Show I 1 I The Years Year's Great Man 1 I WITH the year dying it is the time and the custom to look back and see tl the e el 4 l j way va vave ve we have come In our national life what whal h have v been the great outstanding events of pf the j year e ear that has gone There are many to toft ft choose e from the world has been busy Women have haye learned to fly and have flung their challenge to oceans One woJ wo wo- 1 J man gave her life in an attempt to eat defeat 1 Pacific Another challenged the Atlantic At At- t. t i lantic rind and nd won a notable victory but not noth h quite complete c Who has been the greatest figure in our news news year 1 Vas Was it Mustapha Kemal Denial under whom J t Turkey y is f hiding filding her way to progress 1 Was Vas it the jawed iron-jawed Mussolini who has under that is placed Italy a discipline t almost medieval in severity but that the Italians Ital Ital- ia ians seem to like and ind nd prosper on Was Was it it Coolidge who mystified America and then showed how simple it all aU had been by repeating his original origin l words after the country had argued talked wondered Was Vas it some great author some great statesman or some poet whose honeyed have ha ve made th the world feel better all aU the way through Ve Te think not We Ve think the greatest man in the world news during the year that has passed was a boy frail of figure and tender of years but iron of heart and clean of cf f n mind nd Why t He is the spirit of our own youth our dreaming youth when we saw sav in our minds mind's cy eye mighty castles waiting for the conquer conquer- ing He has gone out and conquered these castles casHes with a smile with without ut bravado with never a boast but quietly and perseveringly He has inspired us he lie left New NewYork York we ve wondered and doubted Those of ofus us who knew the Atlantic and its cruel ways might have thought that we had seen the flue 4 last of a fine young man Then came the Signals from the towns along his coastal r route ute Mand and the ships out in the foggy swept storm-swept sea sea Then hours of darkness and silence when we waited without word and hoped with all our hearts that this boy might win Then comin coming over ti s like a great tide x was the news that Lindbergh was was passing over Ireland He fe landed at Le Bourget Bourg t smilIng smitIng smil- smil Ing triumphant but honest and plain q He He- Behas has given us a model to plan by Det Determination singleness of purpose frank frank- ness sincerity He is all these and he is an j eternal symbol of daring youth besides The worlds that so many of bf us have dreamed of I but never invaded have been brought to his hisS feet l The year has given us a wonderful boy If we were all a little more like him how I much better the world would be 1 T A Th m t t |