The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-11

d Mnds..ohn and four poets Of the first rank Edgar
Allan Poe, Edward Fitzgerald, Oliver Wendell Holmes
and Alfred Tennyson.
The same year comes Charles Darwin, whose influence
upon every department Of modern thought is perhaps
greater than that Of any other modern and William
Ewart Gladstone 1.-THE Grand Old Man Of England.
Fsbrnary amid the tangled forests Of Kentucky, then
haunt Of savage Indians and wild beasts was Dorm
stock the an-chd who was destined % sake ns
place in history as the most consummac ana cOmpiss
American.
There only genuinely great strain in human blood
the Common Strain The Preferred Stock OF the race
the Common Stock Real rulers Of appear as the Wid
flowers, growing ii the untitled land, blossomng - ane
hedRerows The plants the royal dollhouse the Caesar
Romanoffs Hohenzolerns and Victims, by and By get
pretty spindling. The future Garbaldi Or Milton -
probably not drawing pictures in his arnmec = y0u.
this He who makes men out OF the dust q lns
ground creates superior soul when He gets rsaoy 80
where He will The true priests and prophets OF humani
are all latter the order of Melchzedek King OF Salem
without father, without mother, without descent s
Thomas Lincoln Abraham father, was carpenter Ae
could lust about write his name when he tried but
he did not write often because it hurt his
vas !. r = n raney vas sd
solid name They not naming babies Evelyn Jasmn
TyhOsa We're az We're il that region The Young couple Pc
crowded with its eleven or twelve houses al packed e
close within mile and half of each other Thomas needed
breathing room So he moved fourteen miles out into TIE
iunFle and cleared farm Here they had two children
The first died The second tough and vigorous IAe
named him Abraham, after his grandfather <1..o.,,
all over his face and form He not handsome child
and as he grew older he became homeisr
He grew up az root out OF dry ground He nao no
form nor consness and when saw him, We found AZ
beauty ii him that we should desire him s
He was communicating son OF common Tom Lincoln
and Nancy Hanks And is because Of this ccmmonne
that he Was great .a
mother He knew their courage their profound eonvic
tons the careless humor with which they conceaed
them He had borne their sorrows ana earned "
"nnovers wagon. He had slept on bed OF leaves 70
cabin He had errands through the snow
ing hot potato keep his hands He had done he
examples upon the back Of wooden freshoyeL SHAVING
off with iackknife get clean surface He had cerked
in store dragged surveyors chain, guided fatDoat
down the Mississippi peded notions from door To door
studied office OF wooden buildings
in Springfield campaikned politics. been elected and
dfsated ana when he came to the White House to take
his among the rulers of the earth ne refused to put On
foreign his bringing up but remained the same
unaffected genuine hardheaded cleareyed and fearless
son Of the West meeting Islander with whimsical hunnor
wearing with simple modesy, enduring reYerses
disaster threats and msunderstandDgs with manly 1atn
in himself in the peoples God himself he could not save
but died he had lived smiling when the bullet found
him as for God He has rewarded him; and as for the
people we their sons after fifty years have rpentd
Judgment and sted all the evidence we say If you EEK
what kind Of people Americans are there STANDS our ruess
just common man! Just homely plain piece OF
ordinary humanity None Of the marvellous gifts Of those
others born that No musical genius ike Mendelssohn
or Chopin literary talent like that of Poe Fitzgerald
Oliver Wendell Holmes Or Alfred Tennyson, eruditon
like Gladstone nor scientific ability like Darwin mo-
lust man. common man, but common air is common
whose sweetness guess until it is poluted COM
mon as water common without which shipwrecked
90 mad; common Gods sky common, lit by day with
neffabe light and starred at night with whrng worlds
Of beauty common mothers are common who make and
unnnake men; common the Son of God was common
who ate with pubicans and sinners whom the common
people heard gladly and who never entered the court OF
prince until He entered there receive robe OF purple
nAockery and crown Of thorns Just plain, common
man but this nation made for SUCH the frst rum-
phant effort to erect "a for the people and
when the heires Of and rebellion broke loose the
people turned him. bone OF their bone their own
tiny to him they loved him. they took him. into his strong
hands they put lives in his kindly face they saw that
divine shining of lofty that look for IN leaders
face when they are asked die; upon his sensitive heart
thew rolled the burden Of their doom
Ana thev made no mistake For he great not with
starke greatness dwet apart from and above u.s.
not with some peculiar talent that separated him from
binary men but great with all greatness great with
the Greatness Of the New World Upon his shoulders he
wore no ernine robe upon his head no eweled crown