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preachers, mountain feuds, breeders and
racers of thoroughbred horses, and for
its statesmen. In the last category Mr..
Temples records show that no less than
54 governors of other States were born
in Kentucky. Henry Clay developed his
political talent in the Kentucky Legis-
lature. Also by an irony of fate Abra-
ham Lincoln and jefferson Davis, des-
tined to be opposing leaders in our great
est trial. the Civil War, were born in
that State less than 40 miles apart.
During the struggle Kentucky was
border State of divided loyalty. even
though it remained in the Union. AS if
to show that those days are gone for
ever, the Great Seal of Kentucky depicts
two men shaking hands and displays the
motto United We Stand, Divided We
Fall"
Probably one is offering the other
mint julep." suggested Mr.. Temple with
a smile. The accepted token of hos
pitality and friendship. 1t really should
have been placed on the seal. The julep,
of course will be made Of corn whisky
good old Bourbon. Kentuckians will
tell you that it cannot be successfully
duplicated outside the State; yeast in
Kentucky ferments quicker and better
than anywhere else"
This one may be taken not with grain
but with whole ton of salt, until salt
is rationed. Even the most rabid Ken
tuckians would balk at the notion, at
least in their secret hearts, that yeast
germ wandering over any of numerous
borders into illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West
Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee or Missouri
from Kentucky would become so dis
couraged that it would not function
properly. The legend must take its place
with the hoop snake and the sidehill
mooney, in the glorious company Of
picturesque whoppers.
Mr.. Temple, also said that shrewd
critic of the United We Stand" seal
once remarked that the only places
where Kentuckians are united are poll
tics and the penitentiary. But it is diff
ferent now Kentuckians are united
with each other and with the rest of the
Union in winning the war. All resources
of the State are pledged to that purpose;
JDOSe IOJ wax
production are being adapted to it.
Its famous stills, converted, are dis
tilling alcohol for munitions. Its soft
coal is mined for war use. It's hardwoods,
some of which used to go into the war
clubs Of the big leagues via the Louis
vile baseball bat factory, are pinch
hitting now for the armed forces. It's
aluminium plants, diverted from kitchen
utensils, go into other implements which
will make it hot for the enemy Feverish
activity prevails throughout the State
In this its sesquicentennial year.
But not in politics. No such upheaval
Is expected in the coming senatorial
campaign as happened last time. Sena-
tor Happy" Chandler, having succeeded
to office through the death of Senator
M M. Logan, has served for almost three
years, to the satisfaction of the admins
tration and of his colleague, Senator
Barley, and there should be little oppo-
sition.
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and he didn't think of them as any,
thing but men just because they were
hired. If any one had tried to say that
he belonged to one class because he
made money. and the hired men to
another because they worked for wages,
that man would have gotten a beautiful
dressing down from Daniel Webster
So he became to his neighbors, and to
New England, the good giant, the man
you could count on, the famous orator
who was never too busy to help out
neighbor, the man whose voice could roll
out like thunder over Monadnock, but
the human man who liked Medford rum
and good living, the man who could
whip trout stream or any enemy with
equal skill They talked about his fish
ing rod, Old Killall, and his shotgun,
Wilmot Proviso-and when he walked
into the depot to take the, train for
Washington everybody in the depot stood
up. 1t takes a good deal to make New
Englanders stand up, but they did it for
Daniel Webster. They don't do it for
many people now.
Union Always Came First
He had reverses and troubles. He
spent money as freely as he made it. He
used to say that good lawyers lived well,
worked hard and died poor" He wanted
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Kentucky Birthday
By Basil Gordon.

A hundred and fifty years ago on
June 4, 1872, Kentucky was admitted
to the Union, and on June l OF this
wear a commemorative postage stamp
will be issued on flrst-day sale at
Frankford, the capital. 1t is OF record
that Senator Happy" Chandler sug-
eested as a design for the stamp
renroduction of the mural in the State
Capitol showing Daniel Boone looking
out over the Kentucky River, prahch
of the Ohio, with three companions.
The painting. by Gilbert Wnlte, Is
known as The Beautiful Level OF
Kentucky" and shows up well when re-
produced in purple on the 3-cent stamp
Kentuckians claim that their State
Is unique. Once a Kentuckian, always
Kentuckian, they say; and IN partlal
proof of this, there is the KENTUCKY
Society of Washington. From Mr.. VIII
liam Temple, president of the Society,
come many interesting facts about the
State.
To 20 way back before recorded his
tory. according to Mr.. Temple, there
were giants there in those days. Bones
excayated from burial mounds have been
studied by anthropologists, who DECIDED
that the natives ranged in height from
6 feet to 8 feet. They must have died
long before our pioneers penetrated
Kentucky: they encountered no Indians
anywhere near that large. What became
of them is an unsolved mystery.
The very word Kentucky" means In
the Indian language Dark and BLOODY
Ground" and so 1t proved. Into the
wilderness beyond the Alleghanies In the
region now Kentucky pushed Daniel
Boone and other pioneers. fighting many
a desperate battle with Indian hunters.
The word hunters" is used advisedly,
instead of dwellers; for some reason lew
Indians actually lived there. To them
the territory was a hunting ground
in the grassy, treeless parts OF 1t ou11alo
roamed by the millions and there was
plenty of smaller game. 1t was also
considered sacred by them; they buried
many of their dead there, to insure tnelr
spirits a happy hunting ground III the
great hereafter. They resented flercely
any paleface intrusion.
In consequence, settlers in primitive
Kentucky had to be rough, tough and
resourceful to survive. They could count
on little or no assistance from the Gov
ernment back East. They carved out
their own empire, or rather five separate
emjires corresponding to the five geo.
graphical districts of the State the
Blue Grass, the Mountains, the KNOBS,
the Pennyrile and the Purchase. Cut
of by the then formidable barrier OF
the Alleghanies, Kentuckians perforce
became isolationists and Immensely
proud Of their State, feeling a sort OF
pity for any one living anywhere else.
They wore no mans collar, not even
their own. The civilization that slowly
developed was all their own and was
made up of many strange contrasts.
Kentucky was known for its two-gun
killers, camp meetings, producers and
consumers Of Bourbon whisky, shouting
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marriage ceremony of two servants OF
Thomas Cornwalleys.
specifically, as to the founding OF
this parish" we are told, lit is one OF
the large group which received the legal
status of parish in 1892, when William
and Mary established the Church Of
England in Maryland, but for so years
previous to this st. Georges Church
had been doing the work of a parish
through the authority of the charter
given by the King Of England to Lord
Baltimore. The church was built by the
governor of the province in obedience
to the charter and the rectors were
supported by their own labor on lands
granted them by the proprietor"
The proximity mentioned here of VAL
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tectural beauty and the hallowed at
mosphere of the building ana grounds.
st. Paul's, Baden, is in King Georges
Parish. Prince Georges County, and was
most likely built about 1882, making it
one of the oldest churches Of Southern
Maryland. A former rector, the Rev.
Dr. Crusoe, quotes an English authority
as having said that he was confident
that most of the bricks used were OF
English make and brought over here
before 1882
The Rev. John Eversfield came as rec
tor to ST. Pauls Parish in 1913, this
work having been bestowed upon him by
Benedict, Lord Baltimore. He was rector
for AZ years, during which time several
interesting additions we're made to the
parish, which was the richest parish in
Maryland at that period.
Nearer to Washington is st. Johns
Church, Broad Greek, Md, built in 1923,
just 2l9 years ago. This old church
should be especially interesting to the
people of the District of Columbia, since
it is the mother church of Northwestern
border. The identical church itself is
not much older than Christ Church, a
few miles to the south but the parish,
the site and the earlier churches run
back considerably further.
Broad Greek Church
We who live in Washington look upon
st. Paul's Church, Rock Creek, as
venerable building-whatevef little of the
old building which may still be standing.
But Rock Creek Church, even when 1t
was but a chapel of ease, did not come
into existence until l7l9, or II years after
the King Georges Parish was provided
for and "a years after the first frame
church at Broad Creek was begun.
manuscript sketch of this church,
written in 1928, which the writer located
at the Cathedral library. says:
THE first church of wood was begun
on May %, 1895. The second church, also
of wood, was completed in l7l3, at
which time the first pews we're selected
and sold as appears from the minutes
of a vestry meeting held on September
II, 1713.
The third church, of brick, the pres
ent edifce. was begun early in 1722 and
finished on March co. 1923; consequently
is now over 205 years old.
The minutes of PiscataWay Parish
(tfae original name) OF the meeting OF
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Bv Stephen Vincent Benet.

January g. $780, was big day in the
United States Senate. We believed then,
as we believe now, in thrashing issues
out in public, not in settling them behind
closed doors-and a very big issue, in
deed, was before the Nation. In the
space of mans lifetime, we had grown
from a loose confederation of squabbllng
colonies to a Union of sovereign States.
But how sovereign were these States?
Was the Union more important than the
States or were the States more impor-
tant than the Union? Could State
refuse to obey laws passed by the Fed
eral Government for the general good?
Was a man an American first or Vlr-
ginian or a New Hampshireman second,
or was 1t the other way around? The
country was split and divided on the
question.
Senator Robert Y. Hayne OF South
Carolina had spoken, and spoken well
for his side of the argument. proud
man. from a proud and gallant State, he
asserted the rights of his State. South
Carolina could nullify Federal laws II
she chose. withdraw from the Union it
self if she chose Now, for the second
time, in the great debate, swarthy,
burning-eyed man-"Black Daniel OF
sachusetts-Daniel Webster-rose TO
reply.
"I have not allowed myself, sir, to look
beyond the Union, to see what might
Lie hidden in the dark recess behind. l
have not coolly weighed the chances OF
preserving liberty when the bonds that
unite us together shall be broken asun-
der. I have not accustomed myself to
hang over the precipice Of disunion to
see whether, with my short sight, / can
fathom the depth of the abyss below;
nor could -egard him as safe coun-
sellor in the affairs of this Government
whose thoughts should be mainly bent
on considering, not how the Union may
be best preserved, but how tolerable
might be the condition Of its people
yhen it is broken and destroyed - ."
Immortal Words
The great voice rose and fell-the
packed audiences in the Senate Chamber
listened.
mo such miserable interrogatory as
What is all this worth?' = - but every
where, spread all over in characters Of
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ties, too, for there must always be some
thing it seems, to take the Joy out Of
life, but in the bygone days there was
always music and dancing at night at
the hotel-particularl on Saturday
nights-and this put joy into life. For
many years this resort was owned and
operated by Wash B. Williams, one of
Washington's foremost business men,
whose honor and integrity were his chief
virtues.
But soon a different scene will be
enacted at this we'll known hostelry,
when, cooperating in the forthcoming
celebrations to be held in the Wash
ington Diocese, the Department of Re-
ligious Education has arranged to hold
the Ninth Annual Youth Conference in
Southern Maryland at this hotel from
June 18 through June %, and a more
ideal and historic spot could not have
been selected for the purpose.
Town of St. Mary's
AS to the town of old st. Marys, an
early account tells us its location was
a plain extending for mile along the
southeastern shore and terminating in
the point of land upon which stood the
fort, State house, chapel, the residence
OF the Governor, and other Government
buildings. OF these there remain a
chapel of the Episcopal Church con-
Structed near the site of the State house
and another building of considerable
size, which in 1874 was converted into
school. and there are other memorials
Of colonial days in the graves which
fill the space around the chapel
When the writer visited st. Marys
Church some years ago he found at the
entrance tablet that briefly gave an
account of it's history, and this he copied,
as follows:
Trinity Church
est. Mary'S Parish
Built 1912 on Smiths Creek, st.
Marys County,; REMOVED to lot near
present rectory, st. Marys City.
an 1895 the capital 1Das renoued
from Saint Mary's City to Annapolis,
and the State House came to be a
place of Church of England tDorShip.
I'm 1920 the General Assembly
Dested the State House and its grounds
in the rector and DeStry of William
and Mary Parish, and it became the
chapel OF the parish until 1929, 1Dhen
it tDas razed and bricks used to build
the present church, nearby, Which in
1851 became the parish church, the
nel0ly created Saint Mdrys Parish.
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startial successor-now generally spoken
of as "Old ST. Georges Church, Valley
Lee"-was built of domestic brick upon
the site at very early but undetermin-
able date. However, though this build
ing has suffered its many renovations
and alterations during its long existence,
vet it still remains a picturesque build
ing of the square colonial type. Prior
to 1850, when the first settled minister
for Maryland was installed as rector
of this church, visiting clergy from Vir-
ginia held services here and admins
tered the sacraments occasionally, not
ably Rev. Thomas White, who in 1889
is on record as having performed the
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All Faiths, Huntersville, and Old Dur
ham, IronsideS.
Christ Church, Chaptico, which Is in
King and Queen Parish, was built in
1896, and though today it shows but
few marks Of its nearly 200 years, yet
it has passed through many changes and
strenuous, turbulent times
The interior had lost much of its
original beauty. The high-back walnut
pews have given place to low-back
painted pews. It had center and cross
aisle, an end door and door on each
side; now the aisles are on either side
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ley Lee to Piney Point will no doubt re-
call to many the latter as having been
for upward of lis years one of Wash
ington's most popular watering resorts,
where, before the Civil War, the society
of the North and the society of the
South made it one of their summer
meeting places. Even President Pierce
had a cottage there in 1854, which was
called the Pierce Cottage" though
nothing of it is visible today.
Bathing and grabbing here was ex-
cellent, and as the bay is only about
10 miles distant, the water is quite salty.
Of course, there were mosquitoes at
Piney Point, and there were sting net
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living light Liberty and Union, now
and forever, one and inseparable.
The last sentence came down like a
crash of a breaker And, when the ap-
plause was over, Daniel Webster went
home to his house. for he was tired. But
his words about the Union were to 60
all over the Union. They were to go
out to the Indiana frontier and touch
the mind of youngster named Abraham
Lincoln. They were to make the United
States seem worth living for, and dying
for, to hundreds and thousands of men
whom Webster never even saw. They
were to be among the great words that
have made and sustained this Nation.
And they are an answer still to all the
divided and faint-hearted who look
around them and quaver, What is all
this WORTH"
So what sort of man was it who said
these words? Did he know his country
and his people-did he know what he
was talking about?
He was a farmer, orator, fisherman.
lawyer, statesman. He was a frail boy
who grew into strong man. This is
our Yankee Englishman; such limbs we
make in Yankee land" Born on New
Hampshire farm of hard bitten, reso-
lutte stock, educated at Phillips Exeter
Academy and Dartmouth College, he was
in the House Of Representatives at 81,
and, till he died at 70, he was one of the
great men of the country. He was tho
greatest orator of his day, one Of the
greatest lawyers of his day. He was Sec
retary of State-he was everything but
Fresident-and bigger man than many
Presidents. But that does not say
enough.
1.-THE Good Giant"
First, last and all the time, Daniel
Webster was a good neighbor. And that
wasn't q political pose-it was in his
blood. He liked growing things and
raising things and helping other people
grow them and raise them. Nobody who
came to him tn trouble went away
empty handed.
On his big farm at Marshfeld, Mass,
ne raised line Snccp AA1u Lille Sd1eAc 0AAu
fine horses. He had q ram named
Goliath, q Hungarian bull named King
Stephen-and he used to say that there
was lot more sense in King Stephens
off hoof than there was in the heads OF
some United States Senators. When his
favorite horses died he had them buried
standing up, with their shoes still on
because he thought that did them honor
But the big farm had been poor land
when he first got it-he nursed 1t along
and improved it till it got to be place
that people came to see.
He'd get up before daybreak to tall
and plan and argue with his hired mel
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of the church and there are no side
doors.
On one side wall Of the chancel were
painted the Lords Prayer and the Greed,
on the other wall the Commandments.
AS the years went by the lettering be-
came dilapidated and unsightly and at
a time when the church was being
painted they were lost forever. The
original painting was done by J. F. Lin
nier, who came from England to do
similar work in Carolina and Georgia.
Christ Church, Wayside, in William
and Mary Parish, Charles County. was
also one of the original parish churches
created in 1892, when the counties of
the province were divided INTO parishes,
although there is a record of church
at Wayside prior to 1891, and it is there
fore important for its historic interest
and influence.
Unfortunately all of the records OF
the church have been destroyed by fire
at various times, but this by no means
prevents an enjoyment Of its archi-
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THERE WERE GIANTS IN
THOSE DAYS."

This Is the thirteenth Of a series OF
articies about men and women who worked,
fought and died that America might live
men and women who made America srea.
country which was founded ano has en-.
dured on the principles of life: liberty ano
the pursuit OF happiness as the right OF
eyery man The fourteenth article in the
series will appear next Sunday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-17

describes at Whites Corners. Sum- ming up the dangerous traffic con- ditions he comments, "A view of the conditions mentioned, which con- tributed in producing this fatality, indicates the need of an overhead traffic light, better posting and lighting or other safety measures to reduce the danger of accident at this intersection of highways.
 Whites Corners
 This locality, known as Whites Corners, is very dangerous place, 7 says Coroner Hennessy in his find . ing "It is an intersection of five approaches and varying grades. It is heavily trafficked and poorly lighted, and the surrounding district is quite populous. Motorists, east bound, approach upgrade on Middlebury read, approaching the point of im- pact opposite Kelly Road, and tests disclosed that headlight beam overshoots the surface of the road way, not focusing to afford complete visibility of the roadway until within about 50 feet of the center of inter section."
 A CODY of the finding, including
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-17

the safety recommendations, has been sent to the Highway Safety Commission by Coroner Henessy. Describing the accident the cor oner states that Mrs. Bormolini was operating her husbands car easterly on the Middlebury road about D. m., December 28. Mrs. Kema alight- ed from a west bound bus on the Middlebury road, about 135 feet west of Kelley road and started to walk from the northerly toward the southerly side of the road. Mrs. Ke- ma, the finding continues, walked almost to the center of the highway then took two or three running steps and was struck by the left front bumper and headlight of the car"
 Reasonable Speed
 The finding states that Mrs. Bor- molini was driving at a reasonable speed and did not see Mrs. Kema until almost upon her and too late to stop, turn Or otherwise avoid striking her"
 Witnesses examined by Coroner Hennessy at the inquest were: Net tie J. Mitchell and Robert Mitchell of 241 Circular avenue; Mrs Bor- molini, State Trooper Edward J Christian of the Bethany barracks and William Shea, Kelley road, Mid dlebury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-17
COUNTER CHARGES
 IN CIVIL ACTION
Driver Files Conflicting
 Claims as to Responsible ity for Accident

A contested damage suit. brought in the first instance by Clara and Charles A. Diaz of Waterbury against Beatrice Marrello, also ot this city, was transferred from the municipal to the local superior court today
 In the first action, the plaintiffs alleged that car operated by Charles A. DiaZ, and owned by his mother, Mrs. Clara Diaz, was struck by a vehicle driven by the defendant on Wolcott road, last June 22. The defendant is charged with having driven into the rear of the Diaz car, and having in- f1icted damage upon it. Damages of $250 are sought.
 In a counter-complaint, the Mar rello woman asserts that the acci- dent arose from the negligent op- eration of the plaintiff, and that as result of the collision, she suf- fered permanent injuries necessi- tating two surgical operations Damages of $7,500 are sought.