The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-19

.,,yibutes 20 have. we couldn't he
Isrs " hout them, but once we're
nere they don't count for much.
eon,e individuals are sensitive
orgb 10 20 back beyond their own
,,nrsoral ancestors and worry about
H. ancestors of the human race
norvIn aroused such furor by his
iiscoveries and theories that people
Saye never gotten over II. To some
,rho have never read his famous
hoot Darwin and the monkey are
svnonymous. Discussions have been
Snown 10 result In bitterness. and
sor some to have even destroyed
, hth in the Bible.
= "A flre-mist and n planet,
A crystal and cell,
,elly-fish and n saurian,
And caves where the cave-men
dwell;
Tben a sense of law and beauty
And a face turned from the clod
Some call It Evolution,
And others call 1t God"
II Is not bad to know who our an
cestors were nor what they did. for
we are what they made us, but 1t is
OF far greater importance to realize
that we are the ancestors of the
generations to come, and live to pass
on a worthy heritage.
We know we have-our descendants
IN the making, for we have books on
Eenetlcs, sex hygiene and eugenics,
that tell us so; still, we do not go on
Improving the race. We need IA
d Darwin, n man who can write
book on "The End of Species"
boon on "The End of spec.es,"
something 10 make Ms realize that
more is expected than that we
should be degenerate sons of illus
irious slres.
II is nothing to our credit that
We boast descent from Pocahontas
and the Randolphs unless we are
progeny of the loyalty, sweetness
md faith that made tho little In
iian princess u beautiful character.
Il Is nothing to our credit that VIC
are descended from passengers of
the Goodspeed and the Mayflower
unless we portray a striking likeness
In the qualities and principles that
made them brave the seas.
Robert Il. Lee perhaps had the
most distinguished known line of
His earliest ancestor to establish
himself in Virginia, Richard Lee"
says Philip Alexander Bruce, "is
thought to have sprung from a fam
Iy tracing its descent to Lancelot
Lee, who took a conspicuous part in
The ba'tleiof Hastings; to Lionel Lee,
vhO at the head of n company of
hOrsemen, followed Richard Occur
De Lion to the Holy Land, and won
high reputation for intrepidity at
the siege of Acre; and to Henry Lee
who, during the glorious reign of
Elizabeth, received from his SOW
reign, as n reward for his extraor-
dnary services, the insignia of the
Carter. There cali now be no doubt
that the emigrant belonged to the
Lees Of Cotton, a family of which 1t
has been said that It possessed a
high social standing and enjoyed
great influence when the immediate
forbears of two-thirds OF the mem
bers OF the present English speaking
peerage had not risen from obscuI
ry."
And yet, the Lee family did not
lei 1t go at that. They rested not
on their laurels. nor rode their prog
enitors to social and political victory.
Every Lee. from this first emigrant
on, was great in his own person.
Richard, the first American Lee.
hlling all the positions of honor
and responsibility which were open
TO the most distinguished citizens
among them a seat in the council
ana the incumbency of the secretary
AMP OF state, an office in the gift
OIL the king, and his son and grand
son and on down the line filled the
4 same or equally as important posi-
\ tlons.
Nor did they let some one mem
Ger OF the family uphold the tra-
ditions for all.
Thomas Lee, president OF the
council, and the third member OF
the family to fill in succession a
seat at that board, was the father
1lthree sons. One. Richard Henry
Lee, on June 10, 1875, offered in the
continental congress the famous
resolution declaring: "That these
united colonies are and ought to be
tee and Independent states" an
wher' Francis Lightfoot Lee. with
ene former and more famous broth
er, signed the great declaration; and
arthur, the third. was associated
win Benjamin Franklin in the
memorable mission to France.
4, ana yet, these men were not in
ne most heralded line, for It was
brother of Thomas Lee, Henry, who
was the grandfather of Lighthouse
marry, and great-grandfather of the
\ eoniederate general.
olVe' Wendell Holmes was once
asAed when the education of child
sd mould begin, and he replied: Two
born 6unured and fifty years before he is
~ isn't so much what we've come
rom as what Wire headed towards.
net us not advocate ignorance OF the
past, Dut let us at least stress more
"phatleaily a higher development
o the future.
IN, me origin is of importance to
20 man.
Thief Rofurua Dok