By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ITH turning the eyes of the nation toward Houston, Texas, where the Demo- cratic party will engaged in choosing nominee for Presi is particularly appropri that the name of the man for whom this city 1 1 d be named shoul comparative its ate was rescued from the ob- scurity which has been its fate and that the and importance of th in our national history id be made better known to all Americans. are thousands of and towns In the United States named after men. but comparatively few of these individ 1als are worthy of having their names thus perpetuated. If ever a man de- zerved that honor, however, surely it was Sam Houston of whom it has re. cently been said "Unless ‘Old San Jacinto’ is known and understood, until he Is given his just dues, there can be no clear and proper understanding of the stars that stud the flag. Leave Sam Houston out of the story, and the American chronicle is a thing of gaps and many unintelligibilities, for not only did he make history at various times, but in a great critical period he WAS history.” Although three states vie for honor of calling Sam Houston their own, he belongs not only to them but to the whole nation, So it Is appropri- ate that the name “Houston” should be upon the tongue of all Americans with. in the next few weeks. It is also ap- propriate that there should appear at this time a new biography of “Old San Jacinto” such as George Creel's “Sam Houston—A Colossus In Buckskin,” published recently by the Cosmopolitan look corporation, That sweeping Houston, the new in this statement : deeds is man shou cities the characterization of biographer justifies Between Hernando de Soto, first to blaze a trail through the wildernesses of the New world, and Kit Carson, last of the great frontieramen, streams an endless procession of tremendous fig. ures—Homeric in courage and achieve. ment, flaming hugely against the dull background of uniformity; yet not in the whole colorful story of America is there record of a more amazing career than that of Sam Houston, the Colossus in Buckskin who won an empire for his country. ™ From the cradle to the grave he walked with drama. As a boy he ran away from home to live in the wig- wams of the Cherokees; serving under Andrew Jackson in the war against the Creeks, he led the charge that carried the Indian breastworks, receiving wounds that stretched him on the Prisinars Thrive Ouldowrs —— Sumshine and open-air work are the best and most advisable in the treat. ment of prisoners, belleve administra. tors of Swedish prisons. In he near future the obligatory sme-year confine ment in cells for those under sen tences of 20 years or more will be re duced to 6 months, It is not always wholesome for prisoners to be alone with thelr thoughts, the authorities gay, and often cases of physical de: ! il nta aughler crushed Ba day of 8! His lat were sked with color and high a hment An President of the Lone Star Republie, he beat down greeds, impatience and vagaries of men, building firm and enduring foundations under the totter. ing supersiructure of government was his shrewd statecraft, pit European powers against America, tha made annexation possible; In the sen- ate of the Uni ted States, although Southerner and a slavehols er years no less pa mpl the by an unflinching stand against slavery and secession against his life, he returned to Texas to run for governor on a Unionist plat. form and won against overw he odds: gontronte d with the necessity of declaring allegiance to the Confederate States, he re deposition rather than surrender his principles, and walked out of office to the humble cabin that was his home, old, proscribed, but with his head unbo ming wed its chronicler to say by mary : A gigantic, towering worthy to rank with and admired of America the Southwest, born of Sam Housicn is but a name, known in detail only to the inquiring few. Ont of the annexation of Texas, an expan- gion Important enough in itself, came the Mexican war that addad California New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Utah to the Union, yet schoolbooks either ignore Houston's connection with these epochal events, or else con. fine themselves to casual and mislead- ing mention, His entire life, as a matter of fact, constitutes a contribution to Ameri cana as important as fascinating. A soldier in the War of 1812, he lived to sees the North and Bouth lock in deadly grapple and, during the fifty crowded years that lay between, he played a leading part in the national drama More than that, Sam Houston, perhaps better than any other, stands as a per. fect expression of the frontier spirit, and his portrait is a componite of thore amazing men wh> rode the forest ard plain as the Vikings rode the sea reckloss, dauntlens, indomitable, simple as children, craftier than the Indian, arrogant and Invincible in their cour age and pride of blood, lawless yot curiously law-loving, and fleeing from civilization only to extend it courage Never was a biography more intense. ly American. . . . Small wonder then should claim him as their own in the fact that he ginia's cinim lies was borm March 2, 170% at 1 Ridee In Rockbridge county not Lexington, the son of Ni who served In one of Daniel and one of those and for such a man. Last imhoer far muel from Houston, the Hevoln tion as Morgan's sind wart riflemen, mothers, who and a fit year Virginia, a monn sear April 21, of Sam Houston's ploncer wore “tall strong” mate with Texas cooperating nent at that place and memorial the ann greatest victory erected there fare each ceremonies held on Iversiry the battle of San Jacinto, When the died in 1807, sons and daughters with her over the Alleghenies and established them a pioneer home on the borders of the nation in eastern Tennessee, So Tennessee spreads upon the record of its contribution to na tional history that she sent Sam Hou ston to his first war under the leader ship of her greatest hero, Andrew Jackson, in his expedition ag the Cregks; that she sent him to represent her In congress and that she made him her governor flouston her six Samuel wife elder his three took Cherokee inst inter Texas claim to Sam Houston is based upon events too well known to need repeating here. The events them selves are well known, but the nificance of these events and the man responsible for them are not such com mon knowledge and that is why the appearance of a new biography of Houston at a time When it will be easiest for his name to be recalled is a happy circumstance. Virgihia, Tennes see and Texas may claim Sam Houston for their own but as his contribution to the building of the United States becomes better known, these three states must share him with all their sister commonwenlths., For this Colos #us in Buckskin, like all other empire builders, belongs to us all, gig pression result in physical ruin, Swe den also has found prison farms prac: ticable and their number will be In creased, Celluloid Models In construction of great engineering works such as bridges nnd dams It has been the custom to construct replicas, sometimes costing many thousands of dollars, which are destroyed in the tests made upomr it to determine the capacity of the structure to resist the strain that is likely to be put upon It in service. By a method devised by Prof. George E. Beggs of Princeton university, models now made in cel lulold are tested in mercury and the same Information I+ secured at a greatly decreased expenditure, How Come? Auto Dealer-Police station? 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