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Mr. Le Guardia, the now Mayor [of New York," stocky, half-Italian, | comes from Manhattan. His father. an army bandmaster, died of bad bully beef during the Spanish- American War.
The young La Guardia grew up more or less anyhow, and at 20 was given a job as clerk to the Ameri- can Consulate in Budapest. From Ellis Island, where he served for the consular · service he went to |four years · as an interpreter for | Italian immigrants, ..., ma
SATURDAY DECEMBER 16, 1933.
GREATEST MEN IN HISTORY
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QUALIFICATIONS FOR POSTERITY
(By Lord Raglan.)
[Lord Raglan, who from 1912 to 1913 was A.D.C. to the Governor of Hong Kong, han lately been much in the public eye as an iconoclast." He began, at the recent British Associa“ tion meeting at Leicester, hy Jaeverely root-pruning a number of family trees, leaving some of their branches, tottering with 'indignation. More recently he bowled over several Old Testa ment giants, among them MossS, Joshua, and David,]
William has been maligned by the sentimentalists, who always assume that the conquered are more to be admired than the conquerors, but if` anyone can claim to be the maker of England, I say it is he.
Men Of Action
As my next man of action I shall take Augustus (63 *B.C.-A.D. -14).* He entered the political arena at Rome at a time when the old Repub- lican system of government had completely broken down and there had 'been sixty years of almost in-- cessant civil war.
He began to study law in 1910° and entered Congress on the Re- publican ticket in 1917. During the war he commanded an Ameri- san flying squadron on the Italian front and "dropped bombs and pamphlets on the Austrians..
Back in, Congress again he-soon, distinguished himself by his Radicalism and by his stand What is a great man? Is he a There was still enough Republ against political graft and, log- man who is successful, whatever his can feeling to make monarchy out rolling. He has inherited some of sphere of activity, and whatever of the question, and Augustus man- his father's musical talent. He the means by which he achieves aged, with the greatest skill, to Inlays the trombone.
success? That, it seems to me. gain absolute power while preserv Mr. Joseph McKee, the Indepen- would bring greatness too near to ing the forms of the Republic. dent candidate, was brought up in notoriety. <
His measures procured for the the Bronx, has been a school- master, and entered municipal politics at the age of 29.
On the other hand, the merely Roman Empire a century of ins good man, who has tried to make ternal peace, and his system of the world better and failed, cannot government lasted for three hun- At 35 he became New York's properly be called great, since great-dred years, during which period youngest city judge. He is now.ness, for the, implies achievement. Roman civilisation was spread from
He Is a Democrat, but is anti- Tammany. His practice of open-
I shall define a great man, then, the North Sea to the Sahara and ing all aldermen's meetings with as a man of outstanding personality from the Atlantic to the Persian
Gulf. prayer has earned him the nick-whose achievements definitely led to.
As my last man of action I shall an advance in civilisation, though 1) name "Holy Joe".
He
must confess that this definition take the great Duke of Wellington President Roosevelt's
does not entirely sailafy mu
|(1769-1852). He took the leading hope for the post.
It has the advantage, at any rate, tyranny of Napoleon, and was after part in freeing Europe from the of knocking out a great many of words, for over thirty years, the pseudo-great men cricketers and
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Jockeys, whom a dexterity alightly leading figure in Eritish public life. Both in and out of office he dis- with the British and Foreign
greater than that of their compet-played a courage, a truthfulness, a An archaeologist says that there tors enables to head the averages: disinterestedness, and a moderation The Most Valuable Book Bible Society; but, hey, the was a crude form of wireless 3,000, the great politicians, whose words, which finally gained for him the Gospel message is the greatest years ago. Well, that would B.B.C. widely reported to-day, are, happily, confidence of the entire nation and of all message to mankind, and it too.
in a very short time forgotten-set an example for times far ahead. |even „some great soldiers, whose | victories, however long remember-
ed. led to no useful result,
William The Conqueror And
CLOSE-UP.
1.
Men Of Science je
As my men of science I shall take first William Harvey (1578-1657),' whose discovery of the circulation There are three classes whose of the blood marks an epoch in the claims are unassailable—the 'great history of human, progress. ...lle o scientists, the great artists, the also initiated researches which led Takes - All - Kindu - To - Make great writers. But I must try to to an understanding of the pro--
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A fiend indeed
Recalling Queen Victoria's is written in the grandest words) famous saying that the Bible was ever vouchsafed to man. That is the secret of England's great-the wonder of it at least, one of A film correspondent says that ness, it is often remarked that the wonders, Professor Max losts of people are too poor to go Englishmen had been permeated Muller, has remarked that elo-to the pictures nowadays. with the ideals of honesty and quent speakers sometimes rise to lots of pictures are top poor) for Bervice and these they had a command of 10,000 words, people to go to them, derived directly or indirectly, Milton's works are built up from the Bible. England's with about 8000; whilst Shake-It colonial history is, indeed, tholspeare, who displayed a greater story of a mighty mercantile and variety of expression than pro missionary partnership. It is albably any writer in any language, trite saying that trade follows produced all his plays with the flag, but usually it is the 15,000 words, 7 The Old Testa missionary who blazes the track ment says all it has to say with and prepares the way for the 5642 words. Yet how beautiful This is the winter that last' wins trader. In the great work of ly it says it! The honour of ter you calculated you'd be able to evangelisation throughout the having laid sound and secure the Buy a new overcoat. world, unto the uttermost foundation of the English Bible corners of It, Australian' mis-belongs to William Tindale and sionaries have taken a'worthy Miles Coverdale--to the former "The other night I saw several part particularly in the islands especially. We read. In West heavenly bodies for the first time," of the Pacific, and to them welcott's "History of the English writes an astronomer. Which musl owe many of the translations of Bible" that "in the originality of cal-comedy chorus was that? the Bible into foreign tongues "Tindale. is included in large
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and dialects. Consider the num-measure the originality of our AN OLD, OLD STORY. ber of these translations. More English version"; and Froude A Hollywood comedian's just than 320 languages in the Em-remarks that "the peculiar genius divorced wife saya it" isn't all pire form, so that seven-ninthe which breathes through the honey being the wife of a man who of the whole population of the English Bible, the mingled is supposed to be funny. It is only Empire now had the Scriptures tenderness and majesty, the fair to my wife to point out that. Jin their own tongue. Africa is Saxon simplicity, the grandeur)she thought of that one long, tong
responsible for 170 translations, junequalled, unapproached, in the ago. India for 113, and Australasia fattempted Improvements of mo- and Oceania for 78. That is aldern scholars all are here, and wonderful record; yet it does not bear the Impress of one man, Women outnumbered men ata tell the whole story, for if we add William Tindate." It has been recent boxing match. A ring, of the languages outside the Em-said, and it is true enough, that course, usually attracts them. pire into which the Scriptures, without a knowledge of the Bible •* wholly or in part, have been no man can claim to be well IMPENDING APOLOGY. translated, we shall find that educated. Indeed, without some "Lady—has many intersstiär they number in all not får short knowledge of this great. Book hubbles.”
CLEAN FUN DEPT.
Facts You Did Not Know.
of 10001 Where is the book that and its wonderful stories we can compare with it? There is should fail in our understanding none. "There never was any of many of the allusions in the book like the Bible," said Carlyle, greatest of our authors, But.⠀⠀ "and there never will be such truth to tell, there is hardly a another." Never since the inyen man who has not some know- Erosion has ruined 21,000,000 tion of printing has there been ledge of the Bible, though he Acres of land, in the United States, any book to challenge the cir- may be unaware of it for more than the entire arable area of culation of the Bible; and to-day, scriptural allusions and quota- Japan.
as always, it is the "best seller" tions have been so woven into Driven by a storage battery The "Pilgrim's Progress" has our everyday speech that they miniature automobila that holds two been translated into about 150 have become very part of it children has been designed by Ber languages and dialects, embrac The Bible has furnished subjects
ing nearly every country on for classical
Barth, from Lapland to Samoa sa Dante's and/Fil. The works of Shake- Goethe's "Fans apeare have been translated into dieg.: Lost” and “Pa many languages we find him in gained.” Byron' Hebrew and Japanese In Hindus; Shakespeare: «ons)}) Sand and Rumanian, and even in that he has Icelandic, whilst there have been gold”, and put hund
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make my liat representative. cesses by means of which men and shall start, I hope appropriately, animals come into existence. with William the Conqueror (1027- He owed a good deal to his, pre- 1087).
decessors, particularly the Belgian
He found England a group of Vesalfùs, but he asems to me to earldom, each with its own laws stand out above both them and and its own dialect, loosely federat those who followed, He was phy ed under a king with little power, [sician to King Charles I., who help almost completely cut off from what ed him in his researches.. then stood for civilisation. Tho. As my next great scientist I shall"; Immediate result of his efficient rule take Charles Darwin (1809-1882). was to make England, "once for all, His greatest service to mankind lies. into a single country, and the in- not so much in his discovery of direct result was that fusion of evolution-there were others on the Latin and Teutonic culture which name track in bis freeing ther was to lead, five centuries later, to human mind from the tyranny of" the cultural, predominance of Eng-the Book of Genesis. land in Europe.
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