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Show FAME YOU DESERVE The world knows nothing about Its greatest men. Our greatest are not slurs who live by exhibition of them selves and abilities, but quiet people who think and work in modest seclusion. seclu-sion. Walkley, brilliant dramatic critic of the London Times, makes this obser-va.ion obser-va.ion It Is true. History will remember the ' great ' men who plunged the world into the, world war. History' will paint In bright colors the men who carried on ihe work ol destruction for more than four years. But history' will be strangely silent about a reater than these the plodders plod-ders who now are pMianlly repairing the damages, tolling to rebuild a clv-ligation clv-ligation burned out to Its very skele ton. The men who really are repairing the war's damages are not the Prominent Promi-nent Gentlemen who get their name-' in the newspaper headlines. The real builders are the farmers tolling to restore re-store lood supply to normal, the me chanics furnishing the materials to replace what was destroyed, and the unadvertised millions contributing their daily mites to the war debt A peculiar thing, is fame. And always al-ways it Is unfair, the lucky individual getting more than he deserves. Watt is famous for Inventing the steam engine. Yet his discovery of the principle would have been worthless worth-less if it had not been for the unknown un-known thousands who patiently had worked out mechanical movements and me' hods of covering iron ore Into steel All Watt did was gather up theae loose ends, put them together, add a new idea and march into history with credit for the whole thing. All f2moue men "borrow" nlne-Unth3 nlne-Unth3 of their Invention, skill or art. Men work with many things, from farm soil to metals and chemical magic mag-ic In proper combinations, these bring fame. But the greatest material man works with Is man himself his char acter And the greatest men are the ones who emerge with the greatest character. Character, by its example and contagion, con-tagion, is the only thing a man can build with permanence. It outlasts the Pyramids. And you, as you look back over your life, probably will agree that the greatest person you ever met waa some Individual who never rose above obscurity. Vet he made a success of his life. Fame is futile. Crave Is not. What counts most is personal satisfaction with what we have made of ourselves and our life's work. Wo leave this world as we enter It alone and In the last analysis each man is hie own best Judge |