Show MEN WHO COUNT by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK dean of men university of illinois we were coming home from melds fields fanestil fan ertil morton and I 1 and we were talking over the dead mans virtues and his weaknesses wea it field had bad been a very quiet man who had bad lived within I 1 himself itself a good deal he been active in anything he had made very few friends and these few were not in any sense close friends mo morton r t 0 n and I 1 were as close to him as anyone had been and yet it was a surprise to each of us when we were chosen as two of the pallbearers pall bearers we had thought he had bad more intimate friends than ourselves we were both a little sad about field not especially because he had gone but because ills his going would woul d make so little difference to anyone ile he had seldom been counted in his opinions if he had any carried very little weight his influence was seldom weighed when weighty matters were under consideration the saddest thing about it all morton said to roe me as we were walking along Is that no one Is really going to miss field he never seemed to count 1 it was the last sentence which struck me most forcibly will the forces of evil feel relief when I 1 am gone will there be those whose machinations have been interfered with ith or thwarted who will be glad and feel a sense of relief when they read your obituary or mine in the evening newspaper it would give me pleasure to think so there are men in every community who really count who when anyone Is in trouble are first thought of if any enterprise Is to be undertaken are called on immediately if weighty problems are to bab considered are considered as valuable advisors carrier was one qt those he was not a member of the board of directors of the first Natla nathanal nal bank but that institution never backed any serious financial enterprise without some ones getting daml carriers ier 1 l opinion of it he had little authority apparently but he had what was more worth while that Is influence he so much of a church man but he had a good deal to say if a new min minister liter were under consideration in one of the local churches lie ile counted in social matters mattens in politics in business and tl ju the affairs of the community in general I 1 should like to bezucha be sucha such a man A 1931 western newspaper |