Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1913 — GREAT MEN OF PRESENT DAY [ARTICLE]

GREAT MEN OF PRESENT DAY

Kngflsh Writer Accords Honors to Those Hs Dssrns Have Mads Their Names Worthy of Mention. "Doubtless," writes Clement Shortor, in the Strand, "there are many great men living today—men with prospective greatness—but only time can decide, la my Judgment, there Is ao man In the world today who Is great In any walk of life In so striking a way that his contemporaries can

unhesitatingly proclaim him great History has proclaimed the elder Pitt a great man, but not so certainly his son. It has assigned this epithet to Palmerston or Peel, and It is too early yet to decide whether It wiH concede it to Gladstone or Disraeli. The great man Is surely he who ,by force of c ntus, has Impressed himself upon his age in some permanent fora. Whether the achievements of Mr. Roosevelt or of Emperor William are of this character had better be decided a century hence. Am jam ask

me, however, to join in what can scarcely be a serious discussion, I suggest that we take the name of a living man from each country who has, by Invention or creation, stamped himself upon bis age. 1 therefore nominate the ten greatest men of the present day as follows: “Great Britain, Thomas Hardy; Great Britain, Lord Lister; United Sta js, Thomas A. Edison; Italy, Gugllelmo Marconi; Italy, Giacomo Puccini; France, Francois Coppee; Austria, Richard Strauss; Qsrmany,

Hermann Sudermann; Belgium, Maurice Maeterlinck; Russia, Bile Metcbnij».!. w