PRETTY SETTING
Washington Keen
Man of Business
How does it come about that George
Washington, a member of an wgzricul-
tural family, living in an agricultural
state, and concerned primarily with
the occupation and use of land, may be
styled with absolute truth as the best
and the most farsighted business man
of his time?
It has been
fast three sul
my fortune during the
mers to search out the
family history of Washington's ances-
tors. writes Albert Bushnell Hart, pro-
history, Harvard
Nation's Business.
Washington, who
town of Washington,
Durham, in 1185, we
a straight strain of 25
fessor emeritus of
aniversity, in the
From Will de
settled in the
Palatinate of
think we havo
generations of Washingtons behind our
George Washington that can be sub-
stantiated: and in that set of
tors, father to son, among men of va-
ried talents and powers, 1
have as yet failed to find a
scalawaz. In that line you find the
tawyer strain. You find judges. You
find for the most part landowners,
holders of considerable estates, which
they administered successfully.
ances-
intellectual
single
Line of Successful Men,
the Washington line a
of practical and highly
Otherwise it
account for the
reached
There is in
strong strain
successful business men,
would be impossi
manner in whicl
out beyond his
tandowner to greater enterprises;
how eventually he became the
practical tarnsportation man in
United States,
Washington, of course, was a
owner. That is, his prime business
was to run landed estates. It was a
declining business when he took it up,
when by the death of his father and
then of his two brothers he came into
possession of very large properties, in-
cluding the Mount Vernon estate and
it plantations. Al
ile to
Was!
immediate field as a
and
first
the
ington
land-
a number of adjacen
together he had 9.000 acres of land,
pretty much in one body along the
Potomae, including Mount Vernon,
That land he carried on as a busi
ness enterprise, as you would do if
you were charged with such a respon-
gibility. to make 9000 acres of land
pay if you could. He was the first
Virginian to see that tobacco
played out because the land was sworn
out: that the land would not stand
the pressure of continted tobacco
crops. So he turned to the culture of
wheat. He built a mill to utilize that
wheat and he sent it to market, He
bad his own brand,
Kept Accounts Faithfully,
According to the customs of the time,
he put up a distillery In order to make
a different disposition of a part of bis
product. That is to say, Washington
gought all the different kinds of agri
culture that could be maintained on
his farm He ralsed blooded stock
of a superior kind. The king of Spain
made him a present of a very valuable
jack, and he raised mules and appar-
ently raised them to advantage.
Furthermore, Washington was a
natural accountant, and the proof is In
his diaries and in his account books.
Almost the last thing that he put on
paper was a little bit of bookkeeping.
He kept his records In a clear, legible
hand. He kept them according to the
customs of the times. That Is, he re
corded whatever went on, His diaries
have been published in four volumes
but they tell you nothing of what
Washington thought. He put down
not what he thought but what he did,
who his visitors were, If he went to
vhureh or stayed at home, That Is,
he kept a record to which he could
refer to show very nearly where he
was every day and what he was do
ing.
He was an analytic bookkeeper, and
1 suspect one of the first In America.
Hence we find his accounts very care
fully subdivided. We find an account
for each plantation, a general account,
how much he gained out of wheat,
how much from tobacco, how many
slaves he had, what the expense had
been, and so on, He had that inex.
tinguishable love of figures that af
fects some men.
Even Gambling Losses Listed,
Washington loved to keep books.
One of his blographers has calculated
his losses in gaming. He lost 75
pounds in a year, and he kept the ac
wns
count and added it up. But the blog-
rapher fails to notice that on the oth-
er side of the page Washington put
down his winnings, His winnings were
70 pounds, That is, he was 5 pounds
to the good, because, after all, he had
the fun of it and the fun must have
been worth at least 10 pounds.
Washington constantly increased his
holdings. He was a scientific agricul-
turalist, There is In existence an in-
teresting correspondence between
Washington and a man named Blox-
ham, whom he {imported from England
to be the manager of hi We
have a letter from Bloxham telling
what he thought of George Washing
ton, and almost on the same day a
letter from Washingto lling what
he thought of Bl am, not
plimentary on either side,
came to understand
lived and
ton's service,
Washington
cultural im
is estate.
very
but they
each other and
died In Washin
COin~
Bloxham
agri
ts he could hear of,
He was in correspondence with Arthur
Young in England, a great reformer in
such matters. He introduced seeds, he
planted cuttings, he raised trees and
shrubs. He was a creative farmer, At
least he made a living out of the farm,
and left it much more valuable than
he found it.
imported the hest
plemen
Found Joy as Surveyor,
Again, Washington
by profession. He
knows it-—at sixteen years of age In
the emplos, of his neighbor and life
long friend, Lord Fairfax, to go out
and ms We have copies of
those surveys, have
he made, and the
Wis a
began-~everybody
surveyor
ike surveys
the original
original
or two before he
surveying a bit of
idle the sur-
loved the ex-
drawings
Only a
died he
plats, day
was out
property. He loved to he
eying instruments, He
aciness of the science,
FIRST INAUGURATION
Washington receiving the plaudits of the
crowd after the inauguration as the first
President of the United States.
Spirit of Washington
Worthy of Emulation
Even though we may find it neces.
ary in certain particulars to modify
the advice which Washington gave his
country a century and a half ago-—us,
doubtless, he himself would modify it
were he here today facing the world
as it is—there is In the spirit of Wash.
ington as a citizen and patriot noth-
ing that we could wish to alter.
On the contrary we could ask noth.
ing better for America than a revival
of that spirit,
fcanism,
thing bigger and finer than an oppor
tunity for material success; he saw It
as a spiritual adventure, a great ex.
periment in human relations and in the
development of human values, It was
his appreciation of this phase of
American possibility which Inspired his
pride and devotion.—Chicago Post.
It is costomary to think of Washing.
ton only as soldier or statesman. But
As visitors to the Pan-American building see
way and the well-planned gardens afford an
attractive view of the great marble obelisk,
completed in 1885 and dedicated to the memo
ory of the nation's first President,
Washington's Fame
Secure for Ever
Strangely we American people have
no nationally blished holiday. The
anniversary of the Declaration of In-
dependence, even, has not been gold-
lettered in our calendar, But its date
and that of the birth date of George
Washington have, by the common ac-
tion of all the states and possessions,
become
estn
the elect days of our jubila-
tion and our reverence,
This is the one hundred and ninety-
th anniversary of the birt
Washir mn, nown to
the “Fatl His Cou
war, first
hearts of his
There Is 1
eigh h of our
world as
first In
1 the
ntrymen I”
name in
receives so
and
cou
the
much
titude of
10 other
gra
name of Je SUS
and honored, because it
as divine,
The tions of congress, when
Washington died, sald “ancient and
modern names are diminished before
him.” Hamilton declared that “the
volee of praise would in vain endeav-
or to exalt the name unrivaled in the
lists of true gl wy. and Lord Bryce,
the modern English appraiser of Amer
jean history, said “his fame belongs
to the history of the world I" The most
eloquent Irishman, Curran, ared
that “no country can claim him; no
age appropr him. The boom of
Provide human his
fame is eternity and his residence cre-
ation!”
What wonder, then, that today we
turn our own and our children's eyes
to the immortal figure of Washington!
is worshiped
i
resolu
dec!
inte
nee to the race,
HISTORIC HOUSE
When the final battle of the American Revo.
lution was fought at Yorktown, George Wash.
ington occupied this house in Williamsburg,
Va. as his headquarters. The house recently
D. Rockefeller, Jr., to rebuild the colonial town
After all, 198 years is a very short
time according to historical reckoning.
Many a longer period has been swallowed
up in oblivien with scarcely a ripple of
recorded achisvement, but consider, W
you can, what amazing, revolutionary
and multitudineus things have been con.
summated in our country since Wash.
ington's birth. Miracles far greater than
the fab'ed magic of ancient peoples have
begotten almost an entirely new clviliza-
tion.
And yet through all this transition,
the work of Washington, even to the
manual labor of his bands, has weathered
every test of changing times and condi.
tions. And he stands enshrined today,
as in his day, “First in the Hearts of his
Countrymen.”
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Lock of Washington's Hair
A gold breast pin with a heavy
glass frout protecting a lock of sandy
hair in which strands of gray are
mingled, has been presented to the
museum of the city of New York by
the great-great-grandson of Hamilton
Fish, The lock was clipped from Wash-
ington's head eight years before he
became President and presented to
Wish, as the inscription on the back of
the pin indicates, . . . Those days
great men were taken more serlonsly
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