Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1913 — GREAT MEN IN COMMON CLAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GREAT MEN IN COMMON CLAY

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by C. A. BEATY

Words by BENE NORfiAM

The critics called him crazy when he said he would dare to take a little flyer and havlgate the air. they laughed when constant mishaps to all hie craft occurred, and chortled when he hollered some day he'd be a bird. But all things have a climax, be kept on sawing woodand cutting aerial didoes and finally made good. His freak machines went soaring athwart the skyline clear, no more was heard the horse-laugh, the hoot and mocking Jeer. The cr£tcs crowded round him and thumped him on the back, each one said be had praised him whc*. everything looked black. And now he takes it easy and lets the others fly, he sells to aviators and sees them sailing by- The dollars pour in swiftly, he bears an honored name, 'and thus rests well contented with fbrtune and with fame. Old Barth now suits him plenty, he scorns the dizzy flight, the hero bunk looks phony to Mr. Orville Wright (Copyright ISIS, by Universal Press Syndicate.)

ORVILLE WRIGHT.