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Show Many Have Achieved Fame While in Their Twenties ? an Important post on the first en dltlon of Admiral Byrd to the Ant nrctic regions, and he was chief m ologlst on the second Byrd expe& tion. The average age of the meters me-ters of America's Continental congress con-gress was thirty-five. Two of h members, at least, were under thlrtj ' Edward Rutledge, twenty-five, John Jay, twenty-nine. ' , Lindbergh Immortalized himself twenty-five ; moreover the best out of 500 poems on the Lindbergh flight across the Atlantic In 1927 was writ ten by Nathalla Crane, a fourteen year-old girl of Brooklyn, N. Y. so on, almost without end could wi record the achievements and service of youth In the fields of statesman ship, literature, science, educatloj, Invention and courage. Kansas Qh Times. Records of World's Notables Nota-bles Are Encouragement to Today's Youth. Ambitious youth seekltig to find their places early In life iu a maladjusted malad-justed world will find encouragement If they will take a look into the pages of history. E. B. DeGroot, California Cal-ifornia Boy Scout executive, In the Rotarian Magazine tells of a few of the young men and women who have "done big things." William I'Itt, Mr. DeGroot cites as his first example, filled the responsible responsi-ble post of chancellor of the exchequer exche-quer at twenty-three and served as prime minister of Great Britain at twenty-four. George Washington was only twenty-three when he led the Virginia troops against the Indians and French. AbrahJm Lincoln campaigned cam-paigned for public oflice nt twenty-four. twenty-four. Robeut Louis Stevenson wrote "Treasure Island" at twenty-three. Galois at nineteen proved that equations equa-tions higher than the fifth order could not be solved algebraically, and thereby there-by advanced the theory of groups for the solution of higher equations. Westlnghouse Invented the air brake at twenty-three. Alexander the Great conquered and ruled the world before he was thirty. Sir Isaac Newton at twenty-four formulated formu-lated the law of gravitation. Whitney Whit-ney was not more than twenty-nine when he Invented the cotton gin. Charles Dickens wrote "Oliver Twist" at twenty-five. Napoleon at twenty-seven twenty-seven was In command of the Italian army. Tatrlck Henry was but twenty-seven when he made his conquering conquer-ing and historic speech against the Stamp act. Thomas Edison was not far above the Youth Service age level lev-el designated by Rotary (twenty-four years), when he astounded and benefited bene-fited mankind with many of his inventions. in-ventions. Taul Slple, an Eagle Scout, was only twenty when he qualified for |
