Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-02-21

ment of the interests welfare and principles
inhabitants, he receives today the homage of the
millions who enjoy the heritage of the free Amer
lea for which he fought and which he helped
tablish.
In this he at with other great men bred
in the new, free spirit and atmosphere of the
colonies. He did not seek to himself over
Them but to work with them, contributing as his
part In the struggle his military genius and
perience and his carefully trained executive
ability. His ideal the good For
that he gave his time and strength unstintedly.
Throughout his career the reward he
sought was that he might partake, Sin the midst
of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good
laws under free government, the favorite
object of my heart"
Washington. although possessing wealth and po-
sition, although observant of forms and
monies, was in the best democrat
who sought the same privileges and opportunities
for every of his fellow citizens which he
joyed and who devoted his gifts and energies to
that end.
That they might have them, he not only ex-
pended freely his energies of mind and body but
he constantly exhorted his fellow countrymen to
prepare themselves for the high destiny that he
foresaw for this country, first by raising and
equipping an adequate army task that fire.
quently hung leaden his hands, and, secondly,
by properly safeguarding their rights after they
had been
George Washington received less education
in school-than most lads of poor parentage do
today. He left school before he sixteen years
old. and, except in mathematics. in which he had
advanced through geometry and trigonometry, his
education did not extend beyond that which boys
usually get the grammar grades OF the public
schools. What he studied he knew, however, as
his carefully kept notebooks attest. He mani
tested special aptitude for surveying and for
military affairs This taste led to his having a
royal middy's warrant, obtained for him when he
fourteen years old. and only because of his
mothers reluctance to have him go to England
he spared to fight for the colonies instead of
becoming officer in his majesty's service.
He had been out of school only few months
when he got his first job-as a surveyor 1t
good one. too. for Lord Fairfax having noted
the lads mental equipment and his intrepidity,
gave him commission to survey his wild acres in
the Shenandoah valley. So well did Washington
accomplish the arduous task that he made
public surveyor. Almost coincident with his
| trance upon private young Washington
identified himself with public interests. Fond of
| athletics and sports well of military affairs.
he Joined the local militia. and when nineteen
| years old made major
| When he still in his twenties he won his
first colonelcy in his gallant but disastrous. first
| campaign against the French. 1t there
that he first the bitter fruits of unprepared-
4 ness.
| member of the Second Continental congress he
preston his feeling in regard to the crisis that
for during the session he put at the head
| of the irregular army Boston He found
| that army not only without discipline and equip
| ment but without powder Men who had enlisted
only for few months away. Washington
ardently appealed to the continental and pro
vincial CONGRESSES to provide fer longer enlist