BRONZE OF SPRINGER 
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Now it is quite obvious who have found the course of life during 
the first quarter of this century. I think this wdll be a notable quarter 
century in its accomplishments and its tragedies, but it will be most 
noticeable for the fact that we can discern a growing sense of service 
in men who accept our democratic limitations, w’ho accept the firm 
knowledge that they live, and then seek by personal service to top 
it with something that neither democracy nor any other form of gov¬ 
ernment can evolve. This personal service has taken two forms. I 
have seen the men who are eminent in great industrial enterprises 
devote the profits and fruits of their work to the promotion of the 
dreams of artists, scientists, and poets, and others of creative capacity. 
I have also seen those men who have shown great ability in industrial 
and other efforts give not only the money which they can not use to 
the promotion of these things, but give themselves. 
It seems to me that the subject of our felicitations this evening is 
a man who has become notable to you, to your state, to our country, 
and to the scientific world by giving service in both these ways; by 
giving substantial support for the promotion of the dreams of others, 
and by scientific effort in the way of research, the fruits of w'hich 
would be ample for the achievement of a great scientist if he did 
nothing else during his life time. 
Mr. James G. McNary, banker of El Paso and Eas Vegas, 
spoke on the “Man of Affairs,’" in part as follows: 
I esteem it a high honor and a great pleasure to be invited to participate 
with you in doing honor to the name of Frank Springer. 
From the day, just twenty-four years ago, when I first met Mr. Springer, 
I have held it a high honor to call him my friend, and who does not love 
to pay tribute to a friend of such illustrious achievements that modera¬ 
tion ceases to be a virtue? 
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It would be impossible to overestimate the value of scientific knowledge. 
Each stray bit of such truth from the farther shore of human thought 
and inquiry, has its value in applying the phenomena of the physical 
world to the needs of our complex social life. 
Of Mr. Springer’s unusual fund of scientific knowledge and of his 
generous use of it, you have heard and are to hear from others better 
qualified than I to speak. I am, however, delegated to speak especially 
of Mr. Springer’s services as a builder of the state. How, I beg of you, 
can I do justice to this theme in ten short minutes? 
When Mr. Springer first came to New Mexico, over a half century ago» 
her population was a scant one hundred thousand, her developed re¬ 
sources scarcely amounted to the value of the property now within the 
limits of this city. Great resources of coal lay hidden in her mountains, 
which required money and brains to develop and railroads to haul to the 
consumer. 
Her streams carried a wealth of water for the thirsty land, which it 
