Show i I I 00 oo 00 EDUCATORS PAY TARDY TRIBUTE Having worn himself Into broken health doing that which his con conn conscience science dictated Senator La Fol Fol- had to die to have haye a general i acknowledgment made of oC his tues At the convention of or the Na National Education association being held In Indianapolis attended by bythe bythe bythe the great educators of or the tho United I Slates States John F. F Sims chairman of or the committee of or one ono thousand on I child labor brought the entire body I of ot delegates and visitors to their feet Ceel when he said I I have ha disagreed with him many times but I now salute with ad ad- respect ic and ond reverence the lie memory of a II genuine and in whose heart heartbeat heartbeat heroic man man a a man beat the spirit of democracy the democracy the friend of or the masses the masses the friend of or childhood Robert nobert nobert M M. La Follette the good he did lives after him It would have ha been heartening to the Wisconsin senator If while he was still alive and sorrow was up up- upon on Ott him some somo such tribute could have t been paid We withhold the kind tind consoling word until death comes cemes and then thene we e strew the gra e with flowers There never was a 8 man so po mean meana meanor or a woman so bad as not to de de- deserve deserve serve sene a word of or comfort a smile of o hope But the world defers and when hen the word cannot be heard or orthe orth the th smile seen gives and gives most freely rech |