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Show - - : v- !!:ro?3':irJ Pccb. -y . : . : . 'Andrew1 "Carnegie is an interesting character. He has accomplished many things in an original manner. He built op a great industry and did it himself. He was not a trust man., .He stood on his own bottom, fought competition and made money. His one great mistake.was his warfare with organized organ-ized labor, but he survived that and retired from active ac-tive business one of the richest men in the United States. . - Since then he has done many benevolent things, llis gifts of money with whioh to build libraries Lave been accepted by many cities. Such philan-; thropy is wise, and its good effect will be pefma-' nent. . ' ,- . Mr. Carnegie has shown that he possesses hard: Scotch sense In many instances, but he is only human hu-man after alL . He makes mistakes just like anyone: else. He made a big one when he endowed a hero fund for the purpose of giving medals to those who have distinguished themselves. ' ,.- The hero fund commission is having a terrible1 time. The crop of heroes is tremendous and it is constantly increasing. Already more than twenty thousand applications for medals are on file and hundreds more are arriving on every mail. The commission com-mission is swamped. It has not issued a single medal, because it fears that once it begins the end will never come. .N Nothing could have been done that would tend more to ring out that latent idiocy of the American people than the establishment of a hero fund. Your true hero wants no medals, no notoriety. His deeds are done for the sake of doing them, not for the sake of wearing a medal announcing to all the world that he is a great man. It 1s only the imitation heroes that will apply for medals, but there are always plenty of that sort. The man who once shot a dog supposed to be mad and the man who cheered when the troops went by will consider themselves entitled to medals, and they .probably will get them. The real heroes wouldn't have them. v It was an unfortunate mistake on the part of Mr. "Carnegie. The efforts of men such as he should be directedvtoward curing national foolishness instead in-stead of augmenting it, If ,Mi Carnegie can overcome over-come his racial stubbornness and withdraw his hero fund he will show 'great wisdom. ' . |