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Show Many Have Acliieved Fame Wliile in Their Twenties (2 Records of World's Notables Nota-bles Are Encouragement to Today's Youth. Ambitious youth seeking to fitul their places early in life iu a maladjusted malad-justed world will find eiicciuiayeiuent it they will take a look inio the pages of history. K. 15. DeGroot, California Cal-ifornia Boy Scout executive. In the llotarian Magazine tells of a few of the i'ouug men and women who have "done big tilings." William Pitt, 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. Abraham Lincoln campaigned cam-paigned for public ollice at twenty-four. twenty-four. Robent 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. Westinghouse 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 fn command of the Italian army. Patrick 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. Paul Slple, an Eagle Scout, was only twenty when he qualified for au Important post on the first expedition expe-dition of Admiral Hyrd to the Antarctic Ant-arctic regions, and he was chief biologist bi-ologist on the second l'.ynl expedition. expedi-tion. The average aye of the members mem-bers of America's Continental congress con-gress was thirty-five. Two of Its members, at least, were under thirty Edward Hutledge, twenty-live, and John Jay, twenty-nine. Lindbergh Immortalized himself at twenty-five; moreover the best out of 500 poems on the Lindbergh flight across the Atlantic In 1027 was written writ-ten by Nathalla Crane, a fourteen-year-old girl of Brooklyn, N. Y. And so on, almost without end could we record the achievements and services of youth In the fields of statesmanship, statesman-ship, literature, science, education. Invention and courage. Kansas City; Times. |