Ohio History Journal

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

AN ADDRESS BY CHARLES A. JONES

CHAIRMAN SATER: I feel that we are all obliged to Professor

Galbreath for making a little shift in the program here and in

giving us a chance to walk about for a few minutes and to be

present at the presentation and dedication of this beautiful gift

that Mr. Venable and his family have made to the Society.

A few years ago the managers of a very enterprising maga-

zine in this country sent out a questionnaire to the high school

students of the civilized countries of the world and they asked

for the answer to one question, they were polling high school

students of the civilized world to find out who, in their opinion,

was the greatest man of modern times. Now, that is a pretty

big order, my friends. But the high school students apparently

were able to answer that question. And who do you think led

the list? Probably a number of you have seen that list, maybe

some of you have not. But who do you think led the list of

the greatest man of the modern world? It wasn't Napoleon, there

wasn't a king or an emperor or a prince or a potentate or a rich

man in the list, not one. The man who received the greatest

number of votes as the greatest man of modern times was a

quiet, mild-mannered little Frenchman who spent his whole life

in a laboratory, Louis Pasteur, and the second name on that list

was Abraham Lincoln.

We are very fortunate this afternoon in having with us as

one of our speakers, one of the most careful, painstaking of the

younger students of Abraham Lincoln in the state of Ohio. We

never tire of hearing of Lincoln and you will not tire of hearing

what this speaker has to say of him.

Mr. Jones, as you know, was Secretary for Governor and

Senator Willis for seven years. He was Secretary for Gover-

nor Cooper throughout the entire time that he was Governor. But

Mr. Jones' reputation doesn't depend upon his connection with

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