient nursint
for $3.50. with l5 cents added for de
Ilivering him three miles in the coun
TRY.
johnny Summers next opportuni
ity for easy money presented itsel
3when he learned that a farmer three
!miles away was Offering some shotei
for sale at s1.25 each. With two o
his chums, and carrying some ol'
| "gunny" sacks-Johnny led the. eX
pedition to the home OF the hog
raiser. Their intention was to carr,
the shoteS on their shoulders three
miles. up hill and down dale ans
over stake-and-r rider fences. Wher
he had carried his hog up a rathel
steep hill. through the woods pas
ture, Johnny laid the sack and hos
down on the ground for a iittl'
breathing spell before climbing th'
fence. His Observation-Disclosures wa
his undoing. He had cut a hole il
n 10 io tn .
little more air. When that elm
lpeeler shote got bearing for hi
feet on the grounds he stuck hi
nose through that hole and neve
stopped till he had gained his lib
erty," Representative Summers re
calls.
| His first manifestation of diplomac.
was then given. He tried to persuad
the other two boys to turn their pig
loose, proposing that they woul'
Ispring wagon and drive over and ge
all the pigs the next day. One o
1.-The boys refused to listen to hi
lpleadings, but the other yielded
the village blacksmith meddled ii
telling Johnny's father that th
horse would probably run away AM
kill both the boys.
Their next recourse was to take
hand wagon that weighed about 20
pounds, and on hot August day. wit
the sun beating down upon them. the
pulled this wagon three miles away an
three miles back.
| After many experiences in trying t
keep his 'briar-rooter" in q pen for tw
years he was butchered and sold 70
$IS 25--au but $1.25 of which was clea
profit for Johnny, since his father sup
piled the fifty bushels of corn that tn
hog had eaten.
Summers was then nearly fifteen
Years of age and with $40 OF the pro
ceeds from the pig he purchased hi
first suit of ''store Clothes" includin
"breeches," "galluses" and everything