Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-22
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 George Washington was ''mother's boy"
 When he was child his father died, leaving George the eldest of the family.
 From that time until her death Mary Wash ington was the teacher, companion and intimate friend of her son.
 Upon his character she left the imprint of her own. George was in every sense man, but at the great crisis of his career his conduct and de- cisions were eloquent of the mothers influence.
 He was ''mother' s boy"
 John Ball, in England, 30 years before the birth of George Washington in Virginia, met his death on the scaffold for champoning the rights of man under Wat Tyler.
 From John Ball came line of soldiers. But they were champions of the weak rather than lieutenants of royalty. True, they served their king, but when the established order and the sanctity of property and the privilege of the few came into conflict with the natural rights of the many-the common people-the descendants of John Ball served their God and their fellow man first-and the king afterwards.
 They tell us that Mary Ball Washington was descendant of John Ball, who died at the end of rope.
 When her husband died, Mary Washington consecrated her life to the education and up bringing of her six children, and especially to her sturdy irst-born, George, then only ten years old.
 When George arrived at the age of sixteen he wanted to "run away" just as all boys do. He wanted to Ego to sea-" just as boys nowadays dream of being Indian fighters. But the mother love held him to home and humdrum duty He was his mother IS boy, and he didn t run away.
 When the time came to choose between the splendid service of the king and the privations of the colonial service, it was the feminine spirit of self-sacrifce that made the harder lot appear the only way.
 When the pitiful struggle dragged on and on, mems reason told them that the contest was hopeless. Might would crush right The con- gress of the colonies turned coward the people wearied of the struggle. It was again the fem mine instinct that gave the lie to mans reason and kept George Washington in the field With hungry handful of troops he fought on and on, just as his mother would have him do Just as womankind has been doing since the world be- gan.
 When the war was ended it passed masculine virtue for Washington to quietly withdraw, pick up the thread of his country life, and resume the quiet routine of the farmer.
 Could Caesar stop in the very food-tide of his success set aside crown, master a growing ambition, and quietly retire from the center of the world stage? No, but Washington could, because he was a mothers boy. What true wo- man will not set aside the gories of conquest for the peace and joy of home life?
 All through the speeches and letters of Wash lngton show the womanly influence of Mary. His intuition projected his mind and his statesman ship far into the future. Often he could give or at least did give-little reason for his conclu- slons, but they were marvelously correct.
 Many of the wise men of his day thought that George Washington was stupid. Rather he had the feminine faculty of seeking to do what seems at the moment to be the right thing rather than the wise thing. And that, though it takes the highest courage, is, after all, the wisest thing to do
 Four months after Washington became the first president his mother died, aged 75 years. For half a century she had guided her father less boy, and in that time the silent part she played in the building of this nation was proba-