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JUNE, 1914
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A WORTHY LEADER
Closing remarks on the trust bills,
delivered in the house of representa
tives, by Hon. Guy T. Helvering, on
May 23, and reported on page 9926
of the Congressional Record:
President Wilson has pointed out
the road on which we are traveling
today the road to the new freedom.
Keen in intellect, strong in his faith
in the American people, and swayed
only by an honest desire to be an in
strument of service his evident sin
cerity and Iionesty of purpose has
broken down opposition and won for
him a niche in the affections of all
who admire honesty, courage, and
truth. He realizes better than any
man in modern pullic life the value
of the victories of peace, and while
he is militant in battling for the
right, yet ever are his weapons those
of light and truth. As I contemplate
his career since he came into the
arena of politics; as I "analyze his
career as governor of New Jersey
and as presiden of the United States
and note the patience, faith and sub
lime courage always in evidence
there qomes to my mind a poem by
John Greenleaf Whitti'-v, the lines of
the last two verses of which well
serye as c. portrait of the man. They
run:
The truths ye urge are borne abroad
By every wind and tide;
The voice of nature and of God
Speaks out upon your side.
The weapons which your hands have
forged
Are those which heaven have
wrought . '
Light, truth, and love; your battle
ground
The free broad field of thought.
A GLANCE AT THE REAL. J.
HAMILTON LEWIS
'Under the headline "-The Real
Lewis," the Johnstown (Pa.) Demo
crat gives its readers the following
interesting view of the big senator
of Illinois:
Now that the newspaper humor
ists havo completed their picture of
James Hamilton Lewis "Jim Ham,"
as they call him tho new senator
from Illinois, it would bo well to
sketch another portrait of 'him the
true one.
The newspapers have sufficiently
emphasized his physical peculiarities
the slim, dapper . stature of the
man, his red beard, his matched
rings, ctiff links and scarf pins, his
punctilious selection of hats, ties,
vests and socks.
To balance that picture I would
paint another the picture of a lone
ly boy thrown early upon his own
resources, of a struggle to overcome
handicaps' such as few successful men
ever met of surpassing ability which
quickly brought its possessor to fame
and position in the world, and finally
of a heart that beats in sympathy for
the poor and oppressed, a sympathy
carried by Senator "Jim Ham" on his
struggle upward from the bottom.
After the Illinois legislature sent
him to succeed Senator Cullom for
tho long term in the senate, the let
ter of congratulations which brought
most pleasure to Senator "Jim Ham"
was one from the Longshoremen and
Riggers' union. Senator Lewis is a
member of that labor union, and not
an honorary member either. Ho
joined it when he was a worker in
tho docks at Seattle, Wash.
Ho is Virginia born, and of good
blood. His family, impoverished by
tho war, moved to Augusta, Ga.,
where ycung Jim, between odd jobs,
managed to pick up an education.
Ho was sent to a tutor by his aunt
and laler moved to Savannah. Hi
work even enabled him to spend a
few seasons as a student in the Uni
versity -of Virginia. He had gradu
ated at Houghton college in Augusta.
He found that poverty would- keep
him from a complete schooling. So,
like other ambitious boys had done,
ho struck westward, and at tho ago
of 19 found himself alone in Seattle,
penniless, with a keen appetite and
the immediate necessity of finding a
job so that ho might eat.
The first work that presented itself
was a job of rolling barrels and
shouldering bags on the Seattle
docks, and young Lewis took it. The
work was too heavy for his slight
physique, but tho boss, observing
that ho was a keen chap, mado him
a checker. Ho taught classes at
night to prepare them for the state
university.
He joined the union and -worked
at his trade many months. Evenings
and odd hours he studied law. His
naturally brilliant mind served him
well then. In a brief time he passed
the bar examinations. As a lawyer
his reputation grew rapidly, until at
the age of 23 his fellow citizens sent
him to the territorial senate.
This was his first stop upward.
Immediately he did a surprising
thing, one of the most remarkable
acts of any man now prominent be
fore the public. Only a few men are
able to judge themselves correctly.
"Jim Ham" Lewis was. He realized
he had extraordinary ability. He
also realized the value of a striking
personality to men in public life.
So he set about it to create per
sonality for himself. He adopted the
eccentricities of beard and dress that
have since made him famous.
He was highly successful. In a
few years his appearance, coupled
with his ability, brought him national
fame. Washington sent him to con
gress as representative-at-large
when he was 27 years old. He fore
saw that the democratic party was
disintegrating. And so at the age of
3G he moved to Chicago. In two
years he was made corporation coun
sel for Chicago the attorney general
of the city. Jn five years he had
established himself as one of the
greatest trial lawyers in Illinois, and
in ten years, when he was 46 years
old, his adopted state sent him to the
United States senate as the popular
choice in the senatorial primary.
Safety First!
A glass eye exploded the other day
whilo a man in Pennsylvania was
trying to read the war nows with it,
and a little later a peanut wagon ex
ploded in Chicago. People who uso
glass eyes and peanut wagons ought
to join tho safety-first movement.
Chicago Record-Herald.
LIFE'S COMMON THINGS
The simple, common things of life are
best;
Tho hours that pass in their ac
customed way,
The night which brings sweet sleep
to close tho day,
The kindly loves that fill the house
hold nest,
The friends that shared our child
hood's happy 'plays,
Who passed with us through learn
ing's open door,
And found with us the heights that
lay before,
And walked beside uj . through
youth's careless days.
These are the things which memory
enshrines
And brings to us amid life's storm
and stress,
These are the friends who always
soothe and bless,
The. loyes with which our every hope
entwines;
Ah, happy he who, when life's evils
come,
FindB peace and sanctuary in his
home.
Ninette M. Lo water, in the Spring
field, Mass., Republican.
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