Evening star., 1928-05-01

afterward serve my apprenticeship IN
commerce at NeuEchateI. for a year and
q half. Then I should like TO pass four
years at university IN Germany, and
finally finish my studies at Paris. where
I should stay about five years. Then. 81
the age OF 25. I could begin to write"
Now Just think OF that BOY LCuiSl
Could he ever get on the nine, or the
eleven. or shake an car IN q U-bCae
raCe9 Why. he couldn't even play golf
But with his profound knowledge OF
sciences ne did more than any man OF
his generation to interpret the records
OF nature. He was Cne of the most
eminent professors OF zoology ever con-
nected with Harvard. His bust VIII
stand in Americas Hall OF Fame. His
preacher father was proud OF MS son.
aid So Louis hustled. as well as stud
led. He never became soft"
Samuel Finley BreeSe Morse? Ever
hear OF him? Why should his bust grace
that Hall OF Far1e2 He was only pc--
trait palnter-an artist. IL IS trad
tional that artists are visionary. There
had been telegraph lines before that CT
Morse, but il was the Morse system that
made them practical Representative
sunset" Cox made 8 speech about
Morse, in which is this paragraph;
When Puck announced that be would
put a glrdle round the earth II 40 min
uteS. how could he imagine thas Morse
would come after him. and woald de-
velop system oy means OF which Z
man may send message today 20
Hongkong or Yokohama. which. after
travelling 80 600 miles. and being trans
lated into a dozen languages. would
reach its destination yesterday RON
ing2"
Nobody ever heard that MorSe'S father
financed his education or set him Up "
business either as painter or telegTspher.
But now see that bust in the Hal q
Famsl
Whittier, the poets When his sister
secretly sent one Of the lS-yeaT-Old
bows poems 70 William LLOYD Garri-
son. editor Of local paper. who printed
it. the editor and future leader o. anti
slavery was 50 impressed oy It thSt Re
made a trip 70 find the poet and urge
upon his father 90 give Greenleaf bet
ter than country schooling, The father
was practical. and Sternly responded,
Sir, poetry VIII not give hun his
breadN So the lad earned his way
through HavcrhM Academy py max
ing shoes, The father refused wAae
would not give his boy bread. bus it
has given hlm a StcQS~-a raarnls bust
in the Hall Of Fame.
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Rufus Choate was not a leauer up0n
his tather-~A farI1IeF-~although gh&g
father VAS 3 strong man intellectually.
Before Runs Was e years cid he had
read Pilgrims ProgreSS." And tradition
says that he used II gather ether coyS
about hlal while he reeiged long pas
SagcS from that immortal oco<. He
trained his memory, Instead eg his
muscles He was 81 serious as = sta
dent that he was rscogulged aS tee
leader III the classics while IL Dart
mouth CollSgc, BE SacceSEeG Daniel
Webster in the Senate ana IN rank. RS
an orator, BU1 ne never won place t0
foot bail AL he wins Is a h1lSS In the
Hall ot Fame and 4 place n sAe his
tory ~ his country,
John Paul Jones. father of The Anleri-
can Many, Was Ehe SCn og a scotch
peasant Ae was a EDor immigrant e.
America, II has taken worc thaa 3 csn~
tuyy for America 90 install his nslSt IL
car Han Of Fame, elg ne hS,S hSSn re-
memaered ia all History Snl2e tas
American Revelation. when lse acegnl~
pllshed more fOx kAs patriotic cause
than any 0theg man upon the elgh
seas. The enemy calsed him pirate"
Americans knew HIM as a heroic pa
trl0g
RUt space could nos peunis even y
siSg OF the pSor boys Who have A>co2se
great men IN America even tsgaitlfag
ihe list 81 oar owa generation Of Rgeke-
teller. ftNgd, Nilsson. Carnegie. James !
Han OeethalS. Henry, Or the naytoa
inventors, th2 Wrt2at oyQtherS
There N rV04n Neg ia thS ttAN ot PamS
tor a hero must have he@N Cea0 IA
years before his bgsSs can he placed
there, That Is 81 give the 0acld tSSt
M TIME 10 ntS fame TiMe VAS when
all ambitious eOyS aoo&ed forward h.
eec0lntng President og the United
states. nov not all Presidents een 0S
ASSUMED a niche ia the Hall III Fame,
Nhlae every boy who w0ySS hard ard
is goed may become So famous tlsag ne
viii he welcomed there upaA PEDESTAL
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