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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-22

TTHE plain and the tossing away every
still palmer writing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-22
THE AAsz- RAGE

he was a systematic book buyer.
Volumes that were essential to the
discharge of his duties as a farmer,
as a soldier and as a statesman were
all found in his library.
We get a first glimpse of his love
for the classic by his bookplate,
which is a fitting motto for a man of
the Washington type. The inscrip-
ton is "Exitus Acata Probat," quo
tation from Ovid, which may be
translated: "The result is the test of
the acts"
There was but little light stuff
among these books, and most of
them were written to convey in
formation. Of course, there was a
large quota of military, agricultural
and political books. Among Wash
ington's literary classics we're sew
eral editions of the Bible and COM
mentaries upon it; Shakespeare,
Pope, translations of the I1liad and
Odyssey, Burns, Ossian, Don Quixote,
Gil Bas, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey
Clinker, Gulliver's Travels, Swift's
Works, Beauties of Sterne, Buffers
Hudibras, The Spectator, The Bee,
the Letters of Junius, translation
of Horace, Thompson's Seasons and
Beauties, of Isaac Watts. There are
a number of American works, such
as the Conquest Of Canaan" not by
Harrington, but by Timothy Dwight;
Freneau's Poems and the Vision of
Columbus" by Joel Barlow.
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Patriotic Shrine at Valley Forge
Memorial to the First American

negroes, possibly the very same
whose fathers were slaves on planta-
tons adjacent to Mount Vernon.
Several times visitors have at
tempted to steal some of the relics
exhibited in the headquarters. A way
has been found to circumvent this
tendency at least in one instance.
The mos exposed piece of furniture
in the whole building-a built-in
cupboard-is ornamented with small
brass knobs. Originally this article
was without these appendages. While
awaiting the purchase of the genuine
article the custodian, decided to dec
crate the piece of furniture with
cheap bronzed figures purchased in
a five and ten cent store. Their
price was two for five cents. One
day he noticed that they were miss
ing, presumably picked up by relic
hound. He replaced them again
with the same result. Now it would
not be practical to safeguard the
piece of furniture by screens, so the
custodian keeps it supplied with the
two-for-f1ve-cent relics. He gets a
kind of quiet satisfaction out of it.
Imagine the chagrin of the robbers
were they to know that their precious
relics flched from headquarters are
nothing but cheap limitations, placed
there to circumvent just such knaves
as themselves!
A FACILITATING Mystery.
The feature about Washington
headquarters that seems to excite
curiosity in the minds Of the greatest
number of people is the legend of an
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-22

underground passageway leading
from the house to the Schuylkill river.
Many seem to think that this can be
seen by going down into the under
ground room. They do not know
that the story of the passageway is
decidedly apocryphal. Many mistake
the air vent, in the ceiling of the
room as the hole through which
Washington expected to crawl in
case of an attack by the Britishers.
Since the vent is scarcely a dozen
feet away from the house, the idea is
absurd and many are puzzled. One
colored gentleman laughingly draws
attention to the fact that a soldier
could rave stood at the corner of the
house and blown the great Washing
tons head off.
Grand Old SchoOlhOuSe.
One Of the most interesting fea-
lures to be seen on the Valley Forge
grounds is the old schoolhouse built
in 1705 by Letitia Aubrey, the second
daughter of William Penn. Very few
people go to the park without includ-
ing this structure in the list of
things that must be seen. Used by
the soldiers during the Revolution, it
has now been restored to the condi-
ton in which it was two centuries
ago. The roughly-hewed decks and
stools of split logs speak volumes,
not only of the crudeness of educa-
tional equipment, but of the meagre-
ness of schooling 200 years ago. The
building, for a long time unused and
falling into disrepair, was opened to
the public in 1908.
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philanthropist; that he was an or
derby aud thorough business man,
and an ideal host.
That Washington was uneducated;
that he was more the farmer than
the gentleman; more colonial rather
than cosmopolite; uncultured, pros
porous, satisfied, Virginian; are
opinions that are current, but DR..
Penniman in two excellent pamph-
lets, George Washington as Man Of
Letters" and George Washington at
Mount Vernon on the Potomac"
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VALLEY FORGE! To a thousand
NJ people the words would have

W VALLEY FORGE! To thousand
" people the words would have
a thousand different mean
iigs. TO some they would suggest
reviewing Of Heeting facts of his
eory-a rehabilitation and relighting
of the fires of patriotism.
To others the words Valley Forge
would mean something entirely diff
ferent, It would conjure up a pic
ture of the Valley Forge Of a Satur-
day afternoon and Sunday vast
outpouring of people from every part
of the United States, from Maine to
California, from Texas to the Cana
dian border.
Roundabout Headquarters House.
The turbulence of events about
Headquarters House is indeed well
worth seeing. Every few seconds a
car decorated with pennants and
bearing a tag from any of the AZ
States in the Union will drive up and
discharge its passengers. 1t may be
a Ford Of a Rolls Royce; it may be
chauffeured or driven by a plebian
owner; it may be family out for a
pleasant afternoons drive or a party
of tourists travel-stained and CARRIED
for the occasion, AT an. event the
people who come to Valley Forge are
representative of every ingredient in
the melting pot.
Here come tourists whose ances-
tors were surely not with Washing
ton during the Winter encampment
Of 1777-S-Hebrews whose forbears
were perhaps living in some Euro
mean ghetto at the time: Orientals,
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Washington Not a Subject
for the Fiction Writer

A S a subject for fiction Washing
"a ton has proved almost in
tractable. Numerous poems
have been addressed to him. He has
been largely written to in magma
tive literature, but he has been little
written of.
Washington's greatness lay in his
calm judgment and elevation Of char
acter. Your hero totus teres atque
rotundus, four square to all the
winds that blow, cool, firm, conscien-
tious, little swayed by the passing
gusts of passion and emotion, is
never good subject for the novelist.
The parsonage of one virtue linked
with thousand crimes, whose pas
sions toss him hither and yon, torn
by emotion, ambition, repentance,
love and hate, is your romancer's
Joy.
Accordingly Washington has rare
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blasts all such conceptions.
About His Education.

About His Education.
In his researches entitled wash
ington as a Man of Letters" DR.. Pen
niman points that though Washing
ton never went to college he had
extraordinary respect for higher ed
ucation! and was always inclined to
oyerestimate his own deficiencies in
this regard. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell,
another Washington student, says:
"Of all the fiction and of all the
calumnies about this man, the most
singularly without foundation is the
belief early held by many that he
was uneducated."
Washington's education was so
comprehensive that Patrick Henry
said of the First Continental Con-
gross, eff you speak of solid informa-
ton and sound judgment, Colonel
Washington is eunquestionably the
greatest man on the floor"
This is a rare compliment consid-
ering the calibre of the men who at
tended this conference. Up to that
time it was the ablest body that had
ever convened in America. Among
them were John and Samuel Adams,
Roger Sherman, John Jay, Richard
Henry Lee and Patrick Henry.
"A large part of Washingtons ed
ucation,' said DR.. Penniman. che
gave himself for he was ALWAYS
learning. He was educated in the
school of adversely, by his heroic eff
forts to make the most of the des-
perate circumstances which SO was
placed by the great operations in
which he was the leading actor, and
by his association with the cultivat-
ed and influential men and women of
his time beginning with his father
and mother, his brother Lawrence
and Lord Fairfax, and including
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jeffer-
son and Alexander Hamilton.
CAS- he rode about the country he
talked with the farmers and persons
of intelligence everywhere found him
an attentive listener. Such was his
skill in recognizing natural ability
that he learned much from plain
men like the bookseller Knox, the
blacksmith Greene. the farmer Put
nam and the teamster Morgan"
knowledge Bred of Books.
But Washington also had a love for
he printed page. Throughout his life
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ly inspired a writer of fiction. To
our recollection only one novel
makes him an essential character in
the story, viz, George Morgan's John
Littlejohn of j." Cooper introduces
him slightly and vaguely in "Tbe
Spy" Thackeray seems to us to MAKE
the most obvious failure of his whole
historical portrait gallery in his brief
presentation of him in "The Virgfni-
ans" DR.. Mitchell introduces him in
Hugh Wyn1e' and 1.-THE Red City,"
Paul Leicester Ford brings him lit
tie into Janice Meredith" George
if we recoIlect rightly, has
certain figures Of Washington. These,
with Kipling's slender but interesting
sketch in Brother Square Toes" in
cludes about all the fiction we re-
barring Mr.. Weems' 'Lifer
of Washington, in which the appear
ance Of this august shade is invokos
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7IzzE R4oE Or zHE AccoUwz~ zooR,

At the moment when the
dignified father of his coun-
try was submitting to the
application of the plaster
for a mask by Houdon, he
heard his wife's footstep.
His position struck him as
so absurd that he grinned
broadly enough to crack the
plaster and the work had to
be done over.
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His collection shows his fondness
for travel, memoirs and history, espe-
cially that Of his own country. Among
his books were "Chastellux's Tray
els" Bartram's Travels" "War-
ville's Voyages" "Young's Travels, -
"Anson's Voyage Around the World, !"
"Moore's Travels" five volumes:
Robertson's Charles w." four vol
umes; the inevitable Gibbons
Roman Empire" s. olumes; king
of Prussia" Is volumes; Charles
KILL" Harris "Gustavus Adolf
phus," two volumes; History Of
Marshall Turenne," two volumes;
Historical Memoirs of Frederick
H." two volumes; Robertson's
America" Heath's Memoirs" Ram
seys South Carolina" Sir Henry
Clinton's Narrative" Lees Mem
oirs" and Gordon's History of Amer
ica."
Read.the Newspaper.
Though the selection of his library
shows him to be a deep reader,
Washington was not too much the
bookworm to pass by the current
news. He was always a careful
newspaper reader, and wrote Mat
thew Carey, the Philadelphia pub
Usher, as follows: "T entertain
high ideal of the utility of periodical
publications, insomuch that I could
heartily desire copies of the Museum
and magazines, as well as common
gazettes, might be spread through
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Considering the famous phrases,
long speeches and stormy debates by
which Lincoln, Wilson, Bryan, Lloyd
George, Gladstone and other great
statesmen and powers had to blaze
their way to the pinnacle of states
manship, Washington's achievement
is rather unique. His authority laid
in sound judgment; sort of an
understood authority that must be
obeyed.
Sparks says: "His influence in
public bodies was produced more by
the soundness of his judgment, his
quick perceptions and his undeviat-
ing directness than by eloquence or
art in recommending his opinions.
He seldom spoke, never harrangued,
and it is not known that he ever made
a set speech or entered into stormy
debate. But his attention was at all
times awake. He studied profoundly
the prominent topics of discussion
and, wherever occasion required, was
prepared to deliver his sentiments
clearly and to act with decision and
firmness."
First in Scientific Agriculture.
DR.. Penniman points out that
Washington was among the first of
his time in that fundamental depart
ment of culture-agriculture. When
young man he made full summaries
of Tull's and of Duhamel's Husband
ry and of the Farmers Com
plete Guide. In 1884 he made a
complete summary of Higgins on
Calcareous Clements. Washington's
library contained 81 volumes of An
mails of Agriculture by Arthur Young.
Washington showed that many works
that had been written up to that time
on agriculture were of puzzling ma
ture. Washington wrote to Theo-
doric Bland, August Is, 1886:
81 shall always be happy to give or
to receive communications on i'm
provements in farming and the vari-
Gus branches of agriculture. This is,
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vEHHE age Of plain speech, and
still palmer writing, pre-
dominates in this, the hun
dredth and ninety-third anniversary
of George Washingtons birth. These
are the times Of frank biographies
and smart autobiographies. Crisp,
direct and scathing sketches of ones
life are the words of the present. No
bones are being made about matters
of historical intent. Tradition is no
longer sacred. The truth, no matter
how unsavory it may be, must be
spoken or written.
That this is the feeling of the day
is shown by the fact that not few
voting intellectuals want the Ameri-
can histories revised; they demand
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the tossing away of almost every
thing except their own opinions
mainly formed in downright ignor-
ance Of facts. But what are facts to
an intellectual"
Through arduous researches of DR..
James Hosmer Penniman we learn
things about the Father of Our Coun-
try that make our appreciation grow
with the years. DR.. Penniman has
made exhaustive researches which
bring out that George Washington
was a lover and a thorough student
Of the classics; that he possessed an
effective eloquence when addressing
his soldiers; that he was a family
man, a lover Of his home; a pious
churchman; generous employer;
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IN my opinion, an object Of infinite
Importance to the country. I consid-
er it to be the proper source of Amer
lean wealth and happiness, whose
streams might be more copious and
diffusive; if gentlemen of leisure and
capacity would turn their attentions
to it, and bring tire results of their
experiments together; nothing but
cultivation is wanting. Our lot has
certainly destined a good country for
our Inheritance"
Further combating common i'm
pressions of Washington, DR.. PENN
man states that the idea that Wash
ington was of a cold nature would
not prevail if Mrs. Washington had
not destroyed after his death all the
letters that he wrote her, with the
exception of one written when they
were engaged, and the one announc-
ing his appointment as commander
in-chief
Literary Excellence.
Though few are aware of the vast
quantity of Washington's writings,
fewer still have any idea of their re-
markable literary excellence" con
tinues DR.. Penniman in discussing
the scope of the Generals pen.
'Washington's letters and military
and political papers show an ability
to give accurate descriptions of all
the circumstances of a case, their
relative importance and the logical
course Of action to be pursued with
regard to them that is not surpassed
by any statesman or commander in
any age. In his English Notes, Haw-
thorne records that among the auto
graph letters Of statesmen and war
riors of many nations and centuries
he saw in the British Museum, none
so illustrious as those Of Washing
ton.
"The range Of Washington's writ
ings is immense; they treat Of mill
tary and political affairs, theories of
government, finance and agriculture
in all departments, the practical adj
ministra on of a nation, and Of a
farm, the nature of soil, the develop
ment of Western lands, the training
and equipment of armies and the
management of men, from Colonial
and Revolutionary soldiers to farm
hands and slaves. His works have
a calm energy worthy of the strenu-
Gus times in which they were writ
ten and of the great themes of which
they treat. Washington was a man
Of vision, without which the people
would have persisted. Love of coun-
try was his controlling motive and
his faith in the honesty, intelligence
and future of the American people
was based upon his comprehensive
view of the whole field of American
affairs.
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every city, town and village in
America. I consider such easy
vehicles of knowledge more hap
PLY calculated than any other to
preserve the liberty, stimulate
the industry and meliorate the
morals of an enlightened and
free people"
The northwestern bulletin., 1923-02-03
WHAT is HARVARD?

Since the application Harvard graduate for for his
promising has been fatty refused purely racial grounds the
query nonHarvard is What is Harvard anyway
Certainly the president of university has not the undsputed
to formulate and for institution like Harvard
what its policy with respect to it's student body President
Lowell has great length unless he authorized by the
authorities and sponsors of the University take the position he
did with respect to young Bruce.
Harvard Harvard before there President Lowell
What Harvard the good old days when entered the Uni
versy and allowed to absorb all that great center of learn
had to offer those attendance Color the cme
previous condition had anything to do with the privileges
granted Harvard students in the days before there Pres
dent Lowell What was Harvard in those days?
Harvard in those days the united of it's
to offer to the youth of all nations opportunity to bask the
warmth of intelligence refinement and knowledge Harvard
spirit and that spirit healthy robust and militant for the
right regardless of the individual involved Color part of
Haards spirit The great center dealt with men, coors it
dealt with problems not In those days
swallowed up, they passed the entrance
The Courier calls upon the spirit of Harvard There good
of Harvard white and black These much of Har
ward Mr. Lowell Where the who made Harvard
mous Where Lewis Bruce Matthews Terrell Steward Har
Marshall Toer and others who sat at the feet of John
ward? There others who have subscribed the
color Call them to the of America and her ideals
Call those who have made Harvard the first word
learning call those who have contributed the spirit apay
hitherto part of the institution Harvard not Lowell Har
ward is greater than Lowell Pittsburgh Courier
The northwestern bulletin., 1923-02-03
By Charles Gain
(For The Associated Negro Pres

(For The Associated Negro Press)
Certain ocuar Americans have suggested that take hint
from France and send force take French properties
out French obligations to novel idea No. friends;
the French method is not unfamiliar Amrcans ask the
pie of South and Central America The only novelty to the fact
that the victim is European nation of sixty millions Cowady?
As cowardy victors collection of spos usually But is
stupid this occupation; it endangers civilization
But which civilization? Not that of four hundred million
Chinese that of three hundred millions in India but THE
civilization what calls Humanity economic in
small Europe and the United States The of bank
and manufacturers and shippers endangered and the bread
these capitalists and fed largely by the po their masters have
taken the of humanity have been content to eat work.
hurrah work. reproduce work. and die preaching Com
munism trying to determine just what this civilization is
the world of smoke and and
grab 1t is getting taste of its medicine the French hitting
Germany hit the whole Civilization; and the Civilization hows
the bitterly because France aided in her venture by
sixty millions of brown black and yellow who designed
by Almighty God not to apply but to squrm under it.
Among the howlers Radicals, industraism and
snobbery and who advocate brhcontro How nation like
France which practices resist aggressive nations
without they have demonstrated how the
white mans snobbey to be unless the coored
allowed associate with him. they do with the French
And there the statesmen who cry imperialism" and
against the treaty of Versailles them Lloyd
George late premier of the greatest mperastc nation EARTH
who took million miles by this treaty he is condemnng
and who election few back by calling loudly for
harsh terms.
But it sickening business Will France too become an
industrial Must she crush the Germany of Goethe
defend herself against the Germany of Bismarck? Or with her
colonial empire will she give new and better political state
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-10
BRITISH SEND A NOTE TO
RUSSIA

MOSCOW, May San emphatic
note from the British government
handed to Maxim Litinoff, assistant
foreign minister, this afternoon, al
leging propaganda and other viola
ton of the Anglo Russian trade a.
greement and demanding assurances
of unconditional fulfillment of speci-
fic requirements within ten days, is
considered by Russian officials to
night as definitely intended to bring
about q break in Anglo Russians re-
lations.
Anticipating a break in relations,
the British mission several days ago
warned all Britishers in Russia that,
in view of the delicate situation, they
should be prepared to leave the coun-
try on short notice. Instructions to
issue sush notification are under<
stood to have been sent by the Bri-
ish foreign office.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1923-05-10
THE CHESTER GRANT

Lausanne conference has been re-
sumed. The paramount question now
before the body is the so-called
Chester concession, granting to A.
merican interests extensive rights
fer the construction Of railroads
throughout Turkey and the exploita-
ton of mineral properties within
20 kilometers on either side of the
projected railroad lines. Against
this concession the British and the
French are bitterly arrayed. The
American official attitudes will be to
continue to back the traditional pol
icy, crystalized by John Hay, Of the
open door and equal opportunity sor
all natoins. If the British and French
diplomats succeed in closing the
Turkish door in our faces this will
give an added reason for refusing to
enter the league of nations door,
front or rear.