Fortune
Never Made
»
Thomas J. Wertenbaker
in Carvent Mistory
INE of the recent biographers
go just and true a picture of
the man that drawn
Tefferson than a cen
tury ago.
“} think 1 Knew
Washington In
as
more
General
mately
thoroughly,” he said. "His mind was
great and powerful, without bel
the very first penet
strong, though not go acute as that of
a Newton, Bacon or Locke, and, as far
as he no Ju was ever
sounder. It was slow
little aided by Invention or im
agination, but sure In
Hence the common remark of his offi
cers, of the advantage he derived fron
il war, where hearing all
tions, he selected whatever was
order : his
saw,
lzment
in operation.
being
conclusion
of
personal dangers with the calmest
unconcern. Perhaps the strongest fea
ture in his character was prudence,
never acting until every circumstance,
was
consideration, maturel
Hearing All Suggestions, He Selected
Whatever Was Best,
weighed ; refraining if he saw a doubt
but, when once decided, going through
with his purpose, whatever obstacles
opposed. . . .
“He was, indeed, In every sense of
the words, a wise, a good and a great
man. His temper was naturally irri
table and high-toned, but reflection
and resolution had obtained a firm
and habitual ascendency over it,
“His heart was pot warm in its af-
fections, but he exactly calculated ev
ery man’s value and gave him a solid
esteem proportioned to It. , , , It
may truly be sald that never did na
ture and fortune combine more per
fectly to make a great man and to
place him In the same constellation
with whatever worthies have merited
from man everlasting remembrance.”
After all has been sald, It was
Washington's character which was su
premely great, which was responsible
for the greatness of his achievements.
In the Revolution It was the trust in
Washington which held together a
faltering and discouraged people,
which tided the country over the dark:
est hours, which was responsible for
the eventful victory.
After peace had been won It was
this trust in Washington which made
it possible for a disunited people to
attain enduring strength and unity.
There have been greater generals than
Washington, greatér statesmen; there
has been no greater character, When
the writings of his detractors have
passed into obscurity his memory will
remain. what it has always been, a
sacred legacy to the American people.
WASHINGTON’S FAMILY
George Washington's mother was
Mary Ball, said to have been a
lineal descendant from John Ball,
medieval champion of the rights of
man. Her mother was Mary Mon-
tague, who, as “the widow John.
son,” was married to Colonel
Joseph Ball. Her grandfather was
Colonel William Ball, who emi-
grated to Virginia in 1650, and set-
tled in Lancaster county. George
Washington's father was Augustine
Washington, the grandson of Law-
ence Washington and the great.
grandson of John Washington, who
came from England about 1650 and
settled in Westmoreland county,
Virginia. The English ancestry has
been traced back through Lauren.
tia Washington, father of Lawrence,
several generations to the Sulgrave
branch of the family.
Lord Cornwallis’ Army
Disorderly on Surrender
At the surrender of Lord Cornwallis
his Dritish soldiers presented a bril-
ant contrast to the Americans,
had ordered that & new uni
form be issued to each man and that
3 anrohine
n marciing
Corn
wallis
out of the spacious field
it Yorktown each company conduct it
self In strictest order, even to the hu
end when the arms were
be grounded.
miliating to
Doctor Thatcher, a sur
geon in Washington's ariny, who gave
surrender
wrote of that
1 complete ficeoint of the
in his journal,
19, 1781:
“But in
ked a «
October
their line of march we re
lisorderly and unsoldierly
conduct ; their step was Irregular and
their ranks frequently broken lut
it was t act the drama
that the spirit and pride the Brit.
ish soldiers were put to the severest
test—here their mortification could
not be concealed
toon officers appeared to be exceed.
ingly chagrined when giving the
word, ‘Ground arms’ and I am wit.
ness that they performed that duty
in a very unofficerlike manner,
that many of the soldiers manifested
a sullen temper, throwing their arms
on the pile with violence, as
termined to render them useless.
This irregularity was checked by or
der of General Lincoln” {The lat.
ter had been delegated by Washing.
in the las of
of
capitulation.) “The Americans” Doe.
in oniform, nor their dress so neat,
yet exhibited an erect
and every countenance beamed
satisfaction and joy.”
Washington Memorial
National Carillon
The photo shows the Star Spangled
Banner national peace chimes, known
as the Washington Memorial National
Carillon=first large American carillon
made in America by American bell.
makers. On the extreme right is the
latest addition to the shrine being in-
WASHINGTON CROSSES
the DELAWARE
( December. 1776 )
sy
CLINTON SCOLLARD
AAT night upon the Delaware
|
|
blew
As though the legions of despair
Swept the
through.
The Fates and Furies rode the air
That night upon the Delaware.
The ice-pack gnawed the sodden banks,
Sundered and rocked the middle
stream;
There ran a murmuring through the
ranks
As at some dread, foreboding dream.
Amid the crunch of splintering planks
The trees seemed wan and wizened
ghosts,
And groped the mists with shriveled
hands;
The massing of those tattered bands.
The trees seemed wan and wizened
ghosts.
Yet valorous their victory
That gray and grim December dawn;
Burned in his breast who led them
on!
For us, and for futurity,
How valorous their victory!
~New York American.
Internal Dissension an
Annoyance to Washington
On August 23 1702, President
Washington wrote a loug letter to
Thomas Jeffer ry of
state, dealing intrigues
several
sa elet
we added
sor Nis secretin
with certain
« thes 4
“How unfortunate and how much
to be regretied is it then, that, while
we are encompassed on all sie
avowed enemies d Insidious fr
internal dissensions should be harrow.
in our vitals”
i that
which then was rears
thie fi our
and tearing
gai] the fear HE politic
g its head for
history, would
vty
ry
y and wreck the Union
Three days later he wrote
ander Har 0,
treasury, pointing out the destruc
ter of party
to Alex
his secretary of the
tive
If Hisar
feelings;
{ tra
“Differences in political epinions are
as unavoidable as, to a cert
they may perhaps be necessary |
to be
resretied that
he i
with
Ong
it is exceedingly
sithiects cannos jase}
the
to
tives which
or decis
one hand
without having the mo
led to them
implicated on the other;
improperly
and
eret borders on chagrin when we find
of renlous patel
eral oblect in
ght
not
+ on the opine
this re
that men ahilities
ote having the same ger
view and the intent
io prosecute eXere od
more charity in dex
ns of one another™
for this ads wna
Hamilton afid Jefferson
Bankers
fons and ascth
The
the fact
had
Journal,
OC oe
that
disagreed American
nian
Washington Statuette
Presented by Austria
fashioned of Austrian
which was presented to
President Hoover recently as a gift
Washington Was One of
Country’s Richest Men
George Washington accumulated lit.
tle of his wealth himself, He was a
planter, whose estates came to him
chiefly through others. His great.
grandfather developed a large area of
land. His parents opened a consider.
able tract on the Rappahannock. By
the time of George's birth the Wash.
ingtons owned much of the land In the
peninsula between the Potomac and
the Rappahannock. Mount Vernon
and its surroundings became his upon
the death of his half-brother, Law-
rence, In 1752. Martha Washington,
wealthy In her own right, and the
widow of a wealthy planter, brought
her husband additional lands. Own.
ing 70,000 acres in Virginia (and after
the Revolution 40000 aeres In the
West, which congress gave him for his
services), General Washington was In
his day one of the richest men In the
country.
HALL, PA.
See Wheat Immune
From Rust Injury
Experiments by Specialists
Indicate Old Trouble
Is Inherited.
Prepared by United States Department of
Agricuiture,~WNU Bervice.
Wheat breeders of the department
ar¢ a step nearer their goal of pro
Several years of Intensive experl- |
ments by department workers at the
Northern Great Plains Field station as
Mandan and the Langdon substation
at Langdon, N, D,, proved almost con-
clusively that near immunity from |
stem rust is a plant character definite. |
ly inherited In wheat crosses,
The recent results were reported by
J. Allen Clark and H. B. Humphrey
of the division of cereal crops and dis
eases at the annual meeting of the
Amerie Society of Agronomy held
in Washington,
This principle is significant both for
breeders and wheat farmers
The breeders are convinced that there
is such a
from rust
i
character as near-lmmunity
is Inherited
In ad manner than the char
acter of resistance, They have a long
wiuy to go before they can breed this
neardmmunity in all ]
farmers, for they must cross near-im
mune varieties with resistant and sug
that all the other
characters such as high yield,
in wheat, whic
ferent
wheat sown
ceptible ones have
desirable
y
good mill
sistance
and b 1
weather,
rust Howeve
near
and not
condition
ng
to hot drot
other than
that
mere
is of
aracter,
in wheat im
mportance
provement
“iments to produce
In the early
rust resistor breeders crossed
eom i
the
thoy er
ward near
at
nerntion, ah
factor for
rquis and re
! dominant factor o
{ lity, that H-44 carries
these dominant
resistant
double recessives
factors, and that the
cores is represented by the
Only Beginning Is Made
in Developing Soybeans
Only a beginning has been made in
the ful
that
111 possibilities of the
0 visio
crop which
one
savhean, versatile
londollar
had a
million
for Illinois farmers and which
value of almost seven
dollars in 1020 to a bulletin,
and Breeding In the Im
provement of the Soybean” issued by
wtation of the college
Unis of Ti
Woodworth, chief in plant
according
ersity OiR
C. M
agricultural experiment station, is an.
thor of the bulletin,
The 1931 INinois
The bulletin brings together the es
gontial Information on soybean ge
discengses the principles of breeding
im-
with a view to Improving
the crop In certain special features
Inbreeding
Results of a ten-year experiment on
the College of Agrienlture farm nat
Davis, Calif, appear to indicate that
Inbreeding In hogs did not lessen the
vigor or the size of litters. Experi.
ments elsewhere Lave seemed to show |
loss of vigor, but this has not been |
the ease nt Davi The experiment |
will be continued In the hope of secur.
ing more information on the subject,
For Sproutless Potatoes |
It has recently been found that if
apples are stored in the same room
with potatoes, that the potatoes will |
he kept from sprouting. Evidently
there Is something In the apples that
makes potatoes keep bettef. The win.
ter varieties of apples such as Wine
sap, Niack Twig or Ben Davis ean he
kept until spring, providing the apples
were In good condition when picked.
If the supply Is not too large. wrap
ping In paper will help preserve the
apples,
EDDIE, THE AD MAN
AKE HICKELBERRY, ONE
OF OUR BESY WANT AD
CUSTOMERS, WRITES," TAKE
OUT my "HOMEY FOR SALE" AD,
AS MY BEES ARE WORKING
NIGHTS, AND ARE OM “THE
VERGE OF A NERVOUS
BREAKDOWH, TRYING TO FiLL
THE DEMAND!
Dietetic Expert Urges
Increased Use
It ha
pointed ou
pastoral }
the earth, whe
airy animal
f dair
’
have J
RL
used antities o
prod
excention dis
sidered neces
and prop
Be Considered
know a gr
eat dea
problems
i f n.
Credited
to Richard Arkwright
The two hundredth anniversary of
what the *in-
of which he was
casion for examining
#
Bis claims as an inventor
labor-saving spining and card-
ing machinery were shattered in his
invalid, But there i8 no
that he wns the creator of
production in our sense-—the
who started an avalanche by
rock the industrial
forerunner ail
urgh, Manchester
ed for. With this
literate barber begins the ra-
ut
doubt
down
th
that Essen, Pitt
and Detroit ns
barely
tional
of
[lization of the mn
sense of organization that amounted
to genius, says the New York Times,
mechani
craftsmanship
we now
and women, not
of
iillons
In
Here
thousands
one of whom in make pair
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WHEN SHES
UPSET
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a
tion, heartburn. OF
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Take 1 or 2 Bager
Aspirin Tables. Water.
\
If throat is sore,
crush and dissolve
3 Bayer Aspirin
Tablets in a half
glass of warm water
and gargle occord-
ing to directions.
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chances with “cold killers” and
nostrums. A cold is too dangerous
to take chances on.
The simple method pictured
above is the way doctors through-
out the world now treat colds.
It is recognized as the QUICK-
EST, safest, surest way. For it will
check an ordinary cold almost as
fast as you caught it.
That is because the real BAYER
Aspirin embodies certain medical
qualities that strike at the base of
a cold almost INSTANTLY.
You can combat nearly any cold
you get simply by taking BAYER
Aspirin and drinking plenty of
water every 2 to 4 hours the first
day and 3 or 4 times daily there-
after. If throat is sore, gargle with
3 BAYER Aspirin Tablets crushed
and dissolved in a hall glass of
warm water, repeating every 2 or
3 hours as necessary. Sore throat
eases this way in a few minutes, in-
credible as this may seem.
Ask your doctor about this. And
when you buy, see that you get the
real BAYER Aspirin Tablets. They
dissolve almost instantly. And thus,
work almost instantly when you
take them. And for a gargle, Gen-
uine Bayer Aspirin Tablets dis-
solve with sufficient speed and
completeness, leaving no irritating
particles or grittiness. Get a box of
12 or bottle of 100 at any drug store.