Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — THE MAN AND THE HOUR. [ARTICLE]

THE MAN AND THE HOUR.

Every community has its hour, and many of them have the man for the hour. But how is it with us? The hour is here—the hour for injecting new life into business, for the creation of a bigger and a greater community. Some may cast their eves around and ask “where,” or “how.” Your eyesight is dim, brother —- your intellect is sleeping. The hour is here-—has always been here—will always be here: It needs only the man with the vital spark of life to give it touch and go, a constructive brain to take the initiative and forge the links that bind us into a great and mighty chain. Some men can do this, while others can not. We want the men who can.

We have the land, we have the sites, we have the possibilities, and now we want the realitffes. But we must first have the man of the hour—the leader who will throw his great intellect into the scale and bear it down with the weight of energy, of determination and of power to create big things from small beginnings. We as a community are not lacking in brains, we are not devoid of an inherent desire for improvement, and we are not without the power or the will to force the issue if we but get the.start. Every great municipality had its humble origin, but it had its man of the hour, its MEN of the hour. Geographical or other may prevent our aspiring to the dignity of a great metropolitan city, but it is easily within the bounds of for us to double, and treble, and quadruple our present size, wealth and importance. We need to expand, and we want to expand. It requires but the opportunity, and opportunity even now waits upon the man. Who will he be? Who will THEY be?