Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1918 — Where Americans Lead. [ARTICLE]

Where Americans Lead.

The American is fascinated by novel - problems, by ungauged and ungaugeable difficulties. He glories in building a Panama canal after Europe’s most famous engineer had failed. Because Europe had never ventured to build skyscrapers that Is no reason why a Woolworth should not rear a structure more than 50 stories in the air. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, but without success; yet two obscure American lads, nothing daunted, experimented until they conquered the air. The original McCormick was a farmer, not a mechanic, but that did not deter-him from making up his mind to produce a machine which would cut grain, and.be did not give up until he had made both a reaper and a fortune.