5 1 Iran DAVY oo mR 1 1 1 The Alamo By ELMO SCOTT WATSON f F FULL century has passed since he, a typical “rough-and-ready” fron- tiersman, was being llonized In half a dozen eastern cities as the most-talked-of American of his day; it has been 08 years since he died magnificently, in a manner that was a fitting climax To Disguise the Taste of Milk Beverage May Quickly Be Flavored for Those Who Desire It. Milk, the natural nourishment for babies, continues to be an Important part of thelr diet for several years, and is used io one form or another during all the years of a life, Most children like to drink milk, but occa. slonally & child is found who actually dislikes the taste of it, that the child was forced to drink| it when his appetite was and ever after, the memory of that] time presents itself, when a glass of milk is set him. 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Down in Texas they are getting ready to cele- brate, two years hence, the centennial of Texan independence from Mexico and during that cele bration the dominant figure in memory will be, of course, Sam Houston, the George Washington of the Revolution of 1838 and the first president of the Lone Star republic. But there will also be occasion to “Remember the Alamo!” and to re call again the names of its herole Bowie and Bonham and Travis and, Davy Crockett. For in the minds of most Davy Crockett is the apotheosis of the Alamo and he defenders— most of all, Americans is second only to Sam Houston as the most mem- orable figure In the fight by Texas for freedom from Mexico. Why? Perhaps the best explanation ean be found In the bogk “Davy Crockett” by Constance Rourke, p shed recently by Harcourt, Brace and com- pany. In the foreword to this volume, the auth- Or Says: “When a country is young it discovers its heroes, and these are not always leaders in bat. tle. They may only be men who have had the adventures others long for. They may show ad. mired traits, or strange ones. They may talk or laugh in a fashlon which others enjoy. Always stories are told about them, “Davy Crockett knew wild life as few have known it, and he became the most noted hunter of his time. Even when he was an obscure back. woodsman comical tales and high talk could be heard about him, and his own humor had fame among the people of his region. When he emerged from the wilderness and appeared In the East as congressman, he suddenly seemed to the popular imagination all that had been known or guessed about life In the western woods or on the western waters. There was truth in this; even In the most soaring of the many tall tales about Crockett there was truth. “About no single American figure have so many legends clustered. After Crockett’'s death whole eycies of legendary tales were told about him that form a rich outflowering of the American imagination, n In those words is a definite clue to the reason why the figure of Davy Crockett is still green in the memory of his fellow-Americans though a hundred years have passed since he stopped living and laughing his way Into the hearts of a people. The fact that he “had adventures others long for” is not enough to guarantee his immor- tality. Daniel Boone had those adventures. He also could “show admired tralts” And these, taken together, were enough to make him the outstanding symbol of ploneer life, of the Amer fean frontier. But Davy Crockett had something also which Boone had not—that gift of humor which gave him “fame among the people of his region"—a fame that soon spread to other re gions as well. He was both a teller of "tall tales” and an actor in them. So the legends began to cluster about his name, for frontier America loved its “whoppers” And, for that matter, becanse this so-called “modern” America is still so near to the frontier phase of its na- tional life, It still loves them. Perhaps another reason why this fact-and- fiction hero, Davy Crockett, ig still such a vivid figure in our national consclousness is because of two words which we associate with him: “Go ahead!” We Americans love mottces, slogans, catchwords and all such things. Almost all of our popular heroes have tagged to them some phrase that has become historic. Repeat the words of that phrase and Instantly the figure of the man who uttered them rises in the mind of the hearer, So Davy Crockett, unconsciously perhaps, was guaranteeing his immortality when he adopted as his motto “Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.” It was a particularly apt motto for his time. In Crockett's day America, and partie ularly the ' American frontlersman, was “going ahead.” He had but recently surged over the barrier of the Alleghanies. He was engaged in the conquest of the great interior basin of North America, the Mississippl valley, He was already gazing longingly across the Father of Waters to- ward the western plains and another huge bar rier, the Rockies. Lewls and Clark had proved that that barrier could be sealed, go nothing less And he was sure of his rightness in doing all this, The mere fact that the original Inhabitants of all this country, the Indian, opposed him wasn't enough to change that bellef. From that period of our history dates our “Indian policy” of taking the red man's land by any mcans, fair treaties made only to be broken and of “Indian — on —— Notes on the pictures: Photograph of the Alamo and portrait of Crockett, courtesy Howard C. Smith, San Antonio, Texas. “Davy Brings Home a Turkey” and “Davy in School,” draw. ings by Capt. John W, Thomason, Jr, U. 8. M. C,, in “The Adventures of Davy Crockett,” courtesy Charles Scribrier’s Sons, “Remember the Alamo!” drawing by James MacDonald In “Davy Crock. ett,” courtesy Harcourt, Brace and Company; “Colonel Crockett Beat at a Shooting Match” an old wood-cut reproduced In Blair and Meine's “Mike Fink: King of Mississippi Keelboatmen,” courtesy Henry Holt and Company. & ? wars” which seem always to have "broken out” just after the white man had discovered another bit of particularly desirable country. If Davy's motto was an apt one for his times, it seems to be equally so for the America of to. day, even though we may have lost sight of Its true meaning. For a belief, amounting almost to a certalnty, in the rightness of our country in all things seems to be an essential part of the American credo, We like to think that we are the greatest nation on earth, that we have “gone ahead” of every other nation. We have trans. lated Davy’'s “go ahead” Into “get ahead” and that we have done—sometimes as ruthlessly as did the frontlersmen of his time. But whether we have interpreted his motto wrongly or right. iy, the fact that he gave it to us and that we as- soclate the admonition In it with his name Is perhaps another reason why he Is so well re. membered. When did Crockett first use this motto? Miss Rourke In her book dates it from shortly after the close of the War of 1812. Crockett, home from service under Jackson against the Creeks, had settled on new land near Shoal creek In western Tennessee, It was wild country with dangerous characters, both red and white, roam. ing through it. A regiment of militia was organ- fzed by the settlers and Crockeit was elected colonel, A little later they decided to set up a form of loeal government and urged Davy to ac cept the position of magistrate. Says Miss Rourke: “Finding that he would be obliged not only to write his name but to make out warrants and keep a record of his proceedings, Crockett began to read whatever he could find and to practice the art of handwriting, This was slow work, but he made progress, It was at this time that he began to inscribe a motto at the end of docu- ments, ‘Be always sure you're right, then go ahead.” Having proved his ability as a local magls trate, Crockett was next prevailed npon to be come a candidate for the Tennessee state legis. lature. He was elected, Next they sent him to congress. And it is In regard to his career there that this new blography brings out a part of the significance of Davy Crockett in American his tory that other biographers seem to have missed, Commenting on his role as the champion of the settlers as against the speculators, In what was then the West, Miss Rourke says: “Crockett achieved a homely statesmanship, fis bill dealing with this question was carefully thought out and well phrased, and he supported | i Davy in School it with a wealth of ready argument. + + was an important ment of his to another measure bearing on the bill was defeated, as game question, |, . ders thinker places, be- head and shou above the of his time, even above many in high fundamental principle average cause of his grasp of a and his will lost, but it was a great Thus it may be seen that Davy Crockett was gomething more than a gi Rohit ¢ ie ngness to fght for iL cause” shaping the beginnings of our democracy. parently were aniso blind to his true worth, nied him reelection In 1531, more than before he became an outstanding fig- ure in congress, anti-Jackson man and an’ Increasingly danger Presidency to Martin Van Buren when Hickory™ should retire from the White House. then through Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. President. Then came the anti-climax, his enemies were busy, The full strength of the Jacksonian partisans in Tennessee was feated by a narrow margin, hunting and farming. . . . decision. I'm going to Texas' he said.” It was his last journey. The end of it 1s one of the classics In American heroism, In the eple drama of the Alamo, as elsewhere back along the trall of his life, Davy Crockett held the center of the stage. “In the wild confusion Crockett seems to have been everywhere at once,” writes Miss Rourke. "A story was told afterward that as he leveled and fired his famous ‘Betsey’ he sang Invitingly to the Mexicans: ‘Won't you come into my bower? This would have been like him; perhaps he was heard singing this gong in the earlier days of the siege. But when the final attack began there would. have been no time for song, nor could any tune have Leen heard in the terrific din” The Mexicans could kill Davy Crockett, the man, but they couldn't kill Davy Crockett, the hero, half man and half myth. “Stories about Crockett are still told In Kentucky and Ten. nessee and in the Ozark mountains” says Miss Rourke. “Even now people In the Ozarks talk about him as though he were still living just over the next ridge.” The other day a newspaper book reviewer be gan an article thus: “Twice In two weeks Davy Crockett crashes through, once In his own story, once In this brilliant blography by Constance Rourke.” The reference to “his own story” Is te the fact that Charles Scribner's Sons had lssued “The Adventures of Davy Crockett: Told Mostly by Himself,” which Includes Davy's Autoblog. raphy,” first published In 1834, and his “Texas Exploits and Adventures,” first published In 1886, in It Davy Crockett speaks from his unmarked grave In the “Thermopylae of America” Out from between the covers of these two books steps the typleal American frontlersman. 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