By ELMO SCOTT WATSON NE of the liets of the people — probably cause of the subtle flat- tery of their intelligence which it implies—is that Lincoln once said, “Yon can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the the, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” Although some persons confuse this quotation with P, T. Bar. num's “the people like to be fooled.” probably ninety-nine out of every hun- dred who have oceasion to quote this epigram believe implicitly that the words are Lincoln's. But did Lincoln ever really Rev. WW, E. Barton, favorite it? Hest say probably the ABRAHAM LINCOLN “You can fool of the time, and some of the people | people all the time.” John Dickinson Shern for the Western until his ath in 1025, Park correspondent for the y Tribune, and his friend, Hyde Park correspondent Press, sncceeded In board Vanderbilt special at Michigan City, Ind, for After the train was on its way Ar, Vanderbilt's nted an interview the interview Mi | Inle writer ian, Newspaper then Chi de Dresser, City vater, privite In car and zra the course of GEN. W. T. SHERMAN “War is heli!” fnformed the today, wi warld coln's man life of Lincoln tions gave to the! truth about Lin- | letter, recently about the | i i i on 108 investi the Bixby the truth quotation uttered at fast famous learn year set out : fool the sald to have heen Ji between the Joint debates with clusion in the ms in a to people” which isi Clinton, | and third | His con given in an | f the Dear- ated in | second Douglas, itter, as article recent issue born independent, is inc followi arpor the ng statement : 'o my mind ATEument 8 not ember the stronges: negative | that few pe hearing Lincoln say those words, but that, if he re said them at Clinton when Douglas was not . he did vot repeat so apt a phrase in one or more 1 remaining nt debates excellent ortunities t 3 sectively an un 50 ople ally pres- opt Bly eanliably vert Lincoln belief words CORNELIUS VANDERBILT “The public be damned!” The evidence is far | but it is not lacking | sounds like Lincoln, | alleged is one in | might appropriately | and at Clinton from conciugive, in probability and the which the Lave been used i But If Lincoln never spoke this | clever apothegm, then it would almost | seem possible to fool all the people all | the time: for all the people, virtually, believe these words to have been Lin- coin's i it “the people” remember that Lin- | coln sald they couldn't be fooled all! the time, because they like to believe | that, then “the public” well remembers | that it was once damned by a Vander. | hilt, probably because of popular preju- | dice against Wall Street and men of | money, The “public be damned”! phrase is one over which there has | been much digpute. It is usually, and | erroneously, ascribed to “Commodore” | Corneliug Vanderbilt, and members of | the Vanderbilt family have often de- nied that it was ever uttered by one | of thelr number. There has also been some dispute as to the circumstances under which it was uttered, but the | facts In the case are these: In 1882 William H. Vanderbilt, son | of the “Commodore,” was on his way | to Chicago on a special train. It occasion words Saint Valentine's Day it is a popular error to assume that Febraary 14 is to be associated with a single saint. The day belongs to no fewer than seven persons In the com. nrehensive ecclesinstical calendar, and the head of an eighth Is venerated at this time, They eame from France, Belginm, Bpain and Africas, and the best-known members of the group were un bighop of Umbria and a priest of Rome, both of the Third century, A, D. ‘Do Oar road lHmited ex- run them lation of the the mngnate, uins pay your press tr do for the you Bec public?” Ho ‘Accommodation of Mr public I" ex § 1 Vanderbilt, “the We run them becnu public Se We ADMIRAL W. S. SIMS can start at once. We made preparations on the way." “We They and ag roads to give and, them, We have the have to tried ££ jo ferent do not pay. again to get dif- er up; but they them of course jong run (11 will run ns as they we must do same.” Did “War sion, General is hell I? * Sherm Ad iis historic de of his brother's brigade thio, Anot at the graduating of the Michigan Military emy at Orchard Lake, Mich, 19. 1870. The epigram, only an abbreviated quotation, text of which is, “I of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded, who ery aloud for blood, more vengeance, more deso. War is hell!” Others main- an wording to ever say, one ver he made reunion aldwell, ( her says exer Ccises sny some, is HORACE GREELEY “Go West, young man, go West" tain that Sherman never sald it, but Charles Francis Adems at the thir History and legend are vague in recit- ing the details of thelr personal his- tory, The lover's festival is appar- ently to be connected not with the birthday of these holy men but with an early pagan festival that was part of the Roman Lupercalia, The medie- val custom in England and on the continent was to put the names of young men and women in a jar and draw them out on Saipt Valentine's eve, Those whose names were thus linked had to make presents to each other and agree to be each other's | erate Veterans' camp of New York on January 26, 1003. It hans never been [found In any of Sherman's sayings {| or writings, So there you are! | ny, “Go West, young man, | although history says that he did. man who first sald it was John 1. B. | Soule, editor of the Terre Haute (Ind) | Express. In an editorial about the | West's opportunities for young men he | declared that Horace Greeley could | never have given a young men better { advice than contained in the words, | “Go West, young man" This was i stated merely as Soule’s opinion of | what Greeley might have sald, but { newspapers all over the country re- | peated the saying and credited it to Greeley. Finally the famous editor | of the New York Tribune reprint Soule's editorial with this foot “The expression of this sentl- go West ed note: ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY “You may fire when ready, Gridley!” atiriboted to the edi Tribune But does he concur in the advice hat he Indorses most heartily the epigrammatie of the Terre | Haute Express and saying Go West, man, ” Admiral standing on bridge of the Olympia at the battle of Manila bay and watching the on- coming fleet, remarked qui- “You may fire when ready, Grid. ley.” So says history, and it has be quotations in an interview published In the Evening Post of October 20 Dewey is quoted as saying “that Aguinaldo shoulder’ that hen ready, does not want to he |* ment lu tor of fully it gives t 182 heen the erroneous! y advice Joins in young go West” Dewey the Spanish eily | come one of our favorite But Chicago P1800, | the American policy toward should be with plenty of force ‘straight from the behind it, he ot tell Gridies fire w {to coal known that Pershing before the tomb, make now pt GEN. JOMN J. PERSHING “Lafayette, we are here!” “La- That yarn orig Stanton of Per. before the tomb and sald, “Lafayette, nous somme In!” jut It was soon tacked onto the com- and even President ad fayette, we are here! inated when Colonel Tre himself has denied that he { toric, “All that However, he did say many can be beaten, Germany must | be beaten, Germany will be beaten” | When a British admiral asked Ad miral Willlam 8. Sims when the first | division of American destroyers could | be ready for business, he replied, “We | can start at once. We made prepara: | tions on the way.” Or so the news. | papers reported It at the time. But {in a let’er to the New York Times, | dated February 21, 1018, from London, the admiral denied positively that the | question was ever asked him or that we have is yours’ in 17, “Ger valentines for the ensuing year. By and by the women were released from the obligation to make gifts and only the men sent presents or missives ex- pressive of affectionate sentiment, Famous English River Caesar says that at the time of his invasion of Britain the River Thames in England. was ealled “Tamesis” Other early writers enll it “Tamesa.” In early Baxon times the river wns called "Thamis” The Thames abovp Oxford often is called “Isls.” # tne —————— nes ts A HIS which, on racing car INSIDE STORY Sillimanite Used for Cores Found Only After Weari- some Search. Those small which your efficiency porcelain motor depends and power are the gn industry runping into the in production ard value, Within their Insignificant they carry a tale of adventure research surpassed by those of few plugs for Is bodies industries They tell mineral electric shork high tenis sillimanite, na highly re alinost ature and gth fo {0 mechanion! Search by Scientists. int inboratories climbs through of the voleanic ng too giren They recom the tolls of and thelr the im moun out this rare for now being the tons delivery inte the Indus in research dangerous ‘slifornia, diggl believed and mountainsides by after its fact the mineral goes on through tains of ( once use down Even ories of try, finally AH this mere spark plug! and ad us n and research built up an BONO spark care produces annually, at un value of some The sillimanite that fs the noes anufacture dizrovery oh of heir m ont plugs Bot the products of the synthetic siliimanite, a others may oratory product, or of porcelain com- pounds, Many Other Uses. being in led in things that help ine-propelled boats, and 80.000 000 output cars and lesides sta! they're all the alrplanes, tractors engines go. Of GROOM are used ears the make or Sasol the in passenger 14.0600 (0) tracks each in the Year, rest in all other forms of gasoline A spark plug will last and more, but makers annually they the motorist that if replacd as Real Danger Signal Every motorist on approaching a rallroad crossing should look and listen for trains, according to the legal departipent of the National Automo- bile club. The courts have ruled that travelers upon a public highway, in attempting to cross over railroad crossings, must look and listen atten- tively for the approach of trains If such a traveler, by the exercise of reasonable care, could have seen the approach of a train by looking in time to have avoided injury, it will be pre. sumed, In case he is injured, that he A raliroad track is itself a signal it must first look and listen, and, if stop, look and listen for au approaching traln. This rule is ouly the standard of necessary cau tion and care, Shattering Glass Cause of Motor Car Accidents Sixty-five per cent of the injuries received In automobile accidents are caused by broken and flying giass from windshields and windows, according to the first analysis ever made of the causes of Injury to motorists, cone pleted by the Massachusetts Mutual Liability Insurance association, No figures on this subject have ever been collected before, and the Insure unce body therefore undertook its own investigation of all aceldents on which detalied data were avaflable. The re sults show that in 1,000 accidents, in- volving 1,800 motorists, 720 people were injured. Of these, 407, or 65 per cent, were cut by glass fragments The accidents occurred In 26 states, The Injuries varied from slight cuts to severed jugular velns resulting in death. Cold Weather Adds to Traffic Hazards Ww inter we ither trafic out Walter the N calls both should when brings in creased hazar points hing, Neidont of a! Safety council, w to the nnd extren hail obscure ho ict that ution attention motorists pedestrians careful gieet are he ely Kony ind Hkely tO the § people both steering Here are Be sure with a winds ision afoot and at the ROME SURRe stions: your auto is e quipped d sicid cleaner. Man arivers prefer the auto vice whi keep b ing ang Brakes that iy are mits free IR purposes, function motori stop heolutely es 11 during this They should frequently snd regu times Kind tested larly ol ad CRN and inlly of weather. be Chains shouldn't be left In the When the car is eRe brakes With SOHNE days the {0 skid if the garage tires ar AOrn, cially the a1 of good tre ada danger is what minimiz all in good condition the steering g Have your equip: Dot i j Neng bat ratus, if 1s tall-li tx. horns, teries other appa would vou avold accidents Luggage Stored on Top of a Closed Automobile As shown. Le top of an auto bo inclosed 5 used as a comps that i tra coats, his verted Into a Fine Luggage Com partment by Fitting With a Loose Cover Provided With Snaps. from dirt and rain. It is useful for motor camp ers and long-distance tourists, The construction is very simple, A row of snap fastepers should be placed at intervals around the edge of the top. A plece of auto top mate rial can be ent to the proper shape and the socket part of the fasteners attached to it. Be sure to have the cover loose enough so that there will be room for as much baggage as you intend to place under it, Of course a luggage compartment of this type Is more suitable for such articles as rolled-up blankets, tents or other items that have serve them rial of the top.~—Popular Monthly. 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