The L'Anse sentinel., 1924-02-29
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

George Washington was Il great man for the
reason among others, that his intelligence func-
toned efficiently in all circumstances. He was
Il success in everything he undertook. Athlete
lurveyor, fighting man, business man, farmer,
builder, military leader, statesman, president-in
all of these capacities he was Of the first class.
Whenever he did anything he did it right. When he
chose TO be dgnifed, nobody could approach him in
dignity. When he chose to put style nobody could
Outdo him his coaching outfit was the last word IN
vehicle and horsehesh, and there was not a better
pair of legs in the United States than his silken-clad
eNtremties And when he rode furiously to the
front to stop the retreat at Monmouth he cursed
Lee "till the leaves curled up on the trees" The
"Father Of His Country" had an extraordinary
of the fitness of things in every activity of fe
SO, when Washington selected as the site
OF the national capital in 1890 President George
Washington at once took measures to see that the
capital city should be built right Most of our Amer
ican cities "just groweJ after the fashion of Topsy
and look II. Not so the Capital of the United
States Washington determined that 1t should be
the complete expression of the best of the nation
that was to come. And being entirely without
false modesty he knew of nobody who could do
a better job at planning 1t than himself.
And Washington knew just the man to work
out the plans Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant
that man. He was young French engineer who
came with Lafayette in 1777 and served in
the Continental army. After being wounded, he
was assigned to Washingtons personal command
and was made a major in 1888 He
engineer of ability and something of an architect
In passing, monument 10 his memory
~eiled in 1911 in Arlington National cemetery.
so Washington called In LEnfant ana set him
at work on the plans Of the Capital city, which
some day will probably be the finest capital in
the world. And Washington at
LEnfants elbow.
More than that, Washington himself laid the
corner stones Of the Capitol and of the White
House, personally overseeing the erection of the
executive mansion which first occupied by
President John Adams. That the first president of
the United States and the young French engineer
did mastery piece Of work between them Is
seen by the Washington of today.
, Now, the United States has been a Christian
,ation from Its earliest beginnings. The Virginia
settlers brought the Church of England with them
as part of their daily life The Pilgrims, separat-
ing from the Church Of England, came to America
10 secure religious freedom. The Purtans brought
the Church Of England with them-to reform 1t.
Penn n Quaker and colonized for Quakers.
Baltimore was founded refuge for Roman
Catholics. Huguenots docked to New Amsterdam
because guaranteed religious freedom by the
Dutch. In 1854 the first Protestant Episcopal
bishop and the first two Methodist Episcopal
bishops In America ordained. In 1889 a
convention in Philadelphia organized the "Prot-
estad Episcopal Church In the United States Of
America" The same year the First General
Meeting" Of the Presbyterian Church in America
was held in the same city.
Appealing to ths Supreme Judge Of the World" !"