Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1920 — PROUD OF HER FAMOUS SONS [ARTICLE]

PROUD OF HER FAMOUS SONS

Massachusetts Has Sent Out Many Who Have Done Great Things ' In the World. Not to be too insistent and greedy, Massachusetts and her “Ola Colony” should always file their claims to the honor of producing men that are doing the new work of the world, as well as celebrating forever the Pilgrim Fathers* writes The Listener in the Boston Transcript. It is. no accident, no mere coincidence, that both the pioneers of transatlantic air transportation should be Massachusetts men; the first man to navigate an airship from America to England yvas Commander Read, whose boyhood’s home was South Hanson, Mass., and the first engineer tn carry the big street traffic of New York city under the Hudson river is Clifford M. Holland. bom at Somerset; Bristol county thirty-six years ago. Both upper air and subterranean problems have brought laurels to boys of the Old Colony public schools. To be sure, Commander -Read’s education was com■pTetecnif Annapolis Naval academy, and Mr. Holland’s at Harvard university. where he graduated in' 1906. But there must be something in the stock and, something in the system which brings it to pass so often that when great things have been done, or great things are to be accomplished, and the doer is necessarily forced into the spotlight of the press, and his antecedents are edgerly examined, the little old significant abbreviation, ‘‘Mass.,’’ is apt to appear in conection with some little town as his birthplace.