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PATRICK HENRY
by Charles Heck
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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
ECENTLY there were un-
veiled in the Hall of
Fame on the campus of
New York university,
busts of nine great Amer-
jcans. It is a remarkable
fact that of these nine im-
mortals who have thus
takep their places in this
American Valhalla, seven
were natives of the same
state and five of them
were graduates of the
same university. Insofar as
Massachusetts this year is
celebrating its tercentenary and hon-
oring the men who helped add to her
renown as a colony and a state,
ceremony at the New York institution
might properly be regarded as a part
of the tercentenary celebration. For
thosesseven men all sprang from the
soll of the Old Bay state and five of
them were graduated from Harvard!
the
The nine who were thus honored in
this year's ceremony inc two
statesmen, two historians, an author,
a poet, an educator, an Inventor and
a Jurist. Their names and their rec
ords of achievement are as follows:
John Quincy Adams was born In
sraintree, Mass, July 11, 1767. After
graduation fom Harvard ke practiced
law in Massachusetts and first entered
public life in 17904 when President
Washington appointed him minister to
Holland and two years later minister
to Portugal. In 1797 he became min-
ister to Prussia, and at the end of his
career in that post returned to Massa.
chusetts where he was elected to the
state senate in 1802. The next year
he was elected to the United States
senate. President Madison appointed
him minister to Russia in 1809 and
he played an important part in arrang-
ing the treaty of peace which ended
the War of 1812 between Great Brit-
nin and the United States. Adams
was next appointed minister to Eng-
land, and after an absence of eight
years abroad he was called back to
America to serve as secretary of state
under President Monroe.
luded
Adams’ principal achievement as see-
retary of state was the treaty with
Spain, whereby Florida was ceded to
the United States for £5,000000. In
the campaign of 1824 he was elected
President over Andrew Jackson when
the election was thrown into the house
of representativls, but In the election
of 1828 Jackson was the victor.
ever, the ex-President did not long re-
main In private life. In 1831 he was
elected to congress where he remained,
representing the same district of Mass-
nchusetts, until his death in Wash-
Ington February 23, 1848.
George Bancroft, born In Worcester,
Mass., October 3, 1800, was algo a
Harvard graduate. After studying
abroad he selected history as his
special branch and soon became wide-
ly known, both in Europe and Amer-
fean as a historian and teacher. The
first volume of his greatest work,
“History of the United States” was
published in 1834. When James K.
Polk became President he appointed
Bancroft secretary of the navy and
his greatest achievement in this posi-
tion was to win the title of “founder
of the United States Naval academy”
by establishing the training school for
our future sea captains at Ane
napolis, Md. Bancroft died In Wash-
ington, January 17, 1801.
James Fenimore Cooper, born In
Burlington, N. J, September 15, 1780,
was the author who immortalized the
American Indian In his “Leather
stocking Tales,” and whose sea stories
revolutionized the literature of the sea.
One day while reading an English
novel he made a remark which has
become a classic of would-be au.
thors: "I believe I could write a
better story myself.” Encouraged by
his wife, he attempted it, and In 1820
his first novel “Precaution” was pub-
fished anonymously, It attracted some
attention In England and It encour.
aged him to continue his writing, The
result was “The Spy,” published a year
later, and “during the winter of 1821.
22 the American public awoke to the
How-
ATT RYSIELL LOWES Ld
by A Hor Clark
JALTES FENITTORE' COOPER
by Victor Selvatore
fact that it possessed a novelist of its
ied In Cooperstown,
ember 14, 1551.
phrase, me liberty
give me Is synony
the name of Patrick Henry,
tor of the Revolution.” Born at Stud.
Va, May 20, 1738, the future ad-
vocate of freedom was an indolent pu-
pil in school and a failure in business.
jut when he took up the study of law
found himself and soon became
known as one of the most brilliant law-
yers in a state noted for its legal lu-
minaries. By 1763 he had acquired
renown as an orator and this was in-
credsed in the famous “Parso
when he denied the right of the Brit.
ish king to abrogate acts of the co
lonial legislature,
own." Cooper d
N. Y., Sept
One “Give
”»
or
for
“the Ora-
death! mous
ley,
he
n's Case"
Henry was an Influential member of
the Continental congress from 1774 to
1776 and a sigoer of the Declaration
of Independence. In 1776 he was chos-
en governor of Virginia and served un-
til 1779. He sat in the legislature
from 1780 to 1784, again served
governor from 1784 to 1786, and once
more, from 1786 to 1790, was a mem-
ber of the state assembly. He de-
clined to serve In the Constitutional
convention and opposed the ratifica-
tion of the Constitution. Again In
1709 he ran for the legislature and
was elected but died In Charlotte
county, June 6, 1700, before he could
take office.
Elias Howe, Inventor of the sewing
machine, was another Bay State prod-
uct, having been born in Spencer,
Mass, In 1810, In 184345 he ex.
perimented with a lock-stitch sewing
machine and finally perfected it, se-
curing a patent in 1846, For years he
vainly sought recognition of his inven-
tion, both in this country and in Eng-
land, where he sold his rights in 1847
for 50 pounds sterling. While absent
abroad his patent was Infringed upon
by others, but eventually the courts
decided in Howe's favor, and after
years of wretched poverty Howe sud-
denly found himself wealthy, In 1863
he erected a large sewing machine fae-
tory at Bridgeport, Conn., where he
died in 1867.
James Russell Lowell, born In Cam-
bridge, Mass, on February 22, 18190,
was one of the famous groups of writ-
ers which Massachusetts gave to the
nation during the middle half of the
Nineteenth century, and of them all
Lowell was undoubtedly the most ver.
satile. Having been graduated from
Harvard In 1838 he immediately en.
tered the Harvard law school, took his
degree In 1840 and began to practice.
After several years abroad Lowell
returned to become a teacher In Har-
vard and to enter upon an epoch in
his life as a scholar and critic, He
became the first editor of the newly
established Atlantic Monthly In 1857,
resigning in 1861 to become associ
ated with the North American Review
in 1864. He resigned that position in
1872 and again went abroad, where the
famous English colleges of Oxford and
Cambridge conferred degrees upon
as
Wo QLIZTCY. CTA
by Libro 7 Luren
ELIAS HOWE —
Ly Charles Keck
him. In 1877 he was named United
Ptates minister to Baul } and
was transferred to England, returning
to America in 1885 ‘on August 12,
1801, he died in Cambridge.
Horace Ma
Mass, May 4, 170%,
uation from Brown university
a teacher, and then a lawyer,
a member of the Ma
lature from 1827 to
1837 to
born In Fra Mn.
after his gra
becan
He was
sanchuset
1537.
1848 served as pecretary of
the Massachusetts board of education
Mann visited Europe in 1543 and
brought back with for
eign school systems which attracted
wide attention. Due to his effor
school of Massach
entirely reorgar and
model for many other states,
1848 to 1853 Mann served mem
gress, After his term was
president of An
tioch eollege in Ohio and served there
until his death in 1850. History has
preserved his fame as the founder of
the normal school system oun
try and “father” of the American pub
lic school system.
John Lothrop
fame as a historian
country. He was born
Mass, April 15, 1814, and was gradu
ated fom Harvard In 153]. He then
went to Germany to study, and upon
his return to this country studied law,
although literature was more to his
taste, He published an American nov
el in 1830, but it attracted little at.
tention, After a short career at the
American legation in Russia he re
turned to America again to serve a
term in the Massachusetts legislature
After ten years of hard labor, dur
ing which he returned to Europe and
found it necessary to rewrite much of
that which he had already written, he
published his “History of the Dutch
Republic” in 1856 and was immediate.
ly acclaimed both in America and
abroad. Along with these literary
him reports on
system usetts was
ized became a
as ao
ber of con
over he became
in this ¢
Motley won
of a Europear
and from 1861 to 1867 he served as
American minister to Austria, and
from 1860 to 1870 to Great Britain.
Motley died in Dorchester, England,
May 29, 1877.
A statesman, a writer, an educator
and ioventor and two historians-—such
was the contribution of Massachusetts
to the 1030 Hall of Fame ceremonies,
To make it complete, she alse provided
a great jurist—Joseph Story. He was
born at Marblehead, Mass, in 1770.
Harvard graduated him in 1798 and
Salem saw him begin practice as a
lawyer in 1801.
He was elected to congress in 1808
and in 1811 became speaker of the
house, Soon afterwards President
Madison appointed him associate jus-
tice of the Supreme Court of the Unit.
ed States, and during his long career
of 34 years on that high tribunal he
assisted In the development of Amer
ican constitutional law and In fixing
the status of the American admiralty,
patent and equity jurisprudence, He
died In Cambridge in 1845,
mun
p Buildi ding
Town Has Advantages
Walter B. Pitkin ba
prophecy as to the rosy future of
stall town, which he makes in
Household Ma four
I'he healthier conditions
small towns, the realization that
majority of city dwellers are as poor
18 thelr country brethren, the new |
shift of Industry awny from big cities,
and the better opportunities for oc-
upyiog one's leisure in the country.
Small towns, he snys, have sunshine,
julet and freedom from smoke. Out
if every thousand Inhabit of the
slg towns, you cannot find than
:hrea or four who are better off In
their jobs than the people you meet
In Main street or around by the
office. And now comes the new Amer
lean revolution! Industry begins shift
ing to the small towns. No man in his
senses thinks cf starting a factory in
a metropolis nowadays he is
making something which be
made elsewhere, And, fin con.
*ludes Doctor Pitkin, “If you live far
from the clamor of Broadway, you can
pick and choose your leisure pursuits
effectively. And, having picked them,
you can hold to your course with
er distractions. And that, | maintain
is half of happiness, To « do what
like, In the way of exercise, pls
reading, music, inventing, d
what not, without havl
peddlers yelling at
thing else.”
Prof, S08 a
the
the
things:
|
in
the
zine
living
on
ants
niare
poet
unless
few.
you
Development of City
Depends on Planning
It was only ten or
that plann and along
ng, came to be regarded as
iy necessary in the larger cit
this country, It was
that
hazard growth be
fifteen years ago
wi ith it zon
absolute.
ing,
ies of
soon evident
only hy such means could hap
i
replaced by orderly
of rupidiy
lents,
the nec
irens
The desirability of
tion for sohurba
centers Is a
years T prend o his en
indienti he in
which
game pre
and smaller
more recent
terprise
are a
modern
result
ation.
through
: and housing
“Cities having planning
ed to be
exercise
the
of streets,
more §
fores
economy In laying
provement
laygrounds
norte
tioh, provi
use of
Good Citizen Defined
loyalty toward
country. It be
izen who de
in keeping his own premises
up and developed, who co
operates with each worthy cause or
development that promises Improve
Good citizenship is
and
community: who supports his home
who obeys the law,
ain
these conditions, with a similiar
is an example of what
good citizenship.— Ruth
in Grit,
Must Speed Up Planting
During recent years tree planting
stimulus in the
help that
Thirty-two states are now en-
Nevertheless,
nuded lands with reasonable prompt. |
Makes for Civie Good |
Just ns the improvement In the |
home influences the family, the mod-
ernization of a house does a certain
in the last analysis, a city is but |
a collection of homes and anything |
that Improves a part is working for |
the good of the whole. i
Modernizing lifts up a city ont of |
ita ordinary commonplace position and |
transforms it into a live progressive |
community, filled with busy Individ-
uals striving for their betterment.
Be Liberal With Paint
Paint has many virtues, Besides
beautifying your home, it will increase
its sale value and, In fact, the valua-
tion and desirability of the entire
neighborhood.
Particularly applicable In this con
nection is the oft-quoted but very true
Duteh proverb: "Good paint costs
nothing for it saves more than its
cost.”
Fewer, Better Schools
Cook county (Ga) decreased Its
schools from 30 to 11 In less than a
decade, replacing old buildings with
consolidated schools.
Odd Situation Caused
by Old Chinete erin
If winier ing be far
belly a7 The que found an
unusunl answer hy ‘hinese
dent in a Sh i
stu
vEpaper, who
stiles and proves | point
1020 spring actually came on
calendar before New Year's day
The old COC which
wis the 1920, an
nounced of Li-chun,
spring 8 commencement day, on
twenty-fifth day of
which
on the sola
nese New Year di 10 ame
Februar
Since New ar's day Is
that in
the
hinesge ealendar
Iunar cal nr of
i
ori
the
the festival
thie twelfth moon,
wns equivalent February 4
vhiereag Chl
until i
1
generally
considered the comm nent of the
cold
that
endar tal
Guards
Uncle Sam
Animal Feed
who watches over the
food of he nation so careful
gee that * consumer is not chen
is just Har in the character
of the food that {8 shipped for the
population 1
inimal During 1920 ti
were tw enty-s
feed on tl
standard
noarag
a a
FAMILY DOCTOR
MADE MILLIONS OF
FRIENDS
ott
At home
or away
Feen.a-mint is the ideal summertime
laxative, Pleasant and convenient,
Gentle but thorough in its action.
Check summer upsets with Feen-z-
mint at home or away.
INSIST ON
THE GENUIKE
Adventure, Mystery, lates
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AMAZING NEW OPPORTINITY TO
TO $10.000 THIS SUMMER
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astman ke
¥ ‘ an { 4 z
1 $1.4 ! 1s 1. 3. WA
¢ « Ave ' MN. ¥
Drop
Bourbon Fomtery Medicine
sak. Camera. Free, |
Bourbon ty Co. B Box 1 4 , Lexington, My.
When you have decided to get rid of worms,
use Dead Shot.” Dr. Peery's Vermifupe,
One dose will expel — All druggists,
Vermif
Al druggists or 372 Pearl Bircel. New
ob.
stinate cn gently effective for
women and children. Above all, it
represents a doctor's ch
is safe for the bowels,
War « on Bald Eagles
uring the
bald en n
Northwest, Spurred on by the bounty
offered by the gov nt, one dol
lar per
ermen,
bine d
the birds
salmon, smal animals and wile
gles
» War again
do they prey on
fox pups
i
No More
Seotel Women Curli ing
urlin { red a
men have
n an
or ther
vinter. The
jon, the
intest to
h is al
Gem of Thought
is no eredit in knowing how
disgrace in be
point, So there
y doing right, while
io wrong. —-G. F.
Ones Howe Industry
All
ome
nails were «
In the Fifte«
guild o ailsmiths in
riginally made at
nth century there
Augs
urg.
Flit is sold only
in this yellow
can with the
black band,
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and pure,
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