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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
T HAS become almost
axiomatic that genius
does not transmit itself
and that the sons of
great men rarely, if ever,
turn out to be great.
Certainly that has been
as true in America as in
other nations, although
we have had a few fam-
ilies which, over a period
of years, have contributed several in
dividuals of distinction. Two of thesg
which come readiest to mind are the
Lees, who during the Revolution pro-
duced a statesman and a soldier,
of more than ordinary ability,
ing the Civil war a really great mil
Itary leader; and the Harrisons, who
produced a Revolutionary war states
man and twe Presidents,
both
and dur
« But if it is necessary to find an ex
ception to prove the rule it may be
found, perhaps, in the statement made
by some one that “American history is
all cluttered up with Adamses.” Fer
*in America there is one family, and
only one, that generation after genera-
tion has consistently and without Tn-
terruption, made contributions of the
highest order to our history and clvi-
lization." Those are the words of
James Truslow Adams (who, by the
way, Is a Virginia Adams and not re-
lated to the Massachusetts family of
whom he writes) In the prologue to
his book, “The Adams Family,” pub-
lished recently by Little, Brown and
company of Boston.
The Adams family was established in
America about 1636 when a certain
Henry Adams, probably because of a
combination of religious and economic
reasons, decided to leave England and
try his luck In the New world. By
chance he settled at a place called
Braintree in Massachusetts. He mar-
ried and had children, who In turn
married and handed down the family
name. This went on for four gener-
ations without producing any man of
distinction until we come to John
Adams, a farmer and shoemaker in
Braintree married Susanna Boylston,
daughter of a family prominent in the
medical history of the «colony.
*With the fifth generation, in the
person of John Adams, historian, pub-
licist, diplomat, President of the Unit.
od States, the family not only sudden-
ly achieves national and international
position, but maintains it in successive
generations for two centuries. Was it
due to some mysterious result from
the combination of Adams and Boyls-
ton blood far beyond the ken of scl-
ence even today ; or to some unfathom-
able synchranism between the peculiar
qualities of the Adamses and the
whole social atmosphere of the next
few generations, a subtle interplay of
unknown forces; or to mere chance in
a universe im which atoms rush and
collide chaotically? Fascinating as is
the problem, #t is Insoluble. All we
shall see is that without warning, like
a ‘fault’ In the geologic record, there
is a sudden and Immense rise recorded
in the psychical energy of the family.”
The stare was set for the first great
Adams, John, to play his part in
American history when the dispute be-
tween England and her rebellious col-
onles sent him to the Continental con-
gresses, where clear heads were head
ed to see that independence was in-
evitable and union of the colonies es
sential, While most Americans chink
of the Revolution mainly in terms of
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
Benjamin Franklin and a few others
of spectacular deeds, the true history
of those times could not be writien
without the name of John Adams. It
was he who had much to do with
bringing congress to the point of de
claring independence; his was the
master stroke which cansed the adop-
tion of the New England troops around
Poston as a Continental army and
which checkmated intercolonial jeal-
ousies by placing George Washington,
a Virginian, In command; he deserves
the principal credit for establishing
the American navy, and he furnished
many of the political ideas on which
the new nation based its government.
| The International ecarcer of the
Adamses began when John Adams was
sent to France as one of the American
commissioners—his son, John Quincy
Adams, going with him to begin his
education in European schools, and
after a brief stay there and a brief
return to this country he went back
to England as one of the commission.
ers to arrange the terms of the treaty
of peace and later to become Ameri
can minister at the Court of St, James,
His career as vice president and final
ly as President completes the pattern
of the life of this first great Adams,
In John Quincy Adams. the second
generation Kept up the standard set
by the first and even advanced it. Be
fore he was seventeen years of age he
was private secretary to the minister
to Russia and to his own father In
Paris and in London. On his twenty
seventh birthday, after his graduation
from Harvard, President Washington
sent him. as minister ‘to The Hague
and later to Portugal, Prussia and
Russia. Then followed a term of
teaching at Harvard but he was soon
called back to public service on the
peace commission of 1815. Next he
emulated his father by becoming min.
ister to England and came home in
1817 to serve President Monroe as sec
retary of state,
John Quincd Adams was a master
diplomat, having learned his lessons
in the European school of interna.
tional relations, He brought Spain to
terms in Florida and his conciliatory
actions offset the rash deeds of Jack.
gon without blunting the force of the
American policy. To him, according
to Historian Adams, belongs most of
the credit for the Monroe doetrine,
though it has come down in history
bearing the name of the Virginia Pres.
dient, Like his father he failed of re
election to the Presidency, but his
great years came during his service as
congressman from the Plymouth dis
trict when he stood almost alone in
defense of constitutional government
during the period of the slavery dis
pute, Finally he died at his desk,
worn out in the service of the republic
The thind generation of Adamses did
not produce another President. but it
did keep up the family tradition of
diplomatic service to the nation, and
if there were any way to evaluate
comparative worth of national and in.
ternational service it might show that
the contribution of Charles Francis
Adams was Just as great as were
those of John and John Quincy. Orig.
inally a Democrat, he turned Whig in
defense of freedom and union, After
2 career as editor and congressman,
his great opportunity came when Lin-
coln and Seward sent him to the post
his father and his grandfather had
held—minister to England. There he
successfully checkmated the Confed-
erate attempts to secure recognition,
and when his firmness forced Lord
Russell to forbid the English-bullt
rams to leave the shipyards for Con
federate service, he sealed the doom
of the southern cause. And as a mem-
ber of the Alabama claims commis
sion his conciliatory spirit tempered
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SEURETARY. ar THE DAVY.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAILS
of his
Britain of
the excessive demands col
leagues, convinced Great
the fairness of the American
and won a just settlement,
for the facet that the Adams
wus senttered among four sons, which
one is so outstanding as had heen rep
resentatives in the previous genera
tfons. Only one, John Quincey, turmed
to politica acd he, having chosen the
unpopular Democratic party, had little
chance to rise to prominence. Charles
Francis was first a writer and then »
business man. He became president
of the Kansas City Stockyards
ciation and later president of the
Unign Pacific. railroad.. He Jed his
state in railway regulation, but he was
never very well satisfied as a business
man and later returned to writing
Perhaps the greatest of the four was
Henry Adams who won his distinction
in the field of literature. Lis hook.
“The Education of Henry Adams.”
been called “the most thought-provok
ing autobiography, though it was not
so Intended, that American has pro
duced.” Nearly as famous Is
“Mont St. Michel and Chartres”
Brooks Adams dabbled In law and in
writing history without making any
profound impression upon either,
In his “Epilogue,” the Adams his
torian carries the record of this re
markable American family down to the
present when he writes:
“On September 20, 1824,
Quiney Adams wandered among
tombstones of the family burial
fk
John
plot
future of his line. ‘Four generations
of whom very little is known' he
wrote in his diary, ‘than is recorded
upon these stones. There are three
succeeding generations of us now liv.
ing. Pass another century and
shall all be mouldering In the same
dust, or resolved into the same ele
ments. Who then of our posterity
ghall vigit this yard? And what shall
he read engraved upon the stones?
This is known only to the Creator of
all. The record may be longer, May
it be of blameless lives!’
“The century has passed. We have
goon the generations, and today a
third Charles Francis, a son of Jolin
Quincy's grandson, John Quincy, Is
head of the family, A Harvard grad.
uate, like all his family since John ; for
thirty years treasurer of the unives
sity; a lawyer, like all his family; a
famous yachtman who defended the
American cup against the British; a
man true to the family tradition and
honored in his community, he sits In
the cabinet at Washington ns secretary
of, the navy which was founded by
John,
“Jom Quincy's wistful hope has
been fulfilled: *The record msy be
longer.’ ”
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Cleanliness Should Be
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That expre
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sion by Theodore Roose-
farseeing American
also have been likened to the
crusades of history,
This is a crusade of personal self-
respect, of civic and
pride, and of the desire to make
world,
the world, a better place
live,
These enmpaigns help not
“clean up,” but to publicly
manently commit to
attractiveness everything cleaned
The mere cleaning is transient
futile without this public
to the new order of
being “clothed in the
eousness.” as it were,
dress, of grass, or
garden, or paint, the
inspire the respect of
it will not
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American ideals Based
on Atmosphere of Home
The very
is created in the home, In the
velopment of character and mind in
growing boys and girls it Is of far
greater significance than even the
school, In the creation of a stable,
sensible electorate hat will keep our
democracy functioning on n
ful basis it means far more
laws or governmental
reforms. The
ownership and
general being of
epitomized in the
will fight for a
a boarding
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BUCCesR-
than new
und economic
significance of home
the
the ecotintry is
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ment, schooling that
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«pell progress spiritually as well
as financially. — Lebanon Reporter,
War on “Uglification”
The Divi campaign
disfigurement of the
constructive
has
large
of Leicester
tish the
colniniFide has
against
reached =» stuge., The
movement
recently a
at the city
action taken to check,
late, the transformation of the famed
joveliness of rural England inte sheer
become so strong that
held
and vigorous
convention wus
before It ix too
hideousness,
A similar problem exists in the
United States, but here distress and
indignation have assumed no concrete
form and ure, therefore, mostly inef.
fective. England has beautiful old
ness, we have beautiful newness,
both alike have been outraged by
spirit of this machine age which hus
no time to consider the esthetic
of any problem and which will scarce
Iy admit that such a side even exists
sirtle
Better. Hous Movement
The movement for hetter homes In
America was Inspired and developed
under the personal leadership of "res
ident Hoover, who still serves ns lis
honorary chairman, The coontriba
tions which the thousands of
commitiees nre making
tn civie wel
improvement, their demonstrations of
the better types of home design and
furnishing, and their campaigns for
neighborhood protection and develop
ment are the product of much thought
ful planning and disinterested
community leaders, the professions
and the educational groups through
out the country.
Landscape Gardening
The right kind of lundscape effects
are not the result of haphazard piant.
nmnteur gardener,
Careful study will reveal the fact
be mude attractive with
year, in moderate climes, if the plant
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The more hardy plants will bloom
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throughout the winter hy the ludicious
addition of 8 few evergreens!
Oregon's Clean-Up Day
Boy scouts, school children, mem
bers of service clubs and other civic
organizations of Oregon left ordinary
pursuits for a day, May 10, and turned
out to help clean up highways of the
state.
This day, sponsored hy the State
Federation of Garden Clubs, was pro
claimed by Gov, A. W, Norbiad as
highway cleanup day and offered =n
opportunity to publicspirited citizens
to get cut and do their bit for the
state.
Give Thought to Planning
The most Important part of the
building of a home Is often nccom.
plished before the spade is set Inte
the earth, Its economy, comfort and
convenience are dependent mainly
upon the care and thought devoted
to the plan. The wellplinned house
is a joy to live In and the poorly
planned one is costly and a conting-
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One co-operative of fruit growers ;
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