The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-08

thp 80 wa ~ IN - L
sion OF a very real American Contri-
button to Great Britain. For it has
been re-created and perfected into its |
present splendid shape ty a man Of
genius whose loo is as American as
British. perhaps even more so, Alex
ander Wenyon Samuel says in an il
lustrated article in the New York
World. There have been many Ameri-
can brides in the family of the Dukes
Of Marlborough. Not the least in
beauty and brains was Winston
ChurchiIrs mother, who was Miss
Jennie Jerome. of New York. When
the late Lord Randolph Churchill
brought his bride into London society
she created a sensation by her beauty
and her charm. His rapid a
in politics was helped a great deal
by her social gifts. She took at once
q premier place which unfortunately
her second marriage with its disasters
did not help her to maintain. Yet
the fact that she has a son OF forty
years of age does not mean that she
Is now off the active list in society and
well-dOing. not at all; and she - pretty
certain to be organizing some cam
paign for the relief of the war sur
ferers now, as she did at the time OF
the Boer war. But undoubtedly her
chief claim to fame today is that she
is the mother of Winston Spencer
Churchill, England's First Lord of the
Admiralty.
For Winston Churchill has all the
stamp of genius and high daring, and
has crowded more into his forty years
than any man of his day. He has
been through five wars; he has writ
ten seven books, one of them being
the biography of his father, when
ranks among the first half-dOZen in
the English language; he was first
elected to the Hous of Commons as
a Conservative, but has been a Liberal
minister of the crown for nearly nine
years. and he has proved himself one
one of the most active and powerful
as well as sagaciouS and far-Seeing of
modern English statesmen. He has
journeyed in most parts Of the world,
spent long months in the saddle, and
yet by some process that must be
called genius combines the literary
style of a ripe scholar with the vOra-
cious habits of a man of action. This
country ne knows well, both by rea-
son Of his relationships and his visits
here, especially his lecture tours
which he undertook after the Boel
wal when at about the age of twenty.
eight. AS a lecturer he was a memo
rabIe success, and his picturesque
personality is not forgotten by those
who came in contact with him then
Natural Born Fighting Man.
The key to his character is that n
Is a soldier. He is a natural fighting
man. He is a true Churchill, yer.
different from his cousin. the presen
Duke of Marlborough, whose heir t
the dukedom ne was until the birth o
the two sons of the present Duchess
still remembered as Miss Consuel
Vanderbilt.
1t is a curious thing that Lor
Kitchener should be at the War Offic
end Winston Churchill at the Admi
rally al a time when England is a
war. 1t is curious becaus Englan
was far more likely to have had
lawyer presiding over the army and
professor ruling the navy. Flo Eng
land was never ready with her fight
ing machines at the beginning Of
war in all her history. She woul
always prefer to blunder through tina
to plan ahead. This time both he
fleet and her army were ready an
under M direction of the two be
men in the empire for the purpose.
Winston Churchill has been at tt
Admiralty for about three and a ha
years. and the other day his O
enemy. Admiral Lord Charles Bere
ford, walked across the floor OF IL
House of Commons and shook han'
with him. saying he was proud Of h
work there and wished their fe,
dead. And the praise was deserve
Churchill has an infinite capaci
for work. and grasps swiftly n wi
splendid breadth. Here is q lit
story for which l can vOuch. Aft
he had been at the Admiralty abo
three weeks he had ~occasio to dra
up a memorandum relating to a supe
d~readnOught. Now. a superdrea
nought is about as complicated a m
chine as ever man devised. Very T,
of the officers know more than tn
own individual ends of it. After
had completed the memorandum
handed il to Admiral Troubridge
look over asking him to correct a
errors. Admira TrC
bridge. accustomed to the amate
that political exigency usually thru
into such great offices, took it aw
to examine. Then was born in A
miral Troubridge that tremendous {
miratiOn the whole service has co
to feel for Churchill. for he fou
that there was not a single err