Show I Many Viany Have Achieved Fame dame While in ill Their Theil Twenties Records e of Worlds World's Notables Notables Notables Nota Nota- bles Aie Are Encouragement ment to Toda Today's s Youth Ambitious youth seeking to fin find heir places earl early in life In Iii a n maladjusted malad- malad lusted wot world Id will find encouragement r f they will take a look 1001 Into the ages of oC history E. E L' L 13 D. DeGroot Cal- Cal fornia Boy lloy Scout executive In the Magazine tells teUs of a few of or he young oung men an and women who ho have ha done big thin things s. s William Pitt Mr Ir DeGroot cites as asals its als first example filled fine the responsible ble li le post Of chancellor of the luer at twenty-three twenty nn and serve served as prime minister of or Great Britain at ut twenty enty George Washington was only twenty three when he led let the Virginia troops against the Jn Indians lCd ind French Abraham Lincoln campaigned cam carn- for public s at sit t twenty- twenty our our Robert Hobert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Islan Island at nt twenty at nineteen prove proved that equa- equa ions lons higher than the fifth order could got be solved algebraically an and there there- oy y advanced the theory of groups for forthe forthe the he solution of higher hl her equations Invented the air all airbrake brake at twenty Alexander the Great conquered and ruled the mould before h he was thirty Sir Isaac Newt Newton n at twenty four formulate formulated formulated formu formu- late the law of t gravitation Whitney Whitney Whitney Whit Whit- ney was was not more mor than twenty nine Ie when rhen he invented the cotton gin Charles Dickens wrote Oliver Twist it twenty five Napoleon at nt twenty- twenty seven was in coma n nd of the Italian ax my Patrick was but seven ty-seven when he lie made his liis conquering conquerIng conquerIng conquer conquer- ing and historic speech against the Stamp act Thomas Edison was not far above the Youth Service n age e lev- lev 1 1 designated by Rotary notary twenty-four twenty rears years when he astounded and benefited benefited benefited bene bene- mankind with many of or his in in- in Paul an Eagle Scout was only t twenty when he le qualified for as m Important post on the first expeditIon expedition of or Admiral Byrd to the Antarctic Antarctic Ant Ant- arctic re regions lons arid and he ho was WIL chief bIolo bi biologist biologist bI- bI olo on the second Byrd Byrl tion The average age of or the members mem mem- hers bers of or Americas America's Continental congress congress con con- gress was thirty fi e Two of its members at least were under thirty Edward Rutledge twenty five an and John Jn Jay twenty nine Lindbergh h Immortalized ed himself at twenty five moreover the best hest ou oui of or j jOO poems on the Lindbergh bergh flight across the Atlantic In 1027 was written written written writ writ- ten by Na th all a Crane a n fourteen- fourteen old year girl irl of oC Brooklyn N. N Y Y And so on almost without end could we record the achievements and services of or youth in the fields of or statesmanship statesmanship statesman statesman- ship literature science education invention and courage courage Kansas City Times |