Show I ITIlE TIlE THE HE RPM UJ WORKER Somebody has lately said that a aleader aleader aleader leader can be picked out when he ISa is isa isa a when then something Is Js to be bedone bedone bedone done and the kids hesitate one of ot them steps out and says I will lead you OU and he assumes and holds leadership leadership leadership lead lead- through life Ufe and the unthinking unthinking ing lug audience applauded the senti senti- ment Stop a minute and think Is IsIt Isit t r It so or is It not Look at a class in school it Is made up of good bad and antI crent pupils ene one takes tal the lead some lead some sometimes times leads the tIre class for a a period heIs ho he hoIs hois Is the lion of the occasion he learns easily gets lessons memorizes well and passes the examinations But there is another fellow fn In that class class' and perhaps severs several o o them who range down from the mil middle dle to toward toward to ward the foot of the class they are arc Indifferent nt in a wa way but hut are workIng work work- tag Ing drudging along thinking drinking and sweating they attract no up particular attention dont don't care who Is leader that doesn't concern ly one Is absorbed in some soma intricate problem j another in the distinctions of grammar and rhetoric and another another another an an- other may be i indulging duH ing in the Pleasures of ot the tho Imagination and may be indulging in a little imagination tion of oC his own but they are all growing growing The boy at the head of the class is Js forgotten He has vanished into the mire miro of his own self conceit while the boy in inthe inthe inthe the middle of the class who has done the real thinking thinking that that is Js one of them was' was made general of the army an and the they called him General Grant lie Is merely a sample The world is full of great leaders from the mIddle middle middle mid mId- dle of th the class and sometimes down toward the foot The man who leads and who attains distinction is the man who thinks that is who does his own thinking as in 1 inde independent pendent man Bob Ingersoll sad 53 of Shakespeare that How fortunate t that at Shakespeare was not educated d dat at Oxford Oxford that that the winged God him never knelt knelt to the time protes soI sor How fortunate that this giant was not captured tied and tethered by the literary l of f his time and Ingersoll knew what he lie heas lien n was as talking about he was the greatest greatest greatest great great- est controversialist of Dl modern times timed he recognized that men who are free that free that are not tied and tethered uy too much learn learning ng that retain th their lr independence of thought that are free to investigate and have the nerve to do it become the time real leaders leaders lead lead- ers elS of oC society and of the world world world-in in bu business Iness in politics Inventions an anIn and andin andin in the great rental mental tal exertions that tha-t make for progress In science and all aIr branches of or human endeavor yes endeavor yes he is from the middle of the class he makes no fuss he ho may be a farmer farm farm- er but he is doing his own thinking thinkIng thinking think think- ing and he Is making mal good and becoming becoming becoming be be- coming wealthy and is highly re respected respected respected re- re and the early leader in that class is generally forgotten he thought he was smart enough to win VIIi without drudgery but he wasn't time tho price of or distinction is drudgery drudgery- mental or physically or both usual both usual usually ly both and the time fellow at the hea head of or the class was riot not willing to pay the price while the fellow in the middle of the class delighted to pay it L. L. L A A. A H. H |