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Great Men? 20th Century Has Its Share
THOMAS A. EDISON
HENRY FORD ADOLF HITLER NIKOLAI LENIN MAHATMA GANDHI
By JOHN L. SPRINGER
AP Newsfeature Writer
So far this Twentieth Century
has had more than its share of
Uncommon Men.
It has produced Winston Church
ill, who took a Britain gasping in
near-defeat and carried it by in
domitable inspiration through
blood, toil, tears and sweat to vic
tory in the greatest war of history.
It produced Revolutionist Nikolai
Lenin, the father of Communist
Russia and the maker of Com
munist doctrine which under Josef
Stalin has spread and already left
its mark upon a quarter of the
earth’s face. It also produced a
housepainter turned dictator —
Adolf Hitler — whose dreams of
world power may have more de
vastating effects on humanity than
any similar madness in world his
tory.
In almost every field of activity,
the first 50 years of this century
have produced men of rare genius.
Roosevelt Remembered
Statesmen? Historians will re
member Franklin D. Roosevelt,
spearhead of a pronounced shift
in American theory of government,
only four-term president in our
country’s existence, precedent-
breaker and leader of the world’s
forces against Hitler.
Literary lights? Many people
wrap the mantle of greatness
around George Bernard Shaw’s
shoulders. Other critics say that
hundreds of years from now the
world will read, with reverence,
works of this century’s French
Novelist Marcel Proust and Amer
ican Poet Robert Frost.
Spiritual Leaders ? Mohandas K.
Gandhi, slight, non-violent liberator
of India’s millions who was shot
down by an assassin’s bullet in
1948, seems destined to live as one
of the great martyrs of history.
This has been a half-century of
dramatic scientific and industrial
change, produced by scores—if not
hundreds—of men whose names
will be remembered as long as rec
orded words are kept.
Name after distinguished name
could be added to the rolls for
the harnessing of atomic energy
—a feat which of itself, will make
these times forever memorable.
Hahn, Meitner, Fermi, Oppenhei-
mei - —these and others joined in the
greatest achievement of science
ever known.
The towering names to live in
science may be those of Albert
Einstein, who gave the world his
sensational theory of relativity;
of Sigmund Freud, whose findings
have sparked the great field of
psychiatry; of Gugielmo Marconi,
father of radio; and of Dr. Alex
ander Fleming, discoverer of peni
cillin, one of the pace-setters in
the life-saving realm of anti-biotic
drugs.
Edison’s Record
In inventive genius, a 20th Cen
tury name stands alone: the name
of Thomas Alva Edison, of the
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incandescent lamp, the motion .pic
ture, and hundreds of others.
Nor will tomorrow forget Henry
Ford, who developed the assembly
line of production which put Amer
ica in the forefront of the world’s
powers. Nor Wilbur and Orville
Wright, who in 1903 sent a plane
into the air at Kitty Hawk, N. C.,
for 59 seconds and began the era
of flight. Nor the Polish chemist
Casimir Funk, who isolated the
first vitamins, nor the Canadian
doctors, Banting and Best, who
isolated the fist hormones which
already have saved the lives of
millions.
It does not necessarily follow,
of course, that the names of those
most noted today will live the long
est in the future. Among 20th
Century Greats may be a worker
in an obscure laboratory, a writer
of books unknown to the critics,
a preacher in little-ti’aveled fields.
Some of the greatest figures of the
past were not recognized in their
own time on earth.
But there is no doubt, as of
now, that when the half century’s
story is told it will be done in
terms of men deserving a place
with the legendary figures of the
past. We have seen greatness in
our time.
Details Arranged
For Europe Studies
Washington, D.C., Jan. 23—(Spl)
—It was announced today by the
Institute of University Studies
Abroad that arrangements had
been completed with five famous
European universities to ease sum
mer school registration for Ameri
can students.
In the past, Americans interest
ed in combining summer travel and
study abroad had either to write
to the universities for information
or trust to their luck and apply
for admission on arrival. As most
universities limit enrollment in
their summer schools, students
coming from the United States
were likely to be i-efused admis
sion because quotas had been fill
ed. By facilitating advance regis
tration, the Institute of University
Studies Abroad guarantees that
much past confusion can now be
avoided.
Together with a well-known
travel agency, the Institute has
prepared a series of tours in con
nection with the summer schools
in Europe, thus helping the stu
dents get a background knowledge
of Europe and its current problems.
Beasley Conducts
Police Training
W. D. Beasley, field instructor,
Texas Engineering Extension Ser
vice, will conduct classes in “Basic
Police Training” for the municipal
police departments in Denison
Feb. 8.
In these classes the police offi
cers will consider the apprehension,
search and control of criminals,
criminal law, traffic control and
relationship to other enforcing
agencies.
The classes will be held after
the regular police working hours,
with individual instruction during
the working day.
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Compared In Booklet
Austin, Jan. 23—MP) — You
think you’ve got it bad when those
property tax statements hit your
mailbox ?
Maybe you have.
A new reference booklet, publish
ed by the University of Texas In
stitute of Public Affairs, tells you
just how bad—or gopd—your taxes
are compared to other Texas muni
cipalities.
The statistics cover state, county,
city and school district taxation
both individually and collectively on
the basis of 1949 levies. Lynn F.
Kay Starr Stars
In Blues-Singing,
^Mammy’ Style
Hollywood, Jan. 23—(A*)—Blues
singing—one of the Negro’s prime
contributions to American culture
—is a minor art that seems to
elude white singers with but few
exceptions.
One of the exceptions is a lively
young lady named Kay Starr.
Devotees of the blues and jazz
shouting school this year have
placed the five-foot-two and eyes-
of-green singer in the top eche
lon along with such great exhibi
tioners as Ethel Waters, Ella Fitz
gerald, Billie Holliday and Mildred
Bailey.
Until Starr’s emergence, Miss
Bailey, Connee Boswell and Dinah
Shore (on occasion) have rated as
the only songbirds who have been
able to simulate the true blues
spirit.
But none of these—on records,
at least—ever managed the gutty
(there is no better word) quality
that Miss Starr gets into her
work.
Starr’s style of singing has put
her among the year’s top recording
artists. Capitol Records reports
more than 2,000,000 of her records
sold in 1950. Two of them-^“Bona-
parte’s Retreat” and “I’ll Never
Be Free” (the latter a hill-billy
tinged duet with Tennessee Ernie)
—have passed the 500,000 mark.
Adjust your speed to the traffic
and weather conditions.
Anderson, assistant to Institute Di
rector Stuart A. MacCorkle, did
the compiling.
Bright spot of the report is the
reminder state property taxes are
due for a 40 per cent rollback in
1951.
The rollback comes from a con
stitutional amendment adopted two
years ago abolishing the state gen
eral revenue property tax and em
powering counties to levy it if vot
ers so authorize at an election.
Anderson found evidence coun-
^ties currently imposed a compara-
r tively light tax burden on assess
able property within their jurisdic
tion.
To permit accurate comparisons
of tax rates among the various
communities, it was necessary for
Anderson to “adjust” the tax rates
to a common denominator. This
was necessary because many taxing
units do not assess property at full
market value and then do not tax
it at its full assessment. Ander
son’s “adjusted” figures show the
rate represented by your actual tax
hill in relation to the full market
value of your property. This was
done in each instance to provide
the common basis for comparisons.
The “adjusted” 1949 county tax
rates varied from 7 cents to $1.97
per $100 evaluation, with the aver
age at 42 cents.
Adjustment of city rates showed
those rates varying from 8 cents to
$1.70, with the average at 76 cents
—nearly twice the adjusted county
levy.
Common school district taxes
ranged from a low of 6 cents to a
high of $1.90. The average was
95 cents.
Totalling up all the adjusted tax
rates on property in Texas, the re
port found the wide range of 72
cents to $3.97, but only one muni
cipality had a total rate of less than
$1 (Portland, 72 cents). Laredo
was highest at $3.97.
The adjusted property tax rates
levied in 1949 on $100 of the as
sessed value in Brazos county was
29 cents for the state, and 36 cents
for the county. The city tax in
College Station was 50 cents.
These figures compared with a
city tax of 58 cents in Bryan, and
an independent school district rate
for the city of 70 cents.
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