| Show MODERN IDEAS OF FAME XE NE of the interesting events of or O OXE 1915 will be bo the ballot to be bo taken between n July 1 and October 1 for new names for fOl the Hall of or Fame at New NewYork NewYork e York university This year Patrick Henry Henr Samuel Adams John C C. Calhoun Calhoun Cal- Cal houn Daniel Boone and man many other famous heroes of the past will again appear in this posthumous electioneering electioneer electioneer- ing each with ardent partisans New electors for the 1915 balloting are now announced This election is interesting as it re reveals reveals reveals re- re ideas as to what constitutes fame Years ago great military and naval commanders would have predominated pre pre- dominated Ioda Today a a. marked change chango can be seen in that authors have a amore amore amore more conspicuous place than fighters This growing tendency to dignify the position of the writer is seen In Inman Inmany inmany man many ways The well-known well annual I volume Vho's Who has alway always given gl givena a conspicuous place to authorship not merely merel of or books but to distinguished magazine and newspaper writers an 1 Many persons have found places Inthis in inthis inthis this publication who In their own home community are quiet and almost obscure yet et who reach millions through the magnetism and sweep of or orthe the printed page In previous pre generations authors were a don downtrodden folk tolk Often the they could subsist only b by the charity charlt of ot otmen men of ot wealth who prided themselves on supporting the fine arts Toda Today the successful author cannot complain complain complain com com- plain of oC ob obscurity He is highly paid and feted So much flattery Is given man many bright ht young oung writers that they conceive the tho idea that the they need only open their mouths and the world will listen isten The They forget torget that hard work ork works Is s the price of or continued success and often oCten lap lapse o into obscurity The number of ot promising literary careers wrecked b by premature social adulation is s almost Inconceivable The men an and 1 I women whose names will finally go gonto Into nto the Hall of or Fame shunned and tolled and suffered for tor their crow crowns |
